Next THURS, Please join REV JESSE JACKSON at the BIGGEST Rally in DC
since Selma- OR march there from Savage MD next Tues
December 29, 2004
Save Our Votes March: Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington DC -- Jan. 4th
- Jan. 6th!
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.htmThe Rally: At 10 A.M. on Janaury 4th, there will be a "Save Our Votes
Rally", featuring Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Th
is will
be at the intersection of
Route 32 and Route 1, Savage, Maryland (Just below Baltimore,
Maryland). The aMarch: March will commence immediately after the Rally.
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. Here are some details of the planned march: We will provide a
large heated event tent for the overnight campers, as well as other
necessities. We welcome any and all marchers, you may march as little or
as long as you would like. People may choose to march during the day and
make their own arrangements at night, camping is not req uired to
participate in the march. Even if you only march for one day or one
hour, we need you to help us fight for our democracy. If you can't join
the march on January 4th and 5th, please join us on the morning of the
6th and march to the Capital and take part in the rally planned there.
We need to show strength in our numbers to encourage our representatives
to fully investigate this election and to fight for total election
reform. We hope this will grow to be a very large group by the time we
reach the Capital, just as it did in 1965 in Montgomery. This
re-enactment could be a spotlight on the sham of an election held on Nov
2nd, 2004. Please see
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/index.html for more
details. We hope you can join us and make history! Details will be
provided on the message board:
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=marchonwashingtonTo contribute financially to "Save Our Votes" March, via Paypal:
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/index.htmlJoy
joy@51capitalmarch.com
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