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The August 24th National Action To Realize The Dream March Led By Rev. Al Sharpton & Martin Luther King, III To Include Brief Remarks By Attorney General Eric Holder, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Steny Hoyer, Newark Mayor Corey Booker, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Bernice King, The Families of Emmett Till & Trayvon Martin & Many Others From Civil Rights, Labor & The Church
Main Speakers (from 11:0 AM EDT):
Nancy Pelosi * Bernice King * Steny Hoyer * Myrlie Evers-Williams * Attorney General Eric Holder * Martin Luther King, III * Rev. Al Sharpton * Trayvon Martin family * Emmett Till family
12:30:
March down Independence Avenue, passing the King Memorial to the Washington Monument
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Live streaming:
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Coverage on C-Span starts at 9:0 AM EDT
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Can’t make it to the March? Join us for the Virtual March at http://t.co/KPup6ap9gD #Action4theDream
— NationalActionNet (@NationalAction) August 23, 2013
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Instagram: The family of Trayvon Martin. The family of Emmett Till. 50 years later, they march together…
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Morning everyone, just wanted to post the live links above, back later with more.
The Obama Diary 
Hi. Wish I was there.
Morning Africa, morning everyone.
Morning, Chips. Hello TODers!! What a glorious day.
We march on 50 years later towards justice. Good morning TOD.
Morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone, and congrats africa on #1 🙂 Thanks for posting the live links, Chips!
Hey Hope. 🙂 🙂
Congrats on 1st Africa, This is going to be a powerful weekend in Washington.
Good Morning Chips. Just getting my bearings this morning. I slept good, but feel like I could sleep forever. Raining here. They are giving us Heat Index warnings. Bwaaah 🙂
Morning Roberta, still sleepy too!
Thanks RIM. Indeed. This is going to be an emotional and powerful day. I cleared my day to take it all in.
And I’m sure none of them have ANY historical perspective or real connection to the Civil Rights Movement.
Isn’t that something. Never ceases to amaze. They are so taken with themselves. I have never seen that program.
Unbelievable. Seriously, that is astonishing.
These hideous shows just seem like they must be full of backslapping and self-congratulatory preening. UGH.
Where’s Smiley or West when you need them?
Somewhere in undisclosed bunker, grumbling and sulking.
The two has-beens are In a corner sulking and sucking their thumbs.
They don’t even try anymore, Hf. Out of all the people it takes to put on a tv show, not one–not one–noticed this glaringly obvious omission. It’s like a parody of “Amazing Grace”—I was blind and now I’m blinder. Makes you want to weep.
There are going to be a lot of reminders today and this week, as to why we’ll all continue to want to weep.
Luckily, the fools are all being pointed out. Maybe they’ll never get it, but others will. I’m so sick of stupidity, I could spit.
Don’t we know….None was able to appear…..all 44M Black Americans. What in God’s goodness name? That is Low. 50 yrs ago, an estimated 60K Caucasian attended the March. Kornacki would NOT find one African American in NY City to come to his show on this very momentous day? Wow…..that is wicked, crude, cruel and Lame of Steve Kornacki.
Good Morning Chips and everyone. May we march Forward, not backwards.
Wow. This day is going to be intense.
Wow.
Good morning, TODville. This is going to be an historic day. Sooooo excited for Donna and Dudette and Alycee and all the others who will be there in person. I know a lot of people are going to come out and join the movement for a more just America, including some of those who were there with MLK. FORWARD.
Morning Meta, can’t wait to hear back from the TODers, what a powerful, stirring day.
Morning, Chips. Inspiration xINFINITY.
Dudette is there too? (God, I miss so much when I don’t read all the comments.) Woo-hoo! I knew Alycee would be there, and I bet at the end of the day we’ll find there were other TODObots. Hey College Kay, you there too?
No, no. I’m not there today. Wish I was. But I’ll be there on Wednesday to see POTUS. Driving up to DC Tuesday.
Okay, D. I never like to think I miss important pieces of info in the village. 😀 So, we can hold hands today while we ‘participate’ here, and on Tuesday, drive safely, my only Dudette.
