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Activists vow: On to Wall Street March 24
By
Dee Knight
Published Mar 10, 2011 9:00 PM
At a meeting at New York City’s Hostos College on March 5, labor, student and community activists gave a ringing endorsement for a
large-scale mobilization to rally at City Hall and march to Wall Street on
March 24. The coalition includes numerous public sector unions, the CUNY (City
University of New York) Mobilization Network, the South Bronx Community
Congress, the Freedom Party, the Coalition for Public Education and the Bail
Out the People Movement.
Brenda Stokely, a co-founder of the Million Worker March Movement and former
president of AFSCME District Council 1707, called on organizers to “unite
and concentrate forces, and take the action plan to all campuses, communities
and unions across the city.”
Darnell Morris, an organizer for Service Employees Local 1199, said unionists
“need to join with students to mobilize broad and deep” for the
March 24 action at City Hall and Wall Street.
Larry Hales, of the CUNY Mobilization Network, told the audience,
“Together we can force the mayor and governor not just to hear us, but to
change their plans.”
Ramon Jimenez, a founder of the South Bronx Community Congress, made a call for
“unity politics” to face “the storm that’s
coming” with the proposed budget cuts at city and state levels.
Larry Holmes, of the Bail Out the People Movement, emphasized that the cuts are
part of a large-scale, national assault on public sector unions, coming not
just from one or two governors, but from Wall Street. “That’s why
we need to march on Wall Street. We need to bring what’s happening in
Wisconsin to New York,” Holmes declared
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