March on Washington; PPC

 National Poor People’s Campaign.  March on Washington and to the Polls.

Image and link is up on our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/march-on-washington-and-to-the-polls

 

 

Mass Poor People’s Campaign and Low Wage Workers.

Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington, D.C. & to the Polls, Livestream Party for those unwilling or unable to travel to Washington DC for the event. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. The venue is St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 910 NW 38th St, Lawton OK 73505. The date and time are June 29, 9 AM to 1 PM.

 

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

March on Washington- Report Back.

1963-2013

Commemorating the 50-Year

Anniversary of the March on Washington

Join the Talking Drums News 

Report–Back Session featuring local activists

“Telling Their Story”

Marion Woods, Community Activist, Former Director, SAEOC/SETA, and Former Director Calif. Dept. Social Services

Nailah Pope-Harden, member of Avondale Glen Elders Neighborhood Association (AGENA)

and Capital Region Organizing Project (CROP)

Kevin Carter, Urban Outreach Social Justice Activist

Sunday, September 29, 2013 from 2-5:00pm

Stockton Boulevard Partnership

5625 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, California 95824

(Located in FRUITRIDGE SHOPPING CENTER)

 Sacramento, CA 95824

Please RSVP by 9/25/2013 to Faye fayek@springmail.com   

Cornel West- Civil Right Leaders are avoiding the real issues

March on Washington - A success

The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington

The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington

 Harold Meyerson.

 Rustin, working both with and for the unchallenged leader of the civil-rights movement, the venerable A. Philip Randolph, became the central figure in taking that movement national. For Rustin and Randolph, as for King, Baker, Levison, Harrington, Horowitz, and Kahn, the challenge confronting African Americans was always two-fold: to tear down the legal edifice of segregation that imperiled and degraded Southern blacks, and to remake the American economy into a more egalitarian social democracy under which—and only under which—black Americans could actually prosper.

  This was the genesis of the network of democratic socialists who seven years later were to conceive, organize, and set the themes for the March on Washington.
See the details of the Saturday march below.

Read the detailed article.  http://prospect.org/article/socialists-who-made-march-washington

Join DSA at the March on Washington

“You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. . . . There must be a better distribution of wealth . . . and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speech to the SCLC staff, Frogmore, S.C., November 14, 1966

                                                              Why We March

DSA is an official partner organization sponsoring the August 24, 2013 March on Washington 50 years after activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  That march, and the years of organizing which preceded it, built public pressure and helped lead to landmark civil rights legislation and later the expansion and protection of voting rights.

    Democratic socialists Bayard Rustin, Walter Reuther and A. Philip Randolph (above)

helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 50 years ago.

   They knew that ending legal segregation and winning political rights for African Americans were essential, but not sufficient, to ensure justice and freedom for all. Without access to good education, to health care and above all to decent jobs that paid living wages, the vote was not enough.

Civil Rights Leaders meet with Obama

Plan for March on Washington.

Meteor Blades, Daily Kos

Some 15 civil rights leaders emerged from a 45-minute meeting at the White House Monday afternoon saying they were heartened by what they said was President Obama's commitment not to roll over in the face of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision outrageous weakening the Voting Rights Act. Those in attendance included Attorney General Eric Holder and representatives of the National Action Network, NAACP, ACLU, National Council of La Raza, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the National Urban League.

 New York Times: WASHINGTON — Days after his administration filed suit against Texas to protect minority voters, President Obama told civil rights leaders and local officials on Monday that the federal government would vigorously enforce voting rights in the country despite a Supreme Court ruling against a core section of a landmark 1965 law, several participants said after a White House meeting.

“The president said that the Voting Rights Act is not dead, it’s not even critical, it’s just wounded,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and MSNBC talk show host. “He was very reassuring,” Mr. Sharpton added.

Mr. Obama met with the group for about 40 minutes, and administration officials led by the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., met with the group for a bit longer. The administration was addressing what Mr. Sharpton described as the civil rights community’s “alarm” over the court’s 5-to-4 vote last month. In that case, Shelby County v. Holder, the majority struck down as outdated and unnecessary the law’s language requiring that the federal government review and clear any changes in election laws in nine states, most of them in the South.

MLK March

March on Washington - for Jobs and Justice