http://saveamericaspostalservice.org/petition.html

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You can contact your Senator here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Also, call President Obama at 202-456-1111

Sisters and Brothers,

A serious attack on our civil liberties is underway in Congress.  Congress is passing the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision that allows the President to authorize the military to detain anyone suspected of ‘terrorism’ indefinitely, inside or outside the United States, without trial.  Congressional leaders are now meeting in secret, and some want this passed into law within the next few weeks.

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression urges you to contact your U.S. Senator and tell them to vote against “indefinite detention without trial.”

We need to do everything in our power to push back against repression.  Under the guise of the preventing ‘terrorism’ our democratic rights are being taken away.  We have seen this in the case of the 24 anti-war and international solidarity activists who were raided by the FBI and/or called to the grand jury investigating “material support for Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”   And we have seen this in the prosecution of veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes.

Over the past decade this repression has led to the jailing or deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims.  We need to say enough is enough.

This happened before in 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. military to round up 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps, without charges or trials. Years later a U.S. government commission called this a result of “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Let your U.S. Senators and President Obama know: “I do not want indefinite detention without trial to become law.”

You can contact your Senator here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Call President Obama at 202-456-1111

Thanks for your immediate action,
your friends at the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, http://www.stopfbi.net/

Detroit July 2011.

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From Ramona Africa of the MOVE organization:

http://www.occupy4jobs.org/

• The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the largest jobs initiative in U.S. history.
• The WPA was created during the Great Depression by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and funded by Congress with passage on April 8, 1935 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.
• Over its eight-year lifetime, the WPA spent about $11 billion and employed 8.5 million workers and youth to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, records indexing and literacy projects.
• The WPA also fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. Almost every community in the United States — including the five boroughs of New York City — had a park, bridge or school constructed by the agency.
• The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10%-30% of the costs. Hourly wages were typically set to the prevailing wages in each area.

• The WPA employed workers to work on highway, road, and street projects; public buildings, and publicly owned or operated utilities; it also funded welfare projects, including sewing projects for women, the distribution of surplus commodities and school lunch projects.
• In its early years, the WPA focused on infrastructure improvement; roads, bringing electricity to rural areas, water conservation, sanitation, reforestation and flood control. Later, public facilities became a focus; parks, buildings, utilities, schools, airports, transportation projects and even municipal golf courses were funded. The WPA also funded state-level library service demonstration projects, which aimed to create new areas of library service to underserved populations.
• WPA workers built and renovated firehouses, installed some 20,000 miles of water mains, paved more than 600,000 miles of roadways, built 78,000 bridges, 8,000 parks, and 800 airports (including LaGuardia in NYC). WPA workers were also called upon in flood, hurricane and forest fire emergencies.

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NYC Jan. 16, 2011 ‘Make MLK Day An Occupy 4 Jobs Day” flyer;

http://www.occupy4jobs.org/o4jmlknyc.shtml

 

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/IWF_The%20Price%20of%20Extremism_Dec2011.pdf

Protesting transit cuts July 2011 at Summerfest, Milwaukee.

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http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/309698

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http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/

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http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/75984

Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 (March 21, 2009)

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Please call this toll free number, 1-888-245-3381, to oppose the drastic cuts to the Federal Unemployment Insurance.

http://www.gimmefiveuaw.org/events/call-to-oppose-cuts-to-federal-unemployment-insurance

At Dec. 3, 2011 WI BOPM organizing meeting at ATU Local 998 hall. Federal Jobs Program NOW!

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