Huge March on Washington planned for October 2, 2010 demanding jobs and changes we voted for!

[Better Believe It]

ONE NATION
IS ABOUT REORDERING OUR NATION'S PRIORITIES TO INVEST IN OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE
— OUR PEOPLE.

We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve the American Dream — a secure job, a safe home, and a quality education — but banksters and corporate lobbyists have made off with trillions of public dollars while small businesses can’t get loans and cities are laying off teachers, police, and firefighters.

In this time of economic crisis, it is easy for fear-mongerers to pit groups against each other and to find convenient scapegoats for the problems that plague us.

ONE NATION seeks to transcend our superficial differences and bring us together in a common quest for equal opportunity and justice for all.

ONE NATION
HAS A NEW
STORY TO TELL
AND WE WANT
YOU TO BE
A PART OF IT.


SIGN UP TODAY!

March with us in Washington, DC on
10-2-10 to create millions of good jobs,
repair our immigration system, and
reform Wall Street! Your voice is
essential to demanding the change
we voted for.

CONTACT US!

1333 H Street NW,
Suite 300, East Tower
Washington DC 20005

Phone
202-533-2578

E-mail [e-mail]

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT:

http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/


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One Nation Formed to Bring Back the American Dream
by James Parks
AUGUST 5, 2010


Working people are frustrated and angered by the inability of lawmakers to stop the massive loss of jobs and decline in living standards, while Republicans—and some Democrats—freely hand over the economy to corporations that are growing richer and more powerful each day.

To help renew the American Dream for everyone, some 170 progressive groups, including the AFL-CIO, NAACP, National Council of La Raza and many affiliated unions, have come together in One Nation.

One Nation is a multi-racial, civil and human rights movement whose mission is to reorder our nation’s priorities to invest in our nation’s most valuable resource—our people. One Nation is holding an Oct. 2 rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. with tens of thousands of activists taking part. They will then return to their neighborhoods, congregations, schools and, especially, voting booths, fired up with new energy to take back the country.

During its Aug. 4-5 meeting in Washington, D.C., the AFL-CIO Executive Council issued a statement supporting One Nation and saying we must fight the fear mongering and scapegoating that is dividing our country.

The organizations that form One Nation support the union movement’s agenda of an economy that works for all; good jobs, fair jobs, safe jobs, and more jobs; reforming Wall Street; repairing our immigration system; quality education for every child; and ensuring that everyone in America has the opportunity to contribute to and strengthen our country, according to the statement:

The Council statement also issues a rallying cry to workers:

Working people can make a difference when we rely on ourselves and act collectively. We are America. And together we can make our voices heard.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/08/05/one-nation-formed-to-bring-back-the-american-dream/

One Nation Working Together
August 04, 2010

Washington, D.C.
AFL-CIO Executive Council statement


Our nation stands at a critical crossroads. The 30-year drive for a low-wage, high-consumption society that imports more and more of what it consumes has hit the wall. Millions are unemployed, with little recovery in sight. A record number of Americans who want desperately to work have been jobless for more than 6 months. At the same time, Wall Street continues to roll up big profits.

Banks and corporations have made off with trillions of public dollars, while small businesses can’t get loans and cities are being forced to make cuts to public education and public safety, harming our children and our communities.

Obstructionists in Congress are doing everything they can to stop anything that helps working people, and they are scapegoating workers for the demise of the economy. Public sector workers are being cast as selfish, auto workers are being blamed for the troubles of the auto industry, and teachers are being blamed for an education system in need of support.

Working people are frustrated and angry—incensed by the government’s inability to halt massive job loss and declining living standards on the one hand, and the comparative ease with which Republicans in Congress, with help from some Democrats, have done their best to make the world safe again for JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and CitiGroup, on the other. Just as we have seen through history, fear mongers in our country have seized on that anger and are working hard -- unfortunately with some success--to use justifiable anger about a failing economy to divide us.

We have to fight this hateful demagoguery that only benefits our foes, and we can’t do it alone. History has taught us that the best way to fight the forces of hatred is to address the economic policies that led to our economic suffering, and that our fight must draw its strength from an alliance of the poor and the middle class—everyone who works for a living.

