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9-26-08/National Day of Action to to Stop the Bailout: Portland Rally--Tuesday, Sept. 30, 5pm, Federal Building
Hi AfDers and friends,
Portland Jobs with Justice is announcing a day of action to STOP THE BAILOUT. Details below.
Hope to see everyone there.
David e. Delk, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter 503 232 5495 www.afd-pdx.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:25:52 -0700
> From: chris@jwjpdx.org
> To: justice@jwjpdx.org
> Subject: [Justice] National Day of Action to to Stop the Bailout: Portland Rally--Tuesday, Sept. 30, 5pm, Federal Building
>
> Please forward far and wide:
>
> Portland Jobs with Justice will be joining with others across the country
> in a National Day of Action to Stop the Wall Street Bailout. Please join
> us!
>
> When: 5pm, Tuesday, Sept. 30
> (Rain or Shine, Deal or No Deal)
>
> Where: Federal Building, SW 3rd and Madison, Downtown Portland
>
> Why: Tell Congress: Stop the Bail-out; Pass a recovery plan, instead.
>
> Now that they’ve made so much money, they say that the huge Wall Street
> firms, paying grotesque salaries, are "too big to fail," so a quick-fix
> blank check is making its way through Congress.
>
> Apparently, conservatives think our health care crisis isn't big enough to
> fix (and it would certainly take less than $700 billion). Apparently, the
> loss of millions of good jobs due to so-called 'free trade' is not a big
> enough crisis to fix. The disaster from Hurricane Katrina was not big
> enough to fix, and New Orleans could be left to fail. The looming pension
> crisis and the affordable housing crisis -- none of these, apparently,
> deserves a bail-out.
>
> For conservatives and financial elites, when working class people face a
> crisis, plants close or health care costs triple, the system is working.
> They take all the private profits, but when the bubble bursts, and they
> can no longer sustain their profiteering rampage... well, they're too big
> to fail. And who pays the bill? The CEOs are telling Congress to send
> the bill to working people – the very people who have been forced out of
> their housing, out of their jobs, out of their healthcare and out of their
> pensions by Wall Street’s greed.
>
> National Jobs with Justice has put together this action alert for making
> calls and sending emails to Congress:
>
> http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/step_up?
> Click here to write, and call your Representative and Senator through the
> Capitol Hill switchboard - (202) 224-3121 - to tell them:
>
> 1) No Bail-out for Wall Street. They had their fun, now they deserve the
> hang-over.
>
> 2) Don’t be panicked by the very people that caused the crisis. Take the
> time to develop a REAL recovery plan for our economy that puts people
> first, by addressing foreclosures, jobs, affordable housing, pensions,
> infrastructure and health care.
>
> 3) Restructure our financial systems, with renewed public oversight, to
> meet the needs of our entire economy, not just the finance sector, and end
> the excessive political clout of these few firms.
>
> 4) Bring in fair taxation, honoring work over wealth, and stop subsidizing
> excessive CEO salaries.
>
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