From Selma....

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In Selma, the fight for dignity goes on: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/selma-people-are-still-fighting-dignity

03/06/15 06:01 PM
By Kim King

Thousands are traveling to Selma this week to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. President Obama, national civil rights leaders, and Americans from across the country will gather here to remember the events of Selma’s past and reflect on how much progress has been made.

But those who live and work in Selma today still face widespread hardship and limited opportunity. More than one-third of Selma’s residents live in poverty, and the median household income is roughly half the level of Alabama as a whole.


Kim King, a Selma auto worker, attends a protest demanding that Hyundai support good jobs and safe working conditions at its supplier plant in Selma.Courtesy of the Selma Workers Organizing Committee


Today, we are carrying on the struggle started by civil rights leaders 50 years ago by joining together to demand good jobs and a shot at the middle class at one of our city’s largest employers: a manufacturer for Hyundai.

Along with other workers, community members, and clergy leaders from Selma and across the country, I retraced the historic route from Selma to Montgomery to call for an end to the economic injustice that is still facing African-American workers in Alabama and throughout the South.

FULL story at link.

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1. This is probably the reason Hyundai came to Alabama in the first place. To pay crap wages and not

have to worry about a union. Without a union they will have zilch...