More than 100,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday to rally for progressive causes. More than 400 groups, including labor unions, as well as civil rights, gay rights, and environmental groups, endorsed the One Nation Working Together rally. Organizers said the gathering drew a crowd of 175,000 people. The focus of the day: jobs, justice and education for all. The rally’s sponsors said they also hoped to demonstrate that they, not the tea party, represented the nation’s majority. The gathering featured more than four hours of speeches, poetry, music.
[…] The Central Intelligence Agency, in its official report, tells us that the enemy we pursue in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, the al-Qaeda, they number less than fifty—I say fifty—people. Do we really think that sending 100,000 young American men and women to kill innocent civilians, woman and children, and antagonizing the tens of millions of people in the whole region somehow makes us secure? Does this make any sense? (Harry Belafonte) Watch speech here.