If you’re in the Washington, D.C., area tomorrow, join us at a noon rally on the east side of the Capitol steps (click here for directions). You’ll have a chance to make your voice heard and tell Democrats to stand strong against Republican debt ceiling proposals that cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while keeping keep tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires and oil companies.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s proposed budget is ”tantamount to a form of class warfare,” according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). If enacted, “it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.

AFL-CIO Field Communications staffer Cathy Sherwin sends us this report from Little Rock, Ark.

When local politicians and party donors began boarding the paddle wheeler Arkansas Queen Friday night for a fundraiser with Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus they were met by a large group of community, faith and union activists.

Here’s AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today on the debt-ceiling charade:

Yesterday Congressional Republicans showed what their agenda really is: They are willing to destroy our economy and jobs to protect tax breaks for billionaires. Working people stand with the President in his call to stop this dangerous charade and extend the debt limit past November 2012 immediately and without conditions.