[Peace-discuss] Fwd: A Call for Action: The Million Worker March

Tue Jul 13 11:36:30 CDT 2004

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>From: "Deirdre Darnall" <deirdredarnall at hotmail.com>
>To: akagan at uiuc.edu, deirdredarnall at hotmail.com
>Subject: A Call for Action: The Million Worker March
>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:48:38 +0000
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>This is a very important message regarding the Million Worker March.
>
>Organizing committees have already mobilized support for the march 
>on the west and east coasts.  I am a member of the committee 
>responsible for mobilizing folks in the midwest, specifically 
>downstate Illinois.  I encourage everyone who recieves this email to 
>send it to everyone you know, but more importantly contact me so 
>that members of the midwest planning committee can meet with you to 
>discuss the march in more detail.   My contact info is: 
><mailto:deirdredarnall at hotmail.com>deirdredarnall at hotmail.com and 
>(217) 384-2906. You may also find more information about the march 
>on this website: 
><http://www.millionworkermarch.org/>www.millionworkermarch.org.
>
>  The march is October 17 so we need to act now in order to  make 
>this a successful event. 
>
>Below is the list of demands initiated by the Executive Board of 
>International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union.
>
>"The central reason for organizing the march is the systematic 
>outsourcing of our jobs to areas of the world where workers can be 
>exp;exploited even more ruthlessly.
>
>The destruction of labor is the culmination of longstanding policies 
>reflecting decades of actions heightened during the Reagan years and 
>enacted by all administrations.
>
>This is a call to working people to united and to mobilize around 
>our own agenda.  For the past decade we have been subject ot an 
>unrestrained corporate assault.
>
>This is the moment, this is the time for us to advance our own 
>demands, our own needs and to proclaim a political agenda in our own 
>vital interests.
>
>We shall hold all elected and other officials accountable to a 
>working people's agenda, no matter what people's expectations may be 
>of our national elections." Clarence Thomas, Executive Board of 
>ILWU, Local 10.
>
>THE LIST OF DEMANDS ON BEHALF OF WORKING PEOPLE
>
>1. Universal single-care health care form cradle to grave that ends 
>the stranglehold of greedy insurance companies and secures health 
>care as a right of all people in American
>
>2. A national living wage that lifts people permanently out of poverty
>
>3. Protection and enhancement of Social Security immune to privatization
>
>4. Guaranteed pensions that sustain a decent life for all working people
>
>5. The Cancellation of all corporate free trade agreements including 
>NAFTA, MAI and FTAA
>
>6. An end to privatization, contracting out, and deregulation and 
>the pitting of workers against each other across national boundaries
>
>7. Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants
>
>8. For workers' right to organize and for a repeal of Taft Hartley 
>and all anti-labor legislation
>
>9. Funding public education in a crash program to restore our 
>decaying and abandoned schools with state of the art facilities in 
>every community.
>
>10. Funding a vast army of teachers to end functional illiteracy in 
>America and unleash the talent an potential of our abandoned 
>children and adults
>
>11. Launching a national training program in skills and capacities 
>that will enlist our people in rebuilding our country and putting an 
>end to both the criminalization of poverty and the prison-industrial 
>complex
>
>12. Rebuilding our inner cities with modern, clean affordable 
>housing and eliminating homelessness in America with guaranteed 
>housing and jobs for all
>
>13. Progressive taxation that increases taxation on corporations and 
>the rich while providing relief for the working class and poor
>
>14. An end to the poisoning of the atmosphere, soil, water, and food 
>supply with a national emergency program to restore the environment, 
>and end global warming and preserve our endangered eco-systems
>
>15. Creating free and efficient modern mass transit for every city and town
>
>16. End the U.S. war in Iraq
>
>17. Bring the troops home now
>
>18. End the U.S. occupation of Iraq now
>
>19. End all additional funding of the war
>
>20. Repeal the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Act and all such 
>regressive legislation
>
>21. Slash the military budget and recover the trillions of dollars 
>stolen from our labor to enrich the corporations that profit from war
>
>22. Open the books on the secret budgets of the Pentagon and the 
>intelligence agencies in the service of corporations and banks and 
>the pursuit of imperial war on the poor everywhere
>
>23. Extend democracy ot our economic structure so that ll decisions 
>affecting the lives of our citizens are make by working people who 
>produce all value through their labor
>
>24. An aggressive enforcement of all civil rights and a nationaL 
>education campaign and mobilization against all racist and 
>discriminatory acts in the workplace and in our communities
>
>25. For a democratic media that allow labor and all voices to be 
>heard and oppose monopolization and union busting of media workers
>
>"ONLY OUR OWN INDEPENDENT MOBILIZATION OF WORKING PEOPLE ACROSS 
>AMERICA CAN OPEN THE WAY TO ADDRESSING OUR NEEDS AND OUR AGENDA.
>
>JOIN US, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IN AN HISTORIC MOVEMENT TO RESTORE 
>OUR DEMOCRACY, SECURE POWER FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF WORKING 
>PEOPLE AND RESTORE AMERICA." Clarence Thomas
>
>Thank you for taking the time to read this message.  I hope that 
>some or all of these demands have appealed to you enough to take 
>action by joining the Million Worker March.  Only in solidarity can 
>we accomplish change.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Deirdre Darnall, Illinois Education Association
>
>
>
>
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