On April 3rd and 4th there will be a national march on Wall St in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Bail Out The People! a grassroots movement
Besides the many other reasons we should be putting visible and focused pressure on Wall St Corporations and CEO's, as well as the MSM and the politicians who helped get us here, I would like to use this diary to help point out that by supporting Bail Out The People we are supporting EFCA.
The decline in real wages over the last 40 years has led to the situation most Americans are in today as individuals and as a nation. Anyone who earns a paycheck knows that your money buys less and less each year. Although our current financial collapse is personified nationally by the failure of banks and the crash of the DOW, it is the crash of the middle class that has been slowly eroded over the last three decades that has created the mortgage crisis that began the domino effect, leading up to today.
The Times said (recently) that this year 1 out of 6 people will be unemployed this year, a figure which does not take into account the number among immigrant workers and others. Bank of America just got $20 billion more.
Now is not the time to be raising fares and cutting services. Now’s the time for the banks to use the billions they’ve sucked out of mass transit, the treasury and our labor -- and BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE.
If the Employee Free Choice Act is enacted it will give all working class Americans the opportunity to organize against the management of their employers to negotiate for higher wages, more benefits, job security and a better standard of living. This is a fight we should not assume is won. Our Democratic leadership in the legislative branch will be under a world of pressure to water down this bill or not pass it at all. President Obama has said that he supports EFCA, which means that the opposition is going to pull out all the stops to make sure he can not do so. The rhetoric will be intense and misleading. We must be able to FIGHT BACK.
During the run-up to last years election one Kossack used the phrase - leave it all on the road
That is what is required if we are going to fight back for our families, for our homes and our futures.
The Employee Free Choice Act is the chance to create a doorway for many working families to attain a better lifestyle, a better wage and a chance at the American Dream that was tugged out from under the feet of so many Americans in the last year. Our retirements are gone, we are losing our homes to banks and our jobs are being moved overseas.
We must FIGHT BACK!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr believed the struggle for equality would have it's culmination in a workers rights movement. This is that movement.
In his own words, from an excerpt of his speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop", delivered in Memphis, TN, on Apr 3 1968, the day before he died.
Now these are some practical things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.
Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" by Martin Luther King Jr
United we stand, divided we fall
and we are being divided, divided and conquered.
It is time to Fight Back!
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Bail Out The People! a grassroots movement
Thank you