Make Dr. King’s Birthday Worker’s & Poor People’s Rights Day!

Dr. MLK Jr.

RECLAIM REV. DR. KING JR’S DREAM

MAKE DR. KING’S BIRTHDAY – WORKER’S & POOR PEOPLES RIGHTS DAY!

PICKET & RALLY AT THE SUPER WALMART STORE
360l Washington Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21227
Sat. January 19, 2013
12 Noon to 1 P.M.


  • Demand justice for low wage workers from Walmart to McDonalds.
  • Stand for workers rights from Michigan to Maryland!
  • Say NO to so-called “right to work” laws and YES to raising the minimum wage!
  • No to inadequate health care and lack of right’s on the job!

One out of every four persons in Baltimore City is reportedly living in poverty. Many of those who live in poverty actually work, but at jobs that pay next to nothing. In many cases these same workers are employed by multi-billion dollar, greedy corporations like Wal-Mart and McDonalds.

Let’s stand together! If Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today he would be walking the picket line.

HEAR: Representatives of the OUR Walmart campaign; low wage workers fighting to raise the minimum wage; and many others. Let’s let Walmart know that those in the community support the Walmart workers; that “an injury to one is an injury to all”.

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Initiated by:

Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference
and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly

For more info: call 410-500-2168 or 410-218-4835

Join the Maryland Justice for Low Wage Workers!

J4LWW

a focus group of the Peoples Power Assembly


Dear Super Walmart Manager,

We the undersigned, community, civil rights, student, and religious leaders, have picked this special weekend, the weekend commemorating Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, to call on you to provide justice for your workers.

Dr. King Jr. marched for justice for all! He called for an end to poverty, and poverty wages. He spoke out for worker’s rights on and off the job. He was jailed for fighting against discrimination.

Low wages, inadequate health care coverage, lack of right’s on the job including retaliation for speaking out, among many other things, are problems for all of us.

Surely, the multi-billion dollar Walmart corporation can do better!

We ask you to seriously take up the demands of OUR Walmart, your very own workers, and hear their voices.

“An injury to one, is an injury to all.”

Signed,(This is a partial list of signers)

Rev. Cortly CD Witherspoon, President Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference and representative Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly
Sharon Black, Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly
Fred Mason, President, Maryland and D.C. AFL-CIO
Attorney Curtis Cooper, National Lawyers Guild, Maryland Chapter
Richie Armstrong, Community Churches United
Elizabeth Alex, Baltimore lead organizer, CASA de Maryland
Tom Dodge, Save Our Post Office
Council person, Mary Pat Clarke, District 14
Rev. Heber Brown, Pastor Pleasant Hope Baptist Church
Nakia Washington, Coppin State University student activist
Bishop Barry Chapman
Rita Collins, President Northwestern High School Alumni Association
Cory McCray, Co-founder BEST Democratic Club
Roxi Herbekian, President UNITE-HERE Local 7
Arnold Jolivet, Maryland Minority Contract Association
Council person, Bill Henry, District 4
Leon Purnell, Board member SCLC and Eastside community activist
Attorney J. Wyndal Gordon, Warrior Lawyer
Andre Powell, AFSCME Delegate, Baltimore Metropolitan Labor Council
Kate Planco Waybright, Int. Executive Director, Progressive Maryland
Kaye Adler, Black Red American Indian Voices
Donna Simone Plamondon, Occupy Baltimore
Max Obuszewski, Pledge of Resistance, Anti-war activist
Eartha Harris, Millions More Movement
Bonnie Lane, Word on the Street, Homeless activist
Barbara Larcom, CASA/LIMAY
Frank M. Conaway Sr., Circuit Court Clerk, Baltimore City
Renee Washington, AFSCME Local 97