Liberal Groups Planning to Rally on National Mall

[alp227]

Source: The New York Times

Hoping to overshadow last month’s rally led by Glenn Beck that drew thousands of Tea Party advocates and other conservatives, a coalition of liberal groups plan to descend on Washington on Saturday to make the case that they, and not the ascendant right, speak for America’s embattled middle class.

Predicting a crowd of hundreds of thousands, some 300 liberal groups — including the N.A.A.C.P., the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the National Council of La Raza and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — are sponsoring a march on Saturday in the hope of transforming the national conversation so it focuses less on the Tea Party. The groups sponsoring the rally, which is called “One Nation Working Together,” say they hope to supplant what they say is the Tea Party’s divisiveness with a message of unity to promote jobs, justice and education.

“The Tea Party has been getting much more media attention than it deserves, and it’s been saying it represents the voice of middle-class America,” said George Gresham, president of 1199 S.E.I.U., a New York health care union local, who says his union has chartered 500 buses to carry 25,000 union members to the rally. “A lot of us feel we have to get a different voice out there speaking for working people, one respecting the diversity of this country, which the Tea Party does not.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/politics/27rally.html

[handmade34]

1. it's something

I have been quite dismayed that the media this week has had a lot to say about the Stewart/Colbert Rally but not the 10-2-10 Rally. I will be there and expect to see hundreds of thousands of others... :patriot:

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. You'll see me. But I'm thinking the message is a bit muddled.

Hence the lack of interest from the media.

To me it's the non-tea party ( The Coffee Clatch?). There seems to be no UNIFYING theme.

But it looks like I'll be traveling with my union. ( Which Obama et al HATES. Are they going to interpret my presence there as supporting federal school ..... ugh here it comes.... "reform"? I HOPE not.)

Who's speaking, BTW? Anyone know?

[handmade34]

10. we know Ed Shultz will be speaking

https://www.wegoted.com/events/detail.asp?eventID=37

Thom Hartmann will be there (not advertised as speaking) http://www.thomhartmann.com/thom/events

Laura Flanders will be there (not advertised as speaking)

[Go2Peace]

48. I read elsewhere that Howard Dean will be a speaker

[handmade34]

14. more info from

http://onenation.3cdn.net/f823a0ad5f358f4d07_phm6i60xw.pdf

"Who are the speakers?
The One Nation March will feature human and civil rights leaders, labor leaders, environmental and peace activists, faith leaders, celebrities and sports figures – all marching together to help Put America Back to Work and to Pull America Back Together. Additional information about program participants will be posted here as it becomes available."

[SemperEadem]

24. actually, there is a coffee party

Annabel Park just spoke at their convention in Kentucky this past weekend.

It's amazing that they don't get any kind of media coverage.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. If I could carry it on the plane I'd make a sign remembering the teacher who died

in LA. Something like 'Arne, there's blood on your hands!'

[kenfrequed]

37. feh

And what is the TeaHaddists message? Judging from their signs it sounds like a mangled mess of nonsense, hate, rewarmed over conservative bullshit, tax evasion, and borderline militia garbage.

[Beartracks]

55. Self-delete. n/t

[Doctor_J]

63. The muddled message is not the reason for the media blackout

Big Media also blacked out the anti-war rallies. The reason for the blackout is that they are republican propaganda outlets.

[Smarmie Doofus]

65. True. However, we haven't done a great job of finding....

.... a focus for this one. An all-consuming rationale.

I'm going because it's NOT a Tea Party... and the midterms are at hand.

Just hope that no one interprets my presence there as in any way supporting the Obama admin's horrifficly Republican ideas re public education.

[Control-Z]

45. I thought they were one and the same -

that the Stewart/Colbert Rallies were events at the 10-2-10 Rally. Now I'm really confused.

[Beartracks]

56. Nope - theirs are on 10/30. n/t

[Control-Z]

62. Wow. Dumb.

Democrats really can't get organized, can they?

[Beartracks]

64. Stewart indicated on his show that...

... they were already going to be broadcasting from there (or somewhere nearby?) that week, so they are staying over to do the rally/rallies that Saturday.

