[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Next week: will you join us?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

'The “99% Spring” Brings Co-optation into Full Bloom':
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/05/counter-insurgency-as-insurgency/


On Apr 5, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Karen Medina wrote:

> Several people wrote something similar to this: > Are you sure? "99%  
> Spring" is the title MoveOn, Jones' Dream, etc. are using.
>
> Dave Johnson would know for sure. On the Labor Hour, they mentioned  
> two training sessions and I thought JWJ was careful about this, but  
> maybe the National JWJ is being suckered in.
>
> -karen medina
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> On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
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> This training is through Jobs With Justice. This is not the move-on  
> training.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jobs with Justice <jwjnational at jwj.org>
> The 99% Spring is coming.
>
> This Spring, Jobs with Justice is proud to have joined with groups  
> from every corner of our movement to plan a massive campaign of bold  
> nonviolent direct actions to make the voices of the 99% impossible  
> to ignore.
>
> The key is making the 99% Spring as big as possible. That's why next  
> week, in small towns and big cities all across America, 100,000  
> people will come together for an unprecedented national movement- 
> wide nonviolent direct action training. We'll learn to tell the  
> story of our economy and what went wrong, we'll learn the history of  
> nonviolent direct action, and we'll learn how we can take action and  
> create change. Local organizations and volunteers are running more  
> than 750 trainings in living rooms, union halls, churches, and  
> community centers nationwide.
>
> Will you join the 99% Spring? Click here to find the training  
> closest to you.
>
> Our nation's greatest steps forward have come when everyday people  
> stood up and took courageous, visionary, morally compelling direct  
> action—from the struggle to secure the vote for women, to the  
> strikes that built power for workers and unions, to the civil rights  
> movement.
>
> Last year, from the Wisconsin workers who took over their state  
> capitol to Occupy Wall Street, we saw a new movement in America  
> using direct action to highlight the massive inequality that's  
> destroying our country.
>
> The 99% Spring is our chance to maintain and broaden that change- 
> making energy, and learn how we can take action to challenge  
> corporate power, end tax giveaways to the 1%, fight the influence of  
> money in politics, and create an economy that works for all of us.  
> We’ll be taking the fight to the doors of some of the worst of the  
> worst: Bank of America, Sallie Mae, Wal-Mart, Verizon and Wells Fargo.
>
> Our movement is uniting, and we have the opportunity to create a  
> powerful shift in our country. It all starts this Spring. Will you  
> join in?
>
> Click here to sign up for a 99% Spring action training in your area.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Jobs with Justice
>
> P.S. Last week, our very own Sarita Gupta was featured on Bill  
> Moyers' show to discuss next week's 99% Spring and the power of  
> collective action. If you missed the airing, check out the clip on  
> our blog.
>
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> -- karen medina
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