{"id":10064,"date":"2015-02-12T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:19:38","slug":"video-64-national-organizations-launch-grand-alliance-to-save-our-public-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/12\/video-64-national-organizations-launch-grand-alliance-to-save-our-public-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 64 National Organizations Launch &#8216;Grand Alliance&#8217; to Save Our Public Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APWU: On Feb. 12, 2015, more than 60 national organizations joined forces to launch A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service. The debut of the Alliance included the premiere of a video featuring actor-activist Danny Glover, the creation of a new website, and many messages on social media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119284262\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope every APWU member will support this important endeavor by sharing the news with their family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers, and by posting messages on social media,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.<\/p>\n<p>Included among the 64<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/agrandalliance.org\/signatories\/\" target=\"_blank\">national organizations<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are the National Council of Churches, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, International Association of Fire Fighters, Alliance for Retired Americans, Greenpeace USA, Vote Vets Action Fund, and the AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n<p>The formation of the alliance has been in the works for months, and has been the vision of APWU President Mark Dimondstein from the beginning of his term of office. At his installation speech before more than 1,000 union members in November 2013, Dimondstein called for a grand alliance to save the USPS as a public postal service and to protect postal jobs. \u201cWriting Congress is important,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s not enough. Lobbying for legislation is important, but it\u2019s not enough.\u201d To succeed, he said, postal workers must build a movement.<\/p>\n<p>In his July 2014 State of the Union address at the 22nd APWU National Convention, Dimondstein urged delegates to unite with postal workers\u2019 allies \u2013 seniors, retirees, veterans, students, civil rights organization, faith-based organizations, neighborhood association and the labor movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to kill a service the people support,\u201d he said. \u201cBuilding the grand alliance is the only way we will ensure that a vibrant, public Postal Service exists for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Members Speak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The convention delegates responded by adopting Resolution 219, \u201cBuild A Grand Alliance Between The People of the Country and Postal Workers,\u201d which was submitted by the Dallas Area Local. It said, \u201cResolved: That the APWU build a Grand Alliance between the people of this country and postal workers, and that the APWU commit to mobilize our allies and their organizations in defense of Americans\u2019 rights to vibrant public postal services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning soon after the convention, the APWU contacted dozens of organizations to make the case that their participation was essential to ensure that a public postal service would survive and thrive. Dimondstein and other top officers of the union met face-to-face with the heads of many national organizations and through those combined efforts the Alliance was born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the work begins,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cEach of us should do what we can to get our co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members to support these efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\u201cPlease share the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/119284262\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Glover video<\/a>, visit the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrandalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alliance website<\/a>, sign the pledge, and to get ready to do all that is necessary to realize our goal of protecting and enhancing vibrant public postal services now \u2013 and for many generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/danny-glover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10065\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/danny-glover-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"danny glover\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/danny-glover-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/danny-glover.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU: On Feb. 12, 2015, more than 60 national organizations joined forces to launch A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service. The debut of the Alliance included the premiere of a video featuring actor-activist Danny Glover, the creation of a new website, and many messages on social media. \u201cI hope every APWU member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10068,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}