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amy: alicia garza, the whole issue of the $15 and our minimum wage.e people might say, why bring that into this right now? but it seems the black lives matter movement is the intersection of all these different movements, whether we're talking immigration whether we're talking about police brutality, or even the $15 minimum wage. can you talk about how that relates? >> the black lives matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world. there is nothing separate about wages from black life in the survival of black people than police violence and police terrorism. we even still have a situation in this country where we have black workers who are not covered by federal delivered -- federal liberal protections. police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall a black people across the globe. and so as opal mentioned, this weekend, people are coming together from across sectors, from across communities, from a wide rang