Boston Workers Alliance MLK 50th Anniversary March - Continue the Struggle for Jobs, Justice and Freedom!

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Boston Workers Alliance 411 Blue Hill Ave, Dorchester MA 02121 (617) 606-3580, (617) 606-3582 (fax) PRESS RELEASE Boston’s Unfinished March for Jobs, Freedom & Justice An Event Marking the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington The Boston Workers Alliance, Inc. has issued a clarion call for a mobilization in Boston on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. A coalition of neighborhood organizations, base building community organizing groups, labor unions, civil rights organizations, and faith communities will gather to mark “re-remember, re-imagine, and relive the March for our times. We are holding Boston’s Unfinished March for Jobs, Freedom & Justice on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 4:30pm on the Boston Common. With the recent tragic verdict in the Zimmerman case, and the loss of the Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, we feel called to organize and mobilize to address the continued devaluing of Black people, Black bodies, and Black political and economic interests. The recent developments remind us that many of us are still vulnerable to violence at the hands of police and citizens who wrongfully believe that they have the power to track police and violate the dignity of Black people. Equally important is our call to respect the rights and dignity of immigrants seeking their full human rights. High unemployment and underemployment of Black and Brown people remains persistent, structural and unaddressed. Fifty years ago the movement connected these issues with the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom. It is time for us to look anew at the significance of the moment because of the Fierce Urgency of Now. Boston’s Unfinished March for Jobs, Freedom & Justice Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 4:30 Boston Common Points of Contact: Phil Reason, Director of Organizing, Boston Workers Alliance (617) 606-3580, phil@bostonworkersalliance.org Chuck Wynder, Jr., Executive Director, Boston Workers Alliance (617) 238-5751, chuck@bostonworkersalliance.org As part of the National JUSTICE for TRAYVON MARTIN Assemblies on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Boston Peoples Power Assemblies calls on everyone to participate in the Boston Workers Alliance Rally on the Boston Common at 4:30 PM on August 28. BOSTON PEOPLES POWER ASSEMBLIES, c/o Action Center, 284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-286-6574 DONATE to the Action Center (support ongoing organizing against war, racism and sexism and for economic justice)