10.2.10, The Day the Mid-Term Narrative Changes

[proud2BlibKansan]

This is a real grassroots movement, powered by people and not funded by corporations. We, including you, are the people that power it. We are the ones that we have been waiting for.

What will be really great is that this rally will be a melting pot of diversity and unity representing the "Real America".

10.2.10 – March on Washington
Lincoln Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington DC.
Saturday, October 2, 2010. We will begin at 12:00 noon

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/5/899156/-10.2.10,-The-Day-the-Mid-Term-Narrative-Changes

[bluestateguy]

1. I certainly wish them well

I can't make it to DC that weekend.

I just hope the media decides to cover it.

[AlinPA]

3. The media will cover it, but only to compare the crowd with Beck's and claim

that it is a "small fraction of the 2 or 3 million" at Beck's.

[Arkana]

6. I'm with you on that one--and I'll bet they use the exact same language

you just posed there.

Or better yet, they'll completely ignore it.

[robinlynne]

8. There will be supportive rallies in other cities. I'm going here in Los Angeles.

[Slit Skirt]

28. Thom Hartman will be covering it

he will be on Dish Network and Direct TV

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Huge K&R -- here's the direct website:

http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/

Ed Schultz is scheduled to be a speaker. :)

http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/?p=957

:applause:

[spanone]

4. k&r..

[Parker CA]

5. K&R!!

[one_voice]

7. I'm going!!

K&R.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Awesome. Let's meet up.

[Radical Activist]

9. That post doesn't say what we're marching for or who started it.

Which is one of those things that raises alarm bells for people like me who enjoy information and details. Even the "who we are" page on their website doesn't really say who they are. ??

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Reading. It's fundamental.

From the Kos link:

Bold Progressive
http://boldprogressives.org/

Democracy for America
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/

Voto Latino
http://www.votolatino.org/

Vote Vets
http://www.votevets.org/

Coffee Party
http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

MoveOn
http://www.moveon.org/

Organizing for America
http://www.barackobama.com/

Who is already on-board?

AFL-CIO

350.org

A. Philip Randolph Institute

All Hands on Deck

Amalgamated Local 171 UAW

American Federation of Teachers

American Friends Service Committee

American Rights at Work

Americans for Financial Reform

Black Leadership Forum, Inc.

Black Women’s Roundatable

Black Youth Vote

Brooklyn for Peace

California Black League of Voters

Campaign for America’s Future

Campaign for Community Change

Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Campus Camp Wellstone

Campus Progress

Center for Community and Economic Justice

Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War

Charlie Fink Productions

Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

Chicago Teacher’s Union – AFT Local 1

Cleveland Peace Action

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Coalition on Human Needs

Code Pink

Coffee Party Progressives

Color of Change.org

Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Communications Workers of America

DC Vote

Demos

Equality Wisconsin, Inc.

Ex-Offenders Association of PA

Fellowship of Reconcilliation

Fur Cultural Revival (Darfur Community Center)

Generation Change

Generational Alliance

Green For All

Human Rights Campaign

Injured Workers United

Institute for Policy Studies

Institute of Caribbean Studies

International Socialist Organization

Interfaith Worker Justice

International Union of Automobile Workers of America

Jewish Funds for Justice

Jewish Labor Committee

Jobs With Justice

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Left Labor Project

Long Island C.B.T.U.

Maine Green Independent Party

Majority Agenda Project

Maryland and DC AFL-CIO

Midwest Academy

Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout

NAFEO

National Action Network

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Black Law Students Association

National Black Police Association

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

National Congress of Black Women

National Council of La Raza

National Domestic Workers Alliance

National Education Association

National Exhoodus Council

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

National Immigrant Solidarity Network

National Nurses United

National Union of Home and Health Care Employees

National Urban League

New England Region – AFSC

New Haven People’s Center

New Jersey Black Issues Coalition

Ohio AFL-CIO

Pax Christi USA

Peace Action

Peace Action Education Fund

Peace Action Maine

Peace and Freedom Party of California

People’s Organization for Progress

PolicyLink

PowerPAC

Pride at Work, AFL-CIO

Progressive Democrats of America

Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network

School of the America’s Watch (SoA Watch)

SEIU

SEIU 1199

SEIU Local 32BJ

Sojourners

Teamster’s Local Union 808

The Gathering For Justice

The Maryland Black Family Alliance

The New Testement Revival Cathedral

The Other 98%

The Power Online

The William Kellibrew Foundation

Tikkun-Network of Spiritual Progressives

Transport Workers Union of America

UAW, International Union

Union of the Unemployed

Unite Here

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

United Food and Commerical Workers Minority Coalition

United for Justice with Peace

United for Peace and Justice

United Mine Workers of America

United States Students Association

United Steelworkers of America

US Human Rights Network

US Labor Against the War

US Peace Council– Wisconsin

USAction

Veterans for Peace

War Resisters League

Ward 7 Business and Professional Association

Washington Peace Center

Welfare Rights Committee

Women’s Action for New Directions

Working America

[Radical Activist]

11. Which of those groups started it?

It's easy to get groups to sign a token letter of support from something. That doesn't tell me who the real organizers are. Work on your reading skills.

[readmoreoften]

12. Do some research, Mr. "Radical". It was started by the NAACP, if you have to know.

Is that NON-RADICAL enough for you to not trash it to hell in fear it'll make Obama look bad?

[Radical Activist]

13. Why doesn't it say that plainly on the website?

It should. When I click on "who we are" and get vague language about "unity" and "coming together" that could have been copied from a tea party site then I ask questions. As should anyone else. The left needs to get out of the cold war/red scare mentality that we have to hide who we are and why we do things.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. So file a complaint.

:crazy:

[Better Believe It]

26. Why are you nit picking and trashing the progressive march on Washington?

Plenty of information has been posted on DU and a great deal of information is posted at the March website.

[Radical Activist]

27. It's a very simple question. Why are people so defensive?

Asking who started an event is not nit picking. Do you go to big rallies without knowing what exactly it's about or who started it and why? I don't. I go to rallies for a reason, not as a hobby.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Why does it matter?

Are you more likely to support the march if it was started by the AFLCIO and not NAACP? If it was moveon, would you plan on not attending?

[Radical Activist]

16. Why didn't you answer the question when I first asked it?

Maybe you have reading comprehension problems. Maybe you didn't know the answer. Maybe you didn't want to. I've already given three reasons in this thread why I asked. Reading. It's fundamental.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Because I don't know which group started it

Please explain why this is so important to you.

[Radical Activist]

18. Comments 9 and 13.

Reading. It's fundamental.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. I've told you everything I know about this event

You asked which groups were involved so I posted a list. You'd have to contact them to find out which particular group started it. Do you need help doing that? Perhaps there is someone here willing to help you figure out the answers to all of your burning questions about this march. I'm done.

[Radical Activist]

22. No, I asked "who started it"

which you didn't answer. Thankfully, another poster did. That's not the same as a list of who signed on to support it. Comments 9 and 13 both gave reasons why I wanted to know who started it. Yet, you asked that question two more times. If you can't figure out the answer by those two comments then a third explanation won't help.

[Freddie Stubbs]

21. They would be far more effective knocking on doors or making phone calls for Democratic candidates

[Radical Activist]

23. Absolutely.

Adding one or two more progressives to the current Senate would dramatically change the national scene.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. The march should inspire many to knock on doors

It's a motivational event.

[HughBeaumont]

24. And REC to offset the blue dogged "concern".

Personally cannot wait for this. WE need a rally like this to offset the Red/White/Blue vomitorium of 8/28.