without cause beating you down jail and even killing you without trial or wait too late thanks pat lou for that one and for the rest of you let's break the set. for a never seen anything like. just yesterday hundreds of fast food workers in new york st louis and kansas city walked out of their respective restaurants and demanded better pay in the one day strike workers protest the minimum wage calling for an increase in pay to fifteen dollars an hour far jump from where the minimum wage now stands at seven dollars and twenty five cents but the hourly income is not their only concern fast food workers are also demanding the right to unionize put an end to what they say are abusive labor practices and the walkout is seemingly only beginning what's quickly evolving into a large scale movement organizers are now expecting thousands of fast food workers to join strike set to take place this week in chicago a walking.

too late thanks pat lou for that one and for the rest of you let's break the set. a little for a better shape i mean like. oh . just yesterday hundreds of fast food workers in new york st louis and kansas city walked out of their respective restaurants and demanded better pay in the one day strike workers protest the minimum wage calling for an increase in pay to fifteen dollars an hour far jump from where the minimum wage now stands at seven dollars and twenty five cents but the hourly encumber is not their only concern fast food workers are also demanding the right to unionize put an end to what they say are abusive labor practices and the walkout is seemingly only the beginning what's quickly evolving into a large scale movement organizers are now expecting thousands of fast food workers to join strike set to take place this week in chicago a walkie and detroit so to talk about the latest strike and its significance on workers' rights nationwide i was joined earlier by david moberg senior editor of in these times. david you just wrote an article for in these tim

without cause beating you down jail and even killing you without trial oh wait too late thanks pat lou for that one and for the rest of you let's break the set. for a never seen anything like that. just yesterday hundreds of fast food workers in new york st louis and kansas city walked out of their respective restaurants and demanded better pay in the one day strike workers protest the minimum wage calling for an increase in pay to fifteen dollars an hour far jump from where the minimum wage now stands at seven dollars and twenty five cents but the hourly income is not their only concern fast food workers are also demanding the right to unionize put an end to what they say are abusive labor practices and the walkout is seemingly only beginning what's quickly evolving into a large scale movement organizers are now expecting thousands of fast food workers to join strike set to take place this week in chicago a walky and detroit so to talk about the latest strike and its significance on workers' rights nationwide i was joined earlier by david moberg senior editor of in these times. david

with spanish earlier today where he told reporters that he would absolutely consider granting snow lou snowden asylum wiki leaks announced today that snowden has applied for asylum in no fewer than twenty. one countries including some of the very countries that his n.s.a. documents prove the u.s. was spying on including austria for the latest on edward snowden's international flight i'm joined now by political commentator sam facts sam let's start with the latest what are we getting from these revelations these these rumors this is another bizarre twist to the story but it appears that the bolivian presidential plane is grounded in austria right now and it seems like france or portugal the that denied the plane air space believes that snowden may be on on board this plane i find it. very strange that france would take such a stand denying a plane belonging to a president of a country that you're not hostile you're an ally with into its airspace and let's say it was completely convinced that snowden was somehow on board and of course as you said there these these rumors are being denied

fons you where almost nobody and i don't i would say is the college and the education a lot of the lou should be if you free and not come right out of a sick college we should do what every other developed country in the wings does is a concept we're going to invest in our young people that's as a call in for college and investing in our roads our bridges in our water systems in our power systems investing in our young players in the sense that the roads aren't free the bridges aren't free nothing in this life is free somebody has to pay for here's the idea you need to be responsive to those you're putting if you're putting every student in college or you're creating a no barrier generation if you carry no barrier although we do need to bring back then you hear that sort of the issues that i'm getting at is that you're going to get to a point where you continually delay you keep on pushing students four years later into who are also really going to work at jobs that don't require a college degrees to go to college and delay their entry and i remember in the back row about a decade ago

peoples of all colors of brothers and from the very beginning the legacy of martin king and fannie lou hamer and ella baker and then the black panther party fundamentally shaped who and what i am is was there any particular moment in your life or event in your life or around you in the world at large that caused you to say ok i'm going to do this i'm going to go in history or this this has to be my next no i think in the words of the death of the king june aberforth thousand nine hundred sixty eight something deep inside of my heart in the heart of many people the specially black people the people to call it die and the question of what would be resurrected what would be reinvigorated given that vicious murder in the cess a nation of martin king and it was also connected of course to the death of so many anonymous and nameless people struggling at the time and of course assassinations of malcolm x. and. variety of fred hampton's and bobby hood and the black panther party the descendants of people who were willing to forfeit their lives. for the furtherance of truth and justice as those