Tomorrow organizers from the fight for 15 will be visiting our class to talk about issues facing low wage workers in our economy. In this class, once we finish the unit on race, we will move on to a unit discuss class. But as you will see issues of race and class are close related in our society in which class has been highly racialized.
I want you to check out the following links and respond in on your blog. First, watch the video at this site...
http://fightfor15.org/
Then read some of the articles here...
http://fightfor15.org/latest-news/
The Fight for 15 has already had some sucesses. Read about that here...
http://www.peaceandjustice.org/an-87-percent-vote-for-a-15-an-hour-wage/
Respond to all this on your blog. And think of questions you might have for our guest speakers tomorrow.
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