#Chicago #MLK 1/18: MLK Day March for Jobs and Public Services
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Join us in celebrating Dr. King's legacy of struggling for social justice and defending workers' needs
March will go to the Board of Education and end at the State of Illinois Building on 100 W. Randolph, stopping at Boeing Headquarters and the Commercial Club along the way.
Chicago Transit Authority management is threatening to lay off over 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers on Feb. 7th. This means fewer and more crowded buses and trains.
Chicago Public School board plans to close another 25 to 30 neighborhood schools and hand over public education money to private companies. This won't help educate our kids.
Unemployment is at its' highest in 30 years, but caseworkers who approve Food Stamps and Medicaid have unworkable caseloads of 1100 to 2200 families per worker - so people can't get the help they need.
The rich and their politicians steal our taxes to bail out Wall Street. They sell our pubicly-owned resources to private companies, and then make us pay for it through higher fees and fines. We say: make the rich pay. They made this crisis; we're not giving up our jobs and services to pay for it.
Join Public Workers Unite! to defend our public services
We say not on our backs!
Fund public services, not the wars!
Money for jobs, not for bankers!
Tax the rich, not working people!
Endorsers: AFCME Local 2858, Caucus of Rank File Educators - CORE, Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism, Chicago GMB - IWW, Citizens Taking Action, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Gay Liberation Network, Illlinois Healthy Workplace Advocates/Workplace Bullying Institute, Illinois Single Payer Coalition, International Socialist Organization, League for the Revolutionary Party, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, News and Letters Committees, NoCTAcuts.org, Northside Action for Justice, Socialist Alternative, Solidarity, UIC-GEO, UP Movement, Veterans for Peace-Chicago, Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Chicago
To endorse or for more information, contact publicworkersunite@yahoo.com
Public Workers Unite! next meeting: 10am, Jan. 23, UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago
Date:Monday, January 18, 2010
Time:11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:Rally at CTA Headquarters
Street:567 W. Lake St. (1 block west of Clinton)
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