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Thursday, MARCH 4
Rally at 4 pm at Gov. Paterson's office
(633 Third Ave. @ 41st St. ),
Then March to MTA Hearings at FIT
(Seventh Ave. @ 27th St .)
- It’s not our crisis, we won’t pay!
- No school closures!
- No budget cuts, no tuition hikes!
- No layoffs, no salary or benefit reductions, no union-busting!
- Restore free student Metrocards!
- No privatization of public schools!
- Cancel all student debt!
- Eliminate racism in the public school system!
- Free public education for all from kindergarten to college!
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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTIONS TO DEFEND EDUCATION
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The Bail Out the People Movement endorses the March 4 National Day of Actions to Defend Education.
Across the country, students, teachers, faculty and other workers, along with concerned parents, community activists and organizations, will be using the week of March 4 to strike decisively to defend public education and the right to pursue higher learning.
The effects of the economic crisis have been felt in all sectors. Hundreds of thousands have faced having their homes foreclosed on or being evicted. Millions have lost their jobs and have added to the ranks of unemployed, especially people of color. Many families face hunger on a daily basis.
The crisis has not abated but continues like a storm. Federal, state and local governments are now cutting back on vital social services; closing schools; defunding education, health care and other needs; and laying off more workers.
There has been an accelerated push to privatize public education under the guise of “school choice,” using the crumbling infrastructure of inner city schools as an excuse. This crumbling is due to decades of systemic underfunding.
Parents and their children are wooed by for-profit and even nonprofit charter schools as a way out. But the charter schools offer a clear and present danger to teachers’ unions and are not bound to provide English as a Second Language or special education services. Charters can be granted to companies or a group of individuals who ultimately select the students and control the curriculum and budget.
Besides the above, corporations and financial institutions would like to get their hands on the $800 billion a year spent on education.
The Obama administration has contributed to the race to privatize public education. It has dangled $4 billion in front of strapped state governments to compete for by devising a new plan for education. This “Race to the Top” program calls not only for diminishing or eliminating altogether the cap on charter schools, but also calls for the tying of teacher pay to performance, opening the door for the firing of teachers at “underperforming schools.”
The state budget crisis, which grew out of the general economic crisis, has provided state governments across the country a pretext for further attacks on public education. As of December, 36 states have made higher education budget cuts, resulting in tuition increases and reductions in faculty and staff. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have cut aid to K-12 schools. Additional cuts across states are expected to be widespread in 2010.
In this climate of severe and relentless education cuts, March 4 is just the beginning of a movement to unite students, educators and other workers against the attacks on public education. That is why the Bail Out the People Movement is proud to stand up for public education on March 4 and raise the demand: “Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Incarceration.” As the struggle continues to grow post-March 4, it will be critical to link together the movements for jobs and education with the movement to stop the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For more information on the March 4 National Day of Actions to Defend Education:
- Visit the Web site for more details at http://www.defendeducation.org.
- Endorse the call by sending an email to march4nationaldayofaction@gmail.com.
- Find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=213637229312.
Money for JOBS, Education and Health Care—Not War!
Stop the U.S. war on Afghanistan
“The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam explode at home.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 25, 1967
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Dr. King was right. The bombs killing poor people in Afghanistan also explode at home.
At least $100 billion will be spent this year in occupying Afghanistan. Over three million jobs at $15 per hour could be created with this money. Instead it’s being used to kill children thousands of miles away.
Meanwhile the big banks that were bailed out with over a trillion dollars from us continue to launder drug profits. Afghanistan, occupied by the U.S., supplies over 90% of the world’s heroin.
Right now the 75,000 people in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province are being pounded by 15,000 troops in the war’s biggest airborne assault. Rockets murdered 12 children in the early hours of this offensive. U.S. General Stanley McChrystal called this war crime
merely “regrettable.”
Forty years ago Dr. King said, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today—my own government.” The Pentagon continues to kill people around the world with its $700 billion war budget. At the same time billionaire Bloomberg wants to close schools and St. Vincent’s Hospital may shut down.
Join us to demand an end to occupying the fourth poorest nation on earth. Stop the Brutal US/NATO war on Afghanistan!
Bring the troops home!
Demonstrate
Friday, Feb. 19
4:30 pm to 6 pm
Herald Square
34th St. & Broadway
EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR HAITI
To make a tax-deductible financial donation to help with immediate delivery of first aid relief to Haiti, send checks to IFCO/Haiti Relief, 418 West 145th St., New York, NY 10031. See www.IFCOnews.org to get more information and/or to donate by credit card.
To donate first aid supplies and personal hygiene goods,contact Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees at 718-735-4660.
2010 NATIONAL CALL FOR
April 10, D.C. JOBS PROTEST
On the 75th Anniversary of the WPA, joblessness
is as bad
as it was during the 1930s.
It's time to take the fight to D.C.!
Read the Call Endorse Volunteer
In NYC:
PROTEST ON WALL STREET
ON DR. KING’S BIRTHDAY!
No more bail outs & bonuses for bankers –
BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE!!
FRI., JAN. 15, 2010, 3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
At Wall St. and Broad (across from the Stock Exchange)
WE DEMAND JOBS FOR ALL
SAVE FREE STUDENT MTA CARDS
STOP FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS
HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE - NOT WAR
 
For updates, photos, video and more from the G-20 see the
Bail Out the People Movement BLOG
Report on March for Jobs with Pictures
Videos of the Tent City and March for Jobs:
Hundreds March For Jobs Ahead Of G-20
KDKA Video: "G-20 Protests begin days before summit"
(on right-hand side of the page)
G-20 Protests Begin Days Before Summit
Rosemary Williams at the March for Jobs in Pittsburg
"Popular Power!"
Victor Toro at the March for Jobs in Pittsburgh
Rokhee of North Carolina FIST
Clarence Thomas of the ILWU at March for Jobs
Pittsburgh March for Jobs Against the G20
Tent City March on Mellon Corporate HQ for Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions
Videos of March on Mellon HQ: 1 | 2 | 3
A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed
September 20 - 25 (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh) Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed
- Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program
- Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters
the weekend before the G-20 Summit
- Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of September 19-26
- Marches, Protests and Events Before and During the G20 Summit addressing demands such as: Bring the Troops Home from Iraq & Afghanistan Now! & Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, World-Renown Political Prisoner, Journalist, Activist and 'Voice of the Voiceless!"
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URGENT!
Drop ALL charges
against Sharon Black,
Steven Ceci and
Patrick Allen NOW!
STOP POLICE ATTACKS
ON ALL POLITICAL ACTIVISTS!
On the morning of Dec. 9, long-time Baltimore Community activists Sharon Black 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. See photos of what the police did.
Sign online Petition
HANDS OFF STUDENT MTA PASSES IN NYC!
On 12/16/09, a proposal was passed by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board 12-0 in favor of serious budget cuts to take place next year, including the discontinuation of a program which provides free MetroCards for more than 500,000 city students, service cuts to Access-a-Ride users, layoffs, and service cutbacks. In this time of economic crisis, forcing students to pay $5 a day, or more than $1000 per year, just to get to school is an unacceptable wholesale attack on free public education.
LET THE NY MTA BOARD, NYC MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE KNOW YOU SAY NO!
Read and sign today!
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 wa
Online Petition to Release G-20 Arrestees & against Police Repression
Day 6: Police Attacks Escalate, 10,000 March in Peoples March
Day 5: Police Attack Protesters
Videos of Police Repression at G-20
What you need to know about the March 4 Jobs & Tent City - directions, transportation, and more
Tent City Schedule
Young People Need Jobs leaflet
Mumia Abu-Jamal: G-20 or G-Money
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