G-20 Summit Comes To Pittsburgh
Sep 20, 2009 10:30 pm US/Eastern
Hill District March Focuses On Demand For Jobs
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
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Jobs and the right to work were the main themes for the several hundred people marching through the Hill District just days before the G-20.
KDKA
A march today at the makeshift tent city in the Hill District focused on the demand for jobs, just days before world leaders converge on the city to discuss the economy.
Jobs and the right to work were the main themes for the several hundred people marching through the Hill District.
Pittsburgh residents participating in the march thought it was important to be involved.
"Because the struggle continues, and it's important that we be in the streets exercising our rights," said community activist Celeste Taylor.
The March for Jobs was one of the first G-20 related protests in the city and it attracted people from all over the country.
The march started with a rally at the tent city located next to Monumental Baptist Church on Wylie Avenue.
Organizers say the tent city has been dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who started a poor people's campaign for jobs and opened a tent city more than 40 years ago.
"We're reviving that call for the right to a job at a time when unemployment in much of this country is in … depression," said Larry Holmes, of the Bail Out the People Movement.
The protest before the G-20 Summit is bringing community activists from all parts of the country.
"I'm here in Pittsburgh to fight for jobs because that is a right a human being is supposed to have in order to support the family and be able to send the kids to school," said Oscar Harnandez, of New York.
Some of the marchers will return to their home cities, while others will remain at the tent city for the duration of the summit hoping to get their message to the world leaders.
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