CLEVELAND, April 4 — America’s greatest steps forward have come when everyday people stood up and took courageous, visionary, morally compelling action — from strikes that built power for workers and unions, to the struggle to secure the vote for women, to the civil rights movement.
That’s why the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and International Brotherhood of Teamsters are joining forces with dozens of other pro-labor and pro-Middle Class groups in the nationwide movement known as the 99% Spring.
From April 9-15, we will gather across America — 100,000 strong — in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together in the work of reclaiming our country. It’s the first step in a massive campaign to make the voices of the 99% impossible to ignore.
We will organize trainings to:
• Tell the story of our economy: how we got here, what went wrong, who’s responsible, what a different future could look like;
• Learn the history of non-violent direct action; and
• Learn how we can take action and create great change in this country.
Last year, from the Wisconsin workers who took over their state capitol, to Ohio voters who repealed anti-worker S.B.5, to Occupy Wall Street, we saw a new movement in America using action to highlight the massive inequality that’s destroying our country.
The 99% Spring is our chance to maintain and broaden that change-making energy, and learn how we can take action to challenge corporate power, end tax giveaways to the 1%, fight the influence of money in politics, and create an economy that works for all of us.
We will take non-violent action in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi to forge a new destiny one block, one neighborhood, one city, one state at a time.
Local organizations and volunteers are running more than 750 trainings in living rooms, union halls, churches, and community centers nationwide. All we need now is to get as many people as possible to join in — people like YOU.
Our movement is uniting, and this is a chance for all of us to come together to shift the political landscape in America. Will you join in?
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