UAW's King, Jesse Jackson lead Detroit march for jobs

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Detroit News

Detroit -- The chants of thousands of people demanding jobs filled the air downtown as UAW President Bob King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson led the crowd to Grand Circus Park.

The UAW and Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition announced the Rebuild America: Jobs Justice Peace kickoff today at the downtown park.

Jackson said the focus of the initiative is to ensure policy makers put people first when making decisions. The initiative calls for a moratorium on home foreclosures, a push for job creation and for ending armed conflicts overseas.

"Detroit and Michigan are ground zero of the urban crisis," Jackson said. "It's time to enact real change for working families and all America.". . .

Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100828/METRO/8280383/UAW-s-King--Jesse-Jackson-lead-Detroit-march-for-jobs

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No doubt the Beckheads are similarly concerned for their urban brethren. Wonder which event Dr. King would have endorsed - Beck's, or this one for jobs in Detroit? Maybe his showing up to fight for Memphis sanitation workers in April 1968 could provide a clue. Social justice and progressivism, anyone?

[sailor65]

1. Too bad the UAW regularly sells out its membership

The union is worse than worthless anymore.

[divideandconquer]

5. Walter Reuther bailed Martin Luther King out of jail a time or two, what has Toyota done ?

The "I have a Dream" speech was first given in Detroit <http://fixdetroit.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/i-have-a-dream-too/>

[alp227]

2. Way to go Glenn Beck for rolling over this rally!

Where will you find this outside the Detroit News in the massive frontpage/top of the hour coverage of Glenn Beck's mass urination of MLK's grave?

[Omaha Steve]

3. Marta & I voted for Jesse before the dump him backlash

We lost some respect for him when he took a pro life stance for Terri Schiavo.

K&R!

[amandabeech]

4. I like this group much better than Arne Duncan and Al Sharpton.

I think that Arne is bad news for U.S. education.

And I lived in New York during the Tawana Brawley fiasco. And it was a complete and utter fiasco. Al's improved since then, but I can't get the bad taste out of my mouth because of his behavior in that mess.