The 99% Will Rise Up This Spring

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Wednesday March 28, 2012 · 1:50 PM PDT

2012/03/28 · 13:50

This could be an important movement for change:

99% Spring Action Training
We're at a crossroads as a country. In recent years, millions have lost their jobs, homes have been foreclosed, and an unconscionable number of children live in poverty. We have to stand up to the people who caused of all this and confront the rampant greed and deliberate manipulation of our democracy and our economy by a tiny minority in the 1%.

Inspired by Occupy Wall Street and the fight for workers in Madison, Wisconsin, the 99% will rise up this spring.

In the span of just one week, from April 9-15, 100,000 people will be trained to tell the story of what happened to our economy, learn the history of non-violent direct action, and use that knowledge to take action on our own campaigns to win change.

We'll gather for trainings in homes, community centers, places of worship, campuses, and public spaces nationwide to learn how to join together in the work of reclaiming our country through sustained non-violent action.

Will you rise with us and join a 99% Spring action training?

Click here to sign up for a 99% Spring action training in your area

From a Change to Win email:

Our nation's greatest steps forward have come when everyday people stood up and took courageous, visionary, morally compelling direct action--from the struggle to secure the vote for women, to the strikes that built power for workers and unions, to the civil rights movement. Now we need to create that kind of change again in America.
We need an economy that works for all Americans, not just the ones at the top. It's time to create change so that the American economy starts working again for people who work for a living.

This has a very good group of sponsers. Many unions and other activist groups, including, among others, the Change to Win union federation, UAW, Jobs With Justice, UNITE-HERE, SEIU, Greenpeace, MoveOn, and National Domestic Workers Alliance. It's real (or it can be if we make it real).

The following organizations have called for a 99% Spring.
Jobs With Justice, United Auto Workers, National Peoples Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MoveOn.org Civic Action, New Organizing Institute, Movement Strategy Center, The Other 98%, Service Employees International Union, Rebuild the Dream, UNITE-HERE, Greenpeace, Institute for Policy Studies, PICO National Network, New Bottom Line, United Steel Workers, Working Families Party, Communications Workers of America, United States Student Association, Rainforest Action Network, American Federation of Teachers, Leadership Center for the Common Good, UNITY, National Guestworker Alliance, 350.org, The Ruckus Society, Citizen Engagement Lab, smartMeme Strategy & Training Project, Right to the City Alliance, Pushback Network, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Progressive Democrats of America, Change to Win, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Campaign for America’s Future, Fuse Washington, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, Citizen Action of New York, Engage, United Electrical Workers Union, National Day Laborers Organizing Network, Alliance for a Just Society, The Partnership for Working Families, United Students Against Sweatshops, Presente.org

MoveOn.org Civic Action is hosting the online event registration process but is not responsible for the content or programming of the trainings or for the planning or organization of any specific actions. The 99% Spring is a collaborative effort between many organizations to train over 100,000 Americans in the basics of nonviolent direct action—not an electoral campaign.

Solidarity! The 99% has to work together for real change in this rigged system.

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