"Bill Fletcher Jr.: Turning the Tide on the Tea Party" (with video)

GRITtv, with video (08:48):

"We need a grassroots coalition that's comparable to the Tea Party movement in many respects. It needs to be fairly decentralized, easy for people to join, and it needs to be audacious," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the way forward after the success of this past weekend's One Nation rally in Washington, D.C. This rally, he notes, needs to not simply be a nice day out for progressives--it needs to be a turning of the tide, a reversal of course away from anger and toward solidarity.

Bill joins guest host Richard Kim of The Nation to discuss the rally this weekend, the media's reaction to it, and what it really means to be audacious.

"March to Nowhere"

Chris Hedges:

Mass support for anti-democratic movements and public acceptance of open violations of human rights are not caused, in the end, by the skillful dissemination of misinformation or brainwashing. They are caused by the breakdown of a society and the death of a liberal class that once made reform and representative government possible. The timidity of our liberal class was on public display during the march in Washington. Speakers may have called for jobs, but none would call on citizens to abandon the rotting hull of the Democratic Party and our moribund political system or put Wall Street speculators in prison. The speakers at the rally proposed working within the current electoral system, although most Americans are aware that it has been gamed by corporate interests. This is hardly a call, especially given the failures of the Obama administration, that will fire up the unemployed and underemployed. MORE...

"One Nation" March on Washington Was "More Movie than Movement" (video)

Democracy Now!, with video (06:47):

"Sadly, the One Nation that came together in Washington was not there to be organized into an ongoing force," writes longtime media analyst Danny Schechter. "No follow-up program was announced, no emails collected, no vision on how to turn all that energy on the Mall into a powerful progressive alternative to the tea party was offered. No longer march strategy was announced. It was a moment in itself not for anything more.

101 Photos from "ONE NATION" March and Rally in DC (slideshow)

Slideshow

H/t to Pam Eakes.

Ed Schultz @ One Nation Rally (video)

StartLoving3, video (11:59).

LIVE: "One Nation, Working Together with Free Speech TV!"

freespeechtv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

GRITtv:

Laura, Thom Hartmann, and others from Free Speech TV will be hosting live coverage of the One Nation, Working Together rally in Washington, DC all day today, October 2, 2010.

Howie P.S: The broadcast is scheduled from 9am-1pm (Pacific).

"One Nation Working Together Rally -Seattle"

ONE NATION:

We Are
ONE NATION
WORKING TOGETHER
Seattle RALLY
Join us as we support the national call for Jobs, Justice & Education, Demanding the Change we voted for
As a part of the national march and rally taking place in Washington D.C. at the Nation’s Capitol
ON
October 2nd (10-2-10) From 10:00 A.M. To 1:00 P.M.
Downtown

Henry M. Jackson Federal Bldg. (JFB)
915 2nd Avenue, Seattle Washington

Ed Schultz Announces October 2nd “One Nation Working Together” Washington March (with video)

PoliticsNewsNews, with video (13:42):

Friday night (September 3) on “The Ed Show” on MSNBC, progressive talk show host Ed Shultz laid down a challenge for Americans to put aside their differences and come together. for what is truly needed and important in our country at this time: more jobs so that every person in America who wants to work can get a job and be able to support his or her family now and into the future. Schultz announced that he is joining the One Nation Working Together movement and will be a featured speaker at the October 2 One Nation Working Together march in Washington.

He proclaimed: “This is about now and this is about jobs. Labor has been under attack for the last thirty years. It is my motivation to be a part of this and to motivate the audience of this television show to get on this platform; to be a part of this march on Washington on October 2nd.”

Too many of our fellow citizens are hungry, homeless and hopeless in this country. And instead of indulging in the politics of fear and isolation that seem to dominate, we are coming together to work as one toward concrete goals that bring justice to our communities.

Let us hear your dreams for America. Register for the October 2 march today.

Howie P.S.: Full mission statement and more details here.