31,000 Deliver Message to Wall Street: Fix The Mess You Made
April 29th: Jewish Labor Committee helped bring a simple message from America's main street to Wall Street today: Good Jobs Now! Wall Street Must Pay!
Carolyn De Paolo, Coordinator, United Hebrew Trades - New York Jewish Labor Committee; Martin Schwartz, Executive Director, JLC; Arieh Lebowitz, Associate Director, JLC. (Image from photograph by Thomas Good, National Writers Union - UAW Local 1981)
Led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, some 15,000 union members and allies on the ground and another 16,000 virtual marchers from an array of trade unions and an organizations including National People's Action (NPA), NAACP and Move On took over Wall Street during the afternoon rush hour for a march and rally. When the marchers got to Wall Street, there were so many that they filled up two streets.
During the rally and march, hundreds of participants joined a text messaging action and called Goldman Sachs, telling the Wall Street giant to stop opposing meaningful financial reform. In addition to the mass of people taking part, hundreds watched the event in a live webcast (see clips at www.aflcio.org/wallstreet) and commented live throughout the march and rally, many showing the deep hunger across the country for action to create jobs and restore the economy of the country.