ONWT Rally… A Project of the Tides Center Who Will Be There?

‘ONE NATION’ RALLY EXPOSES COALITION OF FAR-LEFT ORGANIZATIONS

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President Barack Obama’s own Organizing for America has praised the effort, calling it the “biggest progressive demonstration in decades.” The list of organizations offering their official endorsements for Saturday’s “One Nation” rally reads like a who’s who of the far-left in America, including some usual suspects including the Communist Party USA (CPUSA):

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• For more information on the groups endorsing/participating in the rally, visit onenationworkingtogether.org/partners and review the list

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There is no role for Communist, Socialist, Marxist in our American society. Rally agenda is government from birth to the grave. Yet Obama, the White House and White House related Progressive groups are promoting this rally.

• Project of the Tides Center, designed to energize the far-left for the 2010 mid-term elections
• Headquartered out of the offices of USAction and the Service Employees International Union

A project of the Tides Center, One Nation Working Together (ONWT) is headquartered in the Washington, DC offices of USAction. It also coordinates some of its activities out of the New York City offices of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU).

ONWT's principal goal is to inject new energy into the social justice movement in advance of the 2010 mid-term elections. The organization's “signature event” is its October 2, 2010 “March on Washington,” whose purpose is to inspire “an intensive voter-mobilization program for Election Day 2010.”
ONWT's March on Washington is endorsed by a wide range of leftist groups and activists. Notable endorsers include such national organizations as: International ANSWER, the American Muslim Association of North America,United for Peace and Justice, Pax Christi, Sojourners, Color of Change, the American Friends Service Committee, the Campaign for America’s Future, Code Pink, the National Council of La Raza, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Working Families Party, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Progressive Democrats of America, the Green Party, Planned Parenthood, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the International Socialist Organization, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, Tikkun--Network of Spiritual Progressives (founded by Michael Lerner), Campus Progress, Green for All, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the SEIU, USAction, the National Action Network (headed by Al Sharpton), the United States Student Association, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the NAACP, the Center for Community Change, the Earth Day Network, the National Wildlife Federation, the Sierra Club, the Apollo Alliance, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Democracy For America, Women's Action for New Directions, Veterans For Peace, Win Without War, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Reform Immigration For America, School of the Americas Watch, People For the American Way,Physicians For a National Health Program, the Peace and Freedom Party, the National Urban League, the National Immigrant Solidarity Network, the Midwest Academy, Interfaith Worker Justice, the Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth, Free Speech TV, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, UNITE HERE, Peace Action, Jewish Funds For Justice, the American Association of University Professors, and the AFSCME. A local chapter of the National Organization for Women also endorses the ONWT rally.
Organizing for America, President Barack Obama’s support organization, has helped publicize ONWT's October 2 event, as has the Daily Kos. Notable public figures to support the ONWT rally include Danny Glover and Howard Dean.

ONWT's national campaign manager is Leah Daughtry, daughter of Herbert Daughtry, a noted mouthpiece of black liberation theology, a belief system whose tenets Leah likewise embraces. A minister at the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Washington, DC, Ms. Daughtry also serves as director of Faith in Action, a community outreach initiative. She previously worked in theClinton-era Labor Department and was chief of staff to Democratic National Committee chairmen Terry McAuliffe and Howard Dean.

ONWT's steering committee liaison is Rosalyn Pelles, former director of theAFL-CIO’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department. A onetime black-liberation activist, Pelles was a signatory to the 1998 call for the formation of a Black Radical Congress as a means of reviving social militancy among African Americans. That statement was also signed by such notables as Amiri Baraka,Angela Davis, Manning Marable, Cornel West, and Deborah Bell of theCommunist Party USA.

ONWT’s “director of peace,” Michael McPhearson, is a key organizer of the October 2, 2010 project. A former executive director of Veterans for Peace, McPhearson also has worked for the United for Peace and Justice coalition and has endorsed the Black Radical Congress.

The ONWT project's three central pillars are jobs, education, and “equality for all.” While the oranization claims that “putting America back to work” is its primary focus, the vast majority of its proposals on this issue deal with increasing direct relief benefits to the unemployed, expanding the public sector, and unionizing the workplace.

Specifically, ONWT's platform calls for the following key items, whose most commonly shared thread is their call for increased government intervention and taxpayer-dollar expenditures:

• living-wage laws to guarantee that all jobs “pa[y] enough to support a family”
• an end to “racial profiling and re-segregation”
• “a fair path to citizenship” for illegal aliens, so as to “fix the broken immigration system” and alleviate immigrant children's fears that their “parents will be deported”
• “a clean environment, so no child is ever forced to decide between drinking the water or breathing the air, and staying healthy”
• an end to “tax cuts for the wealthy” 
• an end to “unjustified military spending”
• “full equality for all women in all communities, indulging an end to wage discrimination”
• an expansion of taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits, healthcare benefits, and mortgage assistance, with particular emphasis on helping “populations and communities in the greatest need”
• an increase in federally funded “youth summer jobs and training initiatives”
• more federal spending to “stimulate job growth and retention”
• more federal “aid to states and cities—including direct job creation at local levels—especially in education, health care, social services and first responder workforces”
• more federal loans and grants to small businesses
• more federal “infrastructure investment,” particularly in “clean energy enterprises” and “green jobs”
• federally funded “training opportunities for workers who want to advance their careers”
• the provision of “paid sick days and paid family leave for all workers”
• an expansion of “access to the polls for everyone, including former felons,” so as to combat “voter disenfranchisement”
• an end to “discriminatory practices within the criminal-justice system,” particularly those practices that have a disparate impact on nonwhite minorities
• an expansion of federally funded programs “to help ex-felony offenders reintegrate into society, including job training [and] educational opportunities”
• “increase[d] federal support to institutions of higher education that provide opportunities for underserved communities”
• greater investment of taxpayer dollars “in public education systems, not prisons”
• the provision of “more education opportunities for incarcerated youth”
• the creation of more taxpayer-funded “affordable housing”
• the creation of a “public option” in healthcare, where a government-run health insurance agency would compete with private insurance companies
• support for the Dream Act, which would offer illegal-alien students a path to citizenship and would make them eligible for in-state college tuition discounts.

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DC Metro ^ | 09-29-2010

Metro did not open early or run extra trains on August 30th for the Glenn Beck Rally, despite them knowing there were be crowded conditions. Yet they are announcing today opening early and running extra trains for the Oct 2nd union-sponsor rally. From their website: 

System opening at 6 a.m. Saturday for the One Nation Rally On Saturday, Oct. 2, the Metrorail system will open at 6 a.m., one hour earlier than usual, and operate additional Blue Line service to accommodate the large crowd expected to attend the One Nation Rally on the National Mall. The organizers for Saturday’s...

Metro is subsidized by the federal government and in just about all cases operates extra trains and extended hours for special events. One has to wonder why they are doing it for the US Communist Party and unions, but failed to do it for the Tea Party and Glenn Beck’s Restore Honor Rally.

Barack Obama, anyone, cannot be connected to all the socialist organizations on the board above and at the same time be for mom, apple pie, the flag and America… It is impossible!

We are facing the worst crisis of our lives… of the republic we must get people registered to vote, educate ourselves and others, vote ourselves, help get others to the polls and help monitor the polls, the safety at the polls and the vote count.

Get your friends and family to the vote in record numbers and make sure that everyone knows the truth.

If the American People… believers in the Constitution and smaller government do not win in November our Republic is lost… perhaps forever.  The 2010 election is critical… as will be the 2012