Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.
His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.
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Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.
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"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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Interview with Amelia Adams, deputy director with New York Communities for Change, conducted by Scott Harris
Over the past year, the voices of low wage workers across the country have begun to be heard. With protests and strikes by employees at Walmart warehouses and stores – to more recent job actions by fast food workers, the demand for a living wage and the right to join unions is getting louder. In the most recent wave of protests and strikes, thousands of fast food workers in seven cities, including Chicago, Detroit and New York, workers held protest signs demanding an hourly wage increase to $15.00, doubling the current federal minimum wage of $7.25.
The protests have been organized by national and regional coalitions that include the Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and workers organizing committees Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15. The restaurant industry has responded to the escalating demands by maintaining that raising the wages of workers to $15 dollars an hour would cut into already slim profits and result in layoffs, reduced hours and a move to automation to replace workers by hi-tech machines.
But with the support of religious leaders, social justice activist groups and politicians, low wage workers don’t appear ready to back down. In Washington the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress are moving to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour, not nearly enough to support a family, but in the view of many activists a step in the right direction. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Amelia Adams, deputy director with New York Communities for Change, formerly the New York chapter of ACORN, which began organizing fast food workers in New York City last year. Here she discusses the significance of recent protests by fast food and low wage workers across the U.S. and prospects for moving from poverty wages to earning a living wage.
Learn more about the campaign by low-wage workers for a living wage by visiting New York Communities for Change at NYCommunities.org.
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