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"Thousands Gather at One Nation Working Together Rally, Including Communist Party USA

Tea Party “Antidote?”

8:41 AM, Oct 4, 2010 ·

BY Mark Tooley

Left-wing groups convened the “One Nation Working Together” rally on the National Mall on Saturday, October 2, hoping to counter Glenn Beck’s well-attended “Restoring Honor” gathering in August.  They also wanted to energize their base before the November elections, hoping to counter Tea Party enthusiasm.

"We aren't the alternative to the tea party; we are the antidote," boasted NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to the Washington Post before the rally.  The NAACP was one of over 400 rally sponsors.  Others included the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Planned Parenthood, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Council for La Raza, National Education Association, Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, People for the American Way, Americans for Democratic Action, Democratic Socialists of America, Institute for Policy Studies, U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Win Without War, the American Muslim Association of North America, and Code Pink. "This march was inclusive,” Jealous declared after the rally.

Labor unions likely provided most of the crowd. “The Tea Party has been getting much more media attention than it deserves, and it’s been saying it represents the voice of middle-class America,” explained a New York health care union official before the rally. He told the New York Times that his Local 1199 SEIU chapter was chartering 500 buses to carry 25,000 union members to the rally. “A lot of us feel we have to get a different voice out there speaking for working people, one respecting the diversity of this country, which the Tea Party does not.”

Interestingly, and unmentioned in virtually all media reports, the Communist Party USA was also listed as a sponsor for the One Nation Working Together rally. Groups like the AFL-CIO and Americans for Democratic Action, at least during much of the Cold War, once worked carefully to avoid alliances with the non-democratic, far left.  But clearly they are no longer so careful."

How Special!!!

I'm hardly a socialist or a fan of the unions. I just don't view America's "good old days" through the rose-colored glasses that you insist on wearing. You don't like unions. But I've yet to hear you complain about the record-setting pay differential between top management and the workers. I'm guessing you think management earned their money, whereas the workers are just lucky to be employed, right? lol It's the mean old unions that are forcing companies to ship their jobs overseas, right? But once Nike (or whoever) get their labor costs down from $25/hr to $.50/hr, do you see them drop the price of their product accordingly? No, they don't. That's just good business, right? And you're right...it is good business. It's good for business, but bad for our country. They couldn't care less about us.

He just described walmart again!!!!!!  (But continues to work for them.)