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King worker. >> what are the working conditions at the kfc that you are at? what is it about the working conditions there that prompted you to go out on strike today despite the risks you might be taking? >> just the fact the pay doesnt allow me to live day-by-day with the basic necessities is enough to do something about it. i have to tell you what its like. im not always able to buy the food i need, choose to skip meals and save a couple dollars. i havent been able to afford a jacket. its ripp...

Had enough of being ground to the bone for poverty level wages someone down the street who doesnt have a job at all will step in and take it. on this day, 400 people each fighting that individual daily battle nonetheless willing to cross the threshold of risk to invite disaster into lives that cannot afford disaster by choosing to make a symbolic strike at their employer with no legal recourse for protection. its really something of a miracle. all successful associate movements are built and all...

Comment. >> must have just been a waxed floor. >> i tried doing that on the carpet. guess what, it doesnt work, not at all. >> jedediah, this is an intellectual question, so i want you to follow me closely. >> so why are you asking me. >> shouldnt crime against someone who chooses to dress a certain way be classified the same as a crime against someone who is born a certain way? >> i would say yes. >> yes, really? >> and honestly, i mean i dated a guy with a goth phase and oftentimes these are h...

Burger king worker. >> what are the working conditions at the kfc that you are at? what is it about the working conditions there that prompted you to go out on strike today despite the risks you might be taking? >> just the fact the pay doesnt allow me to live day -by-day wih the basic necessities is enough to do something about it. i have to tell you what its like. im not always am ble to buy th food i need, choose to skip meals and save a couple dollars. i havent been able to afford a jacket. ...

Work in this process. and its taking place in the states. and specifically in the states that have had the two most high-profile massacres in recent history. in colorado, where the aurora massacre took place and in connecticut, where you see responsiveness to the body politic. by the way, the people want that in lots of other states too but their senators and congressmen are only responsive to the nra. >> and athe nra is very active n maryland and connecticut on this legislation. they were in ma...

We talk tonight about the difficult and hundreds of millions of low wage workers to walk out on their jobs to protest their low wages knowing full well the law doesnt protect them and could find themselves the next day with the same expenses and no income. they decided to empower themselves by using the one tool, the power to say no, refuse, to walk out. they are not the only ones. there is another strike happening as i speak, features a group of people with far far less power than the minimum w...

A day to force them to stay alive in our prisons even though we readily admit we have no reason to do so, is pretty damn radical, too. well be right back with click three. and the transforming and the revolutionizing. its enough to make you forget that youre flying five hundred miles an hour on a chair that just became a bed. you see, were doing some changing of our own. ah, we can talk about it later. were putting the wonder back into air travel, one innovation at a time. the new american is ar...

Attorney for the national employment law project. joseph, a striking taco bell employee. dorian warren, political science professor and tabby that, a burger king worker. >> what are the working conditions at the kfc that you are at? what is it about the working conditions there that prompted you to go out on strike today despite the risks you might be taking? >> just the fact the pay doesnt allow me to live day-by-day with the basic necessities is enough to do something about it. i have to tell ...

School massacres. but i think what youre also seeing here, there is sanity at work in this process. and its taking place in the states. and specifically in the states that have had the two most high-profile massacres in recent history. in colorado, where the aurora massacre took place and in connecticut, where you see responsiveness to the body politic. by the way, the people want that in lots of other states too but their senators and congressmen are only responsive to the nra. >> and the nra i...

Policy debate we were having in this country about health care, their intention was to use that intimidation to get their way in our political process, but obviously it failed, of course, if failed. you do not get far in this country using tactics like that. it is a tactic and it recurs in different debates at different times, but it doesnt work. its not a tactic that works for good reason, we do not settle arguments by political force of arms, not since an important time in the 1860s and the on...