Million Worker March: Oct. 17, 2004

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http://www.millionworkermarch.org/whywemarch.html#dem

Thirty-six years ago Martin Luther King, Jr. summoned working people across America to a Poor Peoples' March on Washington to inaugurate "a war on poverty at home."

"The United States government," he proclaimed, "is one of the greatest purveyors of violence in the world ...America is at a crossroads in history and it is critically important for us as a nation and society to choose a new path and move on it with resolution and courage"

The crisis facing working people today is even more acute. Under the cover of systematic lies and deception, wars of devastation have been launched at the expense of working people everywhere.

In our name, a handful of the rich and powerful corporations have usurped our government. A corporate and banking oligarchy changes hats and occupies public office to wage class war on working people. They have captured the State in their own interests.

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