One Nation: March to Rebuild America and End War!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Barack Obama ran for president on a platform of change, yet we are still waiting to see the change. Instead, we are experiencing the worst sustained unemployment toll in 75 years; the worst mortgage crisis in memory; 15 million immigrant workers forced to live in the shadows; a climate crisis that threatens to spin out of control; escalating environmental degradation as seen in the recent Gulf oil spill; the largest prison population in the world; a deepening crisis in our education system and a healthcare system that still fails to provide adequate care to all.

On the foreign policy front, we have a steadily expanding war in Afghanistan, a continued military presence in Iraq, secret wars in Pakistan and Yemen, US support for the Israeli oppression of Palestinians, growing US militarism in Latin America, and harsh, extra-legal prisons in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

When Franklin Roosevelt became President during the Great Depression, he knew he needed a massive outcry from the grassroots to move the country forward. "You've convinced me,” he told the activists, “Now go out and make me do it.” And they did. Thanks to the mass movements of the day, we got Social Security, unemployment compensation, the 8-hour day and industrial unionism.

A generation later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the youth of SNCC faced down the sheriffs’ deputies, police dogs and lynch mobs of the South and build a mass movement that resulted in the Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Bill and forever transformed race relations in our country. Now it’s our time to raise our voices and make our power felt. That’s why a coalition is organizing and mobilizing throughout the United States for jobs, economic security, comprehensive immigration reform, a safe and renewable energy policy and a reversal of national priorities from making wars to meeting human needs.

This will culminate in a massive—and we believe historic—March on Washington on October 2. Don’t miss it. Together, we can make the change we want to see.

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