Building Bridges: Realizing the Dream - March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, WBAI, Mon, Aug 26, 7 - 9pm - Forum/Discussions

Building Bridges & Housing Notebook over WBAI radio, 99.5FM

with Mimi Rosenberg, Ken Nash & Scott Sommer two-hour special
Mon., August 26, 2013, 7 - 9 pm EST
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                             Realizing the Dream!
Across the March of Time 1963 to 2013, for Jobs & Justice

Marching on Washington

Spurred on by the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of

unarmed African-American teen Trayvon Martin, and the recent Supreme

Court decision that ripped the heart out of the Voting Rights Act, legislation

written in the blood of a people, both of which again exposed the wide racial

divides in the nation, people boarded buses and headed to D.C. on the fiftieth

anniversary of the 63’ March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They

came again for voting rights, for educational opportunities, for employment

and workers rights, and against the system of incarceration, police violence

and laws the permit the murder of their children – all still unsettled issues.

You’ll listen to and contrast the demands and sounds from the 63’ March

with those of today. You’ll hear the most heartfelt messages and evocative

presentations that remind us of the original 63’ message - that the struggle

for freedom and economic rights must coalesce for meaningful change. Be

inspired, be renewed and recommit to agitate for Jobs, and Freedom after

listening to interviews with civil rights icons, the sheros and heroes who

recount their sacrifices of then and prescriptions for today. Be moved and

excited by the fierce oratory from then and now. Hear the oh so moving

expressions of those on the line of march who traveled across the country –

“we the people”,” who tell it like it is and inspire us as they do. You’ll be

brought to tears, but you will also, as the civil rights legend Joseph Lowry

exhorted us to, take it in, take it home and agitate and organize.
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Fwd: Building Bridges: Realizing the Dream - March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, ken nash, 08/25/2013

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