| 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 To endorse this call To volunteer or organize transportation from your area | (1000 people march for jobs |
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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--
