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
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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
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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!

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
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
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.


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!


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


Bail Out the People Movement
FIGHTBACK CONFERENCE
Draft Working Paper
Realizing the Fightback – Some Perspective and Plans

Download PDF

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--


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