2:15 pm – 3:30 pm State Takeovers: How to fight back | 50th Anniversary March on Washington

50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

On August 27th hundreds of citizens attended the 2013 Conference on Civil Rights: Marching Forward By Looking Back. The following morning, on August 28, 2013, thousands of citizens, from across this country, converged upon our nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

This site provides opportunities for people to share remembrances of and pictures from both marches. Additionally, visitors to this site can get updates on a variety of ongoing civil rights initiatives intended to make Dr. King’s dream a reality.

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PANEL DISCUSSION | ASHLAWN

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION

Increasingly, as a result of state takeovers, appointments of financial managers, and mayoral control, urban voters are losing their right to elect their own representatives. Residents in municipalities and school districts from across this country frequently find themselves victims of “taxation without representation”. Panelist, whose voting rights are being attack or subverted, discuss how to recognized when such an attack is being planned against your city or school district and what you can do to prevent it and fight back.