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<b><font face="Arial">in this email:<br>
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1) 4/21 - Bail Out The People Movement Meeting<br>
2) Boston protesters disrupt Palin’s Tea-Party rant<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Arial"><b>1) Bail Out the People
Movement meeting and discussion</b><br>
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Get involved and help build the <a
href="http://bopm-boston.blogspot.com/">May 8 Jobs Protest</a> in
Washington DC<br>
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<big><big><b>Wednesday, April 21 - 6:30 pm</b></big></big><br>
Action Center<br>
284 Amory St. (the Brewery), Jamaica Plain<br>
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There will also be a reportback and discussion on the successful April
14th Anti-Tea Party/Palin protest<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Arial"><b>2)</b><br>
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<h1><font face="Arial">Boston protesters disrupt Palin’s Tea-Party rant</font></h1>
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<div class="deck"><font face="Arial">Banner says: “Union jobs &
healthcare for all! Stop the pro-war, racist, sexist, anti-LGBT
Palin/Tea Party attack!”</font></div>
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<div class="byline"><font face="Arial">By Steve Gillis<br>
Vice President, Steelworkers Local 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">April 14 — The corporate media may give it a
different spin, but for
Palin and Wall Street’s Tea Party, Boston was a bust.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The day started with immediate tension as Bail
Out the People Movement
activists and the mostly Haitian-origin staff of Steelworkers Local
8751
unfurled their banner in the middle of the Tea Party’s rally here
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<p><font face="Arial">The banner read: “Union jobs & healthcare for
all! Stop the pro-war,
racist, sexist, anti-LGBT Palin/Tea Party attack!” At Boston’s Park
Street subway station on Boston Common in the heart of downtown, the
anti-racists were immediately surrounded by screaming white men, some
wearing
hardhats and carrying U.S. flags. Police dressed for battle looked on,
smiling
at the Tea Party gang.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Overcoming their hesitation, the anti-racists got
out the bullhorns and took
the racist forces on politically. They said that unions are in favor of
free
healthcare for all people and want a government-sponsored jobs program
for all
of our millions of unemployed sisters and brothers.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Within minutes, passersby were stopping to say,
“Right on!” Some
asked for signs and joined us for awhile. The red-faced white guys with
signs
reading something about “Tread on me” gradually took off, muttering
profanities.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">For 20 minutes the anti-racists took turns
talking into the loudspeakers,
telling the truth about the corporate-sponsored Tea Party. They told
how Tea
Party followers had spit on the Congressional Black Caucus in
Washington, D.C.,
a few weeks ago, hurling racist epithets at Rep. John Lewis, a hero of
the
Civil Rights Movement. They told how Tea Party members vomited anti-gay
invectives at Rep. Barney Frank.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial"><strong>Class program wins support</strong></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The anti-racists made it clear that what the
union movement supports is
government-sponsored healthcare for all people. It wants a massive
program of
job creation for public projects to put all people back to productive
work to
support their families. By then, their ranks had tripled.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">A young woman who’s been leading Friday night
cypher youth discussions at
the BOPM office showed up and took over the banner. Veterans for Peace
activists joined with their flags. Some college students came with
signs
denouncing homophobia and Tea Party bigotry. It was hugs all around
when a
transgendered activist stopped on his way to the statehouse to demand
transgender inclusion in anti-discrimination legislation. Thousands of
thumbs-up and vocal support from folks on the street emboldened the
group to
march in the line of Tea Party dupes toward the stage.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The multimillion-dollar, multimedia outdoor stage
was surrounded by TV trucks
and a police cordon. When the nearly 100 protesters reached the stage
perimeter, anti-racist organizers hooked up a more powerful mobile
sound unit
and started a program of speakers and chanting.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Special Operations police forces soon shut it
down, with threats of arrests for
permit violations and complaints that the Tea Party speakers couldn’t
be
heard over the noise. A young Asian woman activist from the Coalition
for
Equal, Quality Education urged protesters to march. They began moving
through
the outskirts of the crowd, discovering hundreds of people who had come
to
oppose the racists.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The bullhorns went back on. The march began
snaking through the lemonade and
pretzel stands where people were selling hate literature, buttons and
T-shirts
at tables paid for by Wall Street contributions. Plenty of middle
fingers,
spittle-covered curses, shoves, blocks, taunts and ear-splitting
whistles from
red-faced haters greeted the anti-racists, whose numbers continued to
swell.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">There were a few thousand in the Tea Party crowd,
not the 10,000 to 20,000
predicted by Fox, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the front page of the
Boston
Herald. Still, many Tea Party opponents stayed on the sidelines in
silent
protest, perhaps fearing the increasingly agitated and violent
reactions of the
Sarah Palin-inspired haters. The master of ceremonies announced Palin’s
entrance for what was to be a vicious anti-immigrant speech.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial"><strong>Action disrupts Palin’s delivery</strong></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Just then, the marching protesters reached a
critical, determined mass, and
took a left into the crowd, pick-and-rolling around the police line,
directly
toward stage right. As Palin opened her vitriol, the people on the move
chanted, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Palin/Tea Party go away!” while
fending off punches, kicks, body blocks and other violence.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Not 20 yards from the stage, completely
surrounded by and face to face with
screaming, violent Tea Partiers, the anti-racists were able to keep
their
formation moving and message blaring, with the people’s union security
fending off the blows and pushing forward, until the bigots erupted
with
whistles and unison booing.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Palin appeared dumbfounded, standing there for
the longest time speechless and
wide-eyed in front of the corporate media, perhaps gazing over the
horizon to
see Russia.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The protestors fought their way back to the
perimeter. There were hundreds of
young women and lesbian, gay, bi and trans anti-Tea Party people in
that part
of the crowd. They cheered the marchers, who then started their own
rally.
People took turns on the bullhorns, supporting a woman’s right to
choose,
denouncing U.S. wars and occupations, and declaring homophobia a crime.
Others
carried placards against the Afghan war, and a large blue banner
reading
“Tea Party = Racism” was on display. Protesters, who numbered in
the hundreds, were visible throughout the crowd.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The protest was a step forward for people ready
to fight the capitalist
system’s tricks, diversions and violent organizational maneuvers to
maintain its dominance over the vast majority of the world’s working
and
oppressed peoples.</font></p>
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<b>Bail Out The People Movement<br>
Boston</b><br>
617-522-6626<br>
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<a href="http://bopm-boston.blogspot.com">http://bopm-boston.blogspot.com</a><br>
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