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contact:
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Demonstrate at
Robert Bobb's State of Education speech
Monday, March15, 2010
5:30 PM
Renaissance High School
6565 West Outer Drive (west of Hubbell St.)
Parents, Teachers, and Students call for a mass demonstration to oppose
the Big Business takeover and privatization of public education and the
removal of democratic control of our public schools.
Emergency financial manager Robert Bobb will be delivering his State of
Education Address to an audience of invited guests (not you.)
For more information, please contact Sandra Hines at 313-778-4393.
Endorsed by:
Coalition to Restore Hope to DPS
Safeway Transportation bus drivers
Keep the Vote-No Takeover
DPS Board Advisory Committee
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions, and Utility
Shutoffs
Hood Research
Detroit Green Party
Call 'Em Out
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DEMONSTRATE at MAYOR BING'S
STATE OF THE
CITY ADDRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH
23, 2010 – 5:30 P.M.
Max M. Fisher
Music Center
3711 Woodward
Avenue, Detroit
45% unemployed in the City of Detroit – Families losing their lives due
to DTE shutoffs – Our neighborhoods destroyed by foreclosures and
evictions – Detroit schools continuing to fail – City services
diminished due to lay-offs…
Instead of hare-brained schemes to “downsize the City” and lay-offs and
privatization at behest of the banks, it’s time for the Mayor to stand
up for the workers and poor who have been devastated by the economic
depression.
Mayor Bing: Declare a State of Economic Emergency in the City of
Detroit!
Moratorium NOW to Stop all Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs
in the City
Stop lay-offs and privatization – Balance the budget by suspending debt
service to the banks
Request President Obama declare Detroit a Disaster Area and fund a
Public Works Program to provide jobs now
Under Michigan law, specifically MCL 10.31 et. seq., upon application
of the Mayor the governor can proclaim a state of emergency and
designate the area involved. Mayor Bing, with the support of City
Council, needs to formally apply to Governor Granholm to declare a
State of Economic Emergency in Detroit, and demand she use her police
powers to place a two-year Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and
utility shutoffs in the city. In addition, as part of the State
of Emergency declaration, the Mayor must demand that the Governor apply
to President Obama for money to bail out Detroit, the hardest-hit city
in the country. We need funds to pay for jobs for youth to
rebuild the houses that have been stripped and destroyed, and money to
stop the destruction of public education and services in our city.
Called by Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions
& Utility Shