Day: June 5, 2021
Dirty business at McDonald’s, an attack on women’s rights, Salvation Army’s underpaid workers
McDonald’s workers have filed a lawsuit against their employer and taken strike actions over low pay and mistreatment during the pandemic. Lee Camp looks into the fast-food behemoth’s exploitative business practices. From low wages, to their wage-theft schemes, to using prison labor to make employee uniforms, to the factory farming that grows their meat …
Interview with Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice King
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Bernice King, the daughter of legendary civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. She discusses why she believes her father was assassinated for speaking about economic justice and linking poverty to the immiseration of the working classes, the attempts to create a divide in the black liberation movement by pitting MLK against Malcolm X …