It is against this backdrop that we join ONE NATION.


ONE NATION is a multi-racial, civil and human rights movement whose mission is to reorder our nation’s priorities to invest in our nation’s most valuable resource – our people. The organizations that have come together to form ONE NATION believe that our goal should be a future of shared prosperity, not stubborn unemployment and a lost generation. Workers should be able to share in the wealth they create, and everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve the American Dream – a secure job; the chance for our children to get a great public education and the opportunity to make their own way in the world; and laws that protect us, not oppress us.

ONE NATION is a long-term effort to reverse the dangerous economic course of our country over the past four decades. It brings together organizations from across the progressive spectrum—labor, civil rights, environmental, faith and many others—recognizing that none of us alone have been able to achieve our priorities, whether they are large-scale job creation, labor law reform, immigration reform, investing in public education or other concerns, and that we will not realize change until these priorities belong to all of us.

ONE NATION shares the labor movement’s policy agenda: An economy that works for all; good jobs, fair jobs, safe jobs, and more jobs; reforming Wall Street; repairing our immigration system; quality education for every child; and ensuring that everyone in America has the opportunity to contribute to and strengthen our country. Restoring workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively is at the heart of the policy agenda.

The ONE NATION march on Washington on October 2, 2010 will charge up an army of tens of thousands of activists who will return to their neighborhoods, churches, schools and, especially, voting booths, with new energy to enact our common agenda. And on the same day, the labor movement will walk door-to-door in targeted states around the country, bringing the same message to union members exactly one month before the fall elections.

The march aims to bring working people, young people, retirees, civil rights activists and many others together on the Mall to show the obstructionists in Congress that we are many and diverse, strong and that united—and we will fight together for the American Dream.

Many of our unions are already committed to work as a part of ONE NATION. The unions of the AFL-CIO proudly join this coalition and pledge to work collectively to add our support to this great effort.

Working people can make a difference when we rely on ourselves and act collectively. We are America. And together we can make our voices heard.

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/ecouncil/ec08042010a.cfm


Tens of thousands of unemployed workers may join the march. And the AFL-CIO unions will be organizing tens of thousands of workers to join the march and rally.

[Hannah Bell]

1. kr

[Better Believe It]

2. So there isn't much interest in participating by DU'ers?

Tired of marchin once every ten years or so?

Come on folks!

Look alive!

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. I call dibs...

...on making the giant puppets.

It's a poor march on Washington that can't produce a few giant puppets.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. I'll be there

[LWolf]

43. Interest? Yes. Ability? No.

I can't afford to go anywhere, let alone 2700+ miles to the other side of the nation.

[Better Believe It]

44. That's understandable. But fortunately many can and will find a way.

[LWolf]

65. I'm there in spirit, and glad to know that many will make it. nt

[uberblonde]

53. The unions will probably sponsor buses from your area.

Call the organizers and ask!

[LWolf]

64. Buses that travel 2700 miles???

I'll certainly ask.

[Hannah Bell]

69. are you on the west coast? if it goes, there will probably be related events on this side.

[LWolf]

70. Yep.

If I can afford the gas to get across the mountains, there may be something happening in the more populated, and less conservative, areas in the state.

[ThomWV]

45. My wife and I will be there - if it indeed happens

[prolesunited]

71. I would represent DU

if someone bought me a plane ticket and a hotel room. With the dismal luck I've been having, I doubt I'll have a job by then.

[inna]

3. about time.

:kick:

[MineralMan]

6. So, you'll be going?

[Subdivisions]

10. Will you? n/t

[MineralMan]

15. I don't know. There isn't enough information on that website to

make a decision like that. Just a form for giving out your personal information and not much else. I'd have to see a list of the organization's directors, some sort of mission statement, etc.

Sounds like a good idea, but it's sort of amateur hour on that website. That doesn't bode well for its success, I think.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. AFL CIO and NAACP are promoting it

They told us about it at the AFT convention last month.

