‘Occupy 4 Jobs’ day: Jan. 16
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The Next Planning Meeting For the JANUARY 16, Martin Luther King Jr.
Day
OCCUPY 4 JOBS DAY ACTION & OCCUPATION
is This Wednesday, January 11, at 7:pm at The Solidarity Center, 55 West
17th Street, 5th floor
Please Come to the meeting and help make this Martin Luther King day
Occupation for Jobs the beginning of a new drive to organize the unemployed and
underemployed
Phone #: 212-633-6646 / www.Occupy4Jobs.org
The 1,2,3,4,5,6,A,C,E,F,L,M,N,Q,R subways trains and the NJ PATH trains all
stop at 14th St -- within 2 to 3 blocks of our office.
There is free on-street parking after 6pm.
The Jan 16, MLK Day Action, will be at Union Square, 1pm.
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By Brenda Ryan
New York
Dec 19, 2011
The Occupy 4 Jobs network is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in New
York City with a direct action to demand jobs. The Jan. 16 event will begin at
1 p.m. at Union Square.
“The MLK holiday is the perfect day to do this,” said Larry
Holmes, a leading organizer of the Bail Out the People Movement, one of the
founders of Occupy 4 Jobs. “What most people don’t know is that in
the last months of his life, King was devoted to opening a struggle for
everyone to have a decent-paying job.”
In early 1968, before his April 4th assassination, King announced the Poor
People’s Campaign, which was to culminate in a March on Washington
demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights. The demands of the campaign
were jobs, income and housing. The Economic Bill of Rights guaranteed
employment to all and an annual income to those unable to work.
Now, 43 years later, people are in desperate need of jobs. More than 30
million people in the country are unemployed and underemployed, and every day
more workers are losing their jobs. In New York City alone, 500,000 people are
officially unemployed; the figure is probably closer to 1 million when
including those who are underemployed or no longer counted on the unemployment
rolls.
Occupy 4 Jobs was formed at a People’s Assembly in November to demand
a massive public works project big enough to provide jobs at union wages for
all unemployed and underemployed workers.
Occupy 4 Jobs is also launching a direct action to demand that banks provide
money to the community for jobs. Banks are sitting on huge cash reserves and
not investing them in job creation. In addition to trillions in bailouts, they
also receive tax-exempt bonds from states and cities. The state and city of New
York have together given banks $18 billion in these bonds.
Foreclosures, layoffs, and the slashing and eradication of social services,
including food stamps and unemployment benefits, have devastated millions of
people. There is an urgent need to reignite the campaign that Dr. King launched
to fight for jobs for all at a living wage. All out for Jan. 16!
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