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LEFT: UAW Local 2256 member Kelly Gomez, center, outside the Lincoln Memorial with Reggie Townsend and Haneef Price of UAW Local 652, and Kris Johnson of UAW Local 602, all Lansing, Mich.-based locals.	Thomas Gillen of UAW Local 2269 brought daughter, Bethany, to the One Nation rally. Photo: Joan Silvi

“Two years ago we were energized by hope. Barack Obama said we are the change we have been waiting for. He did not say he is the change, and he did not say politicians are the change. We are the change.”

– UAW President Bob King

“It felt good to be part of a big event like this where people expressed their opinions about coming together as one nation … I met so many people who have the same values that I do.”

Devaiah Vyha, 35, recent UAW Local 2322 member and his wife, Madhuri.
Where he works: University of Massachusetts (Amherst) as a post-doctoral researcher in the Chemistry Department.

“It’s beautiful to see all the union support – that’s what solidarity is about.” Jonathan Gonzalez, 47, UAW Local 5 member for 14 years. Where he works: United Conveyer, a shipping company in South Bend, Ind.
	“Our facility has probably lost 70 percent of its workforce since its heyday to the unfair trade agreements like NAFTA. How do you compete against nations like China that have no safety standards? When a guy loses an arm, they just go out and bring another guy in.” Chris Marotta, 54, UAW Local 1050 president. Where he works: Alcoa Inc. facility in Cleveland

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day ... sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood ... This is our hope. ... With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. ...This will be the day when all God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.’”

– The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,
excerpt from his “I Have a Dream” speech
March on Washington
Aug. 28, 1963

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