[inna]

17. I'll be doing local things in San Francisco. And yourself?

[MineralMan]

20. I'll probably be walking precincts in my area and the neighboring

congressional district. Seems more effective, somehow. If I can get people to get out and vote for Democrats, maybe we can keep the Republicans from retaking control of Congress. If that happens, we have nothing at all.

[Poboy]

4. Excellent. k&r.

[Starry Messenger]

7. k & r

[MineralMan]

8. Is this a new organization? I can't seem to find much of anything

about it. The website you linked to doesn't offer any information, either. Is there a general link for the organization?

[Better Believe It]

11. 170 Organizations including the NAACP, AFL-CIO, National Council of La Raza make up the coalition.

"To help renew the American Dream for everyone, some 170 progressive groups, including the AFL-CIO, NAACP, National Council of La Raza and many affiliated unions, have come together in One Nation."

This is a new website and I'm sure they'll soon fill in a lot more details.

The recent NAACP National Convention voted to join the coalition and help organize the march and rally.

[MineralMan]

13. OK. They really, really need to have some info on their site. This

looks like amateur hour, and many people will have the same questions I have. Let me know when the information is available. Thanks.

[MineralMan]

12. Doing some further searching, I still can't find anything about this

organization. They have that web site, which offers no information, plus a Facebook page, also not offering any information. Who started it? Who are the people in it?

I'm not supplying personal information to any organization that doesn't identify the people who are running it. Down that road leads a big pile of spam and telephone calls.

If someone has more information, please post it.

[Better Believe It]

14. Don't worry. Be patient. This is not being organized by some little political sect.

The NAACP and AFL-CIO would not endorse and publicize the demonstration if it was.

They are working now on lining up additional broad sponsorship.

[MineralMan]

16. OK. Well, when they get more organized, I'll look at it again.

[Subdivisions]

19. Found some info

Did a whois check on onenationworkingtogether.org. The registrant of this domain is http://powerpac.org/, a progressive political action group. Here's the record:

Domain ID:D159489654-LROR
Domain Name:ONENATIONWORKINGTOGETHER.ORG
Created On:23-Jun-2010 16:57:23 UTC
Last Updated On:23-Jun-2010 16:57:25 UTC
Expiration Date:23-Jun-2011 16:57:23 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:CR50747772
Registrant Name:Lisa Le
Registrant Organization:PowerPAC.org
Registrant Street1:44 Montgomery Street
Registrant Street2:Suite 2310
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:San Francisco
Registrant State/Province:California
Registrant Postal Code:94104
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:[phone]
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:[e-mail]
Admin ID:CR50747780
Admin Name:Lisa Le
Admin Organization:PowerPAC.org
Admin Street1:44 Montgomery Street
Admin Street2:Suite 2310
Admin Street3:
Admin City:San Francisco
Admin State/Province:California
Admin Postal Code:94104
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:[phone]
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:[e-mail]
Tech ID:CR50747777
Tech Name:Lisa Le
Tech Organization:PowerPAC.org
Tech Street1:44 Montgomery Street
Tech Street2:Suite 2310
Tech Street3:
Tech City:San Francisco
Tech State/Province:California
Tech Postal Code:94104
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:[phone]
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:[e-mail]
Name Server:NS49.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server:NS50.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

(Smilies not mine...)

So then I checked powerpac.org. It's headed by a woman named Lisa Le from San Fransisco. http://powerpac.org/ and http://powerpac.org/about.html

Here's another reference: http://www.fontanahcc.org/1-Advocacy.html

[MineralMan]

21. There doesn't seem to be anything on that site after 2008.

I'm sorry, but this has the feel of a "Hey, Kids! Let's Put on a Show" sort of deal. Today, everyone knows how to build a website, and everyone knows that people are unwilling to commit to things without some information about the organization that's trying to get them to commit.

Very unprofessional beginning, I think. No About us page. Nothing but a phone number as a contact. No list of the Directors or even a single name of who started this.

Hell, I could build a website like this one in about half an hour, to collect personal information I could use to try to get donations or whatever.

