[Marxism] Million Worker March Report Back From Boston DNC...Just the Beginning!

[Douglas MacDonald <dmacdonald94591@xxxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Forward to all e-mail contacts (Tuesday, July 18, 2004)

MILLION WORKER MARCH COMMITTEE
International Longshore and Warehouse Union ? ILWU Local 10

400 Northpoint ? San Francisco CA 94133

Contact: Douglas MacDonald 925-890-6430



WORKERS PREPARE MASSIVE MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Million Worker March Committee Report Back on Boston DNC Protests?Just the 
Beginning!





When:              Sunday, August 1, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Where:             ILWU Local 10 Hiring Hall, 400 Northpoint (at Mason)



Million Worker March Co-Chair Clarence Thomas and Publicity Co-Chair Ralph 
Schoenman will report back on the protests at the Democratic National 
Convention and the movement for the Million Worker march planned for October 
17, 2004 at the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC.  There will also be footage 
of the march in Boston.  Based on a clarion call by the militant longshore 
union, the march will take place Sunday, October 17 in Washington, D.C.

?Working people say enough is enough,? stated Million Worker March co-chair 
Clarence Thomas, ?For the past twenty years we have been subjected to 
unrestrained corporate assault. The time has come,? notes Thomas, former 
secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, ?for working people to unite, to advance 
our own demands and to mobilize around our own agenda, in our own name.?



True to its legacy of struggle, ILWU Local 10 passed a resolution calling upon 
organized and unorganized workers, community, activist and interfaith 
organizations to mobilize their constituencies. Harkening back to Martin Luther 
King, Jr.?s summons to working people 36 years ago for a Poor Peoples? March on 
Washington, ILWU Local 10 is galvanizing workers and their families with the 
Million Worker March resolution, demands and mission statement.

With the support of labor councils, such as, the 2.7 million strong National 
Education Association (the largest union of workers in the United States)  the 
San Francisco Labor Council and the South Carolina Labor Council, as well as 
labor affinity groups, such as the Northern California Chapter of the Coalition 
of Black Trade Unionists and the San Francisco Chapter of the Labor Council for 
Latin American Advancement, rank and file workers as well as union leaders are 
mobilizing workers from the trades, industry, public and service sectors as 
well as farm labor.



Actor Danny Glover, comedian Dick Gregory and radio personality Casey Kasem, 
known for their committment to social activism, are rousing others in the 
Hollywood community to support the Million Worker March, just as cultural icons 
recognized the significance of Poor People?s March nearly a generation ago.

?We cannot wait any longer,? Thomas remarked. ?We must proclaim a political 
agenda that serves our vital interests and hold all elected and other officials 
accountable no matter what people?s expectations may be of the national 
elections.?

Million Worker March Mission Statement and Demands follow.



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