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Will be interesting to see how their attendance compares with Beck's rally. 

Invoking Tea Party Anger, Thousands Rally in D.C. in Support of Dems' Agenda
Published October 02, 2010 | FoxNews.com

More than 400 progressive and civil rights groups marched Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial in support of jobs, education and justice -- seeking to tap into the same anger that fuels the Tea Party movement.

Organizers, including the NAACP, La Raza and Code Pink, called it the most diverse march in history as they tried to rally their base around Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

"We are together. This march is about the power to the people," said MSNBC host Ed Schultz. "It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?"

In a fiery speech that opened the "One Nation Working Together" rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed Republicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed some of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's rhetoric and vowed to "take back our country."

"This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?" Schultz told the raucous crowd of thousands. "This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America."

The head of the NACCP said the march is not an alternative to the Tea Party but an antidote.

"We're all working for the same purpose, the same mission," said the NAACP's Jamie Branch. "Everybody wants jobs. Everybody wants health care. It's just a way of going about doing things and if we all come together like all these people are, it will benefit everybody."

With a month of campaigning to go and voter unhappiness high, the Democratic-leaning organizers hope the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment energizes activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood suggests gains for the GOP, and Republicans are hoping to ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

Organizers insist the rally is not partisan. They say the message is about job creation, quality education and justice. However, the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, tend to back Democratic candidates.

And the first speakers hardly shied from criticizing Republicans.

"They want to change this country," Schultz warned participants of Republicans.

More than 400 organizations -- ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups -- partnered for the event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.

Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace traditional values. Though also billed as nonpolitical, the rally was widely viewed as a protest against the policies of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.

One Nation organizers said they began planning their event before learning about Beck's rally, and said Saturday's march is not in reaction to that.

Obama was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/02/labor-civil-rights-groups-rally-washington/

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Looked like there were not many people at all , and most were a bunch of leeches, mooches, welfare bums, and parasites asking for more free crap. 

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Looked like there were not many people at all , and most were a bunch of leeches, mooches, welfare bums, and parasites asking for more free crap. 

AFL CIO, requiring people to go, not asking but forcing. Funny how that is.

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AFL CIO, requiring people to go, not asking but forcing. Funny how that is.

And people on this board and elesewhwere have the balls to call the tea party corp[oratly funded and controlled.   ::)  ::)  ::)

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And people on this board and elesewhwere have the balls to call the tea party corp[oratly funded and controlled.   ::)  ::)  ::)

People like blacken and True Idiot cannot understand or accept that they are in a very small minority and therefore anything like the Tea Party must be some giant corporate scheme because most Americans are free market hating people like themselves.

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DC rally shows support for struggling Democrats
AP – Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the 'One Nation Working Together' rally to …
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago

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WASHINGTON – Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

"We are together. This march is about the power to the people," said Ed Schultz, host of "The Ed Show" on MSNBC. "It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?"

In a fiery speech that opened the "One Nation Working Together" rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed Republicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed some of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's rhetoric and vowed to "take back our country."

"This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?" Schultz told the raucous crowd. "This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America."

With a month of campaigning to go and voter unhappiness high, the Democratic-leaning organizers hope the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment energizes activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood suggests gains for the GOP, and Republicans are hoping to ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

More than 400 organizations — ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups — partnered for the event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.

Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck's rally. But Saturday's crowds were less dense and didn't reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck's rally. The National Park Service stopped providing official crowd estimates in the 1990s.

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka urged participants, including his union's members, to band together.

"There is nothing, and I mean nothing, we can't do when we stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder," Trumka said. "We will stand together. And we will win together. And we won't let anyone — and I mean anyone — stand in our way."

That starts as soon as the crowds get back to their homes.

"Coming out of here, we've got to go home and ask our friends to vote, ask our neighbors to vote," NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said.

"Ever forward, never backwards," he led the crowd in a cheer.

But even participants recognized the challenge.

"There may be an enthusiasm gap, but we're not going to know until we have an election," said Ken Bork, who came from Camas, Wash. "A lot of the noise from the extreme right-wing stuff, it's been well orchestrated by big money. But it's not as bad as they're making it out."

Rose Dixon, a health care worker from Pawleys Island, S.C., said she hopes the rally sends a message to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

"Stop the obstructionism. Work together," Dixon said. "Stop playing politics as usual and to put the American people first. We're tired of the politics and the posturing and the games."

The Rev. Al Sharpton, addressing the crowd that swelled through the day, warned activists against apathy.

"We've got to go home and we've got to hit the pavement. We've got to knock on doors. We've got to ring those church bells," Sharpton said, urging the crowd to go home and volunteer for candidates.

Organizers insist the rally is not partisan. They say the message is about job creation, quality education and justice. However, the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, tend to back Democratic candidates.

But the speakers hardly shied from criticizing Republicans.

"If Sarah Palin had a bright idea, it'd be beginners' luck," comedian Charlie Hill joked from the stage about the 2008 vice presidential nominee.

Van Jones, who last year was forced from his job as a White House energy adviser after Beck made public his comments disparaging Republicans, said during his remarks that progressives must stand with Democrats to put America back to work.

