We Want Our JOBS BACK – Part II

I wrote http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=407471&mesg_id=407471">this thread yesterday and was met with resistance from many. There was also support from many. I would like to talk about the resistance. A lot of the resistance revolved around me personally. Why didn’t I go out by myself and stand with a sign and hope others would join me. However, I feel a plan to get our jobs back could be more successful if more people joined me on the internet and street with their protest and signs.

Some of the other resistance came along the lines of difference of opinion on how to get these jobs back. Mostly revolving around Walmart and buying American in that thread.

However, I felt a simple message of wanting our jobs back would cover almost all of the ideas on how to get this done. For example if you felt the main problem for the loss of jobs was that people didn’t buy American you might still want to join a march or movement that wanted our jobs back. Another example is people feel that outsourcing was a problem, and those people might want to join a march or movement to get our jobs back. Another example may be that people feel the solution is for more investment in the future , such as green jobs and technology. Another example might be union busting done by our own local state and federal government, killing the protections of workers. I am thinking of teachers and public employees in that last example.

I didn’t want to get to hung up and caught in the weeds discussing all the reasons and possible solutions. Because, I felt we might be able to get our message across with masses of people protesting or marching by letting those in power know that we want our jobs back. However it needs to get done, we want our jobs back. Make them hear us. Come with your sign, let your voice be heard and scare the ever loving shit out of our elected officials, that we weren’t going to take it anymore. That they needed to resolve this. They obviously have not listened or heard up to this point. We need to make them know the status quo is not good enough and that American workers have sacrificed enough. It’s time to do something about this. We want jobs that are good paying and have benefits, like we use to.

With the challenge presented to me in that thread I created a twitter account (WeMarch26) and hashtag #wemarch26 to try and get some others on board. So far I have 11 people following me.

I have also created a website, where some might like to post their own blog and network to help organize a march on Washington or marches around the country on March 26, 2011.

But truth be told, I need some help. I can’t do it alone. I need some help with the website, I need some writers for the website to keep content fresh, I need organizers.

If you want to volunteer, please email me at wemarch26@gmail.com .

Will be contacting you soon.

I'd be into donating

national-level event.

one month might be ok for the state level -- if you already have a lot of connections.

I need help. I need to hear all ideas on the best way to make it happen.

thank you.

you're going to be able to get within some reasonable time frame (say one month). you can start brainstorming as people come on board, but i'd not be inclined to make any firm decisions until you have an idea of the support you'll have.

i think i read somewhere that the folks who organized the seattle wto protests were at least a year in the organizing.

just to organize something like bringing in a nationally-known speaker takes at least 3 months if you don't have a big organization behind you -- in my experience -- logistics, negotiations, fund-raising, publicity.

it may be that by contacting groups (like local peace/justice/vets/unemployed/welfare) you'll come across folks who were thinking of doing something similar -- synergy.

organization first. then the specifics of what exactly you're going to do and on what scale and publicizing it. (if you put it to people like "we're going to march on dc", then have to downscale/change, it's kind of demoralizing for participants...yeah, we were going to march on dc, but unfortunately we only have enough people to march on the post office)

I've been faced with creating a website from scratch over the last three weeks (granted, it's more complicated because it's a social networking site, rather than a blog/informational site), but still.

To do everything you want to do is complicated and takes time and energy. Unless you can devote every waking hour to it, a month is probably not realistic.

I'll send you a PM later about how Wishadoo! can help by creating a discussion area for this event and your project, if you want. There are event and forum tools there that could be very helpful for this, and will give me a chance to try them out. ;)

You may recall that a similar march took place back in October. The One Nation Working Together March.

You may want to peruse their site, and Google to see who all got involved at the time (Wishadoo! was a partner in that event, which is why Glenn Beck trashed me on his show...lol). You could draw from many of the groups who were involved in that event. I know DUers attended as well.

http://action.onenationworkingtogether.org/content/main

You may want to research what else may be going on that could conflict with such an effort in order to determine a date.

Godspeed!!! :hi:

the NAACP, interfaith groups, etc. Take up OneGrassRoot's offer. Send an email to someone such as Ed Schultz (you never know).

six months!!!

Yes America wants their JOBS back!!! But America should stop feeling that their value is in a JOB!!!

To all my people who are unemployed or under-employed,YOU HAVE VALUE!!! Just because you are not receiving a wage doesn't mean you cannot do something of VALUE. It takes a different mindset to show what we are truly made of. Yes we would like to see America working and getting Cash for their efforts, but their is plenty of work to do. It is what VALUE you place on that work. In order for us to come together to March we must come together with one voice and it starts with lifting your sister and brother up so that they will know all is not lost. They must feel that they are a part of the solution and NOT the PROBLEM. Those that are under Forty have been told most of their lives that they were not of value. Unions bad,education bad,neighborhood bad,farm life bad,same sex relationships bad,low-income bad,big income bad,self respect bad, government too big bad. If all of these things are bad when do you feel GOOD???

Okay you may not be drawing a wage, but are you working??? Yes I said it, ARE YOU WORKING?? Take your VALUE and put it to work for you. If you look outside and there is garbage along the curb and front lawn, then there is work to do. If you are the mother of three boys then there is work to do. If your fifteen year old is sneaking out the windows at night then there is work to do. Your job is sitting under the window so when they stick their leg out the window as my granny would say they would draw back a nub. If you are an engineer, are you volunteering to tutor children in math in the church basement,for a dollar an hour, get twenty children. If their grades go up what is the value then? oh there is Value in everything. Older women sewing and cooking are getting lost in primary and secondary education, have you started some home economics sessions to the young women in your community???Still think you have no Value??? When is the last time you took the old blankets washed them, dried them with some sweet smelling fabric freshener and gave them to the homeless on cold days.No everyone has Value. Street Vendors if you can mix in the Kitchen, you can cure Cancer!! If you are the man in your community why are the children afraid to walk to school in the neighborhood? If you are a father out of work then why isn't their a walk Patrol of other Fathers who get up and make sure our children get to school safely. Stranger Danger should not be!!Are you working???

Next thing, allowing Congress to make more than the average American,and allowing America to help subsidized their health care when they do not want America to have it. I say take away their perks. They are employed by the people and they have seemed to forgot. I think they should get their salaries and subsidized health care from the special interest that turned into an individual. If big Government is bad then we should start by limiting what it is we allow them to have.

My replies might be sparse today, but please let your thoughts and suggestions be known.

:-)