Surely we can do better than this in 2010. Doncha think? Amateur hour.

[Subdivisions]

23. I'm not in total disagreement with you. That's why I'm digging on it.

Will see if I can make contact with this Power PAC.

[MineralMan]

25. OK. Let me know what you find out. It looks to me like they need

to spend some money on professional web design and content. They're talking about a huge event in less than two months. Time's a'wastin'.

[Subdivisions]

31. So you're not impressed with that site's design? I could understand

the lack of content at such a short notice. But if that web design is bad, then I guess I'm easily impressed, which I didn't think I was. I thought the site looked really good, though you are right that it lacks sufficient content.

[MineralMan]

41. Design isn't just appearance.

Now, I have an extreme prejudice against opening animations you have to opt out of, but that's beside the point. Web site design has more to to with how information is presented than with appearance. The structure of the site and its navigational tools are far more important.

The problem with this site's design is that they forgot most of what sites like this one should contain. That's part of web design, too. I've seen sites that were as plain as a cardboard box that were very, very successful. I've also seen sites that were super "cool" that failed miserably.

Design isn't just about appearance.

[joe black]

73. Tell M&M.

Tell him dear leader is putting it on and maybe he'll stop bashing.

[Better Believe It]

26. Why don't you offer to help them with your expertise and professionalism?

Nit picking won't help much.

[MineralMan]

29. I'm sure there are plenty of web designers and writers in

San Francisco. I've got my hands full here in Saint Paul.

[Better Believe It]

32. You're right. Someone decided to accept responsiblity but it looks like they could use help.

[WonderGrunion]

38. I say the same thing about liberal bloggers and Obama

Nit picking won't help much.

[socialist_n_TN]

66. Not to go off on a tangent, but, but, but.............

I thought Obama WANTED us to "hold his feet to the fire." Or am I supposed to sit down and STFU? I'm SO confused.

[Parker CA]

9. K&R

[Better Believe It]

18. NAACP announces march on Washington October 2, 2010

NAACP announces march on Washington
July 13, 2010

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 13 (UPI) -- The NAACP said at its convention in Missouri it will march on Washington Oct. 2 to mark intensified social problems during the recession.

At its 101st annual convention in Kansas City, the NAACP also called for rebuttals against what it said was the Tea Party movement's racism, and asked for people to join the march in the fight against joblessness, failed schools, foreclosures, racism and urban violence, the Kansas City Star reported Monday.

"Fire up the troops of hope, unity and justice in this nation. This fall, we are going to lead a great and mighty army that looks like America," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, in announcing the One Nation movement.

Jealous said marchers will demand, one month before the November elections, that senators stop moving money from education and into wars and prisons, and move to regulate lenders and create jobs.

Jealous said the One Nation movement will march on Washington to indicate "that the majority of this nation is ready and willing to fight back and ensure that all of the change we voted for is a reality for all of our children."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/07/13/NAACP-announces-march-on-Washington/UPI-21551279057500/

[MineralMan]

24. OK. But none of that information is on that One Nation site.

Why not? I'm not saying it's not legitimate. I'm saying that they're off to a poor start, from a professional web content point of view.

[Better Believe It]

27. They may be leaving it up to the endorsing organizations and their mass memberships to

build the march and rally rather than depend on the "One Nation" coordination organization which is only organized for this one time event.

[MineralMan]

28. Well, they have less than two months. Not much time.

[Better Believe It]

33. That's about how much time it took to organize the 1963 March on Washington.

[Bluenorthwest]

49. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...

That famous march was the idea of A. Phillip Randolf, himself a Vice President of AFL-CIO and the President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. That march was also made by a coallitioin of labor, church, and progressive groups.
That famous March was organized very quickly, and the pointman on that end was Dr King's friend and gay man Bayard Rustin.
Just some fun facts....

[Bluenorthwest]

48. For me, as a lifelong Union member

The AFL-CIO is enough of an endorement. They along with over a hundred other labor and Progressive organizations, Unions and groups are behind this event. Obviously you have not heard of the AFL-CIO or the NAACP or LaRaza or any of these groups, because you keep insisting this event might be a spam scam and such. I'd just like you to know that I'm not fond of arch comments about my mother Union.
I think you should send them your ideas, and a pile of money.

