UAW President Bob King to join Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace tour on Tuesday, Aug. 24

DETROIT -- On Aug. 24, UAW President Bob King will join the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, elected officials and community leaders on a statewide bus tour in advance of the Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace march on Aug. 28, which stops at two Detroit-area auto plants.

Who: Bob King, UAW president and Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., founder and president, Rainbow Push Coalition

What: Detroit-area bus stops: Rebuild America:  Jobs, Justice and Peace tour

When: Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010

Where: Ford Rouge Plant, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Mich., and Wayne Assembly Plant, 37625 Michigan Ave., Wayne, Mich.

The tour will stop at  5:15 a.m. at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Mich., and at 1:30 p.m. at the Wayne (Mich.) Assembly Plant.

"UAW members and their families are proud to be a part of this massive campaign to refocus our national priorities on jobs, justice and peace," said King. "Every community has in some way witnessed the affects of the nation's economic meltdown than working men and women. We need industrial and employment policies that work to keep jobs and manufacturing in the United States. Workers need to earn decent wages to provide for their families and help keep their neighborhoods and communities viable."

The bus tour, which began Aug. 21, stops in Michigan cities including: Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Flint, Pontiac, Saginaw, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Lansing, Inkster, Mt. Clemens, Port Huron and Grand Rapids. The tour will culminate with a march in Detroit on Aug. 28.

The Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace campaign calls on national leaders to:

• Rebuild America by enacting industrial and trade policies that will create jobs, encourage manufacturing in America and put workers first.
  
• Enforce the law regarding workers' rights, civil rights, industrial regulation, and creation of fair and just educational, economic and health policies.
  
• End the ongoing wars in the Middle East and redirect the war budget to rebuilding America.

Also, the campaign focuses on home foreclosures and calls for a moratorium on the practice that forces hard-working Americans from their homes while at the same time bailing out Wall Street executives and paying them million-dollar bonuses.

The Aug. 28 Detroit event commemorates the Walk to Freedom of 1963, a march of 125,000 in Detroit led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was at that march where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Later King led the largest civil rights demonstration in history at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.