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..