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6th August 2009, 03:40
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Moratorium NOW! Coalition Organizers' Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinette, WSU Campus Area
Sponsors: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions
& Utility Shut-offs
Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shut-offs Invites Public to Organizers' Meeting Saturday, August 8 in Detroit
Every month the economic crisis deepens in Detroit and around the state of Michigan. DTE Energy refuses to stop utility shut-offs despite the tragic deaths of four members of the Reed-Owens family on the northwest side of the city.
Plant closing are continuing, breeding more lay-offs, wage/benefit cuts and home losses. The city of Detroit employees and the Public Schools workers are being threatened with salary reductions, termination and the theft of their health care coverage and pension funds.
Have you had enough? If so join with the people who are fighting back. The Moratorium NOW! Coalition has been in the streets to demand "Bail out the people, not the banks and corporations."
Moratorium NOW! and allies organized the People's Summit downtown in June which drew international attention to the economic crisis in Detroit and the nation. We later worked with tenants to stop an illegal eviction at the Wellington Commons Apartments on the west side.
We have fought many illegal foreclosures and kept people in their homes. We have met with DTE Energy to demand they impose a moratorium on utility shut-offs. Moratorium NOW! later picketed DTE to further press for a halt to the dangerous practice of disconnecting essential utility services.
You can get involved in these organizing efforts by attending a meeting this coming Saturday, August 8 beginning at 2:00pm
PUBLIC MEETING
LESSONS FROM THE NEW DEAL OF THE 1930S FOR TODAY’S STRUGGLE
Date: Saturday, August 8, 5:00-7:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Avenue at Antoinette, WSU Campus Area
Sponsors: Workers World Party and the Harriet Tubman School
Contact: 313.671.3715
Speakers Include:
Bryan Pfeifer, Union of Part-time Faculty Staff Organizer, Contributing Editor for Workers World Newspaper, will speak on the New Deal and the Labor Struggles of the 1930s
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire Editor and Contributing Editor for Workers World Newspaper, will speak on the African-American struggle during the Great Depression (1929-1941)
Come out to this public meeting and hear about the central role of the working class and oppressed with special emphasis on the role of the African American people during this exciting and critical period of U.S. and world history.
The numerous and mighty battles waged by millions of working class and oppressed
people against the bosses and bankers during this period won social security, unemployment compensation, welfare entitlements, labor rights and much more.
What lessons does this hold for us today? Why, like our forebears, must we fight in the streets? Why was and is the role of socialists, communists and other revolutionaries so important to challenge the capitalist bosses and bankers?
How can the "New Deal" period help us fight for what's needed today: a moratorium
to stop foreclosures, evictions, utility shutoffs, plant closings and layoffs?
What about the instrumental role of culture in the 1930s and today? Come out to hear answers to these questions.
Free and open to the public.Saturday, August 8, 2009, 5:00pm, 5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
http://www.workers.org (http://www.workers.org/)
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The Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions is a
coalition of grassroots activists and organizations, union and
religious leaders, farmers, politicians, and concerned people from
across Michigan that formed in the spring of 2008 to fight for the
passage of Senate Bill 1306, which would stop all mortgage
foreclosures and evictions for two years. Some of our most committed
activists have themselves been foreclosed and evicted from their
homes and farms.
SB 1306 has been introduced in the current session of the Michigan
legislature as SB 29.
The coalition is open to all those who want to fight for the passage
of a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, and utility
shutoffs.
www.moratorium-mi.org (http://www.moratorium-mi.org)
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Moratorium NOW! Coalition Organizers' Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinette, WSU Campus Area
Sponsors: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions
& Utility Shut-offs
Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shut-offs Invites Public to Organizers' Meeting Saturday, August 8 in Detroit
Every month the economic crisis deepens in Detroit and around the state of Michigan. DTE Energy refuses to stop utility shut-offs despite the tragic deaths of four members of the Reed-Owens family on the northwest side of the city.
Plant closing are continuing, breeding more lay-offs, wage/benefit cuts and home losses. The city of Detroit employees and the Public Schools workers are being threatened with salary reductions, termination and the theft of their health care coverage and pension funds.
Have you had enough? If so join with the people who are fighting back. The Moratorium NOW! Coalition has been in the streets to demand "Bail out the people, not the banks and corporations."
Moratorium NOW! and allies organized the People's Summit downtown in June which drew international attention to the economic crisis in Detroit and the nation. We later worked with tenants to stop an illegal eviction at the Wellington Commons Apartments on the west side.
We have fought many illegal foreclosures and kept people in their homes. We have met with DTE Energy to demand they impose a moratorium on utility shut-offs. Moratorium NOW! later picketed DTE to further press for a halt to the dangerous practice of disconnecting essential utility services.
You can get involved in these organizing efforts by attending a meeting this coming Saturday, August 8 beginning at 2:00pm
PUBLIC MEETING
LESSONS FROM THE NEW DEAL OF THE 1930S FOR TODAY’S STRUGGLE
Date: Saturday, August 8, 5:00-7:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Avenue at Antoinette, WSU Campus Area
Sponsors: Workers World Party and the Harriet Tubman School
Contact: 313.671.3715
Speakers Include:
Bryan Pfeifer, Union of Part-time Faculty Staff Organizer, Contributing Editor for Workers World Newspaper, will speak on the New Deal and the Labor Struggles of the 1930s
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire Editor and Contributing Editor for Workers World Newspaper, will speak on the African-American struggle during the Great Depression (1929-1941)
Come out to this public meeting and hear about the central role of the working class and oppressed with special emphasis on the role of the African American people during this exciting and critical period of U.S. and world history.
The numerous and mighty battles waged by millions of working class and oppressed
people against the bosses and bankers during this period won social security, unemployment compensation, welfare entitlements, labor rights and much more.
What lessons does this hold for us today? Why, like our forebears, must we fight in the streets? Why was and is the role of socialists, communists and other revolutionaries so important to challenge the capitalist bosses and bankers?
How can the "New Deal" period help us fight for what's needed today: a moratorium
to stop foreclosures, evictions, utility shutoffs, plant closings and layoffs?
What about the instrumental role of culture in the 1930s and today? Come out to hear answers to these questions.
Free and open to the public.Saturday, August 8, 2009, 5:00pm, 5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
http://www.workers.org (http://www.workers.org/)
_______________________________________________
The Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions is a
coalition of grassroots activists and organizations, union and
religious leaders, farmers, politicians, and concerned people from
across Michigan that formed in the spring of 2008 to fight for the
passage of Senate Bill 1306, which would stop all mortgage
foreclosures and evictions for two years. Some of our most committed
activists have themselves been foreclosed and evicted from their
homes and farms.
SB 1306 has been introduced in the current session of the Michigan
legislature as SB 29.
The coalition is open to all those who want to fight for the passage
of a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, and utility
shutoffs.
www.moratorium-mi.org (http://www.moratorium-mi.org)
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