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<b><small><font face="Arial">in this email:<br>
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1) 8/25 Bail Out the People/G20 Organizing Committee Meeting<br>
2) A Call to Join the National March for Jobs<br>
3) What Those Guns Signify</font></small></b><br>
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</font></b><small><font face="Arial"><b><big><font color="#660000">1)
8/25 - 6:30
pm - Action Center, 284 Amory St. (The Brewery), Jamaica Plain - Next
Bail Out the People Meeting/G20 Organizing Committee Meeting.</font></big></b><br>
<br>
Everyone is invited to attend this meeting and help plan for a strong
delegation from Boston to go to Pittsburgh and participate in the many
actions being organized to coincide with the meeting of the G20. There
is less than a month before the National March for Jobs will take place
in Pittsburgh on September 20th and we have a lot to do to prepare.<br>
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<ul>
<li><small><font face="Arial">Sunday, September 20 - Rally &
March for a Real Jobs Program</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Arial">Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for
the Unemployed & Supporters the weekend before the G-20 Summit</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Arial">Organizing Caravans of Unemployed
People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of
September 19-26</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Arial">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!"</font></small></li>
</ul>
<small><font face="Arial">In addition we will be discussing our own
fightback here in the Boston area against racism, war, unemployment,
racist attacks on immigrants, foreclosures, the resegregation of the
Boston schools, rate hikes, police brutality, racial profiling, attacks
on healthcare reform, and more. Find out how you can become involved!<br>
<br>
<b><font color="#660000">FUNDS ARE NEEDED!</font></b> It will take a
significant amount of fundraising so that everyone who wants to go to
Pittsburgh for the G20 are able to. Please consider making a donation
to help with this effort.<br>
Donations can be made online - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml">http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml</a>
(Please put in the comment field that your donation is for the Boston
G20 organizing)<br>
<br>
<b>San Francisco Labor Council - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/sflc.shtml">http://bailoutpeople.org/sflc.shtml</a>,
ILWU (International Longshore Workers Union) and the Letter Carriers
Union Local 214 pass resolutions supporting the September 20 March for
Jobs.</b><br>
<br>
<b>Download flyer - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bopm-boston.blogspot.com/">http://bopm-boston.blogspot.com/</a></b><br>
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<b><big><font color="#660000">2) A CALL TO JOIN THE NATIONAL MARCH FOR
JOBS - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/pdfs/G20call.pdf">http://bailoutpeople.org/pdfs/G20call.pdf</a></font></big></b><br>
<br>
BEFORE THE G-20 COUNTRIES meet in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 & 25 to
discuss the world economic crisis, they must be reminded of the
suffering,<br>
desperation and anger of the millions whose lives are being devastated
by this crisis. March in Pittsburgh on Sun., Sept. 20 so that this
suffering will no longer be invisible and silent. (There will be
protest all week but we chose Sunday so people could come from across
the country). <br>
<br>
Remind all governments, including our own, that their priority must be
creating a real jobs program of permanent, full-time living wage jobs.
If there’s money to bail out banks and fund wars, then there must also
be money to provide healthcare, stop foreclosures and bail out the
unemployed. <br>
<br>
Activists will erect a tent city dedicated to the unemployed, the
underemployed, and the poor next to the Monumental Baptist Church
(located in the historic African-American Hill section of Pittsburgh
near the downtown area and the G-20 Summit) that will stand the entire
week of the G-20 summit. “MARCH FOR JOBS” CARAVANS of unemployed people
& supporters from across the country will converge on Pittsburgh to
join the march and tent city.<br>
<br>
The real jobless rate is 20% and higher in much of the country
(including workers who can only find parttime, temp or low-wage jobs;
those who’ve stopped looking for work; those who’ve never had a job;
those who have seen their working hours cutback or have been
furloughed).<br>
<br>
Many are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Young African
Americans have a better chance of being incarcerated than they have of
finding a job. Laid-off auto workers are losing their homes to
foreclosures and veterans are returning home only to end up homeless.<br>
<br>
The stimulus bill passed last winter was not enough. No matter what
happens in the broader economy many jobs are not coming back and
widespread layoffs are going to continue. Yet, the government is under
constant pressure from Wall St. to ignore the needs of the jobless.
