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Program Description: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, and her investigative journalist brother, David Goodman, have co-authored another book - STANDING UP TO THE MADNESS: ORDINARY HEROES IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES. David and Amy discuss their latest collaboration on a stop at the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon
and roofers who used to earn $25 an hour plus benefits are in compitition with workers who earn $7 an hour and go to the emergency room for health care. The grass roots uprising is foreign countries and workers taking and downgrading blue collor jobs. However the criticisms about Bush/Cheney are valid.
nhbright 2 years ago
Liberals who support illegal immigrants are actually (unknowingly) siding with greedy U.S. corporations. Why? Because they (ie. liberals) are protecting corporation's profit rich, cheap labor workers.
WHO WINS? Greedy companies AND illegal workers (earning FAR more than in Mexico).
WHO LOSES? The U.S. labor class (U.S. proletariat) via job losses to illegal workers & depressed wages.
Thus 120 years of American wage struggles fought since the Haymarket Rebellion of 1886 are being undermined.
jimj122680 3 years ago