On October 15th in Washington DC, The People are Rising Up And Marching for Jobs and Justice!

[FrenchieCat]

On the day of the historic unveiling of the Martin Luther King National Memorial on the Mall next Saturday, October 15, there will also be a march on Washington beforehand to reiterate some of the ideals supported by the Occupy Wall Street movement currently sweeping the country– the ideal that Congress needs to start doing its damn job of putting Americans back to work.

With unemployment hovering at 9.1%, Americans continue to suffer at the hand of an economy weakened by the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008, largely caused by the deregulation of financial markets. To add insult to injury, the prior administration giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy while plunging our nation into two unpaid wars has almost bankrupted the county. The Great Recession was nearly staved off via President Obama’s 2009 stimulus, until relentless Republicans and corporate obstruction, supported by media propaganda, brought economic growth to a screeching halt after the Republicans took back the House in January of 2011.

Although GOP candidates of the 2010 election ran on the platform of “jobs, jobs, jobs,” the only action on jobs that we have witnessed the Republican winners of that election act upon thus far is the cutting of over 500,000 public jobs, while engaging in a continuous national campaign of maintaining those massive tax cuts for corporations and the rich.
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The more Americans participating, the clearer the message sent to our Do-Not-a-Damn-Thing Congress will be. Those who have taken this country hostage for their own politically selfish, partisan reasons cannot be allowed to continue their war against jobs! So put on your best marching boots or your sneakers, and join the march to demonstrate that WE NEED JOBS AND JUSTICE and WE NEED THEM RIGHT NOW!
http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/on-october-15th-in-washington-dc-the-people-are-rising-up-and-marching-for-jobs-and-justice/


PS: Note that this March for Jobs was planned before OWS ever started.....
When the MLK dedication was rescheduled, so was this march.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/politics/march-on-washington/index.html

[FrenchieCat]

1. Kick!

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. K & R

:kick:

[FrenchieCat]

3. Thanks......

Let's get her done!

[Major Hogwash]

4. The GOP had better wake up.

Half the people that are demonstrating are Republicans.

[deaniac21]

5. We need to move those jobs over from Afganistan and Iraq.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Are we talking about this march here.....

or is it just a March By Black folks for Black folks?

Cause I know that a couple of weeks ago, folks were quite "concerned"
about the unemployment issue and Black folks and had plenty to say about it
in particular in reference to the CBC. I guess no more? :shrug:

[Number23]

8. Now that it's obvious black folks won't allow ourselves to be Club #563 with

which to bash this president over the head, some folks have lost interest. Alot of folks had to get "checked" when they were pushing the "Obama lectured black folks and the CBC" BS a few weeks ago and they got checked HARD. It was a beautiful thing.

This is probably also being ignored because there is a large group of people out there who are practically peeing their pants with anticipation that OWS will "take on" Obama, either ignorant of or completely ignoring the thrust and purpose of these protests. Seeing all of these black folks (who are by far some of the president's strongest supporters) marching in protest of Wall Street probably has them a bit confused. How can they support ANYONE who supports this president, even if they're all on the same side???

Oh, the humanity! :eyes:

[EffieBlack]

10. Well said!

I was wondering why the march got so little comment on DU.

Of course, if these same folks were marching AGAINST the president, it would be Topic A here.

[Number23]

11. Oh child...

Of course, if these same folks were marching AGAINST the president, it would be Topic A here.

Now you KNOW that is the truth.

[JTFrog]

7. Kick

Occupy Portland marches with Peace and Justice Works (anti-war protest) today! What an amazing day. All around the world the people are uniting!

[CakeGrrl]

9. K&R