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Liberals mark your calenders,Huge astroturf event scheduled

Steve

Well-known member
NAACP President Ben Jealous announced the October 2nd march at the NAACP convention in Kansas City in early July
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
We learned this morning that the National Executive Council of the AFL-CIO has voted to support and mobilize its members for the October 2, 2010, march on Washington to demand "jobs, economic security, comprehensive immigration reform, a safe and renewable energy policy and a reversal of national priorities from making wars to meeting human needs." This march was initiated by SEIU Local 1199 and the NAACP.

"Having been confronted with the specter of the tea party . . . we felt it urgent to organize the majority of this country, which voted in 2008 and has gone back to the couch," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP. "We've been split off in different directions."

he groups involved represent the core of the first-time voters who backed Obama, including the National Council of La Raza, the Service Employees International Union, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, and the United States Student Association. (The effort is separate from the Democratic Party's plan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same voters.)

At their national conventions this week, NAACP and La Raza leaders will talk to their members about "One Nation," and they are seeking money from oundations for the effort.

The leadership for this coalition comes from 1199, the New York based hospital workers union, and the national NAACP. Other unions, including the AFL-CIO and SEIU are already involved. A growing list of community organizations is on board. DSA has endorsed the March for Jobs, as did the U.S. Social Forum,

if it didn't get any worse.. now you have "Ed the liberal" weighing in...
Now, I also said on my radio show I could get 300,000 people. You give me six months of promotion, six months of production, and two billionaires who are paying for busing the people in, hey, we‘ll get ‘er done -- 99ers, outsourced American, let‘s see, probably teachers, union workers, those dirty sons of guns out there, you know, wage earners of America, those cab drivers, those truck drivers, I‘m confident that if I were to do this, that they would walk with me.

SCHULTZ: Well, Robert, if I decide to march on Washington, I know I can count on you for promotion.

GREENWALD: I‘ll be there.
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SCHULTZ: I won‘t shake you down for any money so we can bus people in, but I know that you—

GREENWALD: But Ed, if you march on Washington, you have to promise you‘ll have the geese flying above you when you do.
you can bet by the list of endorsing groups that they will be busing them in..
 

Steve

Well-known member
the list of sponsors and those who have endorsed the huge AstroTurf rally.
Endorsing Organizations
August 29, 2010
AFL-CIO

350.org

A. Philip Randolph Institute

All Hands on Deck

Amalgamated Local 171 UAW

American Federation of Teachers

American Friends Service Committee

American Rights at Work

Americans for Financial Reform

Black Leadership Forum, Inc.

Black Women’s Roundatable

Black Youth Vote

Brooklyn for Peace

California Black League of Voters

Campaign for America’s Future

Campaign for Community Change

Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Campus Camp Wellstone

Campus Progress

Center for Community and Economic Justice

Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War

Charlie Fink Productions

Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

Chicago Teacher’s Union – AFT Local 1

Cleveland Peace Action

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Coalition on Human Needs

Code Pink

Color of Change.org

Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Communications Workers of America

DC Vote

Demos

Equality Wisconsin, Inc.

Ex-Offenders Association of PA

Fellowship of Reconcilliation

Fur Cultural Revival (Darfur Community Center)

Generation Change

Generational Alliance

Green For All

Human Rights Campaign

Injured Workers United

Institute for Policy Studies

Institute of Caribbean Studies

International Socialist Organization

Interfaith Worker Justice

International Union of Automobile Workers of America

Jewish Funds for Justice

Jewish Labor Committee

Jobs With Justice

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Left Labor Project

Long Island C.B.T.U.

Maine Green Independent Party

Majority Agenda Project

Maryland and DC AFL-CIO

Midwest Academy

Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout

NAFEO

National Action Network

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Black Law Students Association

National Black Police Association

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

National Congress of Black Women

National Council of La Raza

National Domestic Workers Alliance

National Education Association

National Exhoodus Council

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

National Immigrant Solidarity Network

National Nurses United

National Union of Home and Health Care Employees

National Urban League

New England Region – AFSC

New Haven People’s Center

New Jersey Black Issues Coalition

Ohio AFL-CIO

Pax Christi USA

Peace Action

Peace Action Education Fund

Peace Action Maine

Peace and Freedom Party of California

People’s Organization for Progress

PolicyLink

PowerPAC

Pride at Work, AFL-CIO

Progressive Democrats of America

Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network

School of the America’s Watch (SoA Watch)

SEIU

SEIU 1199

SEIU Local 32BJ

Sojourners

Teamster’s Local Union 808

The Gathering For Justice

The Maryland Black Family Alliance

The New Testement Revival Cathedral

The Other 98%

The Power Online

The William Kellibrew Foundation

Tikkun-Network of Spiritual Progressives

Transport Workers Union of America

UAW, International Union

Union of the Unemployed

Unite Here

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

United Food and Commerical Workers Minority Coalition

United for Justice with Peace

United for Peace and Justice

United Mine Workers of America

United States Students Association

United Steelworkers of America

US Human Rights Network

US Labor Against the War

US Peace Council– Wisconsin

USAction

War Resisters League

Ward 7 Business and Professional Association

Washington Peace Center

Welfare Rights Committee

Women’s Action for New Directions

Working America

Young People For
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