People's
Summit & Tent
City June
14-17, 2009 Grand
Circus Park,
Detroit,
MichiganFour
Days of Active
Resistance, Political Discussion and Strategizing for a
“People's Stimulus Plans” and an “Economic Bill of Rights”
for Working People and the Poor
JOIN the TENT CITY near the NATIONAL BIG-BUSINESS GATHERING at the
Renaissance Center
On
June 15-17, 2009, the National Business Summit, sponsored by the
Detroit Economic Club, will take place at the Renaissance Center,
General Motors Corporate Headquarters. Millionaire
capitalists like the heads of Conoco-Phillips, Dow Chemical, General
Motors, Chrysler, Humana Inc., Ascension Health, Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu, BNSF Railway Co., and PVS Chemicals, and well as the
presidents of the National Council on Competitiveness and U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, will gather at this summit. President Barack Obama and
cabinet members have been invited.
These wealthy businesspeople
will put their greedy heads together to discuss “innovation and policy
ideas in technology, energy, environment and manufacturing.”
In other words, they will be strategizing on how to further increase
their profits at the expense of the ever-shrinking middle class, the
vast working class and the growing millions living in utter poverty.
The National Business Summit will be held in a city with record-high
unemployment and poverty rates, lay-offs, budget cuts, school closings,
utility cost hikes and shut-offs and massive home foreclosures. With a
registration fee of $1,495, it is unlikely that any victims of
foreclosures and evictions, let alone laid-off workers, will be able to
attend the National Business Summit. No one at this event will be
speaking in the interests of those most affected by the economic
collapse.
The People’s Summit will be a dynamic event. During the People’s
Summit, organizers will implement a moratorium on foreclosure evictions
by going into the neighborhoods and supporting homeowners who are
willing to confront the bailiffs. If there is a strike, demonstration
or sit in, the People’s Summit will join it. The People’s Summit will
confront the big-business CEOs and politicians gathering next door.
Join us!
RAISE
YOUR VOICES TO DEMAND:
Bailout the people!
Jobs, healthcare, housing and education for all
Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs
– housing is a right
Stop budget cuts and restore social services funding
Stop tuition hikes and school closings
Moratorium on layoffs, plant closings, pension thefts and
union busting – A job at a living wage is a right
End racism, sexism and anti-LGBT attacks
– equality now!
Stop attacks on immigrants
Full rights for disabled people
Bailout youth and students
No more police brutality
Jobs not Jails - For prisoners and ex-prisoners' rights
Save the natural environment and stop climate change
Demand
a Federal Moratorium on Foreclosures NOW!
BAIL
OUT THE
PEOPLE - NOT THE BANKS
Demand that the first item in any emergency
federal
legislation be protection for the victims of this crisis, the millions
facing foreclosures and millions of others who are seeing their
communities destroyed by the foreclosure epidemic brought on by the
predatory lending and fraud of the financial industry.
Demand the enactment of an immediate 2 year
federal
moratorium on all foreclosures. Such a moratorium is
mandatory under federal law, which mandates the imposition of a
moratorium on foreclosures whenever there is a declaration of a State
of Emergency.
During the moratorium, an oversight committee
of
community representatives, civil rights organizations, unions should
review and adjust every mortgage in the country, so people’s house
payments reflect the real values of their homes and their ability to
pay. Such oversight cannot be left to the bankers or even to
federal judges who are often disconnected from the reality facing
working people today.
Demand that rather than spending $1 trillion of
taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street, that money be used to guarantee
people’s needs, for decent jobs, health care, education, etc. It
is the decline in wages, massive restructuring that has eliminated
millions of decent paying jobs, and spiraling health costs that in
large part has brought on this crisis, forcing people to take out
unaffordable predatory loans just to survive.
The Moratorium Now! Coalition has been pressing
for a
statewide moratorium on foreclosures in Michigan and recently held a
demonstration in Lansing, MI to support SB 29, which would put such a
moratorium into effect.
The Coalition is also demanding that new Detroit
Mayor
Kenneth Cockrel declare a State of Emergency in Detroit, the hardest
hit city in the country by the foreclosure epidemic with an 18% home
vacancy rate, and formerly apply to Governor Granholm to place a
moratorium on foreclosures in Detroit pursuant to MCL 10.31
For more information
contact
313-319-0870.
SIGN
THE ONLINE
PETITIONdemanding
the Feds implement an IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON
FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS, NOW!
Senator Randy Richardville, Chairperson of the Senate Banking and
Financial Services Committee, refuses to even allow a hearing on
this vital bill. Call him today and demand a hearing!
It's our democratic right!
Call Senator Richardville at (866)
556-7917 or (517) 273-3543
July 25, 2008 - Victory was won today in
the
struggle to stop the
foreclosure and eviction of Rubie Curl-Pinkins from her home on Holden
Street in Detroit! more
Help Organize a Mass Movement To Demand
Passage of the 2-year Moratorium on Foreclosures Bill
Only
a state-wide, mass movement to demand passage of the 2-year Moratorium
on Foreclosures Bill can overcome the power of the moneyed mortgage
companies and bankers. Everyone concerned must become an
organizer!
Get the word out in your area –
put out leaflets and
posters; write letters to the newspapers; put a notice in your
community, union or church newsletter; talk to your neighbors,
relatives, friends and co-workers.
Gather and send in endorsements of the bill
from
your group – union, neighborhood association, minister/church board,
student government, etc. endorsement
form online endorsement
Get a resolution of support
from your city council.
Be on the alert to organize for a massive
demonstration at the Capitol in Lansing to demand passage of the bill.
Become an organizing center in your area for
the
“MORATORIUM NOW! COALITION to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions.”
Contact the Detroit office to be listed on the website and to get
quantities of flyers, etc.
Donate to build this mass campaign. Make
checks payable to MORATORIUM NOW COALITION and send to 23 E. Adams,
Detroit MI 48226.
Coalition
Activists at Mayor Cockrel's Eastside Detroit 'Meet and Greet', Oct.
21, 2008