[joe black]

75. Thank you!

Before I even thought of clicking on this I already had the usual suspects picked out that would bash and demean it. I was not disappointed.

[mdmc]

22. r

[Better Believe It]

30. 10-2-10 Update: One Nation Movement Gains Steam

SEIU Local 1199
NEWS CENTER

10-2-10 Update: One Nation Movement Gains Steam

The coalition that is organizing the October 2 march on Washington has expanded to more than 170 organizations. The march is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of participants from across the country.

1199SEIU, the NACCP, the AFL-CIO, the National Council of La Raza, the United States Student Association and the Center for Community Change are among the sponsors of the march.

The march seeks to bring together the movement that helped elect President Barack Obama to demand the change the people voted for.

“We will fire up the troops of hope, unity and justice in this nation. This fall we are going to lead a great and mighty army that looks like America,”said Benjamin Jealous, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, at the organization’s 101st annual convention July 12 -16 in Kansas City.

A call to the demonstration reads: “To Unite America Through Hope, Not Hate.” Other major demands of the march are:

Jobs for all and an economy the works for all.
Funding for health care and schools.
Renewable energy and green jobs.
Comprehensive immigration reform.
Funding for human needs, not warfare.
1199SEIU has begun getting out the message to its members. Organizers and Delegates have begun distributing leaflets and sign-up cards within the institutions.

“I’m going to be in Washington on October 2 and I’m working to get my co- workers to join me,” says Sherral McAdam, a secretary and Delegate at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Health Center. “I’m concerned about the lack of change since we voted for the president. Obama inherited a mess and one of the reasons it hasn’t been cleaned up is the Republicans in Congress are blocking all his efforts to help working people.”

For information about the march, 1199ers should talk to their Organizer or Delegate or go to www.1199seiu.org/10210.

http://www.1199seiu.org/media/news.cfm?nid=2182

Who Is SEIU Local 1199?

1199 SEIU is the largest, fastest-growing and most effective healthcare union in America. We represent over 300,000 members throughout New York State, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Our members work in every job classification and in every facet of the healthcare industry, including hospitals, nursing homes, homecare and clinics. 1199 members are driven by a mission to achieve affordable, quality healthcare for all, and the strongest voice for the workers that provide that care.

[Better Believe It]

34. Kick if you think this protest deserves to be brought to the attention of DU'ers

[Poboy]

39. ttt

[Better Believe It]

35. kick

[Better Believe It]

40. kick again

[Hatchling]

42. k&r

[scentopine]

46. Great! Money is better spent organizing protest than funding parasite lobbiests and DLC staff

every dollar you invest in real people pays dividends. Every dollar you send to the DLC and party parasites and sycophants is a waste. They'll take your money and spend it kissing fortune 500s ass.

[LiberalEsto]

47. Just what I've been hoping for!

I'll be there

[NoPasaran]

50. I probably can't make the march but I can give it a Kick and a Rec

:kick:

[Hannah Bell]

51. kik

[bhikkhu]

52. They really need to be more specific, or its just multi-racial teabaggers

You can't very well be anti-corporations and pro-jobs, when the biggest employers are corporations. Or you can be, but its a little incoherent and unlikely to lead to anything.

You can't really talk about declining living standards and how we have a corporate-driven culture of overconsumption and make sense.

You can't really talk about fixing education without talking about why we can't fix education - which is the massive consumption of government funds and initiative by the military.

And you can't really talk about job creation without one of three things - bring the American standard of living down to parity with the semi-developed world so we can compete on the existing open market, institute broad tariffs to isolate our economy and make American goods competitive in our own market, or change the tax laws so the benefits of offshore production are taken away from corporations. The first two reduce standards of living and realistically don't produce much in the way of jobs, while the third would reduce US corporate profits and favor foreign firms in low-tax areas...and so forth.

