National March on Wall Street - Friday & Saturday

[JackRiddler]

http://bailoutthepeople.org

April 3 & 4
National March on Wall St.—
Jobs Not War!
Anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination

BOPM STATEMENT: APRIL 3 Demonstration to March on WALL ST AND AIG!



March on Wall St to
DEMAND A JOBS PROGRAM:
March to demand a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures
to demand an END to the wars--BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
to support the EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT--the RIGHT to a UNION
to STOP Layoffs, Cutbacks, Tuition Hikes, and Transit Fare Hikes
March to Support Worker and Immigrant Rights (March on May 1 too!)
Single Payer HEALTH CARE for ALL

[JackRiddler]

1. If you're recommending - thanks, but kick it or it sinks away!

[Oceansaway]

2. K&R...

[ShareTheWoods]

3. Any details on the Immigrant Rights?

n/t

[JackRiddler]

7. Follow the link to see the program...

Far as I can tell it's an ad hoc and growing coalition, with the organizing out of IAC. I'm going to an organizing meeting this week and let you know more... I hope NOT to be disappointed! Here's a sort of programmatic text on the front page:

Fri. May 1st
International Workers Day

Fall 2009
Mass March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs or Income now;
A National People’s Assembly

The widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples is intensifying. More lives are going to be devastated by the biggest global economic crisis since the Depression of the 1930s.This crisis is the challenge of our lifetime. What we do or fail to do will prove decisive in the coming battle over whose interests in society shall prevail.
Read complete text in the BOPM working paper.

Proposed Campaigns & Mobilizations
Organizing the Unemployed
The time has come to launch a national campaign to organize the unemployed to fight for jobs or an income. The economic crisis is being defined by the Depression-level unemployment rate and the fight for jobs or income. The unemployment rate for African Americans is already twice as high and even higher for young Black people.

• Calling local or national level “WE NEED JOBS” demonstrations. A tactic that for youth would be to organize around the slogan “JOBS NOT JAILS.” Anything that helps to bring the unemployed out of isolation and gives them a voice.

• A People’s Assembly can serve to provide a public hearing for people to talk about the impact that the crisis is having on communities and what emergency measures are necessary to deal with the problems people are facing.

• Support and Expand the Moratorium NOW! Campaign that is fighting to force the government at every level to declare a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Organizers are demanding that the sheriffs and marshals be ordered by local governments to not carry out evictions. More and more, neighbors and activists are rallying to prevent bankers and police from carrying out evictions on the spot.

• Solidarity with Immigrant Workers The mass raids, jailings and deportations are not only to terrorize immigrant workers so as to make it easier to super-exploit and divide all workers—a principal weapon that bosses employ, especially during hard times. The Fightback will be imperiled if it cannot unite all sections of the working class and progressive forces around the active defense of immigrant workers’ rights.

• Recruiting an Army of Volunteer Organizers The Fightback needs both veteran activists with experience and skills as well as new people with the time and willingness to help. Most importantly, the Fightback needs volunteers who are able to work collectively, who are respectful of others and who are both capable and committed to interacting with working and poor people of all nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and ages in a manner that is patient, dignified, and devoid of negative presumptions.
Read complete text in the BOPM working paper.

Bail Out the People Movement
Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th St. #5C
New York, NY 10011
212.633.6646
www.BailOutPeople.org
Email: bailoutpeople.org/cmnt.shtml

[TBF]

4. K&R n/t

[barbtries]

5. kicking

kicking. peace

[blindpig]

6. k&r Ain't often I wish I was in NYC. N/T

[JackRiddler]

8. Now, now brother-sister, no need for regional rivalries here...

;)

[JackRiddler]

9. I demand a trillion kicks or I will lay off everyone on the planet NOW!

[JackRiddler]

10. I'm warning ya!

[ClayZ]

11. K and R

[scarletwoman]

12. k&r -- What I'd really like to see is for the people to storm the Stock Exchange & the banks.

I think there's going to have to come a time when these protests get a bit less polite, if they really hope to have an impact.

sw

[JackRiddler]

13. kick - tomorrow!