Latest Protest: "Line Up For Jobs" Forms Unemployment Line At Rep. Shuler's Office

On Thursday, over 70 members of the American Dream Movement, led by MoveOn.org, formed an unemployment line, waved signs to motorists passing by, and chanted outside of U.S. Representative Heath Shuler's Asheville office to demand that Washington make Wall Street and millionaires pay their fair share to create jobs, rather than make cuts that hit the middle class and poor. The event, called "Line Up for Jobs," was part of a national week of action organized in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and is part of an escalation of American Dream Movement events that have been taking place all summer.

For months, hundreds of thousands of members of the American Dream Movement have been urging Washington to focus on creating jobs and make the tax system work for all Americans, not just the super-rich. Yet there are still politicians in Washington who would rather force deep cuts to important programs that the middle class depends on just so they can give tax breaks to the rich—all the while doing nothing to create jobs.