There are things we can do, such as de-fund the military. That would help the deficit and allow education reform and health care and so forth, but you have to remember that the military is really the biggest jobs program the government has ever run - it would have a negative effect on jobs. We could make some changes to tax law that would incrementally help US businesses compete, but it would be more on the scale of slowly reversing the 30 year slide of US manufacturing with a 30 year ramp-up.

...anyway, its not nice to be a pessimist but One Nation needs a platform that's more clearly laid out and actually leads to something, or they're just another batch of teabagger types just out to wave their balls around, but without any real expectation of changing anything for the better.

[lib2DaBone]

56. Not "Anti-Corporation". .... Anti offshoring , Anti outsourcing, Anti tax evading

Multi National Corporations pay NO TAX, build NO factories and provide NO jobs.

Then.. (with no restraints) they import their cheap crap into the United States. Made-in-China: poison drywall, toys with lead paint, poison pet food and toothpaste with anti freeze in it.

Goldman-Sachs sells their worthless paper derivatives all over the globe.. and then sticks the taxpayers with the bill.

This stuff HAS GOT TO STOP!

[bhikkhu]

57. And what's the plan to stop it?

Pardon the skepticism, but practically every politician for years has talked about job creation, outsourcing and so forth. If you get a big group together and demand that they put a stop to it, all they have to do is dust off the old speeches and tell you what you want to hear.

On the other hand, if there is some specific policy this group has that they believe will do the job, I failed to see it. Again, without specifics its just another teabagger-type group that leads to nothing. This crap has gone on every year or two - more often in hard times - for decades. During my entire 45 year lifetime manufacturing has been in general decline and imports have been on the rise. Just saying "stop it" has never resulted in anything. Empty rhetoric and chest thumping are things politicians are masters at deflecting and turning into "business as usual".

[socialist_n_TN]

67. I'm sure some of us there..........

(and I'm going to do my BEST to go) will be anti-capitalist.

[bhikkhu]

72. and if the demand for jobs succeeds and a capitalist corp hires you

...are you still anti-capitalist? I suppose non-profits add jobs now and then, but its hard to see how being anti-capitalist leads to more jobs for Americans...

Again, if a movement successfully boycotted against foreign made goods, there would be an immediate increase in demand for domestically produced things, and an immediate ramping up of jobs and production here. Of course, that would require that people actually do something different, and it seems people are quite satisfied with the way things are. More of the same, a little march on Washington to blow of a little steam, no real plan to change anything is likely to lead to more of the same - economic stagnation, yawns all around.

[socialist_n_TN]

78. 40+ years an anticapitalist............

The only time I've EVER worked for a big corporation, it was a union heavy industry job and I TURNED down potential management positions to STAY union. I was a shop steward at one facility and on the board of the union at another. After that I worked sole proprietor for myself and as an employee and contractor for small business, Mom and Pop type outfits. I've turned down every corporate job I've ever been offered. I'll work for somebody who actually works for the company s/he owns, but I'd have to be close to starving before I'd work for capital based businesses.

Not that I expect it in the near future, but I'd like to see government "stimulus" programs that support, with grants and loans, worker owned manufacturing, distribution, and support companies in DIRECT competition with capital backed businesses. True socialism IOW.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

54. Sounds good to me

[flyarm]

55. I am in a wedding that day dang it! I wouldbe proud to be there!! eom

[Dr.Phool]

58. I'll make sure I'm there.

Maybe we should bring tents and stay there!

[Myrina]

59. Kick & Rec !!

:kick:

[otohara]

60. They're Hiring in India & China

damn Obama, why did he send all those jobs overseas?

When will he order them back?

[bhikkhu]

61. Sarcasm, I hope...

In any case, a real movement protesting all the outsourcing of jobs to Asia would be to stop buying stuff from Asia. Check your own closet and garage if you want to know who created this whole mess, and who can change it. An effective boycott of imported goods made by "workers who took our jobs" would have an absolutely immediate impact, and immediately result in a huge increase in demand for domestically produced goods, and an immediate and long term flurry of business start-ups and ramp-ups (JOBS) to produce the goods we need.

