Unions To Out-Tea-Party The Tea Party With March On Wall Street

[laughingliberal]

A host of union groups and community activists are planning to one-up the anti-Wall Street sentiment commonly associated with the Tea Party movement by actually organizing a massive protest on the streets of downtown Manhattan.

The AFL-CIO is set to orchestrate a 10,000-person "march on Wall Street" on April 29, designed to push for several broad and specific actions on the financial regulatory reform front.

The union conglomerate's president, Richard Trumka, in an interview with Politico, described the event as a focal point for populist angst with the financial industry's practices.

"People will be talking, yelling, chanting, and letting America -- and letting Wall Street, particularly -- know that their brand of economics, where the financial economy overshadows the real economy, is no longer acceptable, that we want them to help pay for the jobs that they destroyed," he said.

More at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/unions-to-out-tea-party-t_n_531676.html

Finally! Now, will the MSM cover it? And how will this set with Timmeh?

[dana_b]

1. damn! wish I could be there!

I hope some on DU make it.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. Where do I sign up? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

I bet Fox news will give it favorable coverage

[laughingliberal]

No doubt. Lol! nt

[Johonny]

9. or any

The problem with liberal marches the last decade is the total lack of coverage. While only zero people need to show up at a tea party to get a camera crew.

[laughingliberal]

10. It's a huge part of the problem

The MSM totally ignores the anger of the left and grovels at the feet of the teabaggers. Sadly, a lot of our Democratic elected officials ignore the anger of the left, also. One of them recently went on FOX news and bragged about ignoring us.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[xchrom]

4. Recommend

[femrap]

5. Does anyone ever march

on The Fed? Or is one arrested for Treason for doing so?

[laughingliberal]

7. Wall Street or The Fed. But I repeat myself. (apologies to Mark Twain). nt

[leftstreet]

6. If Teabaggers are serious about reform, they'll join this march

That'd be interesting

[laughingliberal]

8. If there are any reasonable people in their ranks, they would

I fear they are sold on the RW propaganda about 'big government' being their problem.

[lumpy]

13. Seems like most of the Teabuggers are retired and/ or women.

Hopefully some of them will remember their working roots and the struggle that workers have had throughout US history to be recognized for their efforts.

[laughingliberal]

14. I am not finding a lot of sympathy for workers among retirees

My husband bowls with a senior league once a week (he's still working). They tend to be conservative in their politics but what my husband notices is they really have no idea what is going on with those still working. Most of them retired with SS and pensions. He has been quietly educating them about the current plight of workers and they are often shocked.

[lumpy]

11. Unions are the best thing going for this country. Working people

are the real backbone of the US; time for bread and butter working people to awaken to that realization.

[Tashca]

12. Recommended.....nt

[Better Believe It]

15. Only 10,000? Too bad. So far the union officials aren't trying to organize a huge turnout of

working and middle class people who may not be members of labor unions.

Not even a mention of it up yet at the AFL-CIO website

The labor movement and its allies could easily turnout several hundred thousand people in New York city to demand jobs. We need a mass jobs for all demonstration.

But, this is better than nothing and the union officials have been mainly organizing nothing since the economic crisis began.

So everyone who can should go and promote it, invited or not.

Produce your own flyers if necessary, once the details are out, and publicize it all over the net.

[robinblue]

22. I am far away but will post a few flyers of the event in my city. Thanks.

[Greyhound]

16. K&R...

Travel accommodations would probably swell the crowds considerably, even 1% of the unemployed would shut down Manhattan, but we have no means to get there.

[saracat]

17. I am soo proud of them! K+R

[malaise]

18. I hope the mineworkers join them

Go Unions!

[Omaha Steve]

19. K&R!

[troubledamerican]

20. Too good to be true

DLC needs to kill off what's left of this pro-America Labor Union spirit and BOOST the Tea Party so we have a Big Enemy to justify giving the DLC our last dollars...

Whoops. Let's not be too honest.

[TomCADem]

21. The Corporate Media Blackout Will Ensure No One Knows

Of course, if you have two people holding pictures of Obama as Hitler, your event will be portrayed as a mass rally.

[fasttense]

23. It's a start. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

24. We're making a list,

Checking it twice,
Gonna' find out who's Nazis or nice,
Barbarian Barbies is coming to town.

Tee-Par---Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee The GOPer's whine-amic new action queen cheer leading duo, is trying to fan the glowing embers into flame, to score political brownie points.

Palin and Waillin' the Outlaw Barbies from Hell.

The NeoCONs feared the power of the pension money on Wall Street, back when W came to DC. The pension funds owned enough stock in companies back then to demand accountability in the corporate board rooms. This powers the pension funds had, constituted many threats to the GOP and their corporate masters. The money trail leads straight to political contributions. Political contributions which corporate boards including strong collective bargaining representation, might frown upon, or straight out reject.









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[Mithreal]

25. Thank you