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African
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Latin America School of Medicine
MECAWI weekly organizer meetings Mondays, 7 PM 5920 Second Ave., Detroit 
Click HERE to join, endorse or volunteer for the OCCUPY FOR JOBS NETWORK! Occupy Detroit occupydetroit.us |
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need jobs, housing, health care, Social Security … Stop U.S.-NATO
War on LIBYA!
For over 100 days the African nation of Libya has
been mercilessly bombed by U.S., French, British and
Italian planes. Large numbers of civilians have been
killed. The goal of the imperialist powers is
to seize control of the largest oil reserves in
Africa – as they did in the colonial era. The CIA and military advisers from the European countries are on the ground directing their puppet rebel forces. Their Libyan lackeys are being funded by billions of dollars stolen from the Libyan government’s own bank accounts. Hear
an eyewitness account of the brutal and criminal
U.S. led war against Libya and join in a protest
meeting.
Eyewitness Report
by
Cynthia McKinney Former Congressperson from Georgia Saturday – August 27 – 4 P.M. U of M Detroit Center 3663 Woodward Avenue, Detroit (at M.L. King Blvd.) |
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Resisting
Profiling, Preemptive Prosecution* and
Prisoner Abuse
Hearing to confront repression of human rights and civil liberties by the criminal justice system Saturday, July 16, 3:00-6:00 PM Reception at 2:30 PM The Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center and Bookstore 13535 Livernois Avenue, Detroit, MI 48238 map * Preemptive
Prosecution: The investigation, prosecution
and imprisonment of persons by US law
enforcement agencies based on religion,
country of origin, political beliefs, and alleged
aspirational
intent - but not necessarily on
material actions. For further
discussion, please read Preemptive
Prosecution
– Cheney’s 1% Approach To Justice
The panel presentation will focus on how the ‘War on Terror’ climate and its repressive legal practices in the criminal justice system have affected civil liberties and human rights of Arab, Muslim, African American, South Asian, and all immigrant communities and the broader social justice movement. Representatives from the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), Project Salam, CAIR-MI, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (MECAWI), and Committee to Stop FBI Repression-MI will be having a panel discussion about their political, social and legal campaigns around these very important issues to address how we can counter and change oppressive policies. Included in the panels are families who will share personal stories of struggles for justice. The goal of the program is to shed light on the conditions of families and communities suffering under the war on terror, establish alliances across all communities for support, and mobilize our communities to eradicate these oppressive political and legal injunctions. PANEL I: Prosecutorial Persecution in the Criminal Justice System Shahid Buttar, Keynote speaker, Bill of Rights Defense Committee Steve Downs, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor Pan-African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Dawud Walid, CAIR-MI VIDEO PRESENTATION Mel Undebakke, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms PANEL II: Impact of Preemptive Prosecution on Families Hedaya Jayyousi, Dearborn, MI Tamer Mehenna, Boston, MA Tom Burke, Grand Rapids, MI Co-Sponsors Include: National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice (MECAWI), Families United For Justice In America (FUJA), Council on American Islamic Relations-CAIR-MI, Justice For Shifa and Haris Support Committee, Project SALAM, Friends of Human Rights, Committee to Stop FBI Repression download leaflet To participate and co-sponsor the event contact civilfreedoms@gmail.com Local Contacts: panw@africamail.com or freeshifa@gmail.com or call 517-505-1697 |
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Stop the U.S. / NATO War Against Libya! Hands Off Syria! U.S. Out of Africa and the Middle East! The Obama Administration has launched a murderous assault against the nation of Libya. With European allies they want to make a colony of that oil rich nation with a C.I.A backed puppet regime. Hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are again being used to bomb, kill and destroy for the profits of the oil companies. |
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Petition: Stop the War Provocations and Attacks on the north Korea! Pushing to brink of war/ U.S. sends warships, jets to Korea read article |
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FIGHT FOR A PROGRAM THAT PUTS PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS AND WAR! MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES & EVICTIONS STOP THE “SILENT BAILOUT” TO THE BANKS Today the vast
majority of home loans are backed up the federal
government through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA
or the Veterans Administration. This means
when your home is foreclosed, the government
pays off the bank for the full value of the
inflated loan, evicts you from your home, and
then sells off your home to some investor for
peanuts. The difference between what the
government reimburses the banks for your
mortgage and the price the home sells for is
paid by the taxpayers.
