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With a focus on good jobs, fair taxes and other policies to rebuild America's middle class, CWA and other unions are helping the Occupy Wall Street movement grow, from Boston to Austin and cities up and down the West Coast.

Following House passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday night, CWA expressed deep disappointment that Congress choose to ignore the country's gross abuses of workers' rights and the deadly violence against people who fight for unionization.

Fighting for economic justice and good jobs to rebuild America's middle class, CWA members and thousands of other union members joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators for a march in New York's financial district on Wednesday. CWA also participated in San Francisco and other cities as similar rallies and protests spread nationwide.

CWA members will join fellow activists for workers' rights and social justice in a march to the new Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial on the National Mall on Saturday, Oct. 15, an event postponed in August due to Hurricane Irene.

CWA is urging Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, saying the badly flawed deal effectively endorses an economic and legal system that is designed to block workers' collective bargaining rights and workplace protections.