in our lifetime is that today, while we have defeated legal segregation and driven open racism away from our public life, we live in a country less economically equal than in dr. king s time. jobs are scarcer. it is harder to go to college, and the right to a voice on the job has largely been taken away from american workers. so we have become a country less and less able to hear dr. king s phone message of economic full message of economic justice and of nonviolence. rising inequality is a barrier to hearing dr. king s message of economic justice, a foreign policy based on war and not on diplomacy makes it impossible to even talk about dr. king s vision of nonviolence. dr. king was assassinated in memphis as he prepared to march in a potential violation of a court order. with public employees, with sanitation workers, who were seeking the right to form a union. i still envision that sign, a simple message. i am a man. think about that, a country that had to be reminded t
recognizing that the referendum we have on the ballot in september is probably going to go down. no on issued two is going to win in ohio because 1.3 million people signed a petition to get it on the ballot, and these were not just union folks. these are all people in ohio who are outraged at this draconian methods of speeding up workers in ohio. i tell you, i was out in columbus and just happened to be there on the day that those petitions were delivered. that was some scene. it seemed like a holiday in columbus, ohio. people were pumped up. we had 8000 people. we even at one of our teachers run the miles from cincinnati up there with petitions on his back and then met up with the crew as a whole parade came into the state house. it was really awesome to see the ohio is up and fighting, coming together, a grass-roots, coordinated effort, and behind that, we have this on the ballot in november. they passed a voter suppression bill. by september 30, we have got to get over
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. the nation s unemployment rate held steady last month at 9.7%. woodruff: and i m judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, the jobless rate for african americans and latinos is much higher. we ll look at why. lehrer: then, ray suarez looks back on a rocky week for democrats. while the president tried to get health-care reform back on track, ethical questions about fellow democrat its threaterned to derail the message woodruff: we get analysis from mark shields and michael gerson, filling in for david brooks. lehrer: and then fred de sam lazaro reports on troubles in the african nation of sudan, hit by drought, food shortages, and violence. access to basic health care is minimal. and if we look on the ground what we see is an union tarian crisis. woodruff: and is the 3-d hit avatar the way of the future for the film business? jeffrey brown takes us to the movies. lehrer:
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. the nation s unemployment rate held steady last month at 9.7%. woodruff: and i m judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, the jobless rate for african americans and latinos is much higher. we ll look at why. lehrer: then, ray suarez looks back on a rocky week for democrats. while the president tried to get health-care reform back on track, ethical questions about fellow democrat its threaterned to derail the message woodruff: we get analysis from mark shields and michael gerson, filling in for david brooks. lehrer: and then fred de sam lazaro reports on troubles in the african nation of sudan, hit by drought, food shortages, and violence. access to basic health care is minimal. and if we look on the ground what we see is an union tarian crisis. woodruff: and is the 3-d hit avatar the way of the future for the film business? jeffrey brown takes us to the movies. lehrer: