This leaflet by the Moratorium NOW! coalition was issued for Labor Day in Detroit. It applies to all states thus we are making it available here. The Moratorium NOW! coalition is a member of the Bail Out The People Movement.
https://wibailoutpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/obama_flyer_full_employment.pdf
WI Flyer: https://wibailoutpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/wi_obama_flyer.pdf
The leaflet reads in part:
” President Obama must take action through executive order to defend our rights to our jobs and our homes. Just as the Presidents bypassed Congress to wage wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, President Obama must bypass Congress to declare a war on unemployment and foreclosures and evictions that are destroying our communities…
…The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, Section 3111, mandates that when high unemployment persists (ie during a jobless recovery) the President is required to initiate supplementary programs to reduce unemployment. Included among these programs are (1) accelerated public works programs (2) public service employment; (3) State and local grant programs; (4) extending unemployment insurance; skill training in both the private and public sector; and (6) youth employment programs…
…In the 1930’s, as a direct result of the mass struggles of the unemployed and unions, 25 states implemented Moratoriums on Foreclosures. The Michigan Moratorium Act outlawed foreclosures for 5 years. In addition, the federal WPA, Works Progress Administration, put 8 million people to work, building schools, highways, bridges and dams which are still functioning today. It was people hitting the streets in the millions that won these victories. It’s time to revive that movement to guarantee our rights to jobs and housing, and to demand that President Obama represent the workers and poor who elected him, not the billionaires, bankers and generals who are setting policy today.”
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Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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