California Activists Organizing Bus Caravan to Pittsburgh for Jobs March & Tent
City Say:
Revive Dr. King's Dream of a Movement for a RIGHT
TO A JOB
The Unemployed, the Homeless, the Hungry and Poor must
no longer be INVISIBLE & SILENT!
Partial List of Conveners
Rev. Thomas
Smith, Pastor, Monumental Baptist
Church, Pittsburgh
Bill Robinson,
Allegheny County Commissioner, Pittsburgh
Rosie Martinez, President
Latino Caucus, SEIU Local 721 Califonia
Luisa Gratz, President ILWU Local 26
and Sec./Treasurer Southern California District Council
Rev. Graylan Hagler, Pres., Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice of the United
Church of Christ
Donna
DeWitt, Pres., South Carolina AFL-CIO
Council
Abayomi
Azikiwe, Moratorium NOW! Coalition,
Detroit
Rob
Robinson,
Picture The Homeless, New York
Katie Robbins,
Ass. Nat’l Coord. Healthcare-NOW!
Frantz
Mendes, Pres.
USW
Lo. 8751, School Bus Drivers, Boston
Cheri
Honkala, Nat'l
Organizer,
Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign
Rev. Bruce
Wright,
Refuge Ministries
Charles
Barron, New York City Council
Member
Brenda
Walker, Operation
POWER
Chris
Silvera, Sec-Treas., Teamsters Local 808,
NYC
Clarence
Thomas, ILWU Local 10, San
Francisco
Brenda
Stokely, NYC Katrina
&
Rita Hurricane Survivors Network
Rev. Lucius
Walker,
Pastors For Peace
Cynthia
McKinney, DIGNITY
Fr. Luis
Barrios, Human Rights
Activist
Saladin
Muhammed, Black Workers For
Justice
Ramsey
Clark, Former U.S. Attorney
General
Bishop Felipe
Teixeira
Cindy
Sheehan, Anti-war & Human Rights
activist
Darren
Graves, Humanities Comm. Chair,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen*
Lawrence
Hamm, Chairperson, People's
Organization For Progress
Dave
Welsh, Delegate,
San Francisco Labor Council
Barbara
Vedder, County Board Supervisor, Dane,
Madison, Wisconsin
Bill
Reuther, Trustee, Ohio Valley Trades &
Labor Assembly,* Wheeling, WV
In front of the eyes of government
leaders:
National March for
JOBS
In Pittsburgh SUN. SEPT. 20 at G-20 Summit
Contact: Bail Out the People Movement -
323-306-6240 "Why am I organizing a bus to
Pittsburgh?"
Because we have no choice, it's a matter of
survival."
-- said by one of the many California activists building
California'sparticipation in the Jobs March at the G-20
Summit.
Please donate generously
to help with the cost of transportation, food and
lodging. California
is now reeling from the fourth largest unemployment rate in
the nation while legislators continue to cut basic services and foreclosures in
the state continue at a record pace. This is why the feeling of desperation, as
echoed by the previous statement, is felt by many and growing here. Why,
because it is now clear that the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S.
Congress in March has done little to stop the loss of jobs. In fact, things are
only getting worse. We must therefore, make the Global Week of Solidarity with
the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20
Summit, have the greatest impact.
The Time is Now - It Won't Happen Unless You
Get Involved Although providing
transportation for especially unemployed workers across the country is an
expensive venture, we must make it happen. Why? A delegation of participants
who traveled great lengths and made stops along the way to highlight
California's growing jobless and homeless plight is decisive.
California's economy and its worsening trend has become a crystal ball
showing the bleak future for working people in the entire nation and an example
of how politicians refuse to address the needs of working and poor people and
instead cater to the needs of the super rich monopoly banks and corporations.
Buses and caravans to Pittsburgh would say in a loud clear voice:
CHANGE WILL ONLY COME WHEN WE MAKE IT - WHEN WE DEMAND IT!
All over the world in September eyes will be on
Pittsburgh, where the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the
biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments,
finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit
hear and cater to the concerns of bankers and corporate executives all the
time. We must make them hear and respond to the demands of the millions of
people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of this crisis. We
therefore need your help filling the bus and sponsoring unemployed activists
who want to march in Pittsburgh. Would you or your organization want to sponsor
an unemployed worker for $150 or send a delegation? Call us right away at (323)
306-6240 for more information or to purchase tickets for the bus or
volunteer. Martin Luther King Jr. once called
"the second civil rights movement" the fight for the right to a job
or a guaranteed income." Dr. King dedicated the last year of his life to
planning a mass movement for jobs. Right now, the Bail
Out the People Movement, along with the United Electrical Workers union (UE),
United Steeloworkers Union (USW), Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheen and many other
community, labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize
the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S. and
worldwide to the G20 summit. History, once again
validates Dr. King's dream for a jobs movement. This must be revived. No
doubt, King would have known that even an historic president like Barack Obama
cannot do alone, what it takes a movement to do.
What Can You Do!
Have your Union/Community/Religious or Student
Organization.endorse - ASAP!
GET ON THE BUS ! ! -
"JOB IS A RIGHT - STOP
THE SOCIAL SERVICE CUTS"
There will be a bus leaving from California
to Pittsburgh.
RIDE WITH US OR SPONSOR AN UNEMPLOYED
WORKER
- Call the Los Angeles Bail Out the People Campaign
At: (323) 306-6240 to reserve your seat or DONATE to send an unemployed worker.
Have an Organizer address a meeting of your organization
-
GET THE WORD OUT:
Please download and distribute the
flier Download Flier in Spanish - En
Español
In the spirit of unity, justice and
peace, Call
us: Los Angeles: 323-306-6240 or in
San
Francisco: 415-738-4739
Pittsburgh: 412-780-3813BAIL
OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT
bailoutpeople.org
