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The MILLION PEOPLE’S MARCH FOR VOTING RIGHTS, EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY, AND PEACE will be held today, Monday, April 4, 2022, 5:00pm, starting at the Lincoln Statue, 12 Springfield Avenue in Newark, NJ. A press conference before the march will take place 4:00pm also at the Lincoln Statue. The march is being held on the 54th anniversary of the assassination Dr Martin Luther King.
The march is sponsored by People’s Organization For Progress and has been endorsed by 139 organizations.
The march will proceed through the downtown area and end at the Martin Luther King Statue in front of the Essex County Martin Luther King Jr Justice Building, 495 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in Newark.
“In the spirit of Dr King we are marching for the protection and expansion of voting rights, racial and social equality, economic justice, the preservation of democracy, and an end to war,” stated Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress.
For more information please call (973) 801-0001
The march has been endorsed by the following organizations:
Local 108 Retail Wholesale Department Store Union UFCW AFL-CIO, New Jersey Black Issues Convention, Salvation and Social Justice, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, NAACP – New Jersey State Conference, City of Newark, STEPS Solutions, Force The Issue, Food and Water Watch, South Jersey Chapter National Action Network, New Jersey Working Families Party, New Jersey Chapter Poor People’s Campaign, Our Revolution New Jersey, NAACP New Brunswick Area Chapter, Showing Up for Racial Justice – New Jersey (SURJ-NJ), Newark Branch NAACP, American Muslims For Palestine NJ, Palestine American Community Center, North Jersey Black Caucus For Social Justice, Action 21 New Jersey, Ironbound Community Corporation, Montclair Citizens For Equality And Fair Policing, Voter Choice New Jersey, Jewish Voice For Peace Northern NJ Chapter, New Jersey Chapter National Action Network, New Jersey Industrial Union Council, Our Revolution Ocean County, Piscataway Progressive Democratic Organization, Institute of the Black World 21st Century,
The Newton County Georgia Chapter of National Action Network, Occupy Bergen County, Union Baptist Church of Montclair, Action Together New Jersey, Our Revolution Essex County, CWA Local 1037, CWA District 1, Our Revolution Monmouth County, National Awareness Alliance, Black Lives Matter New Jersey, Black Lives Matter Elizabeth, Black Lives Matter Paterson, Teaneck Peace & Justice Vigil, New Labor, African Diaspora For Justice, International Action Center, Essex Rising, SOMA Action Racial Justice Committee (SARJ), Veterans For Peace/Chapter 021 (Northern New Jersey), Frontiers International Plainfield Area Club, Justice and Unity Campaign, Melanintellect LLC, Trutopia Foundation, Coalition To Support Palestinian Liberation, Trenton Anti-Violence Coalition, NuFamily Inc., Northern NJ Democratic Socialists of America, Newark Communities for Accountable Policing (N-CAP), Resistance Movement Organization, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, NJ Chapter Association of Black Psychologists, Latino Action Network, BlueWaveNJ, Irvington Branch NAACP 2085B, Bergen County Branch NAACP, Newark Secondary Parents Council, Camden Parents Union, Camden Students Union, Community Doulas of South Jersey, Unity Community Center of South Jersey, Camden We Choose, An Eye on Design,
The Gregory Thomas Foundation, Newark Circle of Sisters, International Youth Organization (IYO), Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization – Newark Study Group Chapter (ASCAC), Leaders for Life, Progressive Democrats of New Jersey, The Phillip Pannell Foundation, The New Jersey Association of Black Educators, December 12thMovement, Oranges & Maplewood NAACP Branch, Committee To Eliminate Media Offensive To African People (CEMOTAP), International Concerned Family And Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mobilization 4 Mumia, Campaign To Bring Mumia Home, New Community Corporation, Young Professionals For Justice, Interfaith Action Movement, Reconstructing Economics for African Love (REFAL), Encounters In Black Traditions, Anointed Pools, Inc., Al-Awda – NY/NJ Palestine Right To Return Coalition, Clean Water Action, Friends of Atalaya Armstrong, The Muslim Christian Coalition, Morris County Chapter-National Organization for Women (NOW), Saint James AME Church, Good Neighbor Baptist Church, Newark Interfaith Alliance, Jumpstart Community, Paradise Baptist Church,
The Newark/North Jersey Committee of Clergy, Unitarian Universalist Church of Cherry Hill/Committee On Racial And Economic Equity, Utility Workers Union Of America Local 601, National Council of Negro Women of Mercer County Section, Union Chapel Church of Newark, Unity Freedom Baptist Church, New Jersey State Democratic Committee, Essex County Democratic Committee, Essex West Hudson Labor Council, Humanity Baptist Church, St Michael’s Ethiopian Orthodox Church of Englewood, Rev M. William Howard, United Food and Commercial Workers NY/NJ District Council, Central Unitarian Church Social Action Team, NJ State Conference NAACP Youth and College Division, Rowan University NAACP, Latino Action Network Foundation, Integrated Justice Alliance, NJ Prison Justice Watch, New Jersey State AFL-CIO, League of Women Voters of New Jersey,
First Mount Zion Baptist Church, Local 195 International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Africana Studies Program of Seton Hall University, and Faith In New Jersey, Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, Dr Abdul Alkalimat, Our Revolution Trenton Mercer, Rev Lukata Mjumbe, The Reformed Church of Highland Park, Interfaith-Rise, National United Youth Council, Inc., New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), NJ11TH for Change, Association of Black Law Students (ABLS)-Rutgers Law School, NY Metro Area Postal Union (APWU), Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, Bethany Baptist Church, and Rev Timothy Atkins Jones, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and the Torch.