This silent bailout of the banks, which occurs with virtually every foreclosure, amounts to $400 billion for Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-backed loans, and hundreds of billions more on FHA properties. Instead of the government evicting us from our homes, the government at both the federal and state level should declare a Moratorium on Foreclosures and evictions, just like the foreclosure moratoriums that were enacted by 25 states during the 1930s. Instead of the government bailing out the banks by paying off overvalued loans, they should allow people to stay in their homes with affordable payments based on the real value of the property. And the criminal shut-offs of power by DTE and the Water Board must be halted so people can survive this economic crisis. MONEY FOR JOBS, NOT FOR WAR FOR A MASSIVE PUBLIC JOBS PROGRAM The Pentagon war
budget is over $700 billion a year, and that
doesn’t even include the tens of billions of
dollars a year spent on the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan and supporting Israeli
apartheid. It’s time to end U.S. wars and
military occupations abroad. The vast sums
spent on war should be used instead for a
massive jobs program modeled on the Works
Progress Administration of the 1930s, and to
provide free and universal health care for
all. A “jobless recovery” violates the
Full Employment Act enacted in 1946 and
reaffirmed in 1978, which mandates that the
government has a duty to insure jobs for all.
END PRIVATIZATION, WAGE CUTS AND SCHOOL CLOSINGS STOP DEBT SERVICE AND INTEREST PAYMENTS TO THE BANKS THAT ARE ROBBING CITY BUDGETS While services are
slashed, city workers are being laid off and
forced to accept draconian wage and benefit cuts
and schools are shut down and class sizes
increased, the same banks that have destroyed
our neighborhoods have asserted direct control
over and are robbing the public budgets.
This year alone, the City of Detroit will pay over $220 billion in debt service to the banks. Casino tax revenues are handed directly over to U.S. Bank. The banks have first lien on state revenue sharing dollars. 71% of state aid to the schools, amounting to $438.2 million this year, goes to the banks instead of being used to educate our youth. The banks’ grab on school operating funds is slated to go up to $523.8 million in 2011. In the 1930s Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy led a national movement for a Moratorium on the cities’ debts to the banks. We need a Moratorium on debt service today to stop the banks’ robbery of Detroit and every U.S. city. END RACISM & BIGOTRY – STOP POLICE BRUTALITY FULL RIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANTS – NO WORKER IS ILLEGAL Stop police
brutality. End the stepped up-raids by ICE
(Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the
increase in hate crimes against women and
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender people, and
lack of rights and accessibility for people with
disabilities. These ills are meant to intimidate
and divide the working class to prevent the kind
of unified struggle needed against the banks and
bosses. We reject the idea that any worker
is illegal and demand full rights for immigrant
workers including the undocumented.
STOP ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FOR A PEOPLE’S TAKEOVER OF THE OIL COMPANIES The BP catastrophe
in the Gulf and the oil pipeline disaster in
Michigan point out the need for a people’s
takeover of the oil companies and energy
monopolies to stop their destruction of the
environment in their drive to maintain their
obscene profits. Oil and all resources
belong to the people and should be controlled by
the people to provide safe energy for all.
STOP UNION BUSTING – PASS THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT While corporate
profits increase, wages continue to decline
during this “jobless recovery.” We need to
reinvigorate the union movement to guarantee
jobs at living wages for all.
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$74,398,313 –
Sinking Interest & Redemption
$96,145,561 – POC Swap Hedge Payment 2009 $164,258,400 – Water Bond Interest $5,338,100 – Water Bond Fund Series 2007 $207,996,300 – Sewage Bond and Interest $46,640,000 – Sewerage Bond Fund Series 2 While City workers are laid off and asked to take 10% wage cuts and massive benefit cuts and while much-needed city services are slashed, the banks and financial institutions are being paid hundreds of millions of dollars from the City budget. Casino tax dollars – they go immediately to the banks. State revenue sharing dollars – the banks have first claim on them. According to the April 4, 2010 Detroit News, for some months this year 80% of state aid to Detroit schools goes for debt repayment to the banks instead of classrooms. The same banks and financial institutions that are profiting off the city’s financial crisis have destroyed our communities with massive foreclosures based on racist, predatory, sub-prime loans. Groups like the Citizens Research Council, whose report was cited by the mayor in his budget address, are nothing but fronts for these banks who want to rob Detroit much like they robbed Third World countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The mayor and City Council must stand up to the banks and put the needs of the people before the banks and corporations. We need a declaration of a State of People’s Emergency and a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions, utility shut-offs and school closings! Instead of lay-offs and wage cuts for City workers and elimination of vital services to balance the budget, the mayor and City Council should place a moratorium on debt service to the banks. And let’s demand that the $1.8 billion taken from the people of Detroit to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan be returned to the city to fund a massive public jobs program to put the unemployed and youth to work rebuilding our homes and communities. For more info:
313-887-4344 www.moratorium-mi.org
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| The Banks
and Wall Street are making the plans and
pulling the strings! Mayor Bing and Robert Bobb are their tools
Behind Mayor Bing and Robert Bobb
stand the big banks and corporate firms –
sometimes working through “non-profits” like the
Skillman and Kresge foundations. They have
launched a wholesale attack against the people of
Detroit, our democratically elected bodies (School
Board and Pension Fund Trustees), our unions, our
homes and schools – our very right to live.
We already gave these banks trillions of dollars
in tax money bailouts. Now they are back for
more.
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs 313-680-5508 |
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