The most recent Moyers & Company looks at what we can do to solve the country's problems, assisted by the smart perspectives of some young -- but very experienced -- activists. Below, drop in on my conversation with Ai-jen Poo and Sarita Gupta about restoring workers' rights -- rights they say have been stripped away by corporations. The two also talk about their involvement in The 99% Spring, which aims to train 100,000 Americans to teach the country about income inequality in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets.
Poo, director and co-founder of the 10,000-member National Domestic Workers Alliance, led the fight for passage of The Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights in New York State, the first of its kind in America.
Gupta is executive director of Jobs with Justice, a labor organization in 46 cities and 26 states working to create a broad, global movement for economic and social justice. Poo and Gupta are also participating in an economic campaign for domestic and homecare workers of all ages called Caring Across Generations.
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Or Clarence Thomas. I remember that picture I saw of Thomas last summer, leaning up against a tree at the Retreat the Koch Bros held in Aspen last July. Now he is being investigated by the IRS
for not paying taxes on his wifes salary from the Neo-Cons. So he is a crook. Scalia told the Press this week that he could not be expected to read the twenty-seven hundred pages of the Health Care Bill. Jeez... any Intern can read seventeen hundred pages of a Brief in an afternoon. Maybe Scalia can't read. The Supremes don't expect to have a decision until September. What the hell, you can't read the Bill in six months. ? Of course you don't have to if you have already made up your mind about not passing it.... FOR SHAME Cheney has probably promised Scalia another hunting trip to Texas if he votes against the Bill.
But this is a trickle that will someday become a stream and then a flowing river. They still have not identified the root cause. ie capitalism with its corp profits over people agenda.
Capitalism will create a very social Darwinism society and this appeals to the human ego of individualism at any cost to society.
Even the Supreme Court is now controlled by the capitalist agenda of corp profits over people even war profits over people. Insanity and greed to call corporations people.
A religious society is a very individualistic and selfish and aggressive society. Interesting aspect of religion is it not, until we come to understand the evolution of consciousness process.
Are political prisoners facing indefinite detention without trial in America's future because of what they post on the web?
Even the liberals are in on this new future of america.
http://billmoyers.com/segment/organizer-george-goehl-on-people-power/
It is getting more difficult to be an Activist these days.
We not only have more rules, more conspirarcies, more hatred, but now we also have the Republican Catholic Church.