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Anti-Living Wage Piece on 20/20 (ABC) Tonight! |
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by sofa
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01 Jun 2001
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Editor's Note: Looks like the Establishment is running scared of Living Wages. You can access the local Living Wage campaign organization at:
http://www.prairienet.org/livingwage/ |
"Propertarian" John Stossel has a segment on tonight's (friday's) 20/20 critical of the Santa Monica Living Wage campaign.
Tonight 20/20 will air a segment on the Santa Monica living wage campaign.
We have been told by the producer that John Stossel, the correspondent, takes an anti-living wage position.
We expect the piece to be very negative, given Stossel's politics and the unusual warning call from the producer. It's exremely important that living wage supporters around the country provide some counterbalance to this piece. Here's what you can do:
1) Contact the producer of the segment. Her name is Kristie Kendall, and her e-mail is kristina.j.kendall (at) abc.com. I believe she is somewhat sympathetic herself, but that Stossel shaped the show.
2) Send this e-mail out as broadly as possible so that ABC is flooded with complaints about the show.
3) Contact your local ABC affiliates and encourage them to do a follow-up report on living wage campaigns in your city or region. This should be done today.
4) Contact other media outlets and pitch them on living wage stories in your city or region. Again, this should be done as soon as possible to take advantage of the national exposure afforded by the 20/20 segment.
5) Submit pro-living wage op-eds to local media outlets.
In pitching the media, stress that 20/20 has done a very one-sided report that is at odds with popular opinion about living wage laws. Try and provide reporters with both activist and worker contacts who will provide a compelling pro-living wage perspective.
Please feel free to contact me today or over the weekend.
Thanks for your support.
Danny Feingold Communications Director, L.A. Alliance for a New Economy
For more information on living wage movements across the country, see the linked site.
Solidarity against corporate media!
The following comment was also posted with this message at the global IMC site: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44406&group=webcast
by PJD 2:16pm Fri Jun 1 '01
Uncanny timing!
Here in Pittsburgh, as of 5:40 EDT, our Democrat mayor is threatening to veto(or already has) our hard-fought living wage ordinance. It will go to city coucil for override, where they hope to water it way down further. Our greatest opponent has been from where we expected the geratest support, poor African-American Homewood. She said low wages will teach her fellow black constituents the value of hard work!
The biggest force against this is is plain fear. People passively accept that the capitalsts wield all the power and will walk out of town. Like most places, it only applies to contractors, or firms taking tax breaks for locating in the city. These firms already accept legal bribery in the form of tax breaks as it is! Now they are afraid that even though we are financing their tax breaks they are afraid the businesses will walk out of town. right away our most progressive councilman introduced an exception to retail business so K-mart would still locate in a depressed area. other stuff watered it down. Today, no one in city hall would talk to us. Something suspicious is going on. As far as I know Mellon Bank is threatening to leave.
I don't think I'm interested in what Mr. Stossel has to say. We all know what he is going to say and I have high blood pressure as it is. |
See also:
http://www.epinet.org/Issueguides/livingwage/livingwage.html
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