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WHERE’S OUR BAILOUT??
The U.S. Congress recently voted to pass a $700-billion financial bailout for corrupt financial
institutions, while ignoring the real needs of working people. Already an unprecedented giveaway to
Wall Street, the bill incredibly added another $150 billion dollars in tax breaks for corporations
but no relief for people who are facing foreclosure and who need health care, jobs, and education.
Bush won round one, but the real fight to turn the bailout around has only just begun. It will take a
protracted campaign of strategizing, organizing and mobilizing in our communities, schools and
workplaces to turn it around.
LISTEN TO MAIN STREET,
NOT WALL STREET
We need emergency action. These are a few of the measures needed:
--Emergency moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions
--No budget cuts in education, healthcare and all social services
--No layoffs, extend unemployment benefits
--No utility shut-offs
--Debt relief for students, poor and working people
--Protect public and private pensions
--Jobs at a living wage
We know that NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. These politicians who are in the pockets of big business, have only their interests in mind. It's up to us to fight for our rights and needs.
Join Nationally Coordinated Local Days of Action on the weekend of October 24-26.
Philadelphia-area grassroots, community and youth organizations, trade unionists, anti-racist forces, the anti-war movement and everyone who's just mad as hell about the 'bailout' are urged to endorse this call, and take ownership of it.
Come to a PLANNING MEETING on October 14 at 7pm, Calvary Church, 48th & Baltimore, Philadelphia.
At a time of unprecedented economic crisis, we must mobilize and organize and fight back until our demands become reality. Bailout the People, not the Bankers!
For more information contact: 215-724-1618
Email: BailOutTheNeedyNotTheGreedy@gmail.com
