Occupy Protesters Plan March From New York To D.C.

[Huey P. Long]

Occupy Protesters Plan March From New York To D.C.
VERENA DOBNIK 11/ 8/11 02:50 PM ET

NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street is going on the road – a two-week walk to Washington.
A small group of activists plans to leave Manhattan's Zuccotti Park at noon Wednesday and arrive by the Nov. 23 deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama's extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans.

The announcement came the same day that David Crosby and Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, planned an acoustic performance in the park for supports and passers-by. Kelley Brannon is organizing the 240-mile march through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland with a core group of a dozen activists, picking up other marchers along the way – even if for a day, or only an hour, they say.

"Occupy the Highway" – as it's been dubbed – will start from the Manhattan park where the first Occupy encampment was set up, with a ferry ride across the Hudson River from West 34th Street to Elizabeth, N.J.

Brannon likened the effort to the long-distance marches led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights era. "I mean, I'm not comparing us to Martin Luther King," said Brannon, of Queens, referring to three marches King led in 1965 from Selma, Ala., to the state Capitol in Montgomery. Those marches ranged in size from 600 to 8,000 people.

"That's the premise Occupy is taking to the road: the historic relevance of such long-distance marches for social causes," Brannon said.

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[villager]

1. Which is why the movement is better off without leaders. When King planned a similar march

...on Washington, for a similar reason (switching to a broader economic analysis of America's spiritual maladies, rather than an exclusively racial one), we all know what "coincidentally" happened to him...

[liberal N proud]

2. More power to the people

That is a heck of a hike! More than 200 miles.

[Huey P. Long]

9. "240-mile march" to be exact! -eom

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Bravo.

[jtrockville]

4. Awesome. I'll give 'em a warm welcome when they arrive.

[deutsey]

5. I hope I can join them when they reach Maryland. n/t

[Lint Head]

6. Excellent!

[NOLALady]

7. Something along the scale of

"Hands Across America" would be nice. A march from Sea to Shining Sea. But, I'm just dreaming again.

[kysrsoze]

8. Now THIS is what I've been waiting to see... ODC! Yes! This is HUGH!!!1!1!!!

[Huey P. Long]

10. So awesome I will be needing to kick this myself. I love these folks.

[Juneboarder]

11. Welcome to DU Huey

It's great to see new faces around here, especially when their of a similar mindset :)

I'm a west-coaster, but would be there joining them if I was within their path.

[Huey P. Long]

12. Thank you for the welcome. -eom

[grntuscarora]

13. Would love to join in

when they hit PA. Too old to trek more than a mile or two, though. Do they have a timetable/route posted?
I love these young people!