That pressure must no longer be one-sided. <br>
<br>
Martin Luther King Jr. once called “the second civil rights movement”
the fight for the right to a job or a guaranteed income. King dedicated
the last year of his life to planning a mass movement for jobs. King’s
dream for a jobs movement has to be revived. No doubt, King would have
known that even a remarkable and historic president like Barack Obama
cannot do alone, what it takes a movement to do. <br>
<br>
Delaying a movement for jobs will only mean more desperation, coupled
with a sense of hopelessness. When people in crisis are not fighting
for their rights, they are more susceptible to blaming themselves or
blaming others like immigrant workers instead of making demands on the
powers that be. When people stand up for themselves, hopelessness is
replaced by empowerment, solidarity and dignity.<br>
<br>
During the depression of the 1930s, President Roosevelt once told a
labor leader who was asking him to do more for working people—“I agree
with you, now make me do it.” That was good advice 75 years ago; we
should heed it today. Marching in Pittsburgh before the G-20 is a
beginning.<br>
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color="#660000"><big><b>3</b></big></font><b><big><font color="#660000">)
</font><font color="#660000">What Those Guns Signify</font></big></b></font></small>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">When a man dropped his gun at a town hall
forum in Arizona, it was a sign that
the town hall disruptions around the country were about much more than
health
care reform.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Just a few days after the Arizona
incident, a man bearing a sidearm appeared
outside President Barack Obama’s Aug. 11 town hall meeting in
Portsmouth,
N.H. He was holding a sign stating, “It is time to water the tree of
liberty.” It was a reference to Thomas Jefferson’s famous
statement, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with
the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It represented a clear threat to
the
life of President Obama.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Most recently about a dozen armed
right-wingers were seen carrying guns outside
the Phoenix Convention Center, where Obama spoke to veterans on Aug. 17.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">It is now safe to say what most observers
already know in their heart—the
town hall disruptions have little to do with health reform.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Yes, the topic of discussion at many of
these forums is health care. And yes,
there is a severe health care crisis in the United States that the
Democratic
health care plan does far too little to address.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">That, however, is not why right-wingers
are bringing their guns to town.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Health care is not the reason conservative
radio host Mike Levin stated that
Obama is “literally at war with the American people.” Anger over
health care does not explain Fox News host Glenn Beck’s comment that
Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.” It is
insufficient to explain former Republican vice presidential candidate
Sara
Palin’s lie that Obama was planning “death panels” for the
elderly and the disabled.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">No, what these words and actions expose is
an orchestrated campaign by the
extreme right to whip up the most backward whites into a racist frenzy
by using
President Obama as a fall guy for the worst economic crisis since the
Great
Depression.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">It is an attempt to channel the legitimate
anger over joblessness and lack of
health care into a racist backlash that divides the multinational
working
class, separates white workers from their Black and Latino/a brothers
and
sisters, and prevents a unified class struggle capable of taking on the
ruling
class, from Washington to Wall Street.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">In this respect health care is being used
as a wedge issue much the same as
abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration are used by the ruling
class to
divide workers.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Why aren’t the leaders of organized labor
mobilizing the rank and file
against racism and for jobs as well as health care?</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Where are the mass marches of workers
demanding a jobs program at a living
wage? Where are the caravans of uninsured and unemployed workers
traveling the
country in a dramatic call for jobs and health care for all?</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">With more than 16 million workers
organized at the points of production and
service delivery and hundreds of millions of dollars in union dues at
their
disposal, the only thing stopping the labor unions from mobilizing a
mass
movement around these issues is the will to do so.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">In the absence of a sizeable left movement
in this country, the most
reactionary elements of the right wing have been emboldened.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">A highly significant step in building a
working-class response to the economic
crisis is the September 20 National March for Jobs in Pittsburgh. The
jobs
march is scheduled just days before government leaders and finance
ministers
from some of the world’s richest countries meet there as part of the
G-20
Summit to figure out how to save themselves in the midst of the global
economic
crisis.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Some brave local union leaders, including
the San Francisco Labor Council, the
International Longshore and Warehouse Local 10 and the Letter Carriers
Local
214, have endorsed the call for a jobs march. Where will you be on
Sept.
20?</font></small></p>
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