Joining forces to redress racism
Union, crowd demonstrate for Black-owned businesses, Black lives
Social justice activists and a major labor union banded together Monday to keep attention on the Black Lives Matter movement.
In Las Vegas, activists focused on supporting only Black-owned businesses.
The move was part of a nationwide day of action in which thousands were expected to walk off the job in a “Strike for Black Lives.” Rallies, marches and strikes were planned in more than 20 cities across the country, according to a news release from Service Employees International Union Local 1107.
“As a leader in this union, a health care worker, a mother and a Black woman, I’m tired of the way things are,” SEIU Local 1107 Private Sector Vice President Zavia Norman said in a statement. “It is time we boldly declare that Black Lives Matter and to realize all the ways our fights for racial, economic, health care, immigration, climate and other justice fights are connected.”
Monday’s action comes nearly two months after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck while Floyd, a Black man, said he could not breathe. Floyd’s death
investigator, according to the district.
The health district’s 64 investigators have been able to locate, notify and interview an estimated 2,000 people per week, Raman told the newspaper last week. With roughly 1,000 people
on average now testing positive every day in Clark County, the health district in the past several weeks had developed a backlog of thousands of cases that had not received a personal phone call.
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