DC Voting Rights March Expected to Be Largest Ever
Monday, April 9, 2007
In what's being billed as "the largest march in history
for DC voting rights," DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC
Council Chairman Vincent Gray and members of Congress are expected to join
thousands for the April 16 DC Voting Rights March. The march, sponsored by DC
Vote, People for the American Way, and other national and local organizations --
including the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO -- hopes to build on the momentum
of the recent passage of the DC Voting Rights Act in two House committees. "For
years, supporters have asked DC Vote and the DC government to do something BIG
to demand DC voting rights," says DC Vote, adding that the rally "is your chance
to truly make a difference -- and do something to -- demand the vote and end
taxation without representation." Participants will gather at Freedom Plaza and
march to the Capitol Reflecting Pool to rally. The march is timed to coincide
with DC Emancipation Day, which honors the abolition of slavery in the District
by President Lincoln in 1862. For more info, click here.