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many americans could wake up this saturday morning to find desperately needed relief payments already in their bank accounts. the first batch of payments were processed friday, the same day that the american rescue plan was signed into law. now president bill bjoe biden a team plan to travel the country spreading awareness. here is jeff zeleny. >> help is here and we will not stop working for you. >> reporter: president biden celebrating his first legislative success, hailing the rescu...

Night before he was killed. He was in memphis, tennessee, to support striking Garbage Workers who were led by union afsme. He came as he was building to fight for poor people to have equal income, to have a better life, and he was under threat. People dont realize, dr. King in 1968 was very unpopular because hed come out against the war in vietnam. Even other civil rights leaders had attacked him. But he stood up on moral grounds. 55 of blacks said he was negative in the last poll they did on hi...

Night before he was killed. he was in memphis, tennessee, to support striking garbage workers who were led by union afsme. he came as he was building to fight for poor people to have equal income, to have a better life, and he was under threat. people dont realize, dr. king in 1968 was very unpopular because hed come out against the war in vietnam. even other civil rights leaders had attacked him. but he stood up on moral grounds. 55% of blacks said he was negative in the last poll they did on h...

Garbage disposal workers have gone on strike in Sydney for the sixth time in less than a year, in a final attempt to take industrial action against waste management company Cleanaway.  

Protests are erupting cross France after Macron announced plans to ram through his widely despised pension cuts without even a parliamentary vote.

They would notuse this constitutional tool. they had the votes they said they would not defy the real public opposition and force this through. well, they did force it through. so what is happening now is that people are hitting the streets there have been eight consecutive national strikes, that is everyone from police to teachers, that has disrupted public transportation. ive been in paris for about 24 hours and the streets are packed with garbage more than 9,000 tons of garbage are on the str...

The presidency of jack shirak in 1997 has tampered with frances retirement system. some have succeeded in making changes but it remains one of the most complicated systems in europe. french president emmanuel macron like predecessors has run into fierce opposition trying to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. strikes are growing by transportation, energy, and even garbage workers. despite what seems like a logical approach to reform. in a country where the average life expectancy has now inc...

Bishop, — at activism. she took me to my bishop, bishop ft washington who said, _ bishop, bishop ft washington who said. i_ bishop, bishop ft washington who said, i know what to do with him and he brought— said, i know what to do with him and he brought me to reverend william jones _ he brought me to reverend william jones who— he brought me to reverend william jones who led doctor kings organisation in newark and reverend jesse jackson —— new york. and the year doctor— jesse jackson...

The spot that dr. king died. this morning i took my youngest daughter ashley with me and in all of the ice i told a story of how dr. king had came to memphis to fight for garbage workers, city employees that had no safety, two had been killed with a malfunction and here we are, ashley, 55 years later, looking at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood for city workers, for black city workers to be able to work in the police department, work in sanitation and the reason why mr. and mr...

For garbage workers. city employees that had no safety. two had been killed _ that had no safety. two had been killed with — that had no safety. two had been killed with a malfunction. here we are, ashley, 55 years later. looking at the _ are, ashley, 55 years later. looking at the balcony where martin luther kin- at the balcony where martin luther king shed — at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood for city workers. _ king shed his blood for city workers, for black city worke...