April 4, 2009 - DC Lincoln Memorial Rally Against Racial Supremacism

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is captivation a accessible assemblage from 4 to 6 PM at the Lincoln Memorial's absorption basin accomplish on April 4, 2009 - the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 -- arduous resurgent ancestral supremacism in America. Details of our assemblage will be begin on our website at: http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/aprilrally/

Washington, DC -- Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is captivation a accessible assemblage to claiming resurgent ancestral supremacism in America on April 4, 2009 - the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The assemblage will be captivated at the Lincoln Memorial absorption pool's accomplish from 4 to 6 PM on April 4.

We will abode the blameworthy improvement of ancestral supremacism as accurate in the Southern Poverty Law Center's reports, ask for signatures to our online address abnegation supremacism, and alarm for a new administration in angry ancestral and added supremacism. We claiming those ancestral supremacists who would seek to advance the abhorrence of the accomplished and the abolitionist lie that denies that all men and women are created equal. We plan to acquaint those ancestral supremacists who seek to clean a arrangement of racial-based abhorrence -- never again!

Details and acumen can be begin on our website at: http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/aprilrally/

Why Me Must Challenge Supremacism Now

As we face challenges with our abridgement and unrest, there are those supporters of ancestral abhorrence and supremacism who seek to accretion new associates to their ranks of ancestral abolitionist organizations. There are those who seek to advantage the actuality that our admiral is an African-American to added analysis and abhorrence a allotment of us. As the Southern Poverty Law Center's letters show, there are those who accept the ambition to aggrandize a arrangement of ancestral abolitionist groups about America.

April is a ages area the blackmail of ancestral supremacism is frequently remembered. It was on April 4, 1968 in Tennessee area Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Also in Tennessee, white supremacists Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart are appointed for balloon this April for their declared plots to assassinate Barack Obama and to annihilate abundant African-Americans. (Schlesselman and Cowart had already attacked an African-American abbey in Tennessee in October.)

April 14 is the date that white abolitionist John Wilkes Booth murdered our President Abraham Lincoln. April 19 is the date that white supremacist-linked agitator Timothy McVeigh austere the Alfred P. Murrah federal architecture in Oklahoma City in 1995 killing 168 and abasing 800. April 20 is if white abolitionist Neo-Nazis bless the birthdate of their idol Adolf Hitler.

But although April has been remembered as a ages area the blackmail of ancestral supremacists has been remembered, April is aswell a ages area the armament of abhorrence and supremacism accept been challenged.

April is aswell the ages if the Confederate Army and the armament of bullwork surrendered. April is aswell the ages if the Civil Rights bills of 1866 and 1968 were signed. April is the ages that bullwork was abolished actuality in the District of Columbia. April is the ages area ageism white supremacists absent their ascendancy of South Africa. Most importantly, April is the ages if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his endure accent to America with a articulation of courage, a articulation of conviction, and a articulation of achievement about our charge to adequation and liberty. On April 3, he said that "I've apparent the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I ambition you to apperceive tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!"

He saw that we are added than our fears, added than our divisions. He saw that admitting the a lot of concerted efforts of those who approved to ample our hearts with hate, altruism still captivated adulation and acquaintance in the amount of its heart. He saw that it was that our accepted band of humanity, of our aggregate basic rights of adequation and liberty, that would get us there to a new achievement for all people.

So we ask you to accompany us in achievement and love, in accord and fellowship, aggressive as chargeless men and women of all kinds, continuing calm this April to accomplish our own account in history. We ask you to accompany us this April 4, 2009 to acquaint those who seek to bisect us by abhorrence and abhorrence and those who seek to advance supremacism a allotment of us -- that they will not win and that we will never abandonment on humanity's basic rights of adequation and liberty.

We are not afraid.

Rally Logistics:
Our assemblage will be captivated from 4 to 6 PM on Saturday April 4, at the absorption basin accomplish in foreground of the Lincoln Memorial (not the Lincoln Memorial steps). We are advising that attendees crop accessible busline via the Washington alms to either the Foggy Bottom busline stop and airing south to the Lincoln Memorial, or the Smithsonian busline stop and airing west alternating the National Mall and 17th artery to Lincoln Memorial (see data below).

Important agenda - the absorption basin accomplish area our assemblage will be amid is on the east ancillary of the 23rd artery that goes amid the Lincoln Memorial itself and the absorption basin in foreground of it.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC is on the far end of the National Mall and bisects 23rd Street. It can be accomplished from Constitution Avenue from Henry Bacon Drive and from Independence Avenue from Henry French Drive. Limited parking may be accessible on Independence Avenue or Madison Avenue abreast the National Mall, or at the Jefferson Memorial. However, parking in Washington DC is scarce, and application accessible busline is acerb recommended.

DC Subway and Walking Directions

Walking from Foggy Bottom alms stop to Lincoln Memorial
 

Exit base application capital avenue Walk approx. 7 blocks S on 23rd St NW. (stay on 23rd Street about until you get aural beheld ambit of Lincoln Memorial) Turn appropriate on Lincoln Memorial Circle SW. Walk a abbreviate ambit W on Lincoln Memorial Circle SW.
Walking from Smithsonian alms stop to Lincoln Memorial
 
Exit base application 12TH & JEFFERSON (THE MALL) avenue Walk approx. 2 blocks W on Jefferson Dr SW. Turn appropriate on 14th St NW. Walk approx. 1 block N on 14th St NW. Keep walking accomplished Washington Monument west in the administration of the Lincoln Memorial Cross 17th Street traveling west Walk accomplished National World War II Monument west in the administration of the Lincoln Memorial Continue to airing down Washington Mall in the administration of the Lincoln Memorial NOTE: that our assemblage will be on the ancillary of the absorption basin abutting the Lincoln Memorial
More About Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
http://www.realcourage.org/about/

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is a non-partisan, aborigine activist accumulation with the ambition to avert the basic animal rights of adequation and alternative as authentic in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the American Declaration of Independence. Our cold is avert such animal rights of adequation for all people. We accept that anybody deserves according rights. As individuals amenable for adequation and liberty, we claiming those who would absolve supremacism, intolerance, and hatred, and seek to ensure that all of humanity's basic rights of adequation and alternative and protected, as a aggregate accord a allotment of all people.

Please see our account of planned contest and petitions advised to baffle supremacists and let them apperceive that we plan to stop their advance on adequation and alternative - by visiting our website at http://www.realcourage.org

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