Save Our Votes March -- Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington DC -- Jan. 4th

[NVMojo]

instead of whining, support this or join it!!! When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I wish I lived on the east coast ....

Save Our Votes March

"From SELMA to WASHINGTON: 40 Years Marching For Our Voting Rights"
Jan. 4th, 2005 through Jan. 6th, 2005
Savage MD to Washington DC
Begins Tuesday at 10AM, January 4th, Arrives Thursday January 6th at the Rally to Defend Democracy at the Federal Capitol in Washington DC.

51capitalmarch is sponsoring Save Our Votes March, From Selma to Ohio to Washington a re-enactment the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. The following is a brief description of that march:

On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery." On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarch.htm

Covering 25 miles in 2 1/2 days, the march will begin outside Baltimore on January 4th at 10AM in Savage Maryland (intersection of Route 32 and Route 1). The march will follow Route 1, ending at the Federal Capitol in Washington DC for the Rally in Defense of Democracy on January 6th.

We need as many people as possible to join us that morning and march the last 2 to 3 miles to the Upper Senate Park, where we will join the Defend Democracy Rally and Vigil on the west side of the Capital at 10:00 a.m.


more...

http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/save_our_votes_.html

[NVMojo]

1. shameless self kick ...I am proud of these people ....

[GetTheRightVote]

2. I will help you kick it to, I am going to march with them part of the way

:kick:

[starmaker]

3. everybody has a right to vote

now we have to stand together

as voters to insure for our

children's children that

honesty and elections are preserved

we the voter can alter the course of human events

when we stand up and be counted

jan 6 is the day to be counted

and maybe a senator will join us

this is an assembly for voters rights

we are the majority let us count ourselves