| Location: Covering 25 miles in 2-1/5 days, the “Save Our Votes” march will begin outside Baltimore on January 4th at 10AM in Savage Maryland (intersection of Route 32 and Route 1). The march will follow Route 1, ending at the Federal Capitol in Washington DC for the Rally in Defense of Democracy on January 6th. see: www.51capitalmarch.com Save Our Votes March — Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington DC — Jan. 4th – Jan. 6th! Save Our Votes March “From SELMA to WASHINGTON: 40 Years Marching For Our Voting Rights” Jan. 4th, 2005 through Jan. 6th, 2005 Baltimore MD to Washington DC Begins Tuesday at 10AM, January 4th, Arrives Thursday January 6th at the Rally to Defend Democracy at the Federal Capitol in Washington DC. 51capitalmarch is sponsoring Save Our Votes March, From Selma to Ohio to Washington a re-enactment the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. The following is a brief description of that march: On “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a “symbolic” march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.” On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. http://www.africanamericans.com/Sel… The Save Our Votes March begins in Baltimore MD, at 10 AM, on Tuesday, January 4th and ends in Washington DC, January 6th. We will be marching during the day and camping each night arriving in Washington DC on the evening of Jan 5th. We plan to travel a short distance to the Capital on the morning of Jan 6th. We need as many people as possible to join us that morning and march the last 2 to 3 miles to the Upper Senate Park, where we will join the Defend Democracy Rally and Vigil on the west side of the Capital at 10:00 a.m. Here are some details of the planned march: We will provide a large heated event tent for the overnight campers, as well as other necessities. We welcome any and all marchers, you may march as little or as long as you would like. People may choose to march during the day and make their own arrangements at night, camping is not required to participate in the march. Even if you only march for one day or one hour, we need you to help us fight for our democracy. If your time to march is limited, please join us on the morning of the 6th and march to the Capital and take part in the rally planned there. We need to show strength in our numbers to encourage our representatives to fully investigate this election and to fight for total election reform. We hope this will grow to be a very large group by the time we reach the Capital, just as it did in 1965 in Montgomery. This re-enactment could be a spotlight on the sham of an election held on Nov 2nd, 2004. Please see http://www.51capitalmarch.com/index.html for more details. We hope you can join us and make history! Details will be provided on the message board: http://www.51capitalmarch.com/cgi-b… To contribute financially to “Save Our Votes” March, via Paypal: http://www.51capitalmarch.com/index.html Joy
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