Unfortunately, had to bag today — I’m swamped with taxes… Had to make a choice Saturday or Wednesday… I’ll be front and center on Wednesday!
Okay, another Obot representing the village on Wednesday! Alright! The more the ‘merrier’. Good luck focusing on the taxes.
Rise and March indeed!
Excellent! Brilliant! Poignant!
Nobody does it better……Thank You Chips.
The balls is must take to think you can talk about issues affecting the black and the brown without any of them being represented.
Indeed. The gall.
Africa, they are just blowing hot air making themselves believe they are relevant. I think they’re actually afraid to talk with African Americans or Latinos. They might get their noses rubbed in some hard truths. So much easier to pontificate based on their own uninformed opinions. Hope this show tanks.
Chris Mathews has a big microphone. Just exactly what is he doing to advance voting rights?
This is off to a great start! The speakers are FIRED UP.
Good Morning Chipsticks, TODers…Everyone!!!
It is such a great day, the fight has been renewed.
Tony Bennett, a long time fighter for equality, will be there today.
I’m listening to Dr. King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. It is amazing, yet sad, how much a speech from almost 50 years ago is still relevant today…the issues, the way the “press” reports the issue; focusing on the insignificant and ignoring the REAL issues….
This speech could be given today (replace ‘striking sanitation workers’ with one of the MANY issues plaguing minorities, the middle class, and the poor today) and the speech will be on point.
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“Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealing with its public servants who happen to be sanitation workers. Now we’ve got to keep attention on that. That’s always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day and the press dealt only with the window breaking. I read the article. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand three hundred sanitation workers are on strike and that Memphis is not being fair to them and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn’t get around to that…..Now we’re going to march again and we’ve got to march again in order to put the issue up where it is supposed to be. Force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God’s children here suffering…sometimes going hungry…going through dark and dreary nights…wondering how this thing is going to come out. THAT’S the issue. And we’ve got to say to the nation WE know how it’s coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice…there is no stopping point short of victory…”
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[I Have Been to the Mountaintop Full Speech]
This is the woman who wrote about going to see The Butler with armed security in the theater.
Wow, meta, she looks fantastic! I love the hat, the sundress. She’s making a statement about being a woman and not being ignored.
I know, right?!
THIS!
A Blessed Rise & March Day to everyone. FORWARD—–>WE SHALL OVERCOME
Chips, thank you so much.
Taken from “I Have A Dream”
“In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men – yes, black men as well as white men – would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.”
Niiice to see you up and about Ms Chips!
Good, sunny, historical, Morning, TODobots! Just let me put on my walking shoes here, and rub the sleep out of my eyes, and I’ll wobble along with you all
Morning West Coaster!!!!
😀 I don’t think my body knows what’s happening to it.
Ha, so no change there then! 😆
😆 😆 Nail on the head as usual. ‘A leopard cannot change its spot.’
Who’s wobbling?? 😳
{{{Mighty Pamela}}} You just starting to ‘rise and shine’? Come walk along with me, I’ll go slowly (shut up Chips).
Shouldn’t the american TOD’ers be in this historical march instead of blogging here?
Some of them are there, amk….they will keep us posted later in the day
Only if they live in DC or can afford to get there!! Morning grumpy.
We (N-Americans) are here, waiting for you to pick us up. You did get the memo that transportation was your responsibility, right?
Good morning TOD. The day is finally here and though I can’t be there, I have butterflies in my stomach. I can’t wait to hear about this from TOD members that are there, to watch, to see the pics that come from this historic day…this will be moving and intense….so much has changed in the years since MLK marched, yet too much has stayed the same. Power to the people to effect change to move this country toward equality and justice for all. I can’t wait to see this day unfold.
Congrats to you, africa!
DF 🙂 :).
Hello sweetness:)
I hope Pete Seeger is there today or Wednesday.
Hey Jeremy Sachs, careful there! No drones, please.
Every time Joe Madison says ‘Our next speaker is the president……’ my heart hitches. Someone please tell him to tweak the wording a bit, in deference to my heart. Thanks.
