Save the American Dream Rally Held on Capitol Steps
February 27th, 2011Even in Montgomery, Alabama, Some People Still Believe in Workers’ Rights
A YouTube video snapshot of the first rally for unions in the South
by Glynn Wilson
Almost 100 people from all over Alabama showed up on the old Capitol steps in Montgomery on Saturday for a “Save the American Dream” rally in support of organized labor and the protesting public workers in Madison, Wisconsin, who seem to have been inspired by the people of Egypt — and spawned a movement that appears to be spreading across the country.
“I’m for the unions,” said Jim Allen, 75, one of the speakers at the rally.
“I’m a slow learner,” Allen joked. “But here’s something I think I’ve gotten. We hear a lot of talk about defending our American freedoms, our liberty, especially in connection with wars that aren’t going to have anything to do with that. But what I’ve observed is that comes most often and most from people with the biggest megaphones, the people with the money.”
What he has figured out is that those people want us to think only about our “individual liberty,” he said. “They don’t want us getting together. Remember, the people united can never be defeated.”
