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URGENT! CLICK HERE to Sign the online petition to send messages saying NO RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT ARIZONA-TYPE LAWS to the Obama Administration and the Governors, Congressional Delegations and Leislatures of all states where such laws are pending!
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All Out to the MTA hearings - Take Back Our Transit SystemBailout the People is working with the Transport Workers Union and many community groups on a campaign to "Take Back Our Transit System" and reverse the service cuts and layoffs. We have paid for, built, run and ride the trains and systems - the transit . We never elected the MTA which is made up of Wall St and real estate developers. We need a Peoples MTA! We invite everyone to join this campaign. There are MTA hearings on July 13 and 14th we are working hard to get a big turnout at them. We are asking everyone to join us those nights - these will not be "Business as Usual."
Bronx Public Hearing Brooklyn Public Hearing Manhattan Public Hearing Queens Public Hearing The Campaign is also asking for endorsements, your suggestions and ideas.
DC jobs protest says: Build People's AssembliesLeiLani Dowell In a powerful, energetic and inspiring day of action, activists, unemployed people, students and youth, and community organizers from across the East Coast and Midwest converged on the Department of Labor on May 8 to honor the 75th anniversary of the Works Projects Administration — by demanding a concrete jobs program, now. They then held a meeting to strategize around their demands and plan future events.
Proposed actions resulting from the meeting include the creation of People's Assemblies to be held in various cities to help link struggles and movements together; national days of outrage and local speak-outs against unemployment; community-labor action committees inside local unions to support the fight for jobs; and connecting with student and youth calls for an Oct. 7 day of action in support of public education. According to a press release from the day's organizers, the Bail Out the People Movement: "Seventy-five years ago ... on May 6, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order establishing the Work Projects Administration, the biggest public jobs program in the history of the country. Between 1935 and 1941, more than 8 million WPA workers did every job imaginable — from building bridges, schools and hospitals, to teaching school and helping to make migrant worker camps livable." 25,000 on May Day at Union Square demand: 'Legalization & jobs for all workers!'May Day at Union Square was a stunning sight as thousands poured into the park to send a resounding message of repudiation against the recently passed SB1071 law in Arizona. They demanded legalization for the undocumented as well as jobs, housing, education and social services for all.
Union Square has been the site of previous May Day rallies. This year a program of speakers and revolutionary rappers was followed by a two-mile march downtown to Federal Plaza. Their ranks grew along the way as they chanted "Boycott Arizona!" and "Si se puede!" (Yes, we can!). People of all nationalities who crowded the sidewalks of lower Broadway were clearly friendly to the march. As they read the signs and heard the chants, some joined in while others gave peace signs and thumbs up. |
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