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On Saturday, June 18, I will join thousands of 1199SEIU healthcare workers from up and down the East Coast as they take buses to Washington, D.C.,[...]

Because of the nine lives lost on May 14 in the Topps Supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., at the hands of a white supremacist and the massacre 10 short days later of 19 children and two adult teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Because for the first time in generations, young people are growing up to be poorer than their parents, a fact directly tied to the explosion of inequality and the vast wealth being accumulated by a handful of American oligarchs.The Rev. Dr.

“Generationally transformative” is a great way to describe what the Rev. Barber and the 6/18 organizers plan to accomplish. But when you look at what we’ll be marching against on June 18, it’s like we’re back in 1963. We live in a country that has been blinding itself to how far the billionaire class and rightwing, racist extremists are willing to go to rid our country of the labor and civil rights protections that were hard won from decades of struggle.

Backed by labor unions, religious organizations, sororities and fraternities, the ‘63 march brought a racially diverse group to the Capitol grounds to demand all Americans enjoy the same basic rights.

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