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Labor-Student-Community Alliance Joins ‘WE ARE ONE’ Rally April 4 at City Hall
Joining a national day of solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin, the coalition New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts – Students ● Labor ● Community United will participate in the ‘We Are One’ rally on Monday, April 4, at 5pm inside City Hall Park in New York City. The rally will gather at the southern tip of the park, where Broadway meets Park Row.
The theme of the rally is "Unite and Win: Stand up for Workers’ Rights!"
April 4 is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was in Memphis to support city sanitation workers, on strike to win recognition of their union. Rally organizers in New York said "On the anniversary of Dr. King’s death, we will remind our elected officials that workers’ rights are human rights, and that those rights will not be destroyed."
We Are One.
Forty-three years ago, a struggle by 1,300 city sanitation workers for economic justice brought Dr. Martin Luther King to Memphis. Dr. King, along with a coalition of civil and human rights organizations, the religious community and the union movement stood with the striking workers and faced down the armed forces of a city and state. Dr. King was assassinated on Apr. 4, 1968 in Memphis.
On April 4th, we will honor Dr. King by continuing this struggle across our nation. Union members, community activists, advocates for civil and human rights, and religious leaders will flood the streets around this country to stand together and declare that all workers deserve the right to bargain for a better life. It was corporate greed that led to this economic downturn and workers should not continue to pay the price.
In San Francisco,we will be meeting at Bank of America (555 California) before marching to several locations that represent the ultra-rich who fail to pay their taxes and are fundamentally responsible for the economic downturn, high unemployment, government budget deficits, and huge spikes in public employee pension costs.
Speakers Include:
Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer with the Wisconsin AFL-CIO
Eva Paterson with the Equal Justice Society and the California Civil Rights Coalition
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On Monday, April 4th, the New Black Panther Party will proudly participate in a statewide march for jobs, justice and peace to observe the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. organized by the People’s Organization for Progress.
Participants will assemble at Broad and Markets Streets in Newark at 5:30p.m. and will march to Essex County College’s Smith Hall for a large rally.
“The assassination of Martin Luther King was one of our people’s ‘never forget’ moments, and it always should be one,” exclaimed Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s longtime national minister of culture.
“His obscene murder also meant the death of that generation of Black youth’s commitment to nonviolence and it triggered the exponential growth of the Black Panther Party.”
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
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