I”m CarolDuhart. AMK, I wanted to go but couldn’t afford, and it’s a family reunion today as well. Well, I’m DVRing the march instead, which will have to do.
For the first one, I was seven, and I don’t even remember if I watched tv that day. But did they broadcast it where I lived?
whoa what did that mean… in introducing Julian Bond.. he is a US citizen- as opposed to Barack Obama?? Maybe I’m too sensitive.
I caught that too. Don’t think it came out the way he intended.
you’re probably right Dudette, thanks.
Good Morning, DD4O! /waving wildly/ 😀 With all the positive energy that’s bound to be floating around you today, I figure you won’t need this, but I’m sending you some positive supporting energy from *me* anyway. #FORWARD
CSPAN 1—– Now Rev. Jesse Jackson
Good Morning Chips and my beautiful TOD family. What a beautiful day in our lives. So great that some of our TOD family members are there Washington, DC today. The Love that we share here will spread seeds of hope and hard work to accomplish what is in our hearts. That love in our hearts will prepare the way to bold actions for our futures. Today, hope in our actions, and believing in our spirits will help us to march FORWARD to a strong journey to freedom for all.HZ
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”
Dr. Martin L. King Jr. 1929-1968
Civil rights activist and Nobel Laureate
Morning HZ, beautiful, inspirational words as ever!
TY, our beautiful leader. We love you dearly. ((((((Love to our Chips for our TOD family.))))))))HZ
HZ, HELLO!!!! How are you?
Good Morning, Africa. I am fine. TY for asking. But, how are you? I hope and pray all if fine. (((((Love you)))))HZ
Good Family! It’s a Great Day in America!
I’m so grateful for TOD and the wonderful people here who keep us informed & inspired! I love you TOD!!! Thank you Chips!!
Moooooooorning Dudette!!!!
Morning Mama Chips!!! It’s a GREAT DAY in America and a great day to be here with you!! Love you, Honey!
Ha, love ya back crazy gal!
Dudette 🙂 🙂
Good Morning Africa!! 🙂
LOL! Look at Donna’s avi! I need to go read her TL to see what that’s about! 😀
O-kay! I know that this is/will be a heavily emotional day, but I confess that I react better to calmer speakers. Just saying.
This is another beautiful young mind we will continue to fight for in our March.HZ
I’m sorry, but if you were standing beside MLK Jr at the podium 50 yrs, you should get more than 2 minutes today!!!
50 yrs AGO…
They’ve been pretty brutal so far cutting people off! The first time it happened, when they started playing music to drown out someone’s speech, I thought my streaming had gone bonkers! But I suppose if they didn’t do it, the event would last for a month. Strange, though, that Jackson isn’t among the main speakers later??
What In The World! This is SO ANNOYING! They seem to be cutting everyone off! Why can’t they just let the people speak?
It’s really humiliating for the speakers Desertflower, I understand why they have to do it, but I wish they’d do it more gently!
That’s just wrong. I don’t give a flip if it lasts a year! What these people are there to say MUST BE HEARD!! Is it just for show or is it there to bring attention to work that needs to be done?
It’s supposed to be about commemorating what people did 50 yrs ago and inspire people to continue the work and to MOVE the decision-makers how have the power to do something. The ones who were there doing the WORK 50 yrs ago ought to receive some deference! This is so disrespectful to the spirit of the movement, in my opinion!!
And another thing… if they wanted to keep it short, keep the speaker list short. Duh!!!
Exactly!! When they cut off the woman from NAACP that was talking about the importance of voting in EVERY ELECTION….I about blew a damn gasket!
Like Chips, at first I thought something was wrong with my computer. I don’t get it. Why invite people to speak if you are not going to let them finish speaking on important message?
You have no idea of the politics involve in putting together an event like this (well maybe you do) — usually support comes with the price tag of a speaking spot for the organization. The speaker knows the time limit; wish they would skip the salutatory preamble and get to the heart of their issue.
Surely, Jesse Jackson will speak longer, later? That was the worst!
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