A little note on the October 11 "protest". I imagine that the numbers will swell far beyond 3000 union activists this time.
http://www.themilitant.com/2014/7838/783804.html
Organizers of the Ferguson-October weekend included Organization for Black Struggle, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, Hands Up United, CWA, American Federation of Government Employees Local 3354, Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, United for Peace and Justice and Missouri/Kansas State Council SEIU.
In addition to Black rights organizations, church groups and youth groups, contingents joined the march from the United Food and Commercial Workers, Communications Workers of America, Chicago Teachers Union, Service Employees International Union, Nurses United, United Electrical Workers, UNITE HERE, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and A. Philip Randolph Institute. The largest labor group was fast-food workers organizing for $15 an hour and a union. The action was promoted by an ad by Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO.
“We brought two buses from Chicago, that’s how important we think this is,” Damien Mack, a 22-year-old African-American worker at McDonald’s in Chicago, told the Militant. “If we bring the fight against police brutality together with the fight for $15 and a union it will help make both more effective.”
Yup, it's all about police brutality in the small town of Ferguson Mo. :BH