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<div align="left"><b><font face="Georgia">In this email:</font></b><br>
<ul>
<li><b><big>Bus Information from Boston and Providence</big></b><br>
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<li><b><font face="Georgia">Bail Out the People Movement Statement on
AIG and the Latest Bailout Plan</font></b> </li>
<li><b><font face="Georgia">Information about the April 3 March on
Wall Street</font></b> </li>
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<small><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><i><a
href="http://www.iacboston.org/040309/apr3-4bus.html"><b><font
color="#660000">Reserve your seat on the Bail Out the People Movement
buses from Boston, MA and Providence, RI</font></b></a> <b>to the
April 3 and/or April 4 March on Wall St. - Tickets are $30 + $5
suggested
donation for the Transportation Subsidy Fund</b><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><small><font color="#660000"><big><b><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>March on Wall
Street & AIG on APRIL 3: Bail Out People,</big></font></big></font></b></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><font
color="#660000"><big><b> Not Banks!</b></big></font><br>
</big></font></big></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big><font color="#660000"><a
title="http://bailoutpeople.org/" href="http://bailoutpeople.org/"><img
title="http://bailoutpeople.org/" alt="April 3 March on Wall Street"
src="http://bailoutpeople.org/images/s1a34card.gif"
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width="200"></a></font></big></font></big></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
Main focus of March:</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
* The need for a real jobs program<br>
* A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
The April 3 March on Wall Street will begin with an opening rally at
1:00 PM at Wall Street and Broadway, followed by a march to AIG at 70
Pine St. <i>(see details below)<br>
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</i></big></font></big></font></small>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><small><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
<font color="#660000"><b>The Bail Out the People Movement Statement on
AIG and the Latest Bank Bailout Plan</b></font></big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
</big></font></big></font></small>
<ul>
<li><small><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>The
new plan still bails out banks, not people</big></font></big></font></small>
</li>
<li><small><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>AIG
outrage must fuel a struggle for a real jobs program</big></font></big></font></small>
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<small><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>On
Friday, April 3, the Bail Out the People Movement, a growing coalition
of hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, will march on
Wall Street and AIG.</big></font></big></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big> Protesters on April 3 will bring demands
for a real jobs program, a moratorium on foreclosures, and other
necessary programs for bailing out the people, not banks and Wall
Street financial institutions.<br>
<br>
The growing anger over the AIG bonus bonanza, outrageous as it is, is
really about the fact that trillions of dollars are being deployed to
rescue the wealthiest on Wall Street, while the unemployment and
foreclosure rates continue to head towards depression</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><a title="http://bailoutpeople.org/"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org"><img title="http://bailoutpeople.org/"
alt="April 3 March on Wall Street"
src="http://bailoutpeople.org/images/laborbutton.jpg"
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width="150"></a></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big> levels.</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
The mass anger at Wall Street will be wasted unless it is used to focus
on the real crisis.<br>
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At the April 3 March on Wall Street, the Bail Out The People Movement
will open a</big></font></big></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big> nationwide petition campaign for an
emergency jobs program on the scale of the Work Projects Administration
of the 1930s. The stimulus legislation is far too little to make</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> even a dent in
the estimated 20 million people who are jobless or underemployed. The
unemployed need a real jobs program, and they need it now.<br>
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The April 3 Wall Street march will also focus attention on the need for
an immediate national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Such a
moratorium should have been put in place two years ago. It is
unacceptable and scandalous, considering the</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> historically
unprecedented level of government interventions and control of the
mortgage industry and the banks, that the government has failed to
order an end to evictions</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
Taxing multimillion dollar bonuses, putting a cap on corporate pay, and
new regulations on the banks may be good ideas, but they are no
substitute for a jobs program of sufficient scope and size to stop and
reverse the unemployment crisis.<br>
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Moreover, the measures being proposed in Washington are no substitute
for a vitally</big></font></big></font><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big> necessary single-payer health care
program for all or the need for the passage and signing into law of the
Employee Free Choice Act, so that working people will be bet</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>ter able to
organize and defend themselves against the robber barons of Wall Street.<br>
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The new so-called public/private bank bailout plan is a thinly veiled
attempt to make it appear as though private investors will share the
burden of bailed out banks. With the new plan, 90 percent of bailout
funds, or at least one trillion dollars,</big></font></big></font></small><font
face="Georgia"><a title="http://bailoutpeople.org/"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org"><img title="http://bailoutpeople.org/"
alt="April 3 March on Wall Street"
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width="124"></a></font><small><font face="Georgia"><big><font
face="Clearface Gothic"><big> will come from the government.</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
The new plan is premised on exact same rational as the last bank bail
out plan. The government will continue to pump trillions of dollars in
to the banks until the banks are declared fixed. In the meantime, the
lives of tens of millions more</big></font></big></font></small><small><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> people are
going to slide into life-threatening poverty.<br>
</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>The
time has come for this rationale to be rejected. The idea that some
banks are too big to fail but untold millions of peoples' lives can be
devastated, or that profits must</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> come before
the welfare of the people, are not commandments from heaven but rules
made down here on earth to protect the interest of the few against that
of the many.<br>
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Henceforth, the fight must be about reversing the flow of government
money away from the banks and into social needs.<br>
</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big>Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated the last year of his life to trying to
open up what he considered the second phase of the civil rights
movement: the fight for economic</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> justice.
