‘Mike Brown Is Our Son’ (members of the Show Me $15 fast food workers group demonstrations daily!)
http://labornotes.org/2014/08/mike-brown-our-son
August 20, 2014 / Jane Slaughter
Shermale Humphrey, a member of Show Me $15, spoke at a protest of the county prosecutor's handling of the police killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Fast food workers have been on the front lines in Ferguson. Photo: Emily Koehler/Show Me $15. - See more at:
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My first reaction was oh no, not again, said Mark Esters, an organizer for the Communications Workers in the St. Louis area. And trying to take it all in.
And then, what should our response be? The answer was collective action. In a universe of numbness, what do we do?
Esters is vice president of the St. Louis chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, which marched in Ferguson, Missouri, last Saturday in the National Day of Solidarity Actions calling for justice for Michael Brown. They carried a sign reading, Mike Brown Is Our Son.
In the wake of widespread anger about Browns shooting and police repression of protesters, members of the Show Me $15 fast food workers group have been at the demonstrations daily. They say the organizing theyve learned in the last 22 months, as theyve struck and demanded $15 an hour and a union, has helped them know how to organize for justice this week.
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