HURRICANE SANDY NEEDS A PEOPLE’S RESPONSE!

Occupy Sandy and the massive grassroots relief effort show that we, the people, can take matters into our own hands

Join organizers on the one-month anniversary of the storm to strategize & develop a People’s Power Assembly Movement

Thurs ►NOV 29 @ 6:30 pm
Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th St., # 5C, Manhattan

Climate Change? Social Change!

Dear Activist,

Governor Cuomo has requested $30 billion for Hurricane Sandy relief. Where will this money go? Will it go to build or repair affordable housing for the people of the Rockaways? Will it go to help rebuild damaged or ruined homes of the working class in Staten Island? Will it go to the tens of thousands in New York and New Jersey who lost wages the week of the storm? No, it will not – at least not without a fight.

This $30 billion is money stolen from the people of this country. And the money that is allocated for Hurricane Sandy will probably be used as another excuse to carry out more drastic cuts in social services than those already proposed to automatically take place early next year at the federal level – which will have a disastrous effect on every town, city and state already hit by the storm.

We have been organizers for decades – or some of us just for months – in building a people’s power movement in one way or another. We all believe that only by organizing an independent people’s movement can we bring real change. Only a militant people’s movement can address the dire needs brought on by the climate crisis.

We invite you to help us take this movement to another level.

Join us in a discussion Nov. 29 on how to build a movement that will put real fear in the minds of the 1%. 

In struggle for a better world,

Signers (in alphabetical order):

Rosa de la Torre, Chelsea Housing Group

Sara Flounders, International Action Center

Teresa Gutierrez, May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Right

Larry Hales, PPA Movement Staff Organizer

Larry Holmes, Bail Out the People Movement

Caleb Maupin, OWS Activist

Yoni Miller, OWS Activist

Messiah Rhodes, Unemployment Council

Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement

Victor Toro, La Peña del Bronx

Mark Torres, People’s Power Movement

Rev. Cortly C.D. Witherspoon, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Baltimore

     FOLLOWING THE PPA MEETING:      

Come to a VICTORY party
for the Hot & Crusty workers!

After 55 days on the picket line, the immigrant workers at Hot & Crusty have won a great victory for themselves and all workers. Through their courage and struggle they've won raises, vacation and sick pay, the right to file grievances and a hiring hall that's a precedent for the entire industry.

The Laundry Workers Center, which led this lockout, wants to organize and win justice for more low-paid workers. Help them launch these struggles by coming to a victory party.

Fundraiser for the
Laundry Workers Center

Thur ►NOV 29 9 pm to 11 pm

Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th Street, 5th Fl.

Between 5th Ave and  6th Ave.
Take any train to 14th St. The building has an elevator.

♦ $10 admission

♦ Larger donations welcome

♦ Refreshments for sale

Call:212.633.6646 for more information

Sponsored by the LWC and the Solidarity Center