"They don't need hateful rhetoric. They need real solutions," Jones said.


Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace traditional values. Though also billed as nonpolitical, the rally was widely viewed as a protest against the policies of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.

One Nation organizers said they began planning their event before learning about Beck's rally, and said Saturday's march is not in reaction to that.

"Our strength is your strength," SEIU President Mary Kay Henry led a chant from the steps where King delivered one of the nation's most

"We are one nation, coming together."

Obama was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.

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Associated Press writer Natasha Metzler contributed to this report.

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Online:

Rally site:

http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org


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Van Jones - Nice.    ::)  ::)  ::)

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Pathetic 


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Personally I think anyone who takes the time to go to a rally is part of the problem.

Tea Party people, these clowns... all of them.

Shouldn't your asses be doing something productive? Work? Family? Something?

Shit... sitting around all day in front of the Lincoln Memorial is retarded, not to mention I can't drive up there with my kids on those days because they fuck up traffic.

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Pathetic 

what's pathetic

is that photoshopped or something?

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what's pathetic

is that photoshopped or something?

Its from HP.  they had 400 groups from the Unions, the SEIU, all sorts of special interestsm etc etc mandate their members go and thats the best they could do? 

For me today - I took the jet ski down to the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.  Perfect day.  Water was flat, no waves, weather was chilly but I had my Kayak Gear on it was good, headphones blasting Megadeth great hits, cruising at 65 mph up the east river into the harlem river past GW bridge, Yankee Stadium, etc. 

could not have asked for a better day weather wise     



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Its from HP.  they had 400 groups from the Unions, the SEIU, all sorts of special interestsm etc etc mandate their members go and thats the best they could do? 

For me today - I took the jet ski down to the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.  Perfect day.  Water was flat, no waves, weather was chilly but I had my Kayak Gear on it was good, headphones blasting Megadeth great hits, cruising at 65 mph up the east river into the harlem river past GW bridge, Yankee Stadium, etc. 

could not have asked for a better day weather wise     

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Huffington Post. 

still have no clue why you think this is pathetic but Becks rally with Bible Spice somehow wasn't

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still have no clue why you think this is pathetic but Becks rally with Bible Spice somehow wasn't

I think they all are.

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I think they all are.

at least you're consistent

I'm not a rally type person myself (hate crowds)

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at least you're consistent

I'm not a rally type person myself (hate crowds)

I think retarded is retarded, I don't care what party you're in.

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still have no clue why you think this is pathetic but Becks rally with Bible Spice somehow wasn't

Numbers wise considering they had 400 groups.  The dem party and left wing is nothing but a series or special interest groups only united in having their hands out to loot the treasury.  whether its la raza, aft, afl cio, seiu, etc, its nothing but an amalgamation of leeches and parasites. 

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Typical of the disgusting pigs on the left. 

Desecrating the WW2 monument with paid for signs. 


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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

$100 says at least one, if not both of these Oct. rallies leave the Mall in a mess. Remember after the Restoring Honor rally there wasn't a piece of trash on the ground, there was not one act of violence, there was no ranting screaming. No way this doesn't happen at one of these rallies.

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Check out this gem after the immaculation of of the messiah. 


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Check out this gem after the immaculation of of the messiah. 



I've seen that...typical far-left progressive garbage but hey, at least garbage meets garbage...they're consistent with that, lol! It is funny though how the environmental nut bags are always the ones who make the biggest mess.

The upcoming rally to "Restore Sanity" Stewart's rally Oct. 30, this one will be even trashier. Probably end up with graffiti on the Washington monument and enough urine in the reflecting pool to keep it full for the next 100yrs...but at least they won't have to rent porta-potties.   

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Unreal. 

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One Nation Rally Trashes WWII Memorial and Arlington Cemetery's Memorial Bridge
Saturday, October 2, 2010 | Kristinn


Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 10:48:29 PM by kristinn

Video and photos taken today after the One Nation Working Together Rally concluded show that participants left significant amounts of trash at memorials in our nation's capital dedicated to fallen American servicemen.

The World War II Memorial on the National Mall, which is opposite the Lincoln Memorial where the rally was held this afternoon, had food trash and rally signs all around the granite seating along the perimeter of the Pacific side of the memorial. Colorful signs bearing the logo of rally co-sponsor SEIU are prevalant. Among the signs and water bottles strewn about is what looks like an uneaten Twinkie carelessly dropped at the edge of a fountain commemorating the hard-fought victory in the Pacific theater.

A man wearing what appears to be an SEIU t-shirt is seen sitting near the discarded signs.

Video of the trashed WWII Memorial by YouTube poster Hostagehoosier. H/T HotAirPundit

Hostagehoosier also posted a video of trash left at the Lincoln Memorial here.

Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Potomac River between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, was littered with identical cardboard lunch boxes. The boxed lunches were given free of charge to union and NAACP members, along with free t-shirts, free Metro fare cards and free bus rides from across the country to the rally.Freeper Stratman1969 posted several photographs at his Marooned in Marin blog that shows the trash left on Memorial Bridge.