I'm not familiar with the impetus for 10/2, but it would certainly be cool if Stewart or Colbert would pop in on that march.

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[Arugula Latte]

3. I breathlessly await the wall-to-wall coverage from our unbiased media

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

4. I'm surprised to see this article. n/t

[valerief]

28. that's cuz no one who watches Fox reads the NYT, too. nt

[NewJeffCT]

30. The NY Times is read selectively by the Fox crowd

when Judith Miller (and other Righties) wrote articles in there, it was cited as the bible by RWers "see, it made the NY Times, it must be true"

But, anything not in orgasmic praise of Republican ideas is written off because the NY Times is the liberal media icon.

[valerief]

38. I'm talking about the hoi polloi. Teabaggers and the apolitical. nt

[EFerrari]

54. Except maybe the NYTs editorial board.

:)

[RoccoR5955]

12. Don't hold your breath

There will be NO coverage on Fox Propaganda, and papers like the NY Times will bury it, if they cover it at all.

[Bitwit1234]

17. Wanta bet the coverage will be zero.

I think if they don't what the people should do is take turns picketing each of the media outlets and letting them know we are sick of them.

[Enthusiast]

22. Me too, my face will turn blue.

:fistbump:

[valerief]

27. Bwahahahaha!!!! Yeah, that billionaire-controlled media will jump right on it!

:rofl:

[TK421]

58. It should be featured on The Daily Show or the Colbert Report

anywhere else, and I would be surprised

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Based on past experience..you will have to do a very exhaustive search to find ANY

coverage of this event..even if 10 million people show up...

Only the Rwingnuts and tbaggers get wall to wall, dawn to dusk, cover to cover, top to bottom, minute by minute coverage of their events..even if only 10 people show up.

[NewJeffCT]

29. MSNBC will have some coverage

If they can build it up enough, maybe it will at least get a "and in other news today, some liberal groups rallied in answer to Glenn Beck's rally from last month" mention on another network - and they will give a quick cutaway to a crowd closeup (not a distance shot to show a million people or anything...) and the one person holding a somewhat inappropriate sign.

[BrklynLiberal]

35. As a pessimist, I can only be pleasantly surprised..

:thumbsup: :hi:

[NewJeffCT]

36. Well, a 5 second clip

on one network between ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, and Bloomberg is far less than what Beck's rally got. On Fox, it was wall-to-wall Beck, and it was a lead story on the other networks.

[iamthebandfanman]

6. i dont think they did a good job advertising this event

to be honest i didnt know about it til last week..

lil short notice.

lets hope people arent like me and will be attending..

[handmade34]

8. I have been posting info most every day

hope you can make it...

http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/pages/transportation

[bloomington-lib]

18. This is the first ive heard of it

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. The unions are pushing it and Ed Schultz talks about it every day

[SoapBox]

7. Ed Schultz has been talking about this...

http://wegoted.com/

or

https://www.wegoted.com/events/detail.asp?eventID=37

and, fyi...The Coffee Party USA

http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

[4dsc]

9. Will a Liberal Resurgence take hold at this rally

and go through to the elections?

[handmade34]

13. we can only hope

[sakabatou]

11. I wonder how few media attention it'll bring

[IDemo]

15. Faux will no doubt hire an 'expert' crowd size guestimator

Whose official number will be 50,000 or less, even if there are closer to a million there.

[SocialistLez]

16. The media won't cover it.

Sorry folks.

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. The difference is that the media isn't sponsoring it

Like FAUX News did with Becks rally. Non stop pitching on the most watched network (still don't understand that)

So the result will be that after the rally, THAT'S when you'll hear about it, especially on FAUX News, if it doesn't draw as big a crowd. Actually even if it DOES draw more, FAUX has already inflated Beck's numbers 10x so that doesn't matter. Then it will be 24/7 about how this proves Americans are rejecting the "socialist, gay, terrorist-loving agenda of the left"

[Mad_Dem_X]

47. +1. "The media isn't sponsoring it." Well said.

