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September 20 – 25, Monumental Baptist Church, Soho & Wylie Street, Pittsburgh
Daily Teach-ins – discussion groups, programs, films, music –
(All times and programs subject to last minute change. Note: This work in progress does not include music yet – updated Sat. Sept. 19)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
10:00 am to 12:30pm - 2 Roundtable discussions –
Organized especially for those who can only stay for the Sunday March for Jobs. Discussions continuing through the week.
JOBS & WORKERS RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE:
Those available for discussion will include:
Stella D'Oro striking workers, Million Workers March organizers, Take Back Our Union, May 1 Immigrant and Workers Rights Coalition, Long Island City Day Laborers, Black Workers for Justice, labor activists from IBT, USW, UE, ILWU, TWU, UFT, AFSCME
Suggested Focus of Discussion:
(1) What would be the features of a real jobs program
(2) What are the key demands that we must fight for nationally & internationally
(3) How can we strengthen a labor movement in the US and internationally
(4) Campaigns or struggles or actions that we can decide to support and how
HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT ROUNDTABLE:
Those available for discussion will include:
Picture the Homeless, Moratorium on Evictions & Foreclosures, NE Region Survivors Assembly, US Human Rights Network, Peoples Organization for Progress-Newark, Poor People Human Rights Campaign, Minnesota Peoples Bailout Campaign.
Possible areas of discussion to be shaped and lead by those listed above.
(1) Housing a human right nationally and internationally & impact of international economic crisis and unjust policies
(2) Experiences of resistance movements; rights of the displaced, indigenous, people of color,
(3) National and international demands we can unite on
(4) what can we do together/support after G-20
We will have placards where you will be meeting for you to take with you on the march, related to housing and labor .
Note: Both roundtables discussions will include the impact of the international economic crisis and the specific impact on women, immigrant workers and racial/nationally oppressed communities.
1:30pm OPENING RALLY OF MARCH FOR JOBS
2:30pm - MARCH FOR JOBS steps off
3:30 to 4:30pm - CLOSING RALLY
Sunday Eve – Discussion and Orientation for the Tent City week
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
10am to Noon - GLOBAL SOLIDARITY: UNIONS, COMMUNITIES & MOVEMENTS WORKING TOGETHER –Organizing the global struggle for jobs & workers rights
Global Solidarity; what does it mean?
Immigrant workers rights & global solidarity
Organizing in the face of the biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s
Who are the G-20
The roots of the global crisis
12 -2PM STUDENTS AND YOUTH MEETING
LUNCH
2:30pm to 5:00pm CONNECTING THE ISSUES: HOUSING IS A RIGHT -
Healthcare, Education, War - A Moratorium on Foreclosure and Evictions
The Squatters Movement -The fight back is growing
We Remember Katrina
Groups: Picture the Homeless, Moratorium Now, Poor Peoples Human Rights Campaign, Peoples Organization for Progress, Katrina/Rita Support Network, US Human Rights Network.
DINNER
7pm - FILM on MUMIA ABU-JAMAL & SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER - Organized by Pittsburgh Mumia Coalition
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
10am to 12pm - FULFILLING KING’S DREAM OF A RIGHT TO A JOB FOR ALL –-
The global joblessness crisis (how bad, how long)
What will it take start a jobs movement?
Needed: Jobs that pay a living wage
Needed: Jobs that help reconstruct society
LUNCH
2pm to 4pm - BRING THE TROOPS HOME! ANTIWAR RALLY –
Money for jobs and education not war and occupation
The war at home and abroad – connecting the issues
Discussion among anti-war and community activists
DINNER
7pm - STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS! Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the death Penalty
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
10 AM - MORNING WITH REV. LUCIUS WALKER, PASTORS FOR PEACE - –
LUNCH
3PM – 6PM - PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE G-20 SPONSORED BY PEOPLE'S VOICES
- Leo Gerard, Int. Pres. United Steel Workers
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate Economist
- Emira Wood, Institute for Policy Studies
- Berta Caceres, Coordinator, Consejo Civico de Organizaciones Populares e Indigenas de Honduras
- Tammy Bang Liu, Labor/community strategy center & Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
- Carl Redwood Jr. Hill District consencus group
- Rev. John Welsh, PIIN (UE and Grassroots Global Justice alliance)
DINNER
THUR. SEPT 24 - (1st Day of G-20 Summit)
12noon – 2pm - "FROM PITSBURGH TO JOBURG: Local to Global Activism" discussion organized by Global Call Against Poverty.
3pm – to Eve. - POOR Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign - Press Conference/ Program and Film Showing –
DINNER
FRI.SEPT. 25 –
10:00 to 11:00 a.m. "G20- THE PEOPLE’S VERDICT AND THE ROAD”
12: Noon - Peoples March on G-20 - tent city participants meeting other groups at Freedom Corner to march together
Evening. Final tent city meetings and camp breakdown
Bail
Out the People Movement
Pittsburgh, 412-780-3813
New York, 212-633-6646
bailoutpeople.org
March4Jobs@gmail.com