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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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
Students - Parents - Teachers - Staff - Community
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!


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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
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



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





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
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