SCLC of Greater Los Angeles Releases Video of King March & Rally that Drew Over A Thousand
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 4 ‘Remembering King, Realizing the Dream’ March & Rally Promoted Quality Jobs, Education and Safer Neighborhoods
LOS ANGELES – Thursday, April 9, 2009 – On April 4, 2009, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles (SCLC/LA) held a march and rally to commemorate 41st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Entitled “Remembering King, Realizing the Dream,” the event drew over a thousand participants and called attention to and renewed the focus on the need for quality jobs and education and safer neighborhoods and included a march from Foshay Learning Center that traveled west on Exposition Boulevard to Dorsey High School where a rally took place. Rally speakers included: California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Mike Garcia, President SEIU Local 1877, Faith Culbreath, President SEIU SOULA Local 2006, María Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary -Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, A.J. Duffy, President, United Teachers of Los Angeles, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Executive Director of the Community Coalition in Los Angeles, Damien Goodmon, FixExpo.org, and the SCLC’s Reverend Eric Lee. Community partners for this event included the: SEIU, AFL-CIO, United Teachers Los Angeles, Fix Expo Campaign, Say Yes to Children!, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Brotherhood Crusade, and Mothers in Action.
The mission of the SCLC of Greater Los Angeles is to promote the philosophy of its founder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of non-violent progressive social change. For more information and to get involved, please call (323) 290-4100 or visit sclclosangeles.org.
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Link: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/activism_non_profit/watch/v181874253MsjKbkK