[xloadiex]

19. I'll be there

My husband and I will be driving there from Chicago. It's sad that there has been no coverage of this rally like there has been with the Stewart/Colbert rally. I guess the One Nation rally isn't "entertaining " enough to capture peoples attention. I don't think even the liberal shows are covering it except for Big Ed. I know Al Sharpton will be speaking. Bill Press and Norman Goldman will also be there. It's truly frustrating that nobody is hearing about this.

[whathehell]

26. Howard Dean is

supposed to be there.

[TheCheryl]

20. I hope this is part of the liberal base getting fired up

I have been disappointed in President Obama, but do not want to see a Republican takeover. That would be disastrous!


http://www.baconglory.blogspot.com

[Papa Boule]

21. "the ascendant right"

Kind of says it all.

It's a movement in the early stages of coming out of its latency. It has suffered a few setbacks, and its current leaders are clownish and shrill, and its demographics aged. Unfortunately, with worse economic problems and a fragmented media and society and no Fairness Doctrine, it will eventually get its footing, and its real leaders.

[Enthusiast]

23. K&R

Health issues prevent me from attending pretty much anything. However, I would love to be there. We can at least castigate the media when they don't cover this rally as they have past Teabagger rallies.

[Seedersandleechers]

31. Hope it's on c-span live

would love to view the activities here in the UK.

[secondwind]

33. I'm flying my daughter and granddaughter (11 yrs ) down to D.C. and back on Saturday

We are all excited about this! :-)

[madmom]

34. Hope to be there, hubby's union is chartering buses. We're waiting to see if we have a seat.

[FirstLight]

39. do they have 'scholarships'...?

Honestly, they want middle class Americans to come to DC...well who has the money for a ticket and a hotel stay? Especially if we are on foodstamps or unemployment (which is a large percentage!)

This stuff pisses me off because they will get less coverage, and probably have less attendance, and it will just make the party look bad. when we really need to be using our time & resources to GOTV and maybe fight to get some of these damn important bills passed NOW

I wish i *could* go to DC and attend this rally and the jon stewart one and use the time in between to either look for a job or make an effort to be heard as an impoverished citizen.
But I wouldn't have the resources.....can't even afford to put gas in the car this week

[Captain Boomerang]

42. Shut your internet service off and you can afford fuel..

[FirstLight]

43. whatever...not productive answer to the issue i bring up

n/t

[wordpix]

61. sorry about your plight but do what you can do---GOTV or whatever

I'm lucky b/c I'm in DC for at least one event, possibly both. Will be there for you, too.

[Uncle Joe]

40. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, alp.

[blue97keet]

41. Where is the rally for trade reform?

Too much mumbo-jumbo.

[felix_numinous]

44. Netroots nation will know what is going on

the cable misinformation department will do what it is hired to do. Just expect lies to be told by the mainstream, we will be represented by the alternative news organizations accurately enough.

[indimuse]

49. KNR! n/t

[fascisthunter]

50. Kick! (nt)

[Demoiselle]

51. "On Saturday" is not my idea of a specific date!

There is no mention in the good grey NYTimes of the actual DATE of the rally. I can see from comments on this post that the date is October 2nd, 2010. Am I being paranoid to think that the NYT doesn't really want us to know when the rally is, exactly?

[fascisthunter]

52. no... you are not paranoid

it's a fact NYT is no real friend of the Left, and have been caught spread gov/corporate propaganda...

[lovelyrita]

53. I'm going with a bunch of PDA members from south west &

Central Florida.

I'm surprised people have not heard about this march. Besides the posts on here and the tons of talk radio attention, I've received emails from different groups that are marching about it.

[Luciferous]

57. I wish I could be there nt

[JoeyTrib]

59. I think they're gonna get outshined by Colbert and Stewart

Sucker-punch timing.

[wordpix]

60. between the two events, it will show another POV besides Palin, Rush, Bleck ad nauseum

We liberal Dems are not all dead doormats. :evilgrin:

So two events, bring em on.

[JoeyTrib]

66. But won't people confuse the two?

:wtf: