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Ladia
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 5:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I heard obama would be at the labor day parade.
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 7:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I always go regardless of the politicians who attend. However, this one ought to be historic (if it happens). There are people working full time to make it work.
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Gravitymachine
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 9:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

when/where? i've never been
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Pffft
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 9:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Woodward Avenue, down to Hart Plaza ..9:30 a.m. Labor Day Monday
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Hardhat
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 9:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The building trades and Teamsters unions line up along Trumbull and proceed east along Michigan Ave. to Woodward at 9 a.m. All other unions, UAW, AFSCME, etc, proceed south along Woodward. There aren't many parade watchers from year to year, but there are usually tens of thousands of union members in the parades. Apparently Obama is speaking at Hart Plaza about 11 a.m.?
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Craig
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

when/where? i've never been



You and 99% of the rest of the Metro area.
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Norwalk
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 9:22 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I never miss the Hamtramck Parade 1:00pm on Monday
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Rocknrollscientist
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 9:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm an 11-year Detroiter living in Midtown, New Center, and now Mexicantown, and I still haven't seen either parade in Detroit or Hamtramck.

I really wanted to go the year that Billy Bragg played at the end of the parade, but you had to have a special pass to get in to the show.

Maybe I'll go this year and check out the Jazz Fest/Obama/Parade.
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Pffft
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 10:10 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Billy Bragg played for free, don't know what you mean by "special pass."
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Damon
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 1:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I wont miss it this year. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be there!
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Dustin89
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 2:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'll be there (starting on Trumbull). :-)
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Gencinjay
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 4:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It will be difficult for Obama to give a speech at 11:00 at Hart Plaza. The Jazz Fest starts up at 12:00.
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Mbshan
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 6:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

any idea which route obama will be taking? i will tell you this is one of the longest parades i've ever seen. i live right on woodward and have been watching for five years.
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 6:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Billy played for free at Campus Martius, right where the Compuware building is. You could walk up, plus he stood around for about two hours talking to everybody.

The next night, he played a benefit for the newspaper workers at the Majestic, that one cost $20.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 6:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Couldn't care less about this (or any) parade. But I'd love to do the Mackinac Bridge walk if'n I was in that area.
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Craig
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 8:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Pardon me for being a beat behind, but what year did Billy Bragg play? If as a benefit for the newspaper strikers it would have been '95, right? I don't recall any entertainment that year beyond a sound truck outside of the Detroit News building after the parade. Am I wrong?
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Cookin64
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 10:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I will be there! My third year.....
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 10:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yes. you are wrong.

1998 was the Labor Day benefit. The strike/lockout lasted six years, so he played two benefits in that time.
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Lefty2
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 11:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Are you going to the labor day parade?

No, I need to wash my laundry and mow my lawn.
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Zrx_doug
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Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 12:20 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was planning to hit the parade to grab some signatures for the recall petition, but I really don't wish to be seen in the presence of the messiah, so I'll be out on the lake Monday instead..
Y'all enjoy your "hope & change" sermon..
:-)

Now I'll hafta work the jazzfest tomorrow so's I don't look like I'm slacking off on the recall thing..
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Detx
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Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 4:03 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Let’s all go watch a bunch of frumpy, gray suburbanites lurch down the abandoned thoroughfares of Detroit… then listen to them tell us how great the unions are.

Then listen to Barry O. kowtow to them for the “working vote”. So 20th century…
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 3:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Exactly, Detx.

And it was the unions that got them the "standard of living" to 'allow' them to leave the City.

Irony will abound.
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Pixiedust
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 6:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I live right on Woodward, and I can easily walk to Hart Plaza, and . . . I have to work just long enough to miss everything. Of course, I'll be working right downtown during a downtown Obama visit. I fear that I might have a VERY lonely morning.
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Sumas
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 7:10 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We went last year. Lots of Marchers few spectators. This tread reminds to ask my son if he is marching. He is now a union worker.
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Steelworker
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 2:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

As a union steelworker who has never been to the parade is there a way to last minute march in parade?
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 2:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes. The Steelworkers are meeting at Woodward between Selden and Parsons by 9:30. Look for Healthcare Now! banners. Just show up and say hi.
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Alan55
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 4:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Let’s all go watch a bunch of frumpy, gray suburbanites lurch down the abandoned thoroughfares of Detroit… then listen to them tell us how great the unions are.

Then listen to Barry O. kowtow to them [unions] for the “working vote”. So 20th century…"

Yeah, just like those silly-ass Memorial Day parades, watching pot-bellied, 80-year old vetrerans weep for something that happened 60 years ago. Boo Hoo. Get on with life, Eh Detx? So 1940's.
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Detx
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 10:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Alan55, I’m not trying to knock tradition or geriatrics. I think veterans are great. Nothing but respect for them. I just don’t like unions.
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Miken123
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Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 10:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What are some good places to park if I wanted to catch the action at Hart. Obviously the earlier the more chances to make it easy but I have no idea as to what streets are closed which ones aren't, etc. I guess I could always just go and wing it with the people holding the "$15 park all day here" signs or what not (prices vary) but any advice is great.

Thx!
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Pffft
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Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 12:17 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Woodward is going to be closed, so you have to choose east side or west side (as we always have to, in Detroit)!
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Zrx_doug
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Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 12:57 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'll give you my secret recipe for parking downtown..go to the Leland House at Cass & Bagley, park in their lot for 3 bucks, walk across the street to the people mover station, and get anywhere in the safe & touristy part of downtown within a few minutes..
Safe & cheap parking.
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Lilpup
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Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 7:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

or the Greektown garage for free - just have to run in and get your ticket validated before you leave
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Wilus1mj
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Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 2:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

no validation needed anymore at Greektown..use the stairs and don't even have to go inside!!
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Fishtoes2000
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Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 4:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I posted some photos of the parade. I did not try getting into Hart Plaza as it was just too crowded.
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