The inaugural Fight for $15 convention, slated for Aug. 12-13, springs from the now four-year-old push to increase government-mandated minimum wages and expand worker access to unions. Henry said the Fight for $15 convention is likely to draft its own, relatively brief platform statement. (The Democratic Party platform backs a $15 an hour minimum wage, though the party nominee, Hillary Clinton, has stopped short of calling for one.) ... It’s fusion politics.”Emphasizing those themes, the convention will end with a march on monuments to the Confederacy. William Barber II, the president of the North Carolina NAACP and president of the social justice group Repairers of the Breach.

Source: Washington Post July 21, 2016 22:30 UTC