Posted on 09/05/2010 7:39:51 AM PDT by Libloather
OneNation 10.2.10: March on Washington for education, jobs, and unity
Sep 1, 2010 4:39 PM
With less than five weeks to go before the Oct. 2 Washington, D.C. OneNation march and rally for jobs, justice and education for all, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined union leaders, elected officials and community, ethnic and religious groups at a Sept. 1 kick-off news conference on Wall Street at the steps of Federal Hall.
The march organizers, which include the national AFL-CIO, the NAACP as well as the AFT and some 170 other sponsoring community, religious, labor and ethnic organizations, are working together to bring hundreds of thousands of working people — employed and unemployed, immigrants and native born — to support legislative and social policies that benefit all Americans, not just the few.
Mulgrew said he shuddered to think what Dr. Martin Luther King would say if he were alive today to see the greater-than-ever distance between the rich and the poor.
“Repelling attacks on a shrinking middle class and fighting for economic justice is a fight for us all,” Mulgrew said. “On Oct. 2, we are going to Washington, D.C. to tell the country that it’s not about hating each other and dividing each other, but about working together.”
Other speakers at the Sept. 1 Wall Street rally included Rep. Charles Rangel, the NAACP’s Hazel Dukes, the Working Families Party’s Dan Cantor and representatives from the New York Immigrants Rights Coalition, the Urban League, United for Peace and Justice, and the AFL-CIO.
(Excerpt) Read more at uft.org ...
Fired up and ready to take on Washington, hundreds from labor unions and civil rights, community and church groups gathered on Wall Street on Wednesday as a warm up for the highly anticipated “One Nation” march to be held in the nation’s capital for jobs, justice and education on October 2.
Nearly 45 groups were represented at the kick-off rally, which started with mass march from the bull in lower Manhattan to Federal Hall. The rally was a call-out to demand the city, the state and the federal governments get people back to work.
Warm temperatures did not deter the nearly 400-person, mostly union-affiliated, crowd who listened to leaders from various organizations.
This is an excerpt.
http://amsterdamnews.com/articles/2010/09/02/news/doc4c7ebea8b1d07839220351.txt
A Lib Love Fest. I’ll be watching and laughing.
large group of scum alert.
Gee, they look like such a happy bunch!
Wasn't that called 'stimulus' not too long ago?
Did Arne Duncan tell them they had better go?
They all look like LEACHES.
My prediction: as the date approaches and the folks organizing the event realize they will gather no where near the crowds they claim they will suddenly “remember that was they day they have to wash their hair.” LOL It won’t actually happen because it would be a massive embarrassment.
Geez! What a group of sad sacks. It appears most of the crowd are union peons. Probably ordered and paid to attend.
This day in History 2nd October
Russia
1993 Soviet Union Demonstrators
2nd October, 1993: Hard Line Pro Communist demonstrators fought running battles with security forces loyal to President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow. Many of the old style communists are unhappy with Yeltsin and his free market reforms .
1971 U.S.A. Longshoremen Strikes
2nd October, 1971: Strikes By Miners and longshoremen cause docks and mines to close throughout the US with 140,000 on strike
1949 U.S.A. Strike
2nd October, 1949: 500,000 CIO Steel workers have closed down the nations foundries, steel and Iron mills demanding pensions and better working conditions and wages, they now join the 400,000 coal miners on strike bringing the total on strike to nearly one million workers.
1933 U.S.A. NRA
2nd October, 1933: President Roosevelt has asked the NRA to reduce codal hours to 30 to increase the number of jobs available and share the work and the wages more evenly.
1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
Birhday:
1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi), Indian politician and spiritual leader (d. 1948)
Paul Von Hindenburg
10/2/1847 - 8/2/1934
German military officer and politician
Holiday:
Mehregan, according to Iranian civil calendar. (Iran)
The Taxtakers of America march for more Freebies!. Unreal. Give us Pie!
Wow. Impressive!
Especially considering they were bussed in Union people with their professionally printed signs - .
laughable.
Every 'rally" from here on in will automatically, in peoples minds, be compared with the numbers of Beck's - which was well over 500,000 - no matter how much they try to downgrade the numbers.
Sez who?
They will be marching to protest the fact that the nation’s second class citizens (the private sector majority) - those not in a union and not working for the government, are no longer willing to subsidize the premium pay and benefits for the first class citizens (the minority) - those employed by government and/or in a union.
The privileged class will be marching to keep their privileges.
You might have a “right to work” and you have a right to start your own business.
BUT A JOB IS NOT A RIGHT!
Very sad to think they can only get people in socialist corrupt groups to participate in their little protest. At least the rally last week was a RALLY, not a protest. Civil Rights have not helped America, it really has made it worse, just giving people an excuse to do nothing and expect everything to be handed to them. Take a look at the prisons......civil rights really helped the majority of people in the prisons.
Well I see the Communist scum is alive and well,this should be a Hoot,all the Commies get a FREE Ride to DC on the rented Busses from all the Union Dues and the rest on Tax payer money from the stimulus to all the Community organizers. All the Usual Nuts,Right to a Job? How is that,what job to do you have a RIGHT to? Director of Nasa? Chief of Brain Surgery Dept. at John Hopkins? How about head Of Oncology at Yale New Haven Hospital?
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