https://wibailoutpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dec-3_wi_bopm_media_release.pdf
Dec 1, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Bryan G. Pfeifer: 313-559-7074
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Occupy The World! Occupy 4 Jobs!
Regional Organizing Meeting To Demand Jobs &
Moratorium On Foreclosures
MILWAUKEE: Leaders from union, student and community organizations will be comingtogether in Milwaukee on Saturday, Dec 3 to host a regional organizing meeting in the face of a worsening economic downturn in Wisconsin, the Midwest and nationally. The meeting, Occupy the World: Occupy 4 Jobs! will be held at the Amalgamated Transit Workers Local 998 headquarters, 734 N. 26th Street (& Wisconsin Ave.) in Milwaukee from 1-4 p.m.
Local activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement, organized labor, students and many community groups will be joined by speakers from Detroit, Chicago, New York and Boston who will be focused on unifying many different struggles into a broad movement for jobs and social justice. Speakers at the meeting will address the need for a federal jobs program, a moratorium on foreclosures, the immigrant rights movement, police brutality, student rights and other issues that are affecting poor and working people.
“The Wisconsin people’s uprising sparked by Wall Street’s attack on public sector unions, has led the way for many in the progressive movement nationally in how to fight back for union rights, higher wages and jobs,” said Gerry Scoppettuolo a community organizer from Boston’s Bail Out the People Movement who has come to Wisconsin this week to help organize the meeting. “This meeting will show just how broad the progressive movement is that is fighting back against poverty, racism, war and austerity. We need a moratorium on foreclosures and a massive WPA-style jobs program in this country to put millions to work at union wages.”
Speakers on Dec. 3 will include representatives from: Africans On The Move, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), AFSCME, Bail Out The People Movement, the Committee To Stop FBI Repression, Decolonize The Hood, Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST), the International Action Center (Chicago), the Latin American Solidarity Committee, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, the Moratorium Now Coalition (Detroit), New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Hood, Occupy 4 Jobs, the Pan African Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Pan African News Wire, SEIU, Stonewall Warriors (Boston), Students For A Democratic Society (SDS), the United National Anti-War Committee (UNAC), Workers World Party & more.
There will be a special Troy Davis presentation by Milwaukee cultural artist Mr. Eric Disambwa.
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