Strike for Black Lives: Durham Essential Workers To Join Tens Of Thousands Nationwide
Durham, NC – Local frontline workers will join tens of thousands in more than 25 cities July 20 in a Strike for Black Lives, demanding corporations and government take action to confront systemic racism in our society, economy, and workplaces that are holding back Black and brown communities.
In Durham, NC Raise Up/Fight for $15 and a Union is bringing essential workers and community together for a day of action that will include a socially distanced strike line around McDonald’s, a march and a rally featuring speeches from activist leaders on the frontlines of the fight for racial and economic justice.
WHO: Striking workers from fast food, healthcare, service industries; community leaders; racial justice activists
WHAT: Demonstration outside McDonald’s, march, rally at CCB Plaza featuring protest art, passionate speeches
WHERE: Start at McDonald’s, 102 W Morgan St, Durham. March to CCB Plaza, 201 Corcoran St.
WHEN: Monday, July 20 at 12 pm – 1:30 pm
To RSVP or for more information, contact: megan.williamson@thefightfor15.org
Nationwide, workers including fast-food, nursing home, and janitorial workers will go on strike July 20. They will be joined by thousands more who will walk off their jobs for eight minutes, 46 seconds to remember George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and other Black people killed by police and demand an end to the systemic racism that led to their murders and that also exists in our workplaces. Across the country, youth and climate activists will join in the actions to show the intersectionality of the fights for justice.
Strikes and protests will also take place in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, New Martinsville, New York, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, St. Paul, Stamford, Toledo, Yakima and more.
A growing list of major national labor organizations, including the Service Employees International Union, Amalgamated Transit Union, American Federation of Teachers, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, National Domestic Workers Alliance, United Food and Commercial Workers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union will join forces with leading racial and social justice groups like the Movement for Black Lives, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, March On, Future Coalition, U.S. Youth Climate Strike Coalition, Center for Popular Democracy, Googlers Against Racism, Jobs with Justice and One Fair Wage to take action from coast to coast. A full list of organizations participating in the Strike for Black Lives is available here.
For more information visit j20strikeforblacklives.org/.
(Photo Credit: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)