Workers, students rally Monday at Western Nevada College in Carson City to remember Martin Luther King Jr.
(Press Release) College campuses in Carson City and Las Vegas will host Nevada's portion of a national unity rally on Monday, April 4, the 43rd anniversary that marks the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The northern Nevada event begins at 4:30 p.m. at Rotary Plaza on the campus of Western Nevada College in Carson City.
Featured speakers will include Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson and Rev. Larry J. Holloway, pastor of Bethel AME Church in Sparks. State lawmakers are also expected.
"We will come together to demand a reasonable solution to the state budget crisis," Thompson says.
"Nevada unions, community partners, students and parents are joining together to raise public awareness that the governor's drastic budget cuts will dismantle education," he added.
"Republican lawmakers' solution to the budget crisis is an assault on workers, a classic example of advancing a pre-set agenda by using a problem rather than solving a problem," the longtime labor leader and former assemblyman added.
"Eliminating collective bargaining, workers' pensions, health benefits and prevailing wage protections constitutes a misguided and morally wrong attempt to take away the basic rights of workers," Thompson said.
Participants are urged to wear red as a symbol of support and to register for the rally at www.we-r-1.org/april4
"We stand in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights for which Dr. King fought and died," Thompson noted.
King had traveled to Memphis, Tenn., in support of striking union garbage workers when he was shot on April 4, 1968.
National NAACP President Benjamin Jealous stated that "on April 4, church leaders, civil rights activists and community members of all stripes will hold events around the country to say, as Dr. King did, that 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
"In recent months, we have witnessed attempts in North Carolina to amend state policy to accelerate the resegregation of its public schools, a widespread assault on rights - including an effort in Florida that would take up to 300,000 voters off the rolls, continued attacks on the rights of women and immigrants in addition to the well-publicized offensive on the rights of organized labor," Jealous added.
For more information on the Carson City event, contact Liz Sorenson at Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO at 775-322-9413.
The Las Vegas area event will also start at 4:30 p.m. at the Charleston Campus of Community College of Southern Nevada, 6375 W. Charleston Blvd., behind the Health & Sciences Building (K Building).
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