Bail Out the People-Not the Banks!

The Bailout the People Movement (BOPM) is a national network that was founded in Oct., 2008, to oppose the trillion dollar bank bail out and demand that the people get bailed out instead.

Since then BOPM has taken up the most crucial issues facing workers, students and ordinary people: including jobs; foreclosures and evictions; education and student rights; immigrant and worker’s rights; stopping racism and hate groups like the Tea Party; opposing the ongoing wars that are bleeding the economy dry; advocating for health care for all; and much, much more.

We held the first national protest around joblessness calling for a “Real Jobs Program” at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

We are fighting for a national Public Works Jobs Program much like the WPA enacted during the Great Depression, for a moratorium on home foreclosures, evictions and utility shut-offs, the Employee Free Choice Act and full rights for immigrant workers.

Please join us! You can get in touch with a BOPM chapter near you or with the many allied groups we are working with such as the Moratorium Now Coalition in Detroit.

Our national office in New York City helps to provide assistance and organizing help to all. Contact us.

DC jobs protest says: Build People's Assemblies

In a powerful, energetic and inspiring day of action, activists, unemployed people, students and youth, and community organizers from across the East Coast and Midwest converged on the Department of Labor on May 8 to honor the 75th anniversary of the Works Projects Administration — by demanding a concrete jobs program, now. They then held a meeting to strategize around their demands and plan future events.

Proposed actions resulting from the meeting include the creation of People's Assemblies to be held in various cities to help link struggles and movements together; national days of outrage and local speak-outs against unemployment; community-labor action committees inside local unions to support the fight for jobs; and connecting with student and youth calls for an Oct. 7 day of action in support of public education.

According to a press release from the day's organizers, the Bail Out the People Movement: "Seventy-five years ago ... on May 6, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order establishing the Work Projects Administration, the biggest public jobs program in the history of the country. Between 1935 and 1941, more than 8 million WPA workers did every job imaginable — from building bridges, schools and hospitals, to teaching school and helping to make migrant worker camps livable."

25,000 on May Day at Union Square demand: 'Legalization & jobs for all workers!'

May Day at Union Square was a stunning sight as thousands poured into the park to send a resounding message of repudiation against the recently passed SB1071 law in Arizona. They demanded legalization for the undocumented as well as jobs, housing, education and social services for all.

Union Square has been the site of previous May Day rallies. This year a program of speakers and revolutionary rappers was followed by a two-mile march downtown to Federal Plaza. Their ranks grew along the way as they chanted "Boycott Arizona!" and "Si se puede!" (Yes, we can!).

People of all nationalities who crowded the sidewalks of lower Broadway were clearly friendly to the march. As they read the signs and heard the chants, some joined in while others gave peace signs and thumbs up.

Unity NOT racism!
Unity NOT anti-immigrant bigotry!
Unity NOT islamaphobia!

Only a unified workers' struggle can win JOBS, reinforce health care, save our schools and restore all social benefits.

Solidarity NOW.

Don't let the warmakers once again misuse the memory of 9/11 to prepare other illegal, criminal wars of aggression against peoples in Moslem countries.

Bailout the People Movement urges you to please add your support to the Sept 11 Solidarity with Muslims Against Racism and anti-Islamic Bigotry.

Endorse this Call to Action AT
http://www.iacenter.org/moslemsolidarityendorse

DC jobs protest says: Build People's Assemblies

25,000 on May Day at Union Square demand: 'Legalization & jobs for all workers!'

Unity NOT racism!Unity NOT anti-immigrant bigotry!Unity NOT islamaphobia!

Only a unified workers' struggle can win JOBS, reinforce health care, save our schools and restore all social benefits.

Solidarity NOW.

Don't let the warmakers once again misuse the memory of 9/11 to prepare other illegal, criminal wars of aggression against peoples in Moslem countries.

Bailout the People Movement urges you to please add your support to the Sept 11 Solidarity with Muslims Against Racism and anti-Islamic Bigotry.

Endorse this Call to Action AT http://www.iacenter.org/moslemsolidarityendorse

DC jobs protest says: Build People's Assemblies

25,000 on May Day at Union Square demand: 'Legalization & jobs for all workers!'

Unity NOT racism!
Unity NOT anti-immigrant bigotry!
Unity NOT islamaphobia!

Endorse this Call to Action AT
http://www.iacenter.org/moslemsolidarityendorse