LACC in the Quad • 855 Vermont Ave, L.A. 90029
Demand Change! Jobs • Education • Equality
• Local rally at LACC, 9-11am, Saturday, October 2.
• Local action will mirror Washington March.
• We need to turn out a large group.
• Read on...
WHO?
It is time that every community come together and demand the change that we voted for in 2008. ONE NATION WORKING TOGETHER is a multi-racial, civil and human rights movement. Our mission is to reorder our nation's priorities to invest in our most valuable resource – our people -- because we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve the American Dream – a secure job, a safe home, and a quality education.
"ONE NATION WORKING TOGETHER is about reordering out nation's priorities to invest in our most valuable resource—our people."
WHAT? WHERE?
Local Rally at Los Angeles City College
We are going to Rally on October 2, 2010 (10.2.10). We will mobilize people to Rally in solidarity with the March at Nation's Capitol. Protect our jobs, our education and our economy.
WHEN?
10.2.10 - 9-11am
WHY?
We stand for:
• Putting America Back to Work • Quality, Affordable Public Education • Equality for All
• A Clean Environment • Immigration Reform • Peace & Justice
We will march because we are frustrated and unsatisfied with the status quo. We have a chance to galvanize a movement for the majority of people for justice in America. We can turn out people and inspire them to vote. We can build an authentically diverse multi-ethnic coalition that is rooted in our country's democratic and progressive traditions. Finally, we will reclaim American themes and traditions - a more perfect union, common good and justice for all.
HOW?
New Majority Movement
ONE NATION WORKING TOGETHER Endorsing Members
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/28-8
Austerity Whips Up Anger, Protests Mount in Europe
by Agence France Presse
Published on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
BRUSSELS - Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head
with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry
workers onto streets right across the continent.
Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where
labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 people from 30 countries to say
"No to austerity!"
"We will demonstrate to voice our concern over the economic and social
context, which will be compounded by austerity measures," John Monks,
general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation.
The protest, the biggest such march since 2001 when 80,000 people spilled
into the EU capital, is being held to coincide with a plan to fine
governments running up deficits.
Detailed proposals are due to be released that day by the 27-nation bloc's
executive arm, the European Commission, with the continent's finance
ministers also gathering in Brussels this week.
Millions of jobs fell off the European map in the global downturn and many
more look set to be squeezed as governments axe public spending.
"This is a crucial day for Europe," said Monks, "because our governments,
virtually all of them, are about to embark on solid cuts in public
expenditures.
"They're doing this at a time where the economy is very close to recession,
and almost certainly you'll see the economy go back into recession as the
effect of these cuts take place."
In Spain, where trade unions have called a general strike on Wednesday,
unemployment has more than doubled, with one in five workers jobless in
July.
Madrid in consequence is looking at a drastic overhaul of its labour
legislation to ease flexi-time and hiring and firing. Pensions are frozen,
wages cut for civil servants and VAT taxes on the rise.
But elsewhere labour leaders are equally concerned. At a glance: The human
cost of the crisis in Europe
Portugal's leading labour confederation, the CGTP, which is close to the
communists, has called protests in Lisbon and Porto and hopes for more than
10,000 participants.
Poland's main unions, Solidarity and OPZZ, expect "several thousand" at a
protest outside government headquarters.
Similar marches are scheduled in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Serbia,
with labour leaders across the board clamouring for growth and protesting
the injustice of workers paying for the errors of the financial sector.
"Those responsible for this crisis, the banks, the financial markets and the
ratings agencies are all too quick in asking for help from states and public
budgets and today want the workers to pay for their debts," said French
labour leader Jean-Claude Mailly, who heads the FO union.
But while Europe tries to clean up its post-recession books, a backlash has
begun among voters focused on vast anticipated numbers of public sector job
cuts.
The worker backlash was clearly seen in Britain, where Labour unions,
lawmakers and party members handed their leadership to left-leaning Ed
Miliband -- in a surprise, last-minute defeat for his better-known, more
centrist brother and former foreign secretary David.
"We're a rich part of the world," said Monks.
"We're going to keep this campaign going, fight for growth, fight for jobs,
fight to protect social Europe. Don't go down the austerity route."
© 2010 AFP
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