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Civil Rights veteran, Rev. James Lawson addressed the AFL-CIO’s Diversity Conference in Los Angeles 9/7/13. In a brief interview with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders, he described what he believes labor is up against: “plantation capitalism.”
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