May 15, 2010
We are disappointed to inform you that a Solidarity Day III event where the labor movement would mobilize and demand that the government institute a massive jobs-creation program is not going to take place — for now.
Unfortunately, the top officials of the AFL-CIO failed to move on this proposal at the AFL-CIO’s special [...]
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Campaign for Solidarity Day III in DC Next Spring to Demand Jobs, Peace, Affordable Health Care For All and Ending Foreclosures and Evictions
The Troy Area Labor Council AFL-CIO calls upon the AFL-CIO to organize a national march on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Health Care Justice, to stop the wars and to use the resources freed up to end the jobs and health care crisis here at home.
The role of the trade union movement is not to become a partner of the bosses, or to help make their corporations “more competitive” in the global economy.
Over 50 Greater San Francisco Labor, Community, and Activist Organizations Have Endorsed!
Complete List as of May 3, 2009
AFT Local 2121
ANSWER Coalition
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists;
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Black&Brown Equitable Drug Policies Collective
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Chinese Progressive Association
Code Pink
Council of Community Housing Organizations
Day Labor Program
Dolores Street Community [...]
“There are effectively two tax systems in America: one for the very rich and one for the rest of us. Income from stock dividends and capital gains, which makes up a disproportionate amount of the earnings of the very rich, is taxed at 15 percent.”
BY ALAN BENJAMIN
[Note: The following talk was presented by Alan Benjamin to the May 9 Teach-In in San Francisco to "Bail Out Working People -- NOT the Banks!" Benjamin is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council and is a co-chair of the Council's Economic Crisis Committee. This talk was [...]
We think it is crucial to mount a campaign directed at all the diverse issues that are economically crippling working people. In this way we can create a broad, powerful movement. In unity there is strength.
