ENDORSE the Dec 1st Nationwide Strike Against Poverty, Racism and War!
We Must Turn our Outrage Over Katrina into a Movement!
On the 50TH Anniversary of Dec.1,1955 - the day in Montgomery Alabama that Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement
A CALL FOR A NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR
No School - No Shopping - No Work
local protests and teach-ins through December 2 and 3
Mass March on Wall Street, NYC
SHUT THE WAR DOWN
The People of New Orleans and the Gulf Must Control the Rebuilding, not Bush's Rich Friends!
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors - We demand an Independent Investigation
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE is a human right
Healthcare, Housing and Education, not war and occupation
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
The Outrage in New Orleans is a clarion call to the Antiwar and grassroots movement:
The time has arrived to take our struggle to a higher level. Let us work together and organize a nationwide strike against Poverty, Racism and War on Dec. 1, 2005, the 50th anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks helped launch the modern civil rights movement.No School - No Shopping - No Work --local protests and teachins through December 2 and 3 -- A Mass March on Wall Street, NYC. It is time for the people to demonstrate that they can stop business as usual coast-to-coast when justice requires it.
The war and occupation of Iraq, coupled with the Katrina Outrage, have demonstrated to the world the urgent necessity shut for fundamental change, and a movement that is big enough and determined enough to achieve the goal. Katrina has exposed the ugly truths about class and race, poverty, war and militarism. Our demand to end the war in Iraq and to bring the the troops home now must be backed up by the kind of mass tactics that signal we mean business.
Fifty years ago, Black people in Montgomery, Al. were forced by law to sit in the back of public buses, and give their seats to any white person who demanded it. When Rosa Parks, a garment worker and civil rights activist, refused to give up her seat to a white man, she sparked the Montgomery bus boycott against segregation on public buses, one of the most successful and truly mass boycotts in history. The Montgomery bus boycott also introduced to the world a young reverend named Martin Luther King Jr., who became the boycott’s principal public leader.
Dec. 1 Nationwide strike against poverty, racism and war— Initiating organizations:
Troops Out Now Coalition, Million Worker March Movement, Teamsters National Black Caucus, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice.
ENDORSE the call today or volunteer to ORGANIZE AN ACTIVITY IN YOUR AREA for the December 1 NATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR!
For more information:
Troops Out Now Coalition
39 W 14th St Suite 206
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
info@troopsoutnow.org
www.troopsoutnow.org