Bus tour with teacherken: In Cleveland with labor and seniors
This is crossposted from the National Education Association's Education Votes blog, for whom I am serving as an embedded blogger on the Stop the Greed Agenda Bus Tour. This post focuses heavily on Voter Suppression.
On Monday afternoon the East bus for Patriot Majority USA’s Stop the Greed Agenda Bus tour stopped near a complex of union offices in Cleveland. Several groups hosted us, with the stop organized by AFSCME, along with the Ohio Education Association, the AFL-CIO, and especially the Laborers Union, outside of whose offices our bus was parked and we held our rally.
Mariah Hatta of Patriot Majority USA begins the event:
Mariah is a native of the region, having grown-up in nearby Oberlin. Both her mother, a social worker, and her father, a retired teacher, were present.
Harriet Applegate, Executive Secretary, North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor spoke next:
