Bail Out the People Movement - Boston

2011-02-01T12:27:00.000-05:00

Boston: Bail Out the People Movement, c/o Action Center, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 - 617.522.6626 - Email:
National: Bail Out the People Movement, Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th St. #5C, New York, NY 10011 - 212.633.6646 - www.BailOutPeople.org - Email: bailoutpeople@safewebmail.com

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2010-04-25T17:34:00.008-04:00

Reserve your bus seat today - www.iacboston.org/may82010bus.html
Tickets: $60 + $5 voluntary contribution for the Transportation Fund

On Saturday, MAY 8, 2010 The 75th ANNIVERSARY of The WPA

COME TO WASHINGTON D.C. TO DEMAND:

A REAL JOBS PROGRAM NOW!

THE RIGHT TO A JOB FOR ALL!

. . . . AND, STRATEGIZE ABOUT HOW
WE CAN WIN THESE DEMANDS

RALLY FOR THE RIGHT TO A JOB
U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave NW
(between 2nd and 3rd Streets)

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF DATE CHANGE: The May 8 Jobs protest and strategy meeting was originally scheduled for April 10.

Join unemployed people, youth, labor and community activists from all over the country in Washington D.C. on May 8 to tell the government that today's jobless crisis is as bad as it was 75 years ago — when the unemployed demanded and won a public jobs program.

After the rally, activists will meet and STRATEGIZE ABOUT HOW TO WIN THE RIGHT TO A JOB.

To endorse the May 8 Jobs Protest in Washington, DC,
click here or go to
http://www.bailoutpeople.org/may82010endorse.shtml

To tell us you're coming, volunteer or be an organizer in your area,
click here or go to
http://www.bailoutpeople.org/may82010volorgcent.shtml

To donate,
click here or go to
http://www.bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml

Bail Out the People Movement
Solidarity Center
55 West 17th St 5C
New York, NY 10010
1-212-522-6626
www.bailoutpeople.org

2010-04-15T07:47:00.002-04:00

Boston protesters disrupt Palin’s Tea-Party rant

Hundreds come out to confront and denounce the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for being racist, sexist, anti-LGBT, and anti-immigrant. --more--

Anti-Racist Protestors Confront the Tea Party in Clinton Township, Michigan; Berea, Ohio; and Buffalo, NY

NYC, Raleigh, N.C.: Anti-racists confront Tea Party on Tax Day

2010-03-25T17:41:00.000-04:00

Wednesday, April 14 – 9:30 am

Boston Common Bandstand

Come Out Against the "Tea Party" and Sarah Palin

Fightback Against Racism, Sexism, Anti-LGBT & Anti-Immigrant Bigotry

download flyer

Demand:

Healthcare, Jobs, Education, and Housing are a RIGHT!
Defend the Rights of ALL Immigrants!
Defend Reproductive Rights!
Money for Jobs, Housing, Healthcare, and Education NOT for War and Prisons!
Stop Union Busting!
Bail Out the People NOT the Banks and Wall St.!

On Wednesday, April 14 Sarah Palin and the so-called “Tea Party Express” has announced that they will hold a rally at the Boston Common Bandstand starting at 10:00 am. This is the same group of ultra-right wing, neo-fascist racists that have tried to exploit the current economic crisis by using the most vile racist tactics to attack Obama, unions, immigration, healthcare, and the environment. While the demagogues, including Fox News and many others, that are in control of this group may try and hide behind populist slogans it should be clear to all that their true goal is to further the political and economic program of Wall St., big oil, the wealthy, and the corporations and they will stop at nothing in order to do so. Let’s be clear, there is nothing grassroots about any of the “Tea Party” factions, they are all funded by the same racist ultra-right organizations such as Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity.

We can not stand by and allow Sarah Palin and the “Tea Party” to gather and try to use racism to divide us with out a response. History has shown that only through organizing and mobilizing a strong, anti-racist, pro-working-class counterattack against both the economic crisis and racist division will we be able to successfully defeat these right-wing, neo-fascist organizations and their supporters once and for all.

The health care law, racism and fighting the right

2010-03-22T21:05:00.007-04:00

2010-03-01T17:12:00.008-05:00

Take Action to Demand Equal Quality Public Education!
FULL Funding for Boston’s Public Schools!
Stop the Corporate Takeover of Education - No to Charter Schools
Money for Education NOT for War & Wall St.!

Wednesday, March 3
5:30 pm - Press Conf./Picketline
School Committee, 26 Court St., Boston
for more information: Coalition for Equal Quality Education
equaluqualityeducation@gmail.com ● www.equalqualityeducation.com

download flyer (Espanol)

download flyer (English)

2010-03-01T12:33:00.000-05:00

MARCH 4: National Protest to Defend Education

On March 4, students and workers from all around the country will take action to defend education against increased privatization of K-12 schools and budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and tuition increases at the college and university level—especially the public institutions. read more

2010-01-16T09:50:00.003-05:00

2010-01-02T12:30:00.003-05:00

URGENT!

DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST SHARON BLACK-CECI, STEVEN CECI AND PATRICK ALLEN NOW!

STOP POLICE ATTACKS ON ALL POLITICAL ACTIVISTS!

Sign the petition now!

On the morning of December 9, long-time Baltimore Community activists Sharon Black-Ceci and Steven Ceci were dragged from their home by Baltimore police. The two, long-time leaders in the anti-racist, and poor people’s rights struggle, had been under police surveillance for their political activism. read more

2009-12-13T09:19:00.002-05:00

2009-11-11T20:42:00.005-05:00

Joblessness is as bad today as it was during the 1930s –It’s time to take the fight to D.C.

On April 8, 1935, Congress passed the legislation creating the largest public works program in history. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created 8.5 million jobs during the depression of the 1930s.

Let’s mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the WPA by telling the government that today’s jobless crisis is as bad today as it was back then and that we need the same kind of bold, sweeping jobs program that the people demanded in the 1930s – Now!

Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated the final months of his life to starting a movement for the right of all to a job or a guaranteed income – we need that movement now more than ever.

It’s time to say no: to a jobless recovery - to an economy based on permanent high unemployment and low wages - to trillions of $ for Wall St., and trillions of $ for war but nothing but joblessness, foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, low wages, union busting, hunger and homelessness for workers and the poor.

There are more than 20 million unemployed and underemployed people in the country today. We need a real WPA-type program that is big enough to insure that those who need work get work – work that is socially useful that pays union wages and benefits.

Call issued by
the Bail Out the People Movement

To endorse this call
go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/apr1010endorse.shtml

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(1000 people march for jobs
before the Pittsburgh
G-20 Summit)

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

2009-11-10T15:00:00.000-05:00

THURSDAY DEC 3 IN DC:

Demand $ For JOBS
NOT War

Protest OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE
JOBS SUMMIT

12 Noon Thursday, Dec. 3
(Pennsylvania Ave. between 15 and 16 St., directly in front of the White House)

Click Here if you can attend on Dec. 3

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. --Read Call and Volunteer--

2009-10-06T16:17:00.007-04:00

Thurs., Oct. 8 - 6:30 pm

Eyewitness Report from the G20 :
The Economic Crisis - Racism & the Struggle for Jobs, Housing, Education & Healthcare

USW L. 8751
Boston School Bus Drivers
Union Hall
25 Colgate Rd., Roslindale
(a few blocks south of Forrest Hills T, off Wash. St.)

Speakers & topics will include:

Members of BOPM and USW L. 8751 who participated in the Sept. 20th March for Jobs as well as other actions during the G20 in Pittsburgh.

Updates and discussion on the struggle for equal, quality education in the Boston Public Schools

Racism & the attacks on healthcare reform

The struggle for justice by workers at the Hyatt and Harvard

The continuing struggle against foreclosures

Report on March for Jobs with Pictures & Video

2009-10-01T21:01:00.002-04:00

Oct. 1 Massachusetts March & Rally for Jobs

(BOPM has endorsed this important demonstration initiated by the Mass. AFL-CIO - 781.324.8230 and Jobs with Justice - 617.524.8778)

4:00 pm - Kickoff at the State House

4:30 pm - March through downtown Boston

5:30 pm - Rally at Hyatt Boston (One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston)

Last month marked 20 straight months of job losses - the longest since the Great Depression. Millions are out of work, foreclosures and evictions continue, and more than 47 million people in the U.S. have no medical insurance. Meanwhile, Washington is spending trillions of dollars for bailouts for corrupt bankers and for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while at the same time record numbers of homeowners are filing for foreclosure.. The economy is in ruins and millions of working people, especially from poor communities and communities of color, are suffering as a direct result of the war spending and the draconian cuts in essential social services.

Staying in the streets and building an independent people’s movement is more important than ever. We need to organize and fightback against a system that puts profits before the needs of the people.

If you are committed to fighting back against the corporate bailouts and endless war, if you believe that everyone has a right to a job at a livable wage; affordable housing; equal, quality public education; and health care. Then join us on Thursday Oct. 1 as we join with the AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice and many others to march through the streets of Boston to the Boston Hyatt Hotel. Why the Boston Hyatt? Because in typical ruthless corporate fashion the Hyatt fired over 100 housekeepers and replaced them with lower paid workers who will receive no benefits. We will march in solidarity with these workers and all who have been laid-off or have had their wages slashed in the pursuit of profit.

2009-09-27T08:48:00.001-04:00

Demand Release of G-20 Detainees! Drop All Charges and End Repression NOW!

Sign the online petition to Federal Officials, Congressional leaders, the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation, the Pennsylvania Legislature, the Mayor of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Police Chief, Pittsburgh city officials, Pittsburgh business leaders, the Allegheny County Council and local and national media demanding an immediate release of all detainees, that all charges be dropped, and calling for an independent investigation, at http://www.bailoutpeople.org/releaseg20arrestees.shtml

Repressive cop forces provoke violence, arrests in Pittsburgh
Join the call to release all detainees, drop all charges and for an independent investigation now!

The repressive cop forces of homeland security locked down the people of Pittsburgh during the G-20 economic summit – bringing with them violence, arrests and intimidation. Bail Out the People Movement (BOPM) demands that all 150 arrestees be accounted for and released; all charges be dropped and a public apology be made to the people of Pittsburgh by County Executive Dan Onorato Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, police chief Nate Harper, and other officials responsible for the massive repressive forces and an independent labor-community-student investigation of the repressive actions especially directed against youth.

On Thurs, Sept. 24 and Fri., Sept. 25, government sweeps by the Pittsburgh police and more than 4,000 additional cops, state troopers and national guard, gave rise to videos and eyewitness reports starkly reminiscent of the repression by U.S. trained military dictatorships in Latin America i.e. youth wrestled into unmarked cars by police dressed in military fatigue uniforms and repressive forces posing for photos with kneeling captives.

Experiments with high-tech sound weaponry also reportedly used in Honduras, gases and other “less-lethal” crowd control became the order of the day on Sept. 25 when police surrounded and arrested youth gathered in Schenley Plaza near the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood. Arrestees reported that after the order to disperse, all exit routes were blocked and more than 100 people were arrested. Among them was a Pittsburgh-Post Gazette newspaper reporter.

On the scene, Dante Strobino from FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) wrote: “The police began to occupy the park and forcefully removed everyone. As students began to gather around to check it out, the riot police got more hyped up. There were no chants, no signs, no banners, no folks dressed in black and no provocation. The police threw several tear gas and smoke bombs at the crowd again and pushed them further back down commercial streets toward bars and restaurants. They also chased people into the huge dormitory towers and attacked students as they left their residences. Students were hanging out the windows, taking pictures in awe."

"Forbes St. was blocked off by hundreds of riot cops while surrounding contingents of cops moved in on the other areas of the campus to corral people inside the area. Police brutality had been witnessed with folks being thrown to the ground and shot with rubber bullets, media being pepper sprayed and gassed. Protesters and students alike are being held in the dorm towers unable to leave in fear of arrest. Other students cannot cross Fifth Ave. to get to their residences without being thrown to the ground."

"What is most striking about being here is seeing the incredible police repression both Thursday and Friday night in Oakland, near U of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, two universities with mostly white, mostly class-privileged students. As Larry Holmes commented during the BOPM Tent City, at any given normal day the police usually target and harass the Black community, but these two days not only are those under normal occupation, but the police are targeting young white folks, too.”

Sean O'Sullivan, senior at University of Pittsburgh, who was not taking part in the protests earlier in the day, stated "It was the police who started the violence and ended up finishing the violence. It felt like a war zone...the police kept becoming more and more violent, taking over more and more of the street. I couldn't get to my house even until 3 a.m. on Thursday."

Jillian Dowis, sophomore at Ohio University from Students for a Democratic Society who came to Pittsburgh to protest the G-20's policies, speaking of her experience on the night of Sept. 25, said "After a reporter got maced in face and we brought him to steps of chapel. The cops swarmed around us and arrested guy that was injured, he could barely breath, trying to get him away from crowd. As kids tried to run away they picked us off one by one. My friend called her dad. Then a cop said to us, 'Shut the f_ck up and get off the goddamn phone'. My friend was was trying to say bye and the cop grabbed her by head and slammed her head into the ground. They were being way forceful and too aggressive and intentionally put on handcuffs way too tight."

A 24-hour continuous vigil is ongoing at the Allegheny County Jail until all arrestees are released.

Sign the online petition at http://www.bailoutpeople.org/releaseg20arrestees.shtml to send email messages to officials demanding the immediate release of those arrested and an independent investigation. The sample text of the appeal follows:

To: Pittsburgh Mayor Ravenstahl, Pittsburgh City Council, Pittsburgh Police Chief, Allegheny County Council
CC: PA Congressional Delegation, Congressional Leaders, the PA Legislature, Federal Officials, Pittsburgh business leaders, members of the Pittsburgh and national media

I demand that the military occupation of Pittsburgh be disbanded immediately; all charges against the people arrested in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 and 25 especially the youth – including those involved in direct action confronting the G-20 summit – be dropped. Everyone detained must be accounted for and released. I support an independent worker-community-student investigation of the homeland security occupation and repression during the G-20 summit.

Sincerely,
(your name appended here)

VIDEOS OF POLICE REPRESSION:

College students trapped in stairwell and gassed, attacked
http://celluloidblonde.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/land-of-the-free/

Police assault couple in street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlD9QKZdPhE&feature=player_embedded

Police pose while taking picture of arrested student
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-333880

2009-09-27T08:47:00.000-04:00

Day 6 - Sept 25 - G20 protests

Day 6—Sept. 25

The permitted People’s March on G-20 attracted an estimated 10,000 people, largely young people. The organizers, the People's Voices coalition, held two rallies during the march.

Following the closing down of the Tent City on the Hill in the morning, the Bail Out the People Movement organized a speak-out and then a contingent at Freedom Corner, which fed into the People’s March.

BOPM’s Larry Holmes spoke at the first rally where he defended the youth who were brutally attacked by the police on Sept. 24 in downtown Pittsburgh. BOPM’s Cheryl LaBash spoke at the second rally on the crisis in Honduras. The March organizers asked the BOPM contingent and its banner, “Message to G-20 - WE NEED JOBS NOW" with photos of Dr. Martin Luther King, to lead the second leg of the march.

Eyewitness report from Dante Strobino:

On Friday night, I was near U. of Pitt around 10:00 when we saw a huge crowd of about over 1000 students, most of which were not political at all and certainly not involved in G-20 protests, gathered in Schenedy Park where there was a concert going on with acoustic and rock bands as part of G-20 protest events. The police began to occupy the park and forcefully removed everyone from the park. As students began to gather around to check it out, the riot police got more hyped up. There were no chants, no signs, no banners, no folks dressed in black and no provocation and the police threw several tear gas and smoke bombs at the crowd again and pushed them further back down commercial streets where there bars and restaurants. They also began chasing people into the huge dormitory towers and attacking students as they left. Students were hanging out the windows, taking pictures in awe.

Forbes St. was blocked off by hundreds of riot cops while surrounding contingents of cops moved in on the other areas of the campus to corral people in. Police brutality had been witnessed -- folks being thrown to the ground and shot with rubber bullets, media being pepper-sprayed and gassed. There have been 48 confirmed arrests (an estimated 175 arrests total) with more reports still coming in. Protesters and students alike are being held in the dorm towers unable to leave in fear of being arrested; other students cannot cross 5th Ave. to get to their residences without being thrown to the ground.

I got a chance to talk to several students who had never seen anything like this in their lives. It was really interesting hearing people say "F_ck the Police", people who you would never expect to hear this from! Even some more conservative students that I talked to, were really angry too and just confused.

What is most striking about being here is seeing the incredible police repression both Thursday and Friday night in Oakland, a neighborhood which houses U. of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, two universities with mostly white, mostly middle class students. As Larry Holmes commented during our Tent City, at any given normal day the police usually target and harass the Black community, but these two days not only are they (Black people) under normal occupation, but the police are targeting young white folks.

Sept. 25 quotes from students on police violence:

"People have been saying mostly that the violence and any disruption by the protest were small fraction, most protesters were peaceful. It was the police who started the violence and ended up finishing the violence. ... It felt like a war zone. The police became more and violent, taking over more and more of the street. I couldn't get to my house even until 3am on Thursday. I saw there multiple people that needed to have pepper spray washed out of their eyes. The police wouldn't let students cross the street or enter their dorm rooms. I saw violent use of police dogs that were used to intimidate."
- Sean O'Sullivan, senior at University of Pittsburgh

"The night before in the same location there was a mass arrest of people walking by who were thrown to the ground, maced and arrested. We were gathering there because kids in a march earlier were there. We didn’t want to march tonight; we wanted to chill and have a nice night. As we did that, more cops surrounded area…We hopped the fence to get out over the hill... as we were doing that, that police officer was beating down a fence with his nightstick to get over it; a reporter got maced in face and we brought him to steps of chapel and we were distracted. They swarmed around us and arrested the guy who was injured; he could barely breathe, trying to get him away from crowd. As kids tried to run away they picked us off one by one. [The police told a woman] to shut the fuck up and get off the goddamn phone. As she was trying to say goodbye, he grabbed her by head and slammed her head into the ground. They were being way forceful and too aggressive. They put on handcuffs way too tight. They had us sit down for awhile and wouldn't tell us what was going on. They put us in two lines for males and females. From that point they took our photos, held out papers in front of our face with another cop. They searched us, put us in vans and wouldn't tell us what was going on. They wouldn't read us our rights; they only had snarky comments to say to us. We were in transportation vans for about three hours; then we got to the State Correctional Facility where we were in the van for another five hours still with plastic handcuffs on. They turned up the air conditioning to 55 degrees to make us feel as uncomfortable as possible. There were girls on periods that they would not let go to bathroom; there were girls in tears because of how bad they had to pee. You can get urinary tract infection or Toxic Shock Syndrome. We were there until 6:30 in the morning. Then they searched us, had us take off all our jewelry but our hands were swollen from cuffs and they were being real aggressive taking off rings. As soon as we stepped off the bus, a guy was holding my arm and a cop said "Say G-20" and snapped my picture. They didn't tell us where we were going or how long that we would be there. They didn't answer any questions we had."

--Jillian Dowis, sophomore at Ohio University

VIDEOS OF POLICE REPRESSION:

college students trapped in stairwell and gassed, attacked
http://celluloidblonde.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/land-of-the-free/

police assault couple in street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlD9QKZdPhE&feature=player_embedded

Police pose while taking picture of arrested student
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-333880

front line of resistance on Thursday afternoon, youth hurl dumpster at cops
http://www.youtube.com/v/ia0wVU3RHkI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

2009-09-26T21:17:00.001-04:00

Day 5-Sept. 24

The following special report was written by Dante Strobino from Raleigh Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) youth group who attending this protest:

Over a thousand people gathered in Arsenal Park in Pittsburgh to resist the G-20 countries meeting in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center downtown. Young activists representing struggles against racism, gentrification, imperialist wars, gender oppression and environmental destruction gathered together in an effort coordinated by the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project. Protesters began their march through a working class neighborhood of Lawrenceville towards a bridge to get into downtown. The march continued down Liberty Avenue in an unpermitted demonstration taking over the streets with banners that read “No Hope in Capitalism”, “No Bailout, No Capitalism” and “No borders, No banks”.

Protesters were eventually stopped at the bottom of the street by police who confronted them with high frequency sound blasts and orders to disperse. Protesters then redoubled back and confronted cops again in the middle of a residential community. As resistance continued to mount up, anarchists grabbed a dumpster on wheels and hauled it down the hill directly into the police barricade, not harming anyone. The police reacted with more violence by attacking the entire neighborhood with several canisters of OC gas, Oleoresin Capsicum, a new police weapon meant to cause temporary blindness and breathing pain. From then on many different groups broke away in different directions and some marched together back towards Oakland, the neighborhood which houses University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

Police had been bused in from dozens of states including states as far away as Arizona and Florida, along with National Guard and SWAT units. Armed guards with camouflage humvees were stationed at every exit of the beltline around the city, blocking off entry. Most all businesses downtown including cell phone stores, apparel store, banks and restaurants were completely boarded up following Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s suggestions, putting many workers out of work for the two days while the G-20 meets. At the universities and museums all monuments were also boarded up or covered with bags to continue to promote an atmosphere of fear. Police had to be hauled around town in several city and school buses to head off protesters. Department of Homeland Security and police helicopters have been roaring overhead the city since Wednesday night.

On their way back to Oakland through the Birchwood neighborhood a few windows were broken by protesters including a cop car window, a window at a PNC bank, BNY Mellon bank and at a BMW dealership, all of which symbolically represent institutions that are responsible for the economic crisis. A few hundred protesters continued to take the streets and make their voices heard throughout the evening. At one point, the protesters stopped the police with a stream of projectiles. Police responded with brutal blows of bean bags, causing injuries. Protesters defended themselves by blockading the street with a large chain link fence obstructing the road.

At 10 p.m. BASH BACK! organized a protest for LGBTQ liberation in Oakland near Carnegie Mellon University. Nearby at University of Pittsburgh students were gathered close to the bridge to Schenley Park, where Obama had earlier visited Phipps conservatory.

Heavy-handed police repression ensued, including the usual electronic dispersal order and tear gas, but this only attracted more and more protesters and onlookers, and soon the crowd numbered up to 1000. Reports described students with t-shirts wrapped around their faces chanting “beer pong!” and “LET’S GO PITT!”

Through the next couple hours cops were chasing students into their dorms, attacking people leaving the bars and arresting folks who were not earlier participating in protests. By the end of the night more than 60 were arrested.

Help BOPM continue to mobilize to fight for jobs, housing, and health care for all - the week-long mobilization, including the national March for Jobs and the Tent City, was a enormous success, but we need your help to continue on to the next phase of the struggle. Please consider making an urgent donation at http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml.

For updates, photos, video and more from the G-20 see the

Bail Out the People Movement BLOG

Report on March for Jobs with Pictures

Videos of the Tent City and March for Jobs:

KDKA Video: "G-20 Protests begin days before summit" (on right-hand side of the page)
Hundreds March For Jobs Ahead Of G-20
G-20 Protests Begin Days Before Summit
Rosemary Williams at the March for Jobs in Pittsburg
"Popular Power!" Victor Toro at the March for Jobs in Pittsburgh
Rocky of North Carolina FIST
Clarence Thomas of the ILWU at March for Jobs
Pittsburgh March for Jobs Against the G20

Tent City March on Mellon Corporate HQ for Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions
Videos of March on Mellon HQ: 1 | 2 | 3

2009-09-23T20:43:00.001-04:00

G20 Third Day of Protests

Sunday: March for Jobs

Monday: "Organizing the global struggle for jobs & workers rights"
workshop at the Tent City

Occupants of the Bail Out the People Movement Tent City will be marching from Freedom Corner (the intersection of Centre Avenue and Crawford Street) to the Mellon Corporation Headquarters (500 Grant Street) at 4:30 to demand a national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Participants in the march will include homeless and unemployed people from across the U.S., trade union activists, community organizers and local residents.

The Tent City kicked off Sunday with a spirited March for Jobs, with more than 1,000 protesters marching through the streets of Pittsburgh in the first G-20-related demonstration. Carrying hundreds of placards bearing the image of Dr. Martin Luther King, and slogans such as “Fight for the right to a job,” the long march was enthusiastically greeted on the streets of Pittsburgh by Sunday worshipers getting out of church, many of whom joined the march.

Rev. Thomas E. Smith, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church and one of the organizers of the march, told the rally, “We must tell the G-20 leaders that we reject the notion of a jobless recovery. An economic recovery that leaves unemployment in the double digits adds insult to injury to all who have lost their jobs and their homes during this terrible economic crisis, both in this country and around the world.”

Buses of protesters came from New York, Rhode Island, Detroit, Cleveland, and other places. Vans and cars and caravans came from literally every part of the country, as far away as Boston, Florida and Los Angeles. Joining the many who came from out of town were a large turnout of Pittsburgh residents, especially those who live in the historic African-American section of Pittsburgh called the Hill district, where the march was mounted from.

The end of the march was Freedom Corner, near downtown Pittsburgh, where there is a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders and activists. Amongst the many speakers at Sunday's rally were: Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; Rakhee Devastali, Feminist Students United, UNC-Chapel Hill; Oscar Hernandez, participant in the 11-month Stella D’Oro bakery strike in New York City;Sandra Hines, Mich. Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions; Larry Holmes, Bail Out the People Movement; John Parker, Bail Out the People Movement activist, who brought a van of people from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh; Fred Redmond, vice-president, United Steelworkers; Lynne Stewart, civil rights attorney, target of government repression; Brenda Stokely and Jennifer Jones, NYC Coalition in Solidarity with Katrina/Rita Survivors; Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, San Francisco and Million Worker March Movement; Victor Toro, an immigrant facing deportation with the May 1st Coalition for Immigrant and Workers Rights; Rosemary Williams, homeowner fighting foreclosure in Minnesota; and Rev. Bruce Wright, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign.

After the march and rally, hundreds of protesters returned to the rally’s beginning point, Monumental Baptist Church in the Hill district, and began to prepare their tents to prepare to live in a tent city dedicated to the unemployed of the world that will stand next to the church for the entire week of the G-20 summit.

The tent city is full of tents and hundreds of residents. Organizers expect the population of the tent city to grow as the opening of the G-20summit grows closer. Throughout all three days of the Tent City, local Pittsburgh residents have been coming by to donate food and water and to express their support for the demand for a real jobs program.

A full schedule of the various forums and teach-ins that will take place at the tent city each day is available online at bailoutpeople.org.

Support the March for Jobs & Tent City in Pittsburgh - Donate at http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml

Videos of the Tent City and March for Jobs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-fCmmxZd6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-n2DrLrJw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkUxvX5JNJg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCnBqnB7j-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIVoFbILRIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNtah2Fkcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjg-FtB5xEY

http://kdka.com/local/g20/tent.city.protest.2.1196577.html

Slideshow

http://www.examiner.com/x-23318-Pittsburgh-Photojournalist-Examiner~y2009m9d21-G20-protests-begin-in-earnest-with-march-in-Hill-District

Media Coverage

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125348613742626219.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58J1MR20090920

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09264/999586-482.stm

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_644179.html

2009-08-13T09:07:00.006-04:00

Download the G20 Call
Download the March for Jobs Leaflet (Boston b&w)
Download the March for Jobs Leaflet (national color)
Download the March for Jobs Leaflet (national black & white)
Logistics Information

A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed September 20 - 25 (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh) Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed

Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program
Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters
the weekend before the G-20 Summit
Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of September 19-26
Marches, Protests and Events Before and During the G20 Summit addressing demands such as: Bring the Troops Home from Iraq & Afghanistan Now! & Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, World-Renown Political Prisoner, Journalist, Activist and 'Voice of the Voiceless!"

Read more

Jobless Crisis "Catastrophic"/ Momentum grow for Jobs March on Sept 20

March for Jobs- G20 Pittsburgh - September 20-25

San Francisco Labor Council Resolution in Support of March for Jobs in Pittsburgh, Sept 20, 2009

2009-07-30T13:30:00.024-04:00

Stand in Solidarity with Prof. Gates! Say NO to Racism!

Stop Racial Profiling and Police Brutality!

Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Was Right!

The Cambridge Cops Must Apologize!

Youth Need Jobs & Schools - Not Jails!

Demand a Justice Department Investigation of Racial Profiling Across the US

Help Build the Resistance to the G20 Meeting in Pittsburgh
Organizers/Informational Meeting
Thursday, August 6 - 6:30 pm

USW L. 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers
25 Colgate Rd., Roslindale

A NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS
PITTSBURGH, PA - SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 - Before the G-20 Summit

A Global week of Solidarity with the Unemployed - They must no longer be invisible and silent

A Tent City for the Unemployed in Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit

Join the discussion with trade unionists, students, youth, & community activists and get involved in the struggle to demand:

No Rate Hikes for National Grid or the MBTA!

Restore ALL Utilities to Everyone Who Has Been Shutoff!

Stop Foreclosures and Evictions!

No Layoffs and Wage Cuts! – Fight for JOBS & a Livable Wage for Everyone!

Equal Quality Education for All Students – Stop the Racist Re-Segregation of Boston Schools!

Stop the Privatization of Boston Schools - No Charters!

There will also be discussion and planning for a local action to coincide with the G20 for those who are unable to make the trip.

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT!

2009-07-28T14:25:00.010-04:00

Come Out Against Racism!

Stop Racial Profiling and Police Brutality!

Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Was Right!

The Cambridge Cops Must Apologize!

Youth Need Jobs & Schools - Not Jails!

Demand a Justice Department Investigation
of Racial Profiling Across the US

The arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a Cambridge police officer after showing two forms of identification after he, along with a Black limo driver, had unjammed the lock to the front door of Gates' own house in a predominantly white, upscale neighborhood known as "Harvard Square" has brought the struggle against racism to the front pages of newspapers throughout the US and around the world.

The Cambridge Police Department and their racist allies have worked overtime to slander and vilify Prof. Gates. But his only crime was in fact to resist the racist arrogance of the Cambridge Police and not acquiesce to their racist and unjust treatment of him. The torrent of racist vitriol targeting Prof. Gates as well as the absolute racist arrogance displayed by the Cambridge Police Department in demanding that Pres. Obama and Gov. Patrick apologize for expressing support for Prof. Gates, cannot go unanswered! It is time for all poor and working people, and particularly whites, to come out against these racist attacks and stand foursquare in 100% solidarity with Professor Gates and against racial profiling and police brutality.

Cambridge, Harvard University and Boston are seen around the world as bastions of liberalism, hotbeds of progressive ideas and prestigious places from which cutting-edge research emanates. But the racial profiling and arrest of Prof. Gates have re-raised the question of how much has changed since the 1970s when, in the wake of court-ordered busing for desegregation, white racist mobs were stoning buses carrying Black school children and attacking Black people on the streets and in their homes.

Gates was Right! The Cambridge Police Department was Wrong!

Racial profiling is another expression of institutionalized racism. In the U.S., racial profiling and police brutality have become an unfortunate reality of life for people of color, especially youth. It doesn't matter whether it occurs in the inner city, a small town, or an upper-middle class suburb.

In a 2004 report entitled "Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, Domestic Security and Human Rights in the United States," Amnesty International documented that in a year-long investigation, an estimated 32 million people had been racially profiled--the vast majority of them from nationally oppressed groups. One can only imagine how much these numbers have increased over the last five years, not only for those born in the U.S. but also for immigrants. Since 9/11 there has been a corresponding increase in racial profiling targeting the Arab and Muslim communities.

The police have been, by far, the most feared perpetrators of racial profiling, and understandably so. Police harassment and brutality is an epidemic. According to a 2008 report by the Washington, D.C. based Campaign for Youth Justice entitled ”Critical Condition: African American Youth in the Justice System” African American youth make up 30 percent of youth arrested while they represent only 17 percent of the overall youth population. Additionally, African American youth are 62 percent of the total number of youth prosecuted in the adult criminal system and are nine times more likely than white youth to receive an adult prison sentence.

One only needs to remember how the Somerville 5 (5 Black youth from Somerville who were arrested on racist frame up charges by the Medford Police) or the Jena 6 were treated. Not to mention the racism that followed the devastation of the 9th Ward in New Orleans as a result of hurricane Katrina.

As the economic crisis deepens the ruling class will use all means at its disposal to foster artificial divisions between white workers and Black, Latina/o, and immigrant workers. It is our responsibility to build a movement based on anti-racist, class-wide solidarity--as workers of all nationalities are losing their jobs, homes, health care and pensions in rapid numbers; and as the economic crisis becomes even more acute.

Bail Out The People Movement
617-522-6626
bopmboston@gmail.com

2009-06-21T11:21:00.015-04:00

Join the discussion with trade unionists, students, youth, & community activists and get involved in the struggle to demand:

No Rate Hikes for National Grid or the MBTA!

Restore ALL Utilities to Everyone Who Has Been Shutoff!

Stop Foreclosures and Evictions!

No Layoffs and Wage Cuts! – Fight for JOBS & a Livable Wage for Everyone!

Equal Quality Education for All Students – Stop the Racist Re-Segregation of Boston Schools!

Stop the Privatization of Boston Schools - No Charters!

There will also be discussion and planning for a local action to coincide with the G20 for those who are unable to make the trip.

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT!

Bail Out the People Movement - 617.522.6626 or bopmboston@gmail.com

A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed

September 19 - 26 (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA)

Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed

Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program
Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters the weekend before the G-20 Summit
Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of September 19-26
Marches, Protests and Events Before and During the G20 Summit addressing demands such as: Bring the Troops Home from Iraq & Afghanistan Now! & Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, World-Renown Political Prisoner, Journalist, Activists and 'Voice of the Voiceless!"

In September the eyes of the world will be on Pittsburgh, where the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit hear the concerns of bankers and corporate executives all the time. They need to listen to the voices of the millions of people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of the crisis. The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community, labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S. and worldwide to the G20 summit. It is now clear that the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in March has done little to stop the loss of jobs. There is no recovery for the unemployed, the underemployed and the poor; and things are only getting worse. This is why we’re asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality.

A TENT CITY AND MARCH FOR JOBS On Sunday, Sept. 20, the tent city will open with a rally and march for jobs. The main site for the tent city will be next to the Monumental Baptist Church in an historic section of the African-American community of Pittsburgh called “The Hill.” This location is just a short walk or march from the convention center where the G20 summit will be held, and from the rest of downtown Pittsburgh. Unemployed people and their supporters will inhabit the tent city from Sept 20 through Sept. 25. Additional locations for other encampments in Pittsburgh are being considered as well. This is why we’re asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality.

IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE – THIS IS A WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH YOU The Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed is also a week of solidarity with those who have lost their homes to foreclosures and evictions; those who have been forced to take part-time or temporary jobs because there are no full-time jobs; workers who have seen their wages and hours cut; autoworkers whose plants have been closed; immigrant workers who are fighting for their rights; communities that are fighting gentrification and budget cuts to social programs; students who are being forced out of school because of the debt burden and rising tuition cost; the survivors and displaced victims of the Katrina/Rita hurricanes and the government's criminally negligent response; poor and working people everywhere, especially in poor countries who are bearing the cruel brunt of the economic crisis; workers everywhere fighting for the right to organize and in the U.S. for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act in the U.S.; All who need single payer health care; retirees who need their healthcare & pensions safeguarded; and young people, especially Black and Latina/o youths whom the system has condemned to a jobless future.

IT’S TIME TO BAILOUT THE UNEMPLOYED WITH A REAL JOBS PROGRAM In the days before and during the G20 summit, events and marches will take place to emphasize this central point: More than just another stimulus package is needed. It’s time for a serious, direct and massive jobs program on par with the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s. We must fight for a real jobs program for the unemployed and underemployed that pays a living wage performing socially meaningful work; and an income for those unable to work. Any claim that the resources for a serious jobs program are not available must be rejected. If governments, particularly the U.S. government, can make available trillions of dollars for bailing out banks and corporations as well as funding the Pentagon’s endless wars, & Occupations, they can find the resources to bail out the unemployed and underemployed.

THIS IS A GLOBAL CALL BECAUSE JOBLESSNESS IS A GLOBAL CRISIS Mass unemployment is a global phenomenon. The right to a job at a living wage must be a global demand. Instead of being pitted against each other, unemployed and working people across the world can only improve their conditions by working and fighting together for their common interests. Activists and organizations everywhere are encouraged to support the Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed and organize events in conjunction with it.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FINAL CAUSE: THE RIGHT OF ALL TO A JOB OR AN INCOME The need and the right of everyone to either a job or a guaranteed income is the cause that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated the last year of his life to. The present global economic depression has made King’s last cause even more urgent today than it was when he was alive. Dr. King also knew that: no matter the magnitude of suffering, governments do not respond if those who are suffering remain invisible and silent. Even a history-making president like Obama is still not a substitute for the mass movement for social justice. During the depression of the 1930’s, President Franklyn Delano Roosevelt once told labor leaders who were asking him to do more to help workers and the poor “I agree with you, know make me do it”. FDR’s advice applies to Pres. Obama to. The purpose of the Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed is to make sure that people who are usually ignored are seen and heard.

ORGANIZING CARAVANS OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND SUPPORTERS TO PITTSBURGH Over the next 10 weeks, organizing will be going on in every region of the country to bring caravans of unemployed people and supporters to Pittsburgh in Sept.

THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

Have your Union/Community/Religious or Student Organization.endorse - http://www.bailoutpeople.org/septg20endorse.shtml
Donate to help with organizing expenses - http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml
Organize car/s vans/ trucks & buses from your locality to participate in the caravans to Pittsburgh - http://www.bailoutpeople.org/septg20volorgcents.shtml
Have an Organizer address a meeting of your organization - http://bailoutpeople.org/cmnt.shtml
Volunteer your time to work on this project - http://www.bailoutpeople.org/septg20volorgcents.shtml

A CALL FOR A GLOBAL MOBILIZATION
AGAINST THE G20 SUMMIT IN PITTSBURGH, PA., U.S.
SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25, 2009

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT!
BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE
JOBS & SOCIAL NEEDS--NOT WAR AND GREED
FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
SHUTDOWN THE RACIST PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Endorse the call | Become a local organizer/volunteer

The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25, 2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S., and across the world. --more--

2009-06-09T17:01:00.008-04:00

Community labor coalition sets back resegregation plan

Meeting of the Coalition for Equal Quality Schools
Monday, June 22 - 6:00 pm
English High

For more information contact:

Coalition for Equal Quality Education

EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-427-8100 http://www.equalqualityeducation.org

2009-06-02T18:38:00.005-04:00

Students - Parents - Teachers - Staff - Community
Tell the School Committee

download English flyer
download Spanish flyer

Vote NO on the 5 Zone Plan

Demand Equal Quality Education

Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Civil Right
Demonstrate:
June 3 - 5:30pm
Boston School Committee
26 Court St., Boston

Coalition for Equal Quality Education

EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-427-8100 http://www.equalqualityeducation.org

Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement; Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods

2009-05-20T20:38:00.000-04:00

Three Important Upcoming Events

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PROTEST THE G20 Summit IN NEW YORK CITY!
Saturday, September. 19 & Sunday, September 20, 2009

THE BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT INVITES YOU TO A PEOPLE’S ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN NEW YORK CITY - SUNDAY MAY 31

PEOPLE’S SUMMIT & TENT CITY:
PROTEST THE “NATIONAL BIG BUSINESS SUMMIT”
JUNE 14-17, 2009
GRAND CIRCUS PARK, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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2009-05-18T20:39:00.005-04:00

May 14, 2009 - Community Summit
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!

On May 14, 2009 approximately 200 hundred parents, students, teachers, community activists, and trade unionists held a Community Summit at Roxbury Community College to discuss and organize a fightback against the attempts by Menino and the Boston School Committee to re-segregate public schools in Boston. Called by the Coalition for Equal Quality Education this Summit announced plans for a demonstration at the Boston School Committee (26 Court St.) on June 3 at 5:30 pm to demand Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right! Stop the Re-Segregation of the Boston Public School System! Excellence & Equity for all students in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)!

The Coalition for Equal Quality Education includes: Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement; Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods

For more information: EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-756-3657 http://www.equalqualityeducation.org

2009-05-06T17:18:00.010-04:00

Students - Parents - Teachers - Staff - Community

Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!

download flyers: English Spanish

Community Summit
Thurs., May 14, 6–8 pm
Roxbury Community College
Student Center
1234 Columbus Ave., Boston

Excellence & Equity for all students in all schools!
Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)!

Come to:
Receive Information
Have your voice heard
Hear others’ voices
Help plan future actions
Find out how you can participate

Together We Can Win!

Coalition for Equal Quality Education – EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-756-3657

2009-04-06T22:02:00.007-04:00

WE MUST NOT LET RACISM DIVIDE WORKING PEOPLE

MARCH WITH US ON MAY DAY!

Friday, May 1

International Workers Day

MARCH/RALLY for IMMIGRANT & WORKER RIGHTS

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Join the Bail Out the People Movement and
Women's Fightback Contingent to demand:

End the raids & deportations
Humane & Just Immigration Reform
Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
Abolish NAFTA and all Free Trade Agreements
No militarization of the border
Jobs for all at Union Wages
Stop tuition hikes
Housing for all, no more foreclosures
Bail out the People, Not the Banks or Corporations
Stop Police Brutality, No more Racist attacks
Stop Dividing Families Everywhere
Defend Katrina Survivors Right to Return
Money for people, not war, prisons or ICE detentions

East Boston
Central Sq.
2:30 pm - March from Central Sq. to Chelsea
(BOPM/WFN Contingent)

Chelsea
Chelsea City Hall
3:00 pm - March from City Hall to Everett

Everett
Everett City Hall
4:30-5:30 pm - Rally/Cultural Celebration

Initiated by: Chelsea Collaborative, La Comunidad Inc., y EBECC.
More info: (617) 889-6080 x108

Report from April 3 & 4 March on Wall Street

In an early sign of what promises to be a growing movement, 1,000 people defied a torrential downpour to rally on Wall Street on Friday, April 3 in response to a national call from the Bail Out the People Movement. The central demands of the demonstration were: 1) a real jobs program; and 2) an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. read more

2009-04-04T16:53:00.009-04:00

Urgent! Demand the Release of April 3 Wall Street Arestees!

New! Logistics Information for April 3 March on Wall Street

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

UFPJ/BOPM APR 3-4 UNITY STATEMENT

2009-04-03T10:10:00.021-04:00

Download Flyer | Endorse April 3 & 4 | Become a Local Organizer | Find an Organizing Center Near You!

In Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.
National March on Wall St. - April 3 & 4

Get Involved!
Organizers Meeting - Monday, March 23 - 7 pm
Action Center, 284 Amory St. (The Brewery), JP
___________________

Reserve your seat on the Bail Out the People Movement buses from Boston, MA and Providence, RI to the April 3 & 4 March on Wall St.

Tickets are $30 + $5 suggested donation for the Transportation Subsidy Fund
___________________

April 3 & 4 March on Wall video

We Demand Jobs!
Moratorium on Evictions & Foreclosures
Bailout Workers!
Stop Lay-offs & Cutbacks
Money for Education NOT for War & Occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan & Palestine
Bring the Troops Home
Housing & Healthcare Are a right
No Transit Fare Hike
Bail out Students & Youth
Stop the War on Immigrants
End Attacks on Women & LGBT People
UNITE!

for more information:bopmboston@gmail.com
Boston: Bail Out The People Movement - Boston
National: Bail Out The People Movement

Bail Out the People - Not the Banks!

March on Wall Street on the Anniversary on the day Martin Luther King gave his life fighting for social and economic justice.

Why? Because we must demand that the needs of the people come before the greed of the super rich. Millions are jobless and homeless, and millions more will be living on the streets if the government continues to waste trillions of dollars on saving wealthy bankers instead of saving people.

Dr. King would have been appalled and opposed to the terrible siege of Gaza as well as the continuing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

And just as King knew that the struggle for civil rights at home had to also be part of the struggle against war abroad, he understood that no one, regardless of their race would be free until everyone had the right to a decent paying job or an income for those unable to work. Most importantly, King also understood that “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The time for suffering in silence has come to an end.

Nothing will change unless our desperation and anger is channeled into a mighty movement that unites and fights. It’s time to march on Wall St. Come to the march, and tell everyone you know to come with you.

Endorsers (partial list): Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions; Black Workers for Justice, Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Public Service Workers Union-UE Local 150; USW L. 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers; Troops Out Now Coalition; Moratorium Now! Coalition To Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (Michigan); Labor/Community Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (Calif.); Service Employees International Union, Local 721; Latino Caucus, SEIU Local 721; BAYAN USA; May 1 Coalition For Worker and Immigrant Rights (NYC); Million Worker March Movement East; Chris Silvera, Sec-Treas., Teamster Local 808; Harlem Tenants Council, New York, NY; Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, New York City; NY Charles Barron, member, New York City Council*, Queers for Peace and Justice, Women's Fight back Network (Mass.),Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST youth), International Action Center; Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC; Queers Without Borders, Hartford, CT; Maine Green Independent Party; Old Orchard Beach, ME; Guyanese American Workers United, New York, NY; Pakistan USA Freedom Forum * For identification purposes only

2009-03-01T21:01:00.004-05:00

February 28th Fight Back Conference
(l-r - Miya X, Women's Fightback Network; Padma Balasubramanian, Healthcare Provider; Ahmad Kawash, Palestinian Activist; Sandra McIntosh, Work 4 Quality; Dorotea Manuela, Boston May Day Committee; Chuck Turner, Boston City Council, Larry Holmes, National Coordinator, Bail Out the People Movement)

On Saturday, February 28 approximately 70 activists representing a wide range of organizations and struggles from Boston, Western Mass., and Rhode Island met at the USW L. 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers union hall to discuss and strategize a fight back against the economic crisis. Participants addressed the attacks on desgregation and education; the need for solidarity with Boston City Councillor Chuck Turner; fighting for jobs and the rights of the unemployed; fighting back against layoffs and Meninos attempt to freeze wages; defending the rights of women and LGBT people; the need for international solidarity as well as solidarity with immigrant workers. All were in agreement of the need to unite and work together on each others struggles and to Bail Out the People Not Wall Street! A follow-up meeting will be scheduled shortly.

photos by Liz Green

2009-02-28T10:08:00.001-05:00

Mobilizations

Sat., March 21:
March on the Pentagon
On the 6th Anniversary of Iraq War demand: U.S.
Out of Iraq & Afghanistan! Stop the Siege of Gaza!

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.

2009-02-07T10:03:00.026-05:00

In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’s Birthday
and African American History Month

BOSTON FIGHTBACK CONFERENCE
Bail Out the PEOPLE, Not Wall Street!

endorse - download flyer - download call
download BOPM Working Paper

SAT., FEB. 28th - 1-5:00 pm
Endorsed & hosted by: Boston School Bus Union USW L. 8751
at the USW 8751 Hall, 25 Colgate Rd., Roslindale
(from Forest Hills T Stop on Orange line, take bus on Washington St 4 blocks to Archdale Rd. and walk back one block.)

Uniting & fighting against WAR and for economic & social justice in
the biggest crisis since the depression of the 1930s!

Speakers include:
Chuck Turner, Boston City Council
Miya X, Women's Fightback Network & F.I.S.T.
Larry Holmes, National Coordinator, Bail Out the People Movement
Dorothea Manuela, Boston May Day Committee
USW L. 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers Union
Ahmad Kawash, Palestinian Club
Rhode Island Peoples Assembly
and others

Topics include: Organizing a movement to fight foreclosures, evictions and homelessness / mobilizing students & youth / solidarity with immigrant workers / turning back the rightwing attacks on women and lgbt workers / organizing unemployed workers / international solidarity / merging the antiwar and social justice movements / fighting back against budget cuts, wage freezes, layoffs, and concessions / The racist attack on school desegregation in Boston / standing against the attack on Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and other elected leaders of the African American community / relevance of King’s legacy today

sponsored by: Bail Out The People Movement
for more information or to endorse: bopmboston@gmail.com
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Endorsers (partial list): Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner; USW 8751, Boston School Bus Union; Work 4 Quality; Women's Fightback Network; Boston Youth Organizing Project (BYOP); Bishop Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Miya X; Rev. Franklin Hobbes, Heal Our Land*; Dorotea Manuela, Boston May Day Committee; Tony Van Der Meer, Prof. UMASS Boston*; International Action Center; Fight Imperialism Stand Together; Ahmad Kawash, Palestinian Club; Stonewall Warriors; Jorge Marin, MLK Bolivarian Circle*; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Rhode Island Peoples Assembly; Boston May Day Committee -- * id only

2009-02-07T10:00:00.002-05:00

Bail Out the People Movement
FIGHTBACK CONFERENCE
Draft Working Paper

Realizing the Fightback – Some Perspective and Plans

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The following was adopted at the Jan. 17 Fightback Conference in NYC. It is a work in progress.

In many ways, the U.S.-financed genocidal siege of Gaza that many of us have been demonstrating against in recent weeks is a harbinger of the widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples of the planet that is sure to intensify this year. In 2009, more and more lives are going to be devastated by the biggest global economic crisis since the depression of the 1930s. --more--