NAACP calls for March on Washington to be held on October 2, 2010

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NAACP president announces Oct. 2 march on Washington
By MEREDITH RODRIGUEZ
The Kansas City Star
July 12, 2010


NAACP members will march in Washington, D.C., in October to draw attention to social problems that have intensified during the recession, the organization’s president said Monday night.

At the NAACP’s 101st annual convention at Bartle Hall, Benjamin Todd Jealous asked the country to join the NAACP on Oct. 2 to rebut division that he said the tea party has created and to fight together against ills such as foreclosures, joblessness, failed schools, urban violence and racism.

“Fire up the troops of hope, unity and justice in this nation,” Jealous said. “This fall, we are going to lead a great and mighty army that looks like America.”

Audience members held signs with the title of the movement, “One Nation,” along with “Revive,” “Organize” and “10-2-10.”

A month before the November election, marchers will demand the change they voted for when Barack Obama was elected, Jealous said. They will keep their senators accountable to regulate lenders, create jobs and stop moving money out of education and into wars and prisons.

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If the labor movement, Latino organizations and other progressive groups get behind this and decide to go all out to build a March on Washington for jobs that could represent the beginning of building a mass movement for changes we need can believe in.

A few hundred thousand angry working people marching on Washington would have a huge impact. We need to start somewhere and this might be it. BBI