SEIU’s Henry: ‘Journey for Justice’ reaches Washington with call that will be heard across country

WASHINGTON—America’s Journey for Justice, a march of civil rights advocates led by the NAACP that began in Selma, Ala., in early August, has reached its destination, Washington, D.C. SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement:

What a profound and inspiring journey. The marchers who began at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma six weeks ago embraced the idea of an exercise that would challenge them physically, mentally and spiritually, and they arrived in Washington stronger.

Now it is time for Congress to heed the call of these marchers, who said, ‘Our lives, our votes, our jobs and our schools count.’ Working women and men across the country and here in the nation’s capital echo this demand for justice.

“On behalf of the 2 million members of the Service Employees International Union, I congratulate and salute the ‘Journey for Justice’ marchers.