King's main focus in the few months of 1968, before being</big></font></big></font></small><small><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> gunned down on
April 4, was to win public support for the right of all to either a job
or an income.<br>
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As King planned the poor peoples' march on Washington in those final
weeks, nowhere did he ever mention that the need and the right to a job
or an income must be based on the solvency of JP Morgan Chase,
Citicorp, Bank Of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman</big></font></big></font><font
face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> Sachs, etc.
and their power to turn the economy on and off depending on what makes
them richer.<br>
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The message that thousands of marchers will bring to Wall St. on Friday
April 3, the day before the 41st anniversary of King's death, is that
society can no longer allow for jobs, housing, healthcare and all that
people need to be held hostage to the arrogance, greed and power of
bankers.</big></font></big><br>
</font><font face="Georgia"><big><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
In addition to the need for a real jobs program and a moratorium on
evictions, some of the other issues that the April 3 march on Wall St.
will be drawing attention to include:</big></font></big><br>
</font></small><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big><br>
* The need for an immediate moratorium on layoffs and cuts in
social programs<br>
* Opposition to tuition hikes and public transportation fare hikes<br>
* Single payer health care for ALL</big><br>
</font><font face="Clearface Gothic"><big> * Support the Employee
Free Choice Act<br>
* Support the rights of immigrant workers<br>
* An end to wars and occupations</big><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#330000"
face="Clearface GothicLH">*** </font><font color="#330000"
face="Clearface GothicLH">Building a national march requires printing
tens of thousands of leaflets, posters, and stickers, as well as
preparing placards and banners and providing sound for the rally and
march. Please consider making </font><font color="#330000"
face="Clearface GothicLH">a contribution to help with organizing
expenses at <a title="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml">http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml</a>.
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<font face="Georgia"><big><u><b><big><font color="#660000"
face="Clearface Gothic">Information on the April 3 March on Wall
Street:</font></big><br>
</b></u></big><br>
Gather at <b>1pm </b>on <b>Wall Street at Broadway</b> (<a
title="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=New+York&state=NY&address=Wall+St+%26+Broadway&zipcode=10005&country=US&latitude=40.70776&longitude=-74.0117&geocode=INTERSECTION"
href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=New+York&state=NY&address=Wall+St+%26+Broadway&zipcode=10005&country=US&latitude=40.70776&longitude=-74.0117&geocode=INTERSECTION">map</a>)<br>
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Rally on Broadway from Wall Street south to Exchange and block further
South to the 'Bull'.<br>
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<b>MARCH on AIG</b><br>
We will march through the narrow streets of the New York Financial
District - </font><font face="Georgia">Major financial institutions
are all along Broadway and within one block of Rally - Chase, Fidelity,
American Express, the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve, and
more.<br>
<br>
We will march east on Pine to the </font><font face="Georgia">AIG
Buildings at 70 Pine and 80 Pine and then to the AIG Building at 125
Water St.<br>
Then, we will march north on Water Street to Foley Square, for an
ending rally at 5:15 at Foley Square<br>
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<b>Public Transportation: </b>(<a
title="http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf"
href="http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf">map</a>)<br>
2, 4, or 5 to Wall Street<br>
R or W to Rector Street<br>
J, M or Z to Broad Street<br>
M1, M6 or M15 to Broadway-Nassau/Fulton Street<br>
NJ PATH trains to World Trade Center and 5 minute walk.<br>
<br>
<b>Bus Drop Off: </b>on Broadway at Wall Street<br>
<b>Bus Pick up: </b>at Foley Square<br>
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