Saturday, August 23, 2003....Washington DC, come join us !!!

[diamond14]

Saturday, August 23, 2003....Washington DC

we CAN change the world again !!!
TWO big MARCHES merging together in OUR Nation's Capital...take back America...come and JOIN US !!!!

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The 40th anniversary of MLK "I have a dream" March on DC
Rally at the Washington Monument at 10:00 AM, March to steps of Lincoln Memorial....
http://www.connectdc.com/40thanniversarymarchdc/40th%20MArch%20on%201Washington.pdf

home page
http://www.marchonwashington.org/home.htm

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Poor People's March for Economic Human Rights
the poor people have been Marching since August 1st, and will MARCH over the Potomac River on Key Bridge from Virginia and INTO DC...these BRAVE Americans left Mississippi and Tennessee and have suffered through arrests and harrassment all the way...let's welcome them too....as they BRAVE set up their tent village on the Mall called "bushville"....

"...There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life..." -- The Trumpet of Conscience, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1967.

Meet at the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington National Cemetary at 10:00am to march over the Key bridge and into Washington, DC. Buses can converge at this location.
3:30pm Rally at Lincoln Memorial and Construction of "Bushville."

http://www.kwru.org/march/bar.html#washington_dc_schedule

home page
http://www.kwru.org/march/index.html


The Poor People marching to DC...join us as we march into OUR Capitol

[newyawker99]

1. kick

:kick:

[diamond14]

2. any DUer's going to join us ???? If you're not in DC, look the

events/activism forum....Saturday, August 23, 2003...BIG events all over American....Seattle, Chicago, DC, San Francisco, CRAWFORD TEXAS...come join us....STAND UP....show your PATRIOTISM, bring your signs and flags...TAKE BACK AMERICA.....


The weather for Saturday in DC.....low 80's, sunny....JOIN US !!!!

[Oracle]

3. If your near DC...shit, don't ignore this!!!!!

[diamond14]

6. the weather will be spectacular...high in mid-80's, sunny w. clouds

STAND UP...get up off the couch...come and TAKE BACK AMERICA!!!!!!

Saturday, 10 AM, DC....be there....

[diamond14]

4. Bruce Springsteen speaks on stage in PA: Poor People's March....

<16august2003> announcement from the stage in Philadelphia



Blair Hyatt, Sara Forgione, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Brown and Laura Rogers backstage at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.


Bruce Springsteen, a supporter of this movement for more than twenty years, made the following announcement to packed houses at his concerts in Philadelphia on August 8th, 9th, and 10th.
"Here tonight are my friends of twenty years from the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a multi-racial group of poor people from Kensington fighting to end poverty. Support their efforts. They are doing a poor people's march for economic human rights from Mississippi to Washington DC. The march will be arriving in Washington on August 23rd. Join them on the 23rd as they march into DC."

Before Saturday's performance, KWRU members were able to meet briefly with Bruce backstage to discuss the current economic and political situation facing America, and the movement for Economic Human Rights.


Bruce also spoke on the war:

"The question of whether we were mislead into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth will out."

Following the announcement, Springsteen played "My City of Ruins" and "Land of Hope and Dreams." An excerpt from "My City of Ruins:"

There's a blood red circle
on the cold dark ground
and the rain is falling down
The church doors blown open
I can hear the organ's song
But the congregation's gone

My city of ruins
My city of ruins


Now the sweet veils of mercy
drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
like scattered leaves
The bordered up windows
The hustlers and thieves
While my brother's down on his knees


We thank Bruce Springsteen and Landau management again for their decades of commitment to the struggle to end poverty, and for their dedication to being a voice of truth and justice in these times.
poor people's march for economic human rights

[mandyky]

5. Anyone who attends - please call in to us tomorrow,

at the Guy James Show - 3 PM to 6 PM

http://www.theguyjamesshow.com/ - 239-530-1660

[EOTE]

7. Cool....

I'll be there.

[diamond14]

8. lots of people arriving in DC...anti-war groups, gay groups,

poor peoples March walked all the way from Mississippi...

Please come join us for the March tomorrow...let your voice be heard...take America back from the thieves....

it's time to STAND UP, and stop bush*'s wars...before YOU get drafted...

[hellbound-liberal]

9. I'll be there!

It's time we told "His Illegitimacy" that the dream has not died and we are still here and we ARE NOT going away!

[diamond14]

10. sure would be good to see you....I want to be around a LOT of

people, with cameras to keep the thugs away from an old women...since being broken up by a National Park cop on March 22nd...I'll be walking in my brace (finally !!!) and carrying a BIG sign...7 feet across and over 2 feet high, held up by wooden sticks with American flags on top....

my sign says:
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From Sally Baron, born in Hurley, Wisconsin 1932

"Oh bush...he's such a whistle ass!"
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March 22, 2003, at the WH

[diamond14]

11. the Poor People's March coming thru Appalachia

come and join the Poor People's March, tommorow, as we cross the Key Bridge on the Potomac to the Washington Monument (10 AM)....

these people have arrived in the DC Metro Area, having left Mississippi on August 1, 2003....Please Join Us...to demand that bush* change 'cheap-labor conservative' policies, so we can TAKE BACK America...we CAN change America, if we all stand up NOW...


Clinco, Virginia

[mandyky]

12. I Have A Dream

"I Have A Dream"
by Martin Luther King, Jr.



***Credits:
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968 ***

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

[diamond14]

13. it'll be challenging tomorrow....after about 03:30 PM...the Poor

People will set up their tarp/tent/cardboard box 'BUSHVILLE' on the Mall, and they intend to camp there for four days, along with priests, nuns, ministers, and supporters....

I don't think the shrubco are very happy about this...

(with a sudden realization: I'll put BUSHVILLE on the back of my BIG 7 foot long sign,complete with two American Flags...so it can be used at the village...)