NYC April 1 Action May Bring Traction


Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30 PM (doors open at 6:30pm)

Who: WBAI Radio and the New York Society for Ethical Culture
What: The People’s Agenda:
Working For An Economy By The People, For The People!
Where: NY Society for Ethical Culture 2 W. 64th St (at Central Park West)

Produced by WBAI’s Building Bridges: Your Community &Labor Report
Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

WBAI Radio and the New York Society for Ethical Culture will present an examination of the present crisis of capitalism and peoples’ demands that the road to economic recovery lies in directly increasing their living standard and abandoning trickle down economics. In the words of Rev Martin Luther King Jr. who gave his life fighting for the rights of the Memphis sanitation workers and for a poor people’s movement for economic rights, "A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth…and say: 'This is not just.'"

The program includes (partial list):
. Ai-Jen Poo, Lead Organizer with a Member of Domestic Workers United
. Ajamu Sankofa, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition
. A video Message from U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich
. Lillian Roberts, Ex. Dir. DC 37, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
. Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
. Stanley Aronowitz, Prof. of Sociology, & Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future; University wide Officer, Professional Staff Congress, AFT
. Keith Gamble, Board Member, Community Voices Heard
. Javier Valdes, Deputy Director, Make the Road New York
. Labor’s Songster John O’Connor

This is a Benefit for WBAI and the NY Society for Ethical Culture
Suggested donation $10, (no one will be turned away)


Friday April 3, 1 pm

National March On WALL STREET

Assemble at the Intersection of Wall & Broad Streets
(The Stock Exchange)
Bail Out the People Not the Banks!

http://www.bailoutpeople.org/april3-4.shtml



Saturday April 4, 11 a.m.

March down lower Broadway (Canal St. to Battery Park)

It is Time to End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
It is Time to Address the Economic Crisis by Cutting Military Spending

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967

On the April 4th anniversary of Dr. King’s prophetic “Beyond Vietnam” speech, delivered at Riverside Church, we will gather in New York City determined to lead our nation in the new direction so many long for. For the first time in too long, we will march filled with hope. Now is the time that our movements for racial justice and economic equality, our movements against the wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere, our movements for a new economy based on people’s needs, green union jobs and sustainability will ALL come together to say YES WE CAN! Yes We Can move beyond war. Yes We Can build a new world of justice, equality and peace.

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=4027
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=4034


Sunday April 5th, 2:30pm,

The Truth & Consequences of Banking Credit Fraud
St. Marks Church, 2nd Ave. & 10th Street, Manhattan

Now that Wall St., unscrupulous mortgage lenders, rapacious credit card issuers, criminally negligent regulators, and free market trickle-down capitalists have led the global economy into a financial disaster, it is time that the public comes to truly understand the laws and facts behind banking and the credit bubble.

Come hear banking expert, Mickey Paoletta, reveal what the banks and government do not want us to know. Mickey has studied over 500 books on the topic, many of which are directly from the Federal Reserve and broadly recognized financial experts. Learn from the source the reality behind credit cards, mortgages, and loans in general. The reality of making something from nothing.

If you or anyone you know is mired in credit card debt or is facing foreclosure, you will learn about the legal steps you can take to fight off credit card debt collectors, stop the banks from taking your home, and where more education and help is available. Additionally, we will discuss the criminal use of the courts who act as a front for the credit card companies and mortgage lenders who have been committing highway robbery on the average individual.

The banks have acted in predatory fashion, draining the wealth of the general public by charging usurious interest rates, deceptively selling adjustable mortgages, targeting the financially uneducated consumers, and sinking the world into debt that can never be paid off. In other words, the consumer is enslaved to the banking system. It's time to oppose the banking industry's control over our national financial policy through multi-million dollar contributions to political campaigns. This can only happen if we the consumer learn the how so we can then take the steps to expose the institutional fraud and stop it.

Come take the first step! Build the foundation to change your life and your family's! Learn how the system really works so you can protect yourself and become a member of a newly awakened public to demand an end to debt-oriented money so we can correct the fraudulent financial system and build an actual value-based economic system that is fair and necessary to create true prosperity for all.

You will receive a CD of essential documents that will validate from independent sources what you learn and more. Many documents are excerpts from banking textbooks costing over $400.

Admission is $15 ($25 for couples) if you RSVP by April 2nd by sending an email to: mailCRC_NYCrsvp@yahoo.com. Admission will be $20 at the door. (This is reduced $5 to make it easier for greater numbers of people to receive this vital information).

Trains: Take R to 8th St., 6 to Astor Place, or N, R, 4, 5, 6 to Union Square

Sponsored by Citizens Reform Center
http://www.citizensreformcenter.com
New York City April 1 Action May Bring Traction



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