AFL-CIO Holds Candlelight Vigils For EFCA
The AFL-CIO is using the Memorial Day recess to ramp up its push for the Employee Free Choice Act, and the events scheduled, many of them candlelight vigils, target key moderate Dems and Repubs: Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Mary Landrieu (D-LA); Blanche Lincoln (D-AR); Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Susan Collins (R-ME); and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
In addition to more than a dozen candlelight vigils, the group vows to hold economic community roundtables, phone banking parties and deliver personal letters to offices of members of Congress. In total, working families will participate in more than 200 events, write 25K handwritten letters, and make 40K calls to ask Congress to pass the bill.
Highlights include:
-- A 24 hour vigil in Little Rock, AR, at Lincoln's office, featuring faith and community leaders, with shorter vigils across the state;
-- AK union members and military veterans will present signatures to Murkowski's office declaring their support for the Employee Free Choice Act, with events across the state;
-- In PA, there will be statewide candlelight vigils and roundtables featuring workers, faith leaders, academics and political leaders;
-- A roundtable on the economy and EFCA in New Orleans;
-- A working women's event with State Assembly Rep. Kristen Dexter in WI;
-- In IN, three candlelight vigils culminating with in a vigil in Indianapolis; and
-- A rally, a vigil, and smaller events featuring fired and harassed workers in ME.
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(JENNIFER SKALKA)
when did even bayh switch over to the republicans?
He didn't. Mistake by the author.
Why is it not acceptable for church and state to mingle on issues of faith (Prayer in schools, public prayer, ten commandments) but the democratic liberal agenda seeks church support for issues in the political arena. Church leaders should be embarrassed to support this democratic agenda, when they don't support the church agenda at all.