[Peace-discuss] The Organizers's 8-Point "People's Bailout" Plan

[Ricky Baldwin]

Here's a mostly good proposal, although I think it doesn't quite go far enough.  That is, it isn't comprehensive enough, on the order of the kind of "Social Monetary Fund" I've mentioned, but the points are all valuable (with the exception, unfortunately, I have to admit, along with Chomsky, and the Financial Times - ugh -  that point number 1 is probably dangerously naive, depending on exactly what the author means by it.)

 
In Solidarity,
Ricky


"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn



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Subject: Petition: Support 8-Point "People's Bailout" Plan!

Petition: Support 8-Point "People's Bailout"
Plan! 
THE ORGANIZER NEWSPAPER
P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA
94140.
Tel. (415) 641-8616; fax: (415)
824-1072
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The Demands for
Change Expressed on Nov. 4 Must NOW Be Heeded Now!

[Please Endorse
this 8-Point "People's Bailout" Plan and Help Us Promote it
Widely!]

Nov. 4 was an historic election, not because electing the
nation's first Black president signifies the end of racist oppression
in this country, but because millions of Blacks, Latinos, youth, and
working people of all backgrounds seized on this election to say:
Enough is enough, racism and oppression must end now. In the context
of the deepening economic crisis, the election also was a cry from
working people of all backgrounds: We cannot accept the destruction of
our jobs, our homes, our public services and our communities -- this
crisis is not of our making and we should not be made to pay for
it.

At this historic crossroads facing our country, we, the undersigned,
believe it is more urgent than ever to forge the broadest unity in
action of the labor movement, Black and Latino organizations, antiwar
and other social protest movements to secure the emergency measures
needed to address the pressing needs of all working people and
oppressed nationalities.

Here are eight
fundamental demands that we believe should be included in an Emergency
Plan to Plan to Bail out Working People --NOT Wall
Street.

1) Put a halt to the Paulson bailout plan. Not one more penny should
be earmarked to bail out Wall Street. It's time to bail out working
people.

2) Enact a moratorium on all home foreclosures, utility shut-offs,
evictions and rent hikes.

3) Enact a universal, single-payer healthcare plan.

4) Enact the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) so that every worker can
have union representation.

5) Stop the layoffs in auto and other industries across the country.
Nationalize the Big 3 automakers.

6) Stop the ICE raids and deportations.

7) End all funding for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring
our troops home now. Redirect all war funding to meet human
needs.

8) Enact a massive national reconstruction public works program to
rebuild the nation's schools, hospitals and crumbling infrastructure
and to put millions of people back to work, with a living wage.
Provide all necessary funding for a genuine Reconstruction program in
the Gulf Coast.

ENDORSEMENT /
CAMPAIGN COUPON INITIATED BY THE ORGANIZER NEWSPAPER

[   ]   I endorse this statement

[   ]   I would like to promote this effort. 
Please contact me asap!

NAME

UNION/ORG (for id. only)

CITY

STATE

EMAIL

(fill out and return
it to The Organizer Newspaper at <theorganizer at earthlink.net> or
to P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA 94140. For more information, or
to get involved, call 415-641-8616.)



      
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