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Movement, the brotherhood of sleeping carporters. there was all of the expertise there was, and there was enormous doubt everywhere, that it could be pulled off. >> and your father, of course, had been through years of working with buyers and others to build up organizing around the boycott. and organizing around the south. you cant flip a switch on and get 200 people at the capitol. >> you mean 200,000? >> yes. >> absolutely not. but you know, it was -- it really was a coalition, but as the con...

>> tonight, lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full time should have to work in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. >> and to that effect, some good news came early this year. >> happy new year new york. >> in march of 2013, new york state passed legislation increasing the state minimum wage to $8 per hour in 2014. the raise would incrementally continue to rise by 2016. >> current minimum wage is unliveable. its only $14,616. >> new york w...

This week george miller and senator harkin introduced an increase in the minimum wage. when we increased it in 2007 in our first 100 hours it was the first time it had been increased in 11 years. its time for it to be increased again. >> hear hear. nancy pelosi supporting the fair minimum wage act of 2013. this new bill would raise the federal minimum wage over $10 an hour to $10.10. it would also provide adjustments on a cost of living basis, which of course is a big deal. the bill also is real...

Forward with something like a minimum wage act where it would go up, do you think that type of strategy the rule is going to work in john boehners benefit? >> it has to work. and because, you know, i dont envy speaker boehner. thomas, what you have in speaker boehner, has to deal with bizarro world. you have most of america that supports programs that are paid for and over half his caucus isnt for it. only 80 republicans voted for it, 151 voted against it for hurricane sandy relief and also with...

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