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The Mobile Bushville approaches
the George Washington
Bridge to cross
into New York City
after 3 weeks of marching across New
Jersey, marching towards our March
for Our Lives on August 30th, Opening Day of the
Republican National Convention.
The
sign of our Mobile Bushville has
traveled for three weeks through Northern New Jersey
and here crosses the George
Washington Bridge
into New York City.
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We reached an important step today in our March for Our Lives,
as we entered New York City
by crossing the George
Washington Bridge.
Members of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
demanded that our human Right to health care be met and also
made clear to everyone that George W. Bush is not likely to
be the person who will meet that demand.
Men, women and children arrived from near and far to
join us as we crossed the bridge.
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Members of the media were there to capture our message and broadcast
it to the rest of the country, and our homemade signs and t-shirts
let people driving across the Bridge know what we stood for. Onlookers showed their support by sounding their
horns, and a person passing by paused to hold one of our signs
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Ron
Casanova, formerly homeless leader of the Tompkins
Square Park
Tent City
and longtime organizer of the homeless in both New
York City and across the country, joined
the Mobile Bushville as it crossed
into his hometown. Cas is a key leader in the Poor People’s
Economic Human Rights Campaign and in the organizing for the
March for Our Lives.
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We
ate dinner at a soup kitchen run out of the basement of St.
Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem,
where we spent the night.
St. Mary’s is sandwiched between a police station and
the massive General Ulysses S. Grant’s Housing projects.
Tomorrow we will visit these buildings and document the stories
of those who live there. Reverend
Earl Kooperkamp of St. Mary’s sees the conditions under which his
community lives and has made the decision to march with us
on August 30th.
We
finished off the night with an educational on the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA), led by Tara and Jen, members of the International
Committee. Our discussion wove together the links between
the lack of accessible health care in this country, the flight
of U.S. jobs, and increasing poverty across the hemisphere,
including right here in the United States.
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La
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