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Daily
Reports
From The
Road
Day Four:
Wednesday,
June 9, 2004
   
Final
Day of the Bus
Tour: Visiting West Virginia UMWA Career Center and New River Family Health Center; Closing Rally Held in Portsmouth, Ohio
The “Reinvest
in America: Put America
Back to Work!” Appalachian
Bus Tour headed by
Rev. Jesse Jackson
of the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition and United
Mine Workers of America
(UMWA) president Cecil
Roberts, started its
fourth and final day
with a rally at the
UMWA Career Center
in Beckley, West Virginia.
(Go
to this Report)
   
Mining
Family Opens Home
to Rev. Jackson
On Tuesday night June
8, day three of the “Reinvest
in America: Put America
Back to Work!” Appalachian
Bus Tour, Rev. Jesse
Jackson in the home of
John and Betty Shumate
in Beckley, W.Va. Retired
miner and WWII veteran
John E. Shumate, 84,
worked in the coal fields
for 41 years.
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to this Report)
Day Three:
Tuesday,
June 8, 2004
   
Gephardt
Joins Appalachian
Bus Tour at Ohio
University;
Rally
in Charleston,
WV
Congressman Richard
Gephardt (D-Missouri)
joined the “Reinvest
in America: Put America
Back to Work!” Appalachian
Bus Tour Tuesday morning
at Ohio University
in Athens, Ohio where,
along with Rev. Jesse
Jackson, United Mine
Workers of America
President Cecil Roberts,
American Federation
of State, County and
Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) Executive
Assistant to the President
Lee Saunders, and other
labor and public interest
leaders, he ignited
a group of university
students and workers
from around southeastern
Ohio.
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to this Report)
Day Two:
Monday,
June 7, 2004
   
Visiting
a Picket Line and
Free Health Clinic,
and Rallies in
McClellandtown,
PA, and Weirton
and Parkersburg,
WV
From McClellandtown
to Weirton and Parkersburg,
the “Reinvest
in America: Put America
Back to Work!” Appalachian
Bus Tour traveled through
towns in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia hardest
hit by an increasing
loss of jobs and affordable
health care. The tour
arrived at the Lakeside
Center in McClellandtown,
PA, for a jobs/healthcare/education
rally early Monday
morning which was attended
by UMWA members and
their families.
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to this Report)
   
Reverend
Jesse Jackson
Staying with
Families
During Appalachian
Bus Tour
During the “Reinvest in America: Put America Back to Work!” Appalachian Bus Tour, Rev. Jesse Jackson is spending two nights in the homes of families. On Sunday, June 6, Rev. Jackson stayed with Ed and Mary Yankovich. Ed Yankovich is president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) District 2, which includes Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Eastern Canada. He drove Rev. Jackson to his home in Uniontown, Pennsylvania where Jackson visited with the family and spent the night following the Pittsburgh rally.
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Day One:
Sunday,
June 6, 2004
   
Pittsburgh
Rallies and
Press Conference,
Kucinich Speaks
The “Reinvest
in America: Put America
Back to Work!” campaign
kicked off its Appalachian
bus tour with a 6:00
p.m. rally Sunday in
downtown Pittsburgh
at the headquarters
of the United Steelworkers
of America (USWA).
Led by Reverend
Jesse Jackson
and the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition,
the campaign
represents
a broad coalition
of organizations
that are
joining together
in this election
year to focus
attention
on what matters
most to American
families
and communities:
well-paying
jobs, affordable
healthcare
and quality
education.
(Go
to this Report)
Here's a
story from
the Athens
News of Athens,
Ohio, about
a recent
visit to
that area
by Rev. Jesse
Jackson:
Jackson urges voter registration,
Appalachian activism
at Hocking College.
From the
Athens Messenger
of Athens,
Ohio:
Jackson
'PUSHes'
economic
justice
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