WASHINGTON, August 29. /TASS/. Several thousand protesters took part in the demonstration "March on Washington: 2026. Let’s defend the right to vote" on the National Mall -- the central boulevard of the US capital, about a five·minute walk from the White House, a TASS correspondent reports.
The protesters gathered early in the morning near the memorial to the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The demonstration was held to mark the 63rd anniversary of a 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which, at the same location, American civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. On a hot, clear day, politicians and leaders of social movements from across the country spoke from a podium at the steps leading to the monument for about six hours. Members of trade unions, students, and participants in African-American non·governmental organizations gathered in the square in front of the monument.
Without economic freedom, there is no political freedom
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (from Vermont) called on the crowd to unite and drew a parallel between the struggle for civil rights and the struggle for economic rights.
