It's our Friday media roundtable. We discuss coverage of the Fight for $15. On tax day, April 15th, low-wage workers in more than 200 cities took to the streets to demand a $15 dollar minimum wage. Labor reporter Steve Early talks to us about the true cost of low-wage work. Journalists Edwin Okong’o and Omoyele Sowore join us to discuss media coverage of the massacre in Kenya earlier this month and the anniversary of the Boko Haram kidnappings.
Guests:
Steve Early, labor journalist and lawyer
Edwin Okong'o, journalist and host of Africa Mix
Omoyele Sowore, founder of Sahara Reporters
Web Resources::
Counter Punch: Wage Gains Won’t Last, Unless Fight for 15 Builds Worker Power
Telesur: Low-Wage Workers Struggles are About Much More Than Wages
The Guardian:Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
The Guardian: Forget Congress, these US states raised the minimum wage on their own
Reuters: Pressure mounts on Kenya's president after university massacre
BBC: Al-Shabab recruiting in Kenyan towns
BuzzFeed: These Are The Families Left To Reclaim Garissa’s Dead
The Guardian: 800,000 children in Nigeria 'running for their lives', says Unicef
The Guardian: Chibok girls who escaped Boko Haram defy militants by returning to school