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31,000 Deliver Message to Wall Street: Fix The Mess You Made

By James Parks

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (center), Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and NYC Central Labor Council President Jack Ahern join TWU members and 30,000 other on-the-ground and virtual marchers to Make Wall Street Pay.

Some 15,000 union members and other progressives on the ground and another 16,000 virtual marchers got Main Street's message to Wall Street today: Good Jobs Now! Wall Street Must Pay! Marchers in New York carried the names of virtual marchers on stickers as they marched toward the statue of the Wall Street bull. Led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, union members and activists from National People's Action (NPA), NAACP, Move On and others 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.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).