From the General Strike in Oakland – to the protests against the G20 in France – the Revolution is growing!
AT THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY SAT. NOV. 5 in the SOUTH BRONX, AN "OCCUPY 4 JOBS" NETWORK WAS LAUNCHED AND CALLED FOR ACTIONS ON NOV 23 (CONGRESSIONAL “SUPERCOMMITTEE” DEADLINE) AND ON THE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY WEEKEND
The following is a CALL for an OCCUPY FOR JOBS NETWORK with initiating groups and activists
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JOIN THE OCCUPY FOR JOBS NETWORK –
DEMAND A MASSIVE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM PAYING UNION WAGES
We urge you to join the “Occupy 4 JOBS” Network that is in formation. The main demand of the Occupy 4 JOBS Network is for a massive public works project big enough to provide jobs at union wages for the 30 million unemployed and underemployed workers in the country.
Occupy 4 JOBS is not a copycat of the Occupy Wall Street movement. However, Occupy 4 JOBS is unabashedly inspired by the welcome change in the political climate that the Occupy Wall Street movement has ushered in. OWS has opened up the space for larger sections of the working class and the poor, especially unemployed Black and Latina/o youth and immigrant workers, to fight Wall Street and the profits before people economic system.
Frankly speaking, it would be irresponsible for those of us who have been trying to organize a mass struggle against depression level unemployment not to take advantage of the door that OWS has opened up, and launch new fronts in the struggle for economic and social justice at this amazing time; fronts that are deliberately fashioned to mobilize the communities that are not represented in the OWS movement. The “Occupy the Hood” movement is good example of the new fronts that need to open.
It is vital that all of us be in the OWS movement and work to influence OWS to build bridges to those communities and movements whose presence is not felt in OWS yet. However, it is even more vital to open new fronts and no front is more necessary than the fight for jobs.
Occupations need not be the only tactic of the Occupy 4 JOBS Network. The word occupy has now taken on a broader meaning than its literal definition. Occupy now means fight back; it means self-determination and in the words of Malcolm X it means fighting “By any means necessary.” We must continue to rally and march and meet, and do whatever we must do to expand the fight for jobs and to be effective. But we must also be prepared to occupy when the time is right.
The idea is for Occupy 4 JOBS to be a loose national network, with local affiliates determining their local priorities, while at the same time developing a process through which to decide on coordinated or national actions. An Occupy 4 JOBS affiliate can be a membership organization, or a project of an existing organization.
The Occupy 4 JOBS Network was launched at the People’s Assembly on Nov. 5 at Hostos College in the South Bronx. It called for actions on Nov. 23 (the Congressional Supercommittee massive budget cuts deadline) and on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday weekend.
It’s time to Occupy 4 JOBS!
Initial Signers of the Call:
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Occupy 4 Jobs Network
Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th St. #5C
New York, NY 10011
212.633.6646
www.Occupy4Jobs.org
Email: info@occupy4jobs.org