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8/29 Sarah Jaffe: Fast Food Workers Strike & Sam Attacks a Plutocrat Plus Thomas Frank

August 29, 2013

Sarah Jaffe, explained the origins of the fast food workers strike in New York City, the impossibility of living off of fast food wages and low paying jobs become middle class jobs through organizing. Also Sam took apart a plutocrat Donahue Peeples on Up With Chris last winter and he gave an incredible play by play and from Ring Of Fire an interview with Harper’s columnist Thomas Frank.

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