WASHINGTON—On August 26, again at the Lincoln Memorial, there’ll be another mass March on Washington, just as there was in 1963.
Organized by the Drum Major Institute, which the King family heads, and the National Action Network, the march starts at 8 a.m. with the main program beginning three hours later at the Lincoln Memorial.
The mass march march marks the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. That march was for “Jobs and Justice.” This march will remind the nation those goals have yet to be met—especially, says the Economic Policy Institute, on jobs.
The Communist Party USA, along with many others who plan to participate this weekend, agrees that jobs and much more still remain to be addressed six decades after the original march.
“Sixty years later many of the issues that caused folks to march remain,” said Joe Sims, co-chair of the CPUSA. “Voting rights are suppressed, racist cops murder us, banks still redline, and schools remain segregated,” he said. “In addition, new issues have emerged: the outlawing of affirmative action and abortion rights, environmental racism, attacks on LGBTQ rights, and wasting vast resources to the tune of $1 trillion a year on war. It’s time to put on our marching shoes!”
In the leadup to the march this weekend, a new EPI study shows while the nation has concentrated on the “justice” segment, with civil rights and voting rights legislation–since eroded by the right-wing majority on the...
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