Forum Post: possible huge march on wall street November 5
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 24, 2011, 1:55 a.m. EST by jgoodman
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Plans for huge march on wall street (hundreds of thousands). How do we pressure union bureaucracy and education union membership? I quote from article below: "The CLC brings together delegates from the AFL-CIO and other unions in New York City. If its major unions make a serious effort to mobilize their members, we could see a truly massive march on Wall Street that challenges the ongoing efforts to make working-class and poor people pay the price for the economic crisis." Shouldn't we discuss ways to make sure that the major unions make a serious effort to mobilize their members? We could write letters to the major union local leaders, or attend their meetings. We could hold teach-ins outside their labor halls on the importance of mass action. good for a brainstorming session. Organizations and individuals who haven’t already endorsed the march should be encouraged to do so by writing to Workers.March.Against.Wall.Street@gmail.com .
I suggest contacting them directly through your local PTSA chapters & union halls, but most union workers have kids going to school. Most teachers are also pissed and disgusted with the Plutonomy Game that's been harming their schools, students, careers (incomes & pensions), etc.
Get to know your middle-class & under-class neighbors & the movement will start snowballing much faster.
Help your own kids or little brothers & sisters understand what's happening & how they can do class projects about the Mission.
Go to seniors' centers or initiate serious dialogue with your parents & grandparents, activate & mobilize them to activate their friends. As much as they've lost, they still have more money & time than most of us, and most of them are pissed & disgusted with government, the Fed, Wall Street, and the corporate media.
The site of hundreds of thousands marching on Wall Street would be pure poetry.