Rally to Demand
an Economy That Works for Everyone
Main
Street,
Not Wall
Street !
What: A Rally on The Commons in
Ithaca to
Demand an Economy That Works for Everyone
When:
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ 5:30 p.m.
Where: Bernie
Milton Pavilion (Center Pavilion, on edge of Bank Alley at
corner of E. State and Tioga Sts. in
Ithaca )
Who:
Tompkins County
Workers' Center
The Tompkins
County
Workers
Center today condemns the
government’s response to the financial crisis that is
enveloping the
United States and
beyond.
Failed policies have created the worst crisis in our
economy and financial markets since the Great Depression. A
bail-out for Wall Street is not enough. We demand an end to the
failed policies of deregulation, taxation that benefits only the
rich, trickle down economics that never trickles down and
unrestrained corporate greed. We insist on new policies and a
new politics and a new economy that works for everyone, not just
the few
Where is the bail out for the 30 million working families
in the United States, including many right here in Tompkins
County and central New York, who are paid less than a living
wage and consequently work all day and all week and find at the
end of the week that their pay cannot support their families.
Isn’t that a crisis?
Where is the bail out for 1 billion people throughout the
world, including many right here in
Tompkins
County and central
New York ,
who go to bed hungry each night? Isn’t that a crisis?
Where is the bail out for our environment, on the brink
of ecological disaster?
Isn’t that a crisis?
Where is the bail out for the millions of children who
are failed by our under-funded schools and young people failed
by a society that puts a college education out of financial
reach? Isn’t
that a crisis?
Where is the bailout for the millions and millions of
American workers denied basic rights on the job and even any
effective right to form unions? Isn’t that a crisis?
Where is the bail out for millions of struggling
homeowners and tenants faced with the threat of foreclosure or
ever escalating rents that they cannot afford. Isn’t that a
crisis?
Where is the bail out for the 47 million uninsured
Americans without healthcare and the many millions of others
facing unaffordable increases in costs for basic healthcare.
Isn’t that a crisis?
Where is the bail out for those communities impacted by
plant closings that throw thousands out of work. Isn’t
that a crisis?
Why is it only a crisis in our country when it involves
Wall Street banks, private equity firms, investment houses and
the wealthy that control their shares? And why does Wall Street’s crisis
suddenly become
Main Street ’s
problem?
The American people are willing to share the burden, but
we should not be expected to pay for any effort to bail the
banks out of this financial crisis, without also having in place
the policies and programs and funding to deal with our own daily
crises.
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To communicate with your Congresspeople and Senators via
fax through the Jobs with
Justice website about the 'bail out', click
here.
To learn about what one of the national partners of the
Workers' Center (the Poverty Initiative)
is saying about the crisis, particularly focused on the housing
crisis, click
here.
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