DEMAND $ FOR JOBS NOT WAR PROTEST OUTSIDE OF 12 NOON - THURSDAY, DEC. 3 (Pennsylvania Ave. between 15 and 16 St., directly in front of the White House) If you can attend on Dec. 3, go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/dec309vol.shtml SAY YES TO A REAL JOBS PROGRAM – AND NO TO MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN! |
A White House Summit on Jobs is scheduled for Dec. 3. But instead of a jobs program, the president is sending tens of thousands of troops to war in Afghanistan at a cost of 50 billion more dollars on top of the fortune already wasted on war. Join us on Dec. 3 in a protest in front of the White House during the Jobs Summit to demand a real jobs program that can put the 30 million workers who are either unemployed or underemployed to work at jobs that pay a living wage.
More than 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can't meet the needs of workers and the poor and at the same time pay for war. King's words are true today and it's up to us to let the president know that he has made a wrong choice.
PEOPLE NEED A REAL JOBS PROGRAM.
A jobs program as ambitious in scale as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) enacted 75 years ago during the depression of the 1930s is needed to put almost 10 million people back to work. The trillions of dollars that the government continues to waste on bailing out Wall St. and waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan must be used instead to create jobs.
EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO A JOB WITH A LIVING WAGE.
Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated the final months of his life to organizing a poor peoples campaign with the goal of establishing that everyone must have the right to a job. The Full Employment Act, passed by Congress in 1946, also makes it a law and a priority for the government to provide full employment through its economic policies and programs.
HOW DO WE WIN OUR RIGHT TO JOBS?–ORGANIZE, MOBILIZE, FIGHT BACK.
What Dr. King also realized is that the right of workers to a job, or to a living wage, or health care or the right to be in a union would not be granted inside the ornate conference rooms in the White House, nor on Capital Hill, nor by the board rooms of the banks that have been bailed out while the rest of us have been pushed out. The powers that be will only respond to the people when the people decide to march in the streets and demand their rights.
For information about travel to Washington, D.C. on Dec. 3 – Contact the Bail Out The People Movement
Call 212-633-6646 or or 410-218-4835 go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org
Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th St. #5C
New York, NY 10011
212.633.6646
www.BailOutPeople.org
Email: bailoutpeople.org/cmnt.shtml
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