Submitted by fightback on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 3:56pm
Bob Fitrakis, Editor and Michael Alwood, Managing Editor, discuss the proposed 35-story building at the North Market, the Ohio Charter Schools funding scandal and the fact that Columbus is now number one in police killing black people.
Bob Fitrakis interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Director of Move to Amend national. She explains how corporations became so powerful and the movement to stop them. They promote the April 1 Move to Amend conference in Columbus.
Bob Fitrakis interviews Julia de la Cruz, former Immokalee Florida farmworker and current activist and her translator Priscilla Velez about the week of events in Columbus - the culmination of a human rights tour by the Immokalee workers and Alliance for Fair Food campaign. They are in Columbus March 29-26 to convince Wendy's to buy tomatoes from the Florida farms and pay one penny more per pound to ensure human rights for the workers.
