[Marxism] Detroit Million Worker March Movement

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Get involved with the

Detroit Million Worker March Movement



Fight Back Against .


.       the budget cuts

.       school closings

.       service cutbacks

.       layoffs




.       utility shutoffs

.       war & its effect on the budget deficit

.       attacks on immigrants' right

.       racism & sexism






Come to a public speak out/forum

Saturday . February 5 . 1:00 PM

UAW Local 22 Hall

4300 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, 48210

(just west of W. Grand Blvd.)



Featured Speakers

Leamon Wilson - President of AFSCME Local 312, DDOT workers, will speak on
the attacks against city workers.

Maureen Taylor - State Chair of the Mich. Welfare Rights Org., will speak on
the wave of utility shut offs and homelessness.

Russ Bellant  - Training director of IOUE Local 547, will speak on the
attacks on our public education.

Andrea Hackett - Mich. Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice will
speak on the war and its domestic impact.

Ric Urrutia   - Member of the Black/Brown Alliance will speak to the
struggles of immigrant workers.

Derek Grigsby - Detroit Million Worker March Ctte., member AFSCME Local 207

Charles Brown - Detroit Million Worker March Ctte.





LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!



Since the historic Washington DC rally last October 17th, the Million Worker
March (MWM) has grown into a movement that is setting roots in cities across
the nation, including Detroit. In our city we are facing an onslaught of
utility shut offs, housing evictions, lay offs, school closings and cuts to
vital social services. The politicians give us empty talk at best or, more
frequently, further attacks. The Detroit Million Worker March aspires to
help unite all our struggles into a single coordinated independent force and
voice. It is time to build our own unity as working and unemployed people to
claim what is rightfully ours.

The Detroit MWM forum will consist of presentations from local leaders of
some key community and union struggles. There will be a speak out from the
audience to further educate all involved as well as address possible actions
to be supported and taken. From there, all attending will have a chance to
vote for actions we can all help build.For more information call: (313)
706-2985 or detroitmwm@xxxxxxxxx <BLOCKED::mailto:detroitmwm@xxxxxxxxx>

The Million Worker March Movement Seeks to Secure:


- Universal single-care health care from cradle to grave that ends the
stranglehold of greedy insurance companies and secures health care as a
right of all people in America.

- A national living wage that lifts people permanently out of poverty.

- Protection and enhancement of Social Security immune to privatization.

- Guaranteed pensions that sustain a decent life for all working people.

- The cancellation of all corporate "free" trade agreements, including
NAFTA, MAI and FTAA.

- An end to privatization, contracting out, deregulation and the pitting of
workers against each other across national boundaries in a mad race to the
bottom.

- For workers' right to organize and for a repeal of Taft Hartley and all
anti-labor legislation.

- Funding public education in a crash program to restore our decaying and
abandoned schools with state of the art school facilities in every
community.

- Funding a vast army of teachers to end functional illiteracy in America
and unleash the talent and potential of our abandoned children and adults.

- Launching a national training program in skills and capacities that will
enlist our people in rebuilding our country and putting an end to both the
criminalization of poverty and the prison-industrial complex.

- Rebuilding our decaying inner cities with clean, modern and affordable
housing and eliminating homelessness in America with guaranteed housing and
jobs for all.

- Progressive taxation that increases taxation on corporations and the rich
while providing relief for the working class and poor.

- An end to the poisoning of the atmosphere, soil, water and food supply
with a national emergency program to restore the environment, end global
warming and preserve our endangered eco-system.

- Creating efficient, modern and free mass transit in every city and town.

- Repeal of the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Act and all such repressive
legislation.

- Slash the military budget and recover the trillions of dollars stolen from
our labor to enrich the corporations that profit from war.

- Open the books on the secret budgets of the Pentagon and the intelligence
agencies in the service of corporations and banks and the pursuit of
imperial war on the poor everywhere.   Bring the troops home, now, from
Iraq, Afghanistan, and everywhere.

- Extend democracy to our economic structure so that all decisions affecting
the lives of our citizens are made by working people who produce all value
through their labor.

- An aggressive enforcement of all civil rights and a national education
campaign and mobilization against all racist and discriminatory acts in the
work place and in our communities.

- Amnesty for all undocumented workers

- Increase in federal funding for the Arts in public schools

- For a democratic media that allow labor and all voices to be heard and
oppose monopolization and union busting of media workers.






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