Support and attend the historic MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, SUNDAY 10/17/04!

Join us, brothers and sisters, in a historic movement to restore our democracy, secure power for the overwhelming majority of working people and reshape America!
Energized workers, great speakers, and inspiring musicians from around the country and around the world will all gather for the Million Worker March in Washington DC at the Lincoln Memorial this Sunday October 17 to give voice to the concerns of workers (about globalization and the outsourcing of jobs, fewer jobs that have decent wages and good benefits, lack of access by workers to affordable healthcare, the war on Iraq's impact on funding current and future human needs in the US budget, etc). As important and as widespread as they are, these concerns may not be readily heard these days. Even the AFL-CIO prefers that the rank and file energy going into this effort be put into electing John Kerry. However the march is going forward, with speakers including Martin Luther King lll, Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory and Danny Glover.

On behalf of working people in America we seek to secure:
Universal single payer health care; a national living wage; protection and enhancement of Social Security; guanrenteed pensions; the cancellation of all corporate "free" trade agreements; an end to privatization, deregulation, and contracting out; the right to organize and repeal of Taft Hartley; funding public education; rebuilding our decaying inner cities; building affordable housing; progressive taxation; an end to poisoning of the biosphere to preserve our endangered eco-system; create modern free mass transit; repeal to the Patriot Act and all such repressive legislation; slash the military budget; open the books on the secret budgets of the Pentagon and other intelligence agencies; end the war in Iraq; extend democracy to our economic structure; amnesty for all undocumented workers; enforcement of civil rights for all, and mobilize against all forms of discrimination; create a democratic media that allows labor and all voices to be heard, and oppose monopolization, and union-busting of media workers; and in general create our own independent mobilzation of working people across America to open the way to address human needs and a workers' agenda.

MWM Lincoln Memorial Speaker Schedule:

PRE-RALLY
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 Announcements and Entertainment

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Solidarity Messages and Presentations:

Leo Robinson: ILWU, Local 10
Marc Rich, House of Representatives, United Teachers Los Angeles Delegate, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
Earl Silbar, AFSCME Local 3506
Brian Becker, National Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Myra Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-Chair, National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee
Caneisha Mills, Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth National Coalition
Steve Gillis, USWA, Boston Bus Drivers
Mike Griffin, Director, War Zone Educational Foundation, UBC
Andy Griggs, Chair, Human Rights Committee, UTLA
Heidi Durham, IBEW, Seattle
Ken Riley, ILA, Charleston 5 (Introduced by Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10)
Donna DeWitt, President South Carolina State Federation of Labor
Kimbal Urrutia, Executive Director, AFSCME, Local 1550; Vice President, District 3 Texas AFL-CIO; V.P. Harris County, AFL-CIO
Margaret Prescod, Coordinator, Global Women’s Strike
Charles Kernaghan, Coordinator, National Labor Committee
Reverend Graylan Hagler
John T. McArthur, Publisher, Harpers
John Taylor Gatto, Educator, author, Teacher March

MAIN RALLY 12:15 – 3:30

Danny Glover, actor and social activist
Clarence Thomas, Co-Chair, Million Worker March
Ralph Schoenman, Chair: Communications, MWM
Martin Luther King III, President, King Center
Brenda Stokely, President, AFSCME District Council 1707
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chair, Operation Rainbow-Push
Chris Silvera, Chair, Teamsters National Black Caucus
Dick Gregory, social activist, entertainer
Henry Graham, President, ILWU Local 10
Baldemar Velasquez, President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee
Larry Holmes, Chair, International Action Center
William "Bill" Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME International
Framk Romero, Organizing Director, American Postal Workers Union
Roger Toussaint, President, Transport Workers Union, Local 100
Sharon Black, UFCW, Regional Coordinator, MWM
Gene Bruskin – Co-Convenor, U.S. Labor Against the War
Keith Shanklin – Secretary-Treasurer, MWM
Doug MacDonald – Chair: Outreach Committee, MWM
Mike Hoffman, Co-Founder, Iraqi Veterans Against the War
Gerard Colby, President, UAW 1981
Maya O'Connor, co-chair, Green Party of the U.S.
Maria Marcela Maspero, National Coordinator, UNT, Venezuela
Julio Turra, Executive Director, General Federation of Workers, Brazil
Lybon Mabasa, Co-founder, Black Consciousness Movement, South Africa
Jeremy Corbin, M.P., Chair, Stop the War Now Committee, London
Spanish Trade Union Delegate, UMT Spanish Trade Union Delegate, Comisones Obreras
Jesus Montilla, Oil Worker, Venezuela
Jeanette, Haiti
International Trade Union Greetings: India, Bangladesh, Philippines, South Korea, Japan

Musical Performances by:
Emily Baloney -- From Martin Luther King's 1965 Poor People's March on Washington.
Dave Lipman -- Incisive political songwriting.
Hueman Prophets -- D.C.-based hip-hop artists.
Daynna Dixon -- Soulful, uplifting vocalist.
Evan Greer -- Radical street-medic folksinger.
Sara Messenger -- Inspiriational singer/songwriter.
Stephen Smith -- Powerful Iraqi singer/songwriter.
Raymond Nat Turner -- Jazz/blues poet.
Jack Chernos -- Activist punk/folk banjo.
Culminating in a performers' sing-along of Jack Chernos' "The Union Grand".

Open Mic Benefit for the Million Worker March
Saturday, October 16th at 7pm
St Stephens Church
1525 Newton Street, NW
Washington, DC 20010
$10 suggested donation
($5 for performers...covers groups of up to 5 people)
*wine and light refreshments available

International Labor Reception Of The International Delegates To The Million Worker March
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
There will be a reception for international participants of the Million Worker March. The reception will take place at 7:30 PM at the
University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Ave. NW
2nd Floor, Student Lounge, Building 38
International Solidarity With Our Brothers and Sisters Is Part and Parcel Of The Million Worker March

To learn more aout the MWM, go to the website: www.millionworkermarch.org