A billboard in Times Square that accuses NYC construction unions of racial bias has co-opted the name of a growing activist campaign, declaring that
black workers matter.
Not exact matches
It didn't
matter that the
workers were white and the customer was
black.
Principal / Strategy & Partnerships Director / Co-Founder
Black Futures Lab / National Domestic
Workers Alliance /
Black Lives
Matter
Last week, Jackson criticized one of his own campaign outreach
workers, who is a registered Republican, for posting Facebook messages from a pro-Trump group calling Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a liar and criticizing the
Black Lives
Matter movement.
New York City fast food
workers involved in the $ 15 - an - hour wage battle came together with
Black Lives
Matter and civil rights activists and headed to Washington at the beginning of the month to participate in the second Million Man March.
Sponsors include 32BJ SEIU, ALIGN New York,
Black Lives
Matter Greater New York, Center for Popular Democracy, Desis Rising Up & Moving, Labor for Palestine, Make the Road New York, Muslim Democratic Club, National Lawyers Guild Labor and Employment Law Committee, New York Communities for Change, New York Immigration Fund, New York Immigration Coalition, New York Progressive Action Committee, New York Taxi
Workers Alliance, New York
Worker Center Federation, New York Working Families Party and Strong Economy for All.
The
Workers» Center of CNY organized the march, in collaboration with the CNY Solidarity Coalition,
Black Lives
Matter Syracuse and the Syracuse Peace Council.
On stage was: Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council); Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee); Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative); Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund); Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm
Workers of America); Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup); Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise); Patrisse Cullors (
Black Lives
Matter); and Tarana Burke (Me Too).
Jesse's writings on education, the
Black Lives
Matter movement, Haiti, Palestine, and U.S. politics, have been published at Salon.com, Truth Out, Common Dreams,
Black Agenda Report, The Progressive, Socialist
Worker, Alternet, the Seattle Education website, and the National Education Association's Education Votes blog.
Thus, to paraphrase my torts professor, no
matter how easy it would be for a 200 - pound, 8th - degree
black belt in karate to rescue a child being beaten up by a 7 - year - old girl, the
black belt can walk on by under the common law (with certain exceptions, such as when the would - be rescuer is an emergency
worker or the victim is your own child).