don t have health insurance, right? yes, i mean the reality of this, of the work force that is around 50% undocumented, varies a little bit state, but this is a work force that is excluded from the social safety net, right? it is excluded from democratic participation. and farm workers, regardless of immigration status, are excluded from federal labor laws so agriculture is explicitly banned or barred from the national labor relations act. and this goes back to the 1930s, and the jim crow era when decisions were made, look, the majority back then, a lot of african american sharecroppers in the south, already a lot of mexican and asian immigrants in the west and the decision was to not include them in labor laws, and there are a lot of structural issues that create a really imbalanced power dynamic in the workplace, and when you add in the temperatures, and you add in lack of access to water, and lack of access to shade, and lack of access to breaks, it means that is a tragedy waiting
at the supreme court s right-wing majority strips away the progress america made during the 20th century, you have to wonder how civil rights icons will think. like medgar evers who was assassinated outside of his home in jackson, mississippi. he was a sniper fired a single shot. the bullet hit him in the back, crashed through his body, through a window, into the house. as the mississippi field secretary for the naacp, he encouraged black americans, including terrorized sharecroppers, teachers, and college students, to register to vote. he protested segregation in education and launched an
in america, we can lay claim to. what, in america, do we own? it is a comedy. you know the non-confederate romp through the cotton patch. emphasis on romp. and it s a musical? well, i m gonna try to find a way to get some music in there. mr. davies wrote a play but, you know, it is hard for me to get on a stage and not saying a little. i think that the history, where we are now, the history of the whole idea of the sharecroppers, ownership, what he went through, that is important. as i said to you as a young activist i got to go ozzy davis, who was an activist. and ruby dee, who wasn t activists on steroids. [laughs] metaphorically yes, let me be clear. i have to do say that, metaphorically.
of thoroughbred new york artist to speak these words. 60 years after the premiere on broadway. leslie, for people who do not know the story of purlie victoria, set the scene a little bit unharmed what we will see. you see a brother come back to the farm on which he was raised. he comes from sharecroppers we will talk about share cropping in the months leading up to the show but my great-grandfather with the sharecroppers actually. it was not all it was cracked up to be. purlie comes back to his hometown in georgia. he s trying to find a way to buyback this church that his grandfather preached that because he believes in ownership. really the show is about what,
set the scene about what we will see in terms of the story. you see a brother come back to the farm. he comes from sharecroppers. and it was not all it was cracked up to be. pearly comes back to his hometown in georgia and is trying to plan a way to buy back this church his grandfather preached at because he believes in ownership and the show is about what in america we can lay claim to, what in america do we own. but it s a comedy. the nonconfederate romp through the cotton patch, emphasis on