This letter from Michael Moore just came out calling for rally in Lansing on Wednesday Mach 16, 2011 “Letter to My Fellow Michiganders”:
“What is most shocking to many is that the new governor, who ran against the Tea Party and defeated the right wing of his party in the primaries -- and then ran in the general election as "just a nerd from Ann Arbor" who was a moderate, not an ideologue -- has pulled off one of the biggest Jekyll and Hyde ruses I've ever seen in electoral politics.
Governor Snyder, once elected, yanked off his nice-guy mask to reveal that he is in fact a multi-millionaire hell-bent on destroying our state and turning it over to his buddies from Wall Street.”
Moore tells his fellow Michiganders to “declare yourself an organizer” and “call in sick” if you have to make the Wednesday Rally / Protest March 16, 2011.
He also includes links to the AFL-CIO, Working Families (Facebook) Page, and other coordinating sites, and links to Rachel Maddow's rundown on Rick Snyder.
Additional rallies are being called for Tuesday. March 15, 2011 by AARP and others, and multiple organizing and press conferences were done today as well.
More clips below...
Michael may post this to Kos at some point, but until then getting the word out via Blogging for Michigan.
Additional content and points made in Moore’s letter:
“Gotten the House and Senate to pass bills giving him "Emergency Management" powers such as the ability to appoint a corporation or a CEO who could literally dissolve town governments or school boards, fire the elected officials, nullify any local law and run your local governmental entity. That company then would have the power to immediately declare all collective bargaining contracts null and void.”
“Proposed giving business a whopping 86% tax cut while raising everyone's personal taxes by 31%”
“Together with the legislature, introduced over 40 anti-labor bills in just the first two months of this session.”
Words of encouragement:
"I know many of you are filled with a great sense of despair and a justifiable loss of hope these days in Michigan. But you must not let things get even worse. You must stand up against these Draconian measures and this outrageous attempt to rip our democratic rights from us by turning our state over to well-paid hacks from Wall Street and corporate America. They see our state as one big fire sale -- and they are licking their chops to get their hands on what is still a state rich in natural resources and industrial infrastructure.
Please show up at noon on Wednesday for our first mega-rally against this insanity…"
Press conferences and organizing meetings in multiple Michigan cities, today, Monday and additional rallies and protests in the works for Tuesday March 15 as well.