"It's important to know you're part of a huge movement of people who still care about what happens to ordinary people in the United States."
At the 1991 Solidarity March and Rally, which drew 325,000 unionists to Washington DC. On August 31, 1991. Feldman was president of the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City branch of the American Federation of Teachers. On July 1, 1929, some 1,100 streetcar workers struck in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up.
Which thanked Union Kitchen customers, elected officials, community allies, fellow union members and supporters everywhere who they said “never stopped believing this day would come. We know we can count on you moving forward.”
“It’s all about building a working-class culture of solidarity.”
Caraway is president of South Dakota’s AFL-CIO and a panelist on the A New Day forum tonight. |