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Sunday, 3 October 2010

One Nation Working Together - report‏

Report from a UNISONActive reader in Washington DC: Union members, students, peace and environmental activists, and advocates for immigrant rights travelled from across the country yesterday to gather for a mass demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The extremely diverse crowd was pulled together by speakers on the platform calling for Americans to stand together as "One Nation" -- against the right-wing extremism of personalities like Fox News' Glenn Beck and the Tea Partiers, as well as demanding the Obama Administration to bring about "The Change I Voted For."

"We March for Hope, Not Hate!" says AFL-CIO‏

Addressing nearly 200,000 ‘one nation working together’ marchers assembled in Washington DC yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, “America is here today. America is One Nation and we signify that nation. Behind the voices of fear and hatred that have risen to dominate out national conversation are the forces of greed, the moneyed powers that put us in the economic mess we’re in today. And we’ve got a lot of work to do to repair the damage that greed did to our country.” http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/10/02/america-is-one-nation-and-we-signify-that-nation/