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| PLANNING MEETING Sat. Oct. 18 - 4:00 pm Action Center 284 Amory St., JP (the Brewery) The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a deep recession or even depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers, along with their counterparts around the world, are giving what’s going to amount to trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people WHILE DOING NOTHING TO RESCUE ORDINARY WORKING AND POOR PEOPLE! We must stand up and say no to this injustice! NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. With that in mind, we are calling for Nationally Coordinated Local Days of Action on the weekend of October 24-27. During October 24-27, organize marches and demonstrations in front of banks, especially JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank, or at your local Federal Reserve Bank. Organize a teach-in or a public hearing on the Wall Street crisis, etc. IT’S TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DECLARE AN ECONOMIC STATE OF EMERGENCY AND GIVE DIRECT HELP TO THE PEOPLE--NOT THE BANKS The following are some of the growing list of emergency measures that people across the country will be raising at protests during the Days of Action:
We know that NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. These politicians who are in the pockets of big business, have only their interests in mind. It's up to us to fight for our rights and needs. We are asking for grassroots, community and youth organizations, trade unionists, anti-racist forces, the anti-war movement and everyone who's just mad as hell about the "bailout" to both endorse this call, and take ownership of it. Plan actions during this period of time in your cities across the country. At a time of unprecedented economic crisis, we must mobilize and organize and fight back until the demand becomes reality. Bailout the People, not the Bankers! Partial List of Initiators: Ad-hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions; Moratorium Now Coalition To Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (Michigan); Labor/Community Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (L.A.); Service Employees International Union, Local 721; Latino Caucus, SEIU Local 721; Gloria Saucedo, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; BAYAN USA; NY May 1 Coalition For Immigrant and Workers Rights; Chris Silvera, Secretary Treasurer, Teamster local 808; Brenda Stokely, New York Solidarity Coalition with Katrina/Rita Survivors; Bishop Filipe Teixeira OFSJC; La Peña Del Bronz; Trabahadores Por La Paz; Rebel Diaz; Queers for Peace and Justice; Women's Fightback Network (Massachusetts); Frantz Mendes, President, USW local 8751 (Boston School Bus Union); Action Center for Justice (North Carolina); FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together); Troops Out Now Coalition for more information: 617-522-6626 or wfn@iacboston.org |
Boston activists confront bankers to stop evictions “Bail out the people, not Wall Street bankers!” resounded in the streets outside the Colonnade Hotel during the Oct. 6 lunch hour as activists in the struggle against foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs demonstrated at the “Open Doors” conference. --more--
BOSTON: 'Foreclose the war, not our homes!' Activists from the Women’s Fightback Network, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together and the International Action Center rallied in front of the Countrywide Bank in Boston’s Lower Roxbury/South End on Sept. 20 to protest evictions and home foreclosures affecting thousands of people in Massachusetts.--more-- The NSTAR Electric Co. was the focus of an angry picket line July 3 initiated by the Women’s Fightback Network and the youth group Fight Imperialism, Stand Together. This greedy corporation, with assets of $7.8 billion, sent 100,000 Massachusetts residents electric and gas utility shutoff notices at the beginning of May. NSTAR earned $59.2 million in the first quarter of 2008 but was shutting off people owing as little as $100. --more--
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