Isaac Grimm and Dustin Tanner of Rights and Democracy and the Raise the Wage Coalition talk about campaigning to win the Fight for $15. The legislature's Minimum Wage Study Committee is studying economic projections which estimate that nearly 100,000 working Vermonters would benefit from raising the minimum wage to $15/hour.
Democratic Socialists of America leader R.L Stephens discusses the significance of the neo-Confederate, white supremacist and neo-Nazi terrorism and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the face of growing racist, anti-Semitic, white supremacist violence. R.L. calls for building a strong united front against this emboldened right wing. Ashley Smith joins in to talk about how we must mobilize to defeat Fascism.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist group in the U.S. with 25,000 members, having grown four fold in the past 18 months, is preparing its convention.
Mark Hughes, Avery Book, and Traven discuss the Detroit/long hot summer of 1967 rebellions against police brutality and racial oppression, the rise of black consciousness and organization, and the organizing of the New Poor Peoples Campaign. Includes a clip of a powerful sermon by Rev. Dr.