Williamsburg Virginia !!!! The Poor People's March is coming....

[diamond14]

here's the Marchers' schedule...coming into Williamsburg Virginia tomorrow, and Marching in Williamsburg on August 20th (Wednesday)...can you join the March...or help keep these Marchers coming all the way to OUR Nation's Capital.....???? YOUR help is needed.....
http://www.kwru.org/march/bar.html#latest_route_information


If you can come to DC, please join us...SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd, Meet at the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington National Cemetary at 10:00am to march over the Key bridge and into Washington, DC. Buses can converge at this location.

there are lots of ways for everyone to HELP build a better America...
please join us...(DEAN scheduled his meeting later in day, so YOU can do BOTH)...all info for the POOR PEOPLES MARCH on this link
http://www.kwru.org/march/index.html

[underpants]

1. In the 'burg?

OMG that is hilarious. The income gap there is incredible. Plus the fact that you are mostly either under 30 (W&M) or over 60. Right at the height of tourist season (mostly from NY NJ and PA).

[sandnsea]

2. Who's participating in this march?

I think it'll be great, Bushville tents and all! Too bad I'm way out here on the west coast and can't make it. :-(

[diamond14]

4. more info...not all have tents, some just plastic tarps...

The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is a national effort led by poor and homeless women, men and children of all races to raise the issue of poverty as a human rights violation.
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organizations involved with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
http://universityofthepoor.org/campaign/orgs/orgs.html


and The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) is a multi-racial organization of, by and for poor and homeless people. We believe that we have a right to thrive - not just barely survive. KWRU is dedicated to organizing of welfare recipients, the homeless, the working poor and all people concerned with economic justice.
http://www.kwru.org/kwru/kwrufaq.html#kensington
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here's a link to how YOU can help...sign up for email alerts, write, call, donate time/money/supplies...YOU can help even from the west coast....

http://www.kwru.org/march/bar.html#make_a_donation
scroll down to find ways YOU can help




here's part of the tent city in South Carolina, called 'naftaville'...
marchers decided to show their support for the more than 6,450 workers fired from the Pillowtex plant in Kannapolis, NC.

coming to DC to set up their tents on the Mall and call it
'bushville'..it won't be beautiful designer tents...bring your plastic tarp/duct tape and join us...

[HFishbine]

3. How

did things go in NC?

[diamond14]

5. badly, arrests, police threatened to take their children...please

help by reading here, circulating this, and signing the Poor-Peoples ballot from the AFL-CIO in opposition to the FTAA and vote to stop it in their people's referendum.


http://www.kwru.org/march/updates/16august2003.html


On the 16th, marchers held a press conference outside of Representative Hayes' office. Rep. Hayes, a republican from North Carolina, cast the deciding vote to give Bush fast-track authority to negotiate the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas). This agreement, like NAFTA before it, will destroy millions of American jobs and allow for the exploitation of workers in the third world. The Poor People's Campaign is indicting him as a human rights violator for putting corporate profits over people.