Massive Obama-Backed “One Nation” Rally...

[Meister]

Estimated 1.46 million now in DC

Seeing that mexican flag, I gotta wonder how many of them are legal?

 

[ForestGirl]

Actually, that pic was taken last spring....but I'm sure they have recycled that very sign for this rally, also.

Thanks for the correction! I really need to wear my eyeglasses - every waking hour! lol

 

[rightwinger]

Estimated 1.46 million now in DC

Seeing that mexican flag, I gotta wonder how many of them are legal?

I only see Old Glory...being flown by REAL AMERICANS

 

[Sunni Man]

Estimated 1.46 million now in DC

Seeing that mexican flag, I gotta wonder how many of them are legal?

I only see Old Glory...being flown by REAL AMERICANS

Look, bottom, left side.

 

[ForestGirl]

If someone got a bullhorn and yelled, "anyone here want a job". The place would become so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

LOL LOL LOL - And...they'd scatter like roaches when a light is turned on!

 

[Sunni Man]

An estimated 1.5 million people are at the event.

Being it's the first of the month.

The government could have save thousands of dollars in postage and envelopes.

If they would have set up a welfare check distribution booth in the middle of the crowd.

 

[Sarah G]

The Beck rally may be in those pics, but all you need to do is turn on MSNBC to see the real crowds.. If those are Beck pics they were pasted up by YOU, FOX or some other extreme rwn.

 

[Foxfyre]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month.

More than 400 organizations, including faith, environmental and gay rights groups, sponsored the "One Nation Working Together" demonstration on the same end of the National Mall where a month ago tea party activists met to hear conservative commentator Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

"We're here to show the rest of the country that there are people who support the progressive agenda," said Ken Bork, who came from Camas, Wash. But he acknowledged that Republicans are enjoying an advantage heading toward the Nov. 2 election that will determine whether Democrats retain control of Congress.

"There may be an enthusiasm gap, but we're not going to know until we have an election," Bork said. "A lot of the noise from the extreme right-wing stuff, it's been well orchestrated by big money. But it's not as bad as they're making it out."

There were people with union T-shirts and others participants who carried banners advocating expanding Medicare for all Americans. While the Beck rally stretched well down the National Mall, Saturday's event was shaping up to be far smaller, with sparse groups lingering around the reflecting pool and other monuments.
My Way News - Thousands gather in DC in support of Dems agenda

Omission Watch: Communist, Socialist 'Partners' of One Nation Protest Left Out of News Accounts
By Tim Graham
Fri, 10/01/2010

An official NAACP video for Saturday's One Nation rally (featuring their leader Ben Jealous, among others) claims that their movement includes "Conservatives and moderates, progressives and liberals." But a look at the actual "endorsing organizations" on the One Nation website doesn't list conservative groups, but it does include the Communist Party USA, the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (founded as a "moderate" wing of the CPUSA), the International Socialist Organization (publishers of SocialistWorker.org), and the Democratic Socialists of America (as well as its Chicago, Detroit, and New York chapters).

And the liberals get mad when you associate them with socialism. Well, what are these groups doing on this list, then? Where are the media worrying about "fringes" and "extremists"?

These endorsements have been missing from news accounts. AP's pre-protest dispatch by Nafeesa Syeed surgically began "Groups pushing for progressive policies will gather in the nation's capital this weekend for a march aimed at recapturing momentum for their agenda and mobilizing supporters before next month's midterm elections." Krissah Thompson left this angle out in her Washington Post story.

On the National Public Radio show Tell Me More, host Michel Martin welcomed in three liberals on Wednesday, but tried so very hard not to identify them or the march as "liberal" or "left-wing." The issue of fringy endorsing organizations never came up. She began:

Read more: Omission Watch: Communist, Socialist 'Partners' of One Nation Protest Left Out of News Accounts | NewsBusters.org

Who is attending this rally? And will ALL these ultra leftwing and progressive organizations combined be able to amass a rally that is more than a small fraction of the numbers Glenn Beck's group attracted with no sponsors or listed organizations whatsoever? Maybe you anti-conservative folks really are clueless about what the Tea Partiers, 9/12ers, and grass root America are all about?


Well those attending today's rally include:

AFL-CIO

American Federation of Teachers

Center for Community Change

Green for All

NAACP

National Council of La Raza

Rainbow PUSH Coalition

SEIU: Service Employees International Union

Sojourners

UAW, International Union

AFSCME

Alliance for Democracy

Campaign for America’s Future

Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Campus Progress

Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

Code Pink

Color of Change.org

Communist Party USA (CPUSA)

Democratic Socialists of America

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Gray Panthers

Human Rights Campaign

International Socialist Organization

National Education Association

National Urban League

Planned Parenthood

United Steel Workers

Working Families Party

Ya Ya Network

For a complete list look here:
One Nation Working Together

 

[Sarah G]

 

[Meister]

Estimated 1.46 million now in DC

Seeing that mexican flag, I gotta wonder how many of them are legal?

I only see Old Glory...being flown by REAL AMERICANS

This is your problem, leftwinger, you only see what you want to see.

 

[Sunni Man]

If someone got a bullhorn and yelled, "anyone here want a job". The place would become so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

LOL LOL LOL - And...they'd scatter like roaches when a light is turned on!

Especially, if someone yelled. "IMMIGRATION"!!!!!

 

[ForestGirl]

@Sarah G
Since you seem to be quite the bleeding heart libtard, can you pay for their travel costs to the rally instead of me and all the other tax paying, legal citizens?

 

[Stephanie]

LOL, it's MASSIVE MAN

I was just reading where some Union members were REQUIRED to attend..

can we say AstroTurf

 

[ForestGirl]

Especially, if someone yelled. "IMIGRATION"!!!!!

Or, BORDER PATROL!

 

[ForestGirl]

I was just reading where some Union members were REQUIRED to attend..

And are probably on the clock making overtime...it is a weekend!

 

[Sarah G]

Real America is rising up. We all know how good you extreme rwn are at screwing up an election..

 

[Sarah G]

@Sarah G
Since you seem to be quite the bleeding heart libtard, can you pay for their travel costs to the rally instead of me and all the other tax paying, legal citizens?

You seem bitter..

 

[uptownlivin90]

thousands of supporters were given free rides by unions and the NAACP to the rally

No doubt our tax dollars paid their travel expenses.

Yes because nobody there pays taxes.

Silly foolishness.

All these silly rallies and Glenn Beck and the guy on MSNBC competing to see how many sheep they can herd into a line in the nation's capital?

Doesn't anybody have a damn job anymore? Shit.

Oh wait...

 

[WillowTree]

@Sarah G
Since you seem to be quite the bleeding heart libtard, can you pay for their travel costs to the rally instead of me and all the other tax paying, legal citizens?

You seem bitter..

Irony alert!

 

[uptownlivin90]

Real America is rising up. We all know how good you extreme rwn are at screwing up an election..

"Real America"?

Real America didn't go to either of these silly ass rallies.

Real America has work today from 4pm to 12am, and they're co-worker is sick so they might get in a little extra overtime.

Real America also couldn't attend the Beck Religious Revival, because they had better things to do.