Needless to say, I don't see any suggestion of that from "the movement". Probably most of them will stock up for the trip up on cheap Chinese stuff from W-mart...

[otohara]

62. If I Were Organizing This

I'd be marching on Wall Street and corporate America, who have shipped and continue to ship jobs to anywhere but here. I'd protest in front of their corporate headquarters in major cities across America - shut down Manhattan.

But since it's being held in D.C., I'd have huge banners with the logo's of those corporations.

They are the enemy, the evil greedy fucks who shipped our jobs out of this country, yet still expect us to buy their cheap shit.

Even though many corporate profits are up, they are not hiring.

I'm an avid eBay buyer, reduce, reuse, recycle.

[bhikkhu]

63. I don't buy much, but "used" is usually best

We have some flourishing little thrift shops in our otherwise desolate downtown.

I have a job as a mechanic, myself, so I have little to complain about compared to most people, but I work across the street from a cigarettes-and-alcohol shop, and a block from a W-mart superstore. Needless to say, however bad the economy gets and no matter how poor people become, those are the two places in town that never seem to slow down a bit.

You can look at cause and effect in different ways - if we didn't buy cheap Asian goods, we'd still have jobs. And if so many weren't so involved in drinking and smoking and gorging themselves to death, healthcare might be affordable.

Perhaps that's less kind than blaming the corporations, and and just as pointless. People are as unlikely to change their ways as corporations are to change their ways. When I see "movements" like the one in the OP its always frustrating to read the fine print. There's nothing there but frustrated people. There's nothing that will lead to anything, no commitment to change things, no understanding of how we arrived at this point, nothing. I wish there were something, but there isn't.

[Little Star]

68. kick

[AlabamaLibrul]

74. Generic backhanded remark about a pony. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

76. I'll go. I just hope to hell this isn't going to devolve into another anti-Obama protest.

Something just tells me it will.

We blame a president who, face facts, cannot stop rich greedy old white men being addicted to money and profit. Those same rich greedy white old men want Obama to fail and want another goddamned Republican sock puppet gatekeeper in the White House to cut their taxes even more and give them even more privilege.

They don't seem to even care that without a workforce, you know, BUYING your products/services, this whole thing is pretty much going to collapse with terrific force.

And just so some of these people attending know, I have nothing at all in common or want anything to do with your Reaganite laissez-fail brand of economics or your Ron Paul/Oath-Klux Klan bullshit or your "they're all the same" crap. You're not going to get a progressive in the White House because he/she'd be shot within 6 months to 2 years. You're not going to get Ron Paul in the White House because he's an old lunatic and you have bad hair and smell like old Heinlen/Rand novels.

This better be about the bringing down of the corrupt old/new money system, making corporate America and banking boring again, demanding and expecting far more from the wealthy and why Capitalism does not work for the average American anymore.

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77. If you go, PM me so we can hook up

:hi:

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79. Kick

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80. I'll be there.

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81. Good to hear. Let's hope sponsoring organizations don't get cold feet

back off.

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82. kick

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84. Detroit jobs march planned for August 28th leading up to October 2nd March on Washington

Jesse Jackson, clergy push jobs plan in Detroit
RoNeisha Mullen / The Detroit News
August 10, 2010

Detroit --Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined clergy members in Detroit today to promote a plan with the UAW to put Americans back to work.

"We are in a state of emergency," Jackson said during a news conference at Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Detroit. "All across the county, there's a sense of urban abandonment. Jobs are gone, plants are closed, drugs and violence come and people feel like they don't matter.

"We need an urban policy, we need jobs. We need an economic stimulus part two."

Jackson was in town to promote a march to kick off the "Rebuilding America Jobs, Justice and Peace" campaign. It's set for Aug. 28 from the UAW Solidarity House on East Jefferson to downtown. The Detroit march is the first installment of marches, leading to a national march on Washington, D.C., in October.

Detroit was chosen as ground zero, because of the meltdown of the auto industry and the tragic effect it had on the country, said the Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition-Detroit.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100810/METRO/8100425/1361/Jesse-Jackson--clergy-push-jobs-plan-in-Detroit