Haiti Earthquake Emeregency Response Solidarity with Haiti and Demands on the U.S. Government: Statement from the International Action Center Solidarity with Haiti’s People/Solidaridad con el Pueblo de Haití Beyond the catastrophe: How imperialism undermined Haiti

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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

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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 To volunteer or organize transportation from your area go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/apr1010volorgcent.shtml to donate go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml

(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

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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--

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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

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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.

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