BIG!!!! 'bushville' tent city is coming to DC mall ! National March

[diamond14]

This Historic March has already begun....left on Aug 1st, arrive ON THE MALL August 23rd, in honor of MLK historic speech...it's time to TAKE BACK AMERICA....and they plan to set up 'bushville' on the National Mall, a tent city of the poor...!!!!!! Let's all join in...

Here's the schedule of the Marchers, please join them, and/or help in every city they pass through...these are BRAVE Americans, marching for Human Rights to healthcare, food, affordable housing, a living wage....

http://www.kwru.org/march/bar.html#washington_dc_schedule

Aug 1st : Press conference and sendoff in Memphis, TN
Aug 2nd : Kickoff in Marks, MS (afternoon)
Aug 3rd : March out of Marks to Batesville, MS
Aug 4th : March out of Marks
Aug 5th : Travel to Nashville and march
Aug 6th : March in Nashville
Aug 7th : Travel to Louisville, KY and march
Aug 8th : March in Louisville
Aug 9th : March in Louisville
Aug 10th: Travel to northern GA (TBA) and march
Aug 11th: Travel to Knoxville, TN and march
Aug 12th: March in Knoxville, TN
Aug 13th: Travel to Clinchco, VA and march
Aug 14th: March in Clinchco, VA
Aug 15th: Travel to Charleston, WV and march
Aug 16th: March in Charleston, WV
Aug 17th: Travel to Durham, NC and march
Aug 18th: March in Durham, NC
Aug 19th: Travel in Williamsburg, VA
Aug 20th: March in Williamsburg, VA
Aug 21st: Travel and march into Washington, DC
Aug 22nd: March into Washington, DC
Aug 23rd: Massive Poor People's March on Washington. Afterward, the Campaign will set up a tent city -- Bushville -- in our nation's capital.
Aug 24th: Religious response to poverty / interfaith service
Aug 25th: Organizing for the right to health care; free health care screenings
Aug 26th: Organizing for the right to housing; local action and a memorial service for those lost
Aug 27th: Organizing for the right to food and water; free food and drink distribution
Aug 28th: Organizing for the right to education; a teach-in on free higher education
Aug 29th: Organizing for the right to a living wage; a teach-in on the effects of NAFTA, CAFTA and the FTAA; also performances from musicians uniting to end poverty.

http://www.kwru.org/march/bar.html#washington_dc_schedule

[cherryperry]

1. This is wonderful! I am in awe of these heroes!!!

Is this the first one since Hooverville? Wasn't there one more recent? Anyone know?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. YES IN PHILLY...READ "MYTH OF THE WELFARE QUEEN

opps sorry bout caps...

[NYC]

3. They are heroic.

Thanks for this information.

[diamond14]

10. are there any DUers in Charleston WV, Durham NC, or

Williamsburg VA.....calling all DUers....YOUR help can make this happen and get the message out to the PEOPLE of America....please help...Marchers coming to your towns/cities....

[SharonAnn]

4. I just heard about it on the radio today. They said that here in

Knoxville, the crowds weren't too big and that they hadn't been as big as they hoped at any stop so far. Said that this might be a problem since the idea was that they would gain momentum as they went along.

I hadn't heard about it before so didn't participate.

[newyawker99]

5. kick

:kick:

[diamond14]

7. there'll be plenty of momentum as they get close to DC....we are

sick of shrub's policies here...there are HOMELESS Veterans lying all over the benches in DC...these are OUR soldiers from Gulf War I, Vietnam, Korea, and even a few from WWII who have no medical care...come look...these people are right outside the White House...SHAME to shrub and his whole cabal...

WE stand against the shrubby "cheap-labor conservatives"

WE ARE THE PEOPLE

YES to healthcare for all
YES to living wage jobs for all
YES to affordable housing for all
YES to food and clothing for all
YES to education for all

come join us...in a historic march...August 23rd, 10:00 AM, meet at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Cemetary...and walk PROUDLY across the Key Bridge into OUR Nation's Capital...stand up for the POOR...stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves...

help spread the word...join AMERICAN PATRIOTS as they walk through YOUR city....

[blm]

6. Bump

for amen justice.

[diamond14]

8. send a little money...help keep this March in National Headlines

there is a lot you can do to support these BRAVE people...marching together, all races, all religions....on the same day of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech on the National Mall...

"bushville" tent city will be set up on the National Mall...force our congress and the pResident to stop HIDING THE POOR...and answer to WE THE PEOPLE for their failed social policies..


Please help....here's a new link to the March

http://www.kwru.org/march/index.html

[diamond14]

9. Nashville: ...are we going to continue to stand on the sidelines?

"We need to begin to do the Lord's work, and that means the hard work. That means confronting economic human rights violations in our country, and beginning to show whose side we're on. Are we going to stand with the folks that have the least, or are going to continue to stand on the sidelines and not do anything about it. That is the question of the hour. We need to build unity and organization of the poor. We no longer will benefit from pity and from tears alone. We need people to step forward. We are asking you to join and enlist in what Dr. Martin Luther King called the nonviolent poor people's army to end poverty. We need your time, and yes your money—because these vehicles do not run on love, they run on gasoline."

http://www.kwru.org/march/updates/6august2003.html

[NYC]

11. Please keep updating us

with whatever you learn.

[diamond14]

12. school of ARTISTS...University of the Poor....ART can motivate

inspire...change the world...ARTISTS !!! your work can change America...

http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/index.htm

come join us on this historical MARCH...it can make a difference for all starving artists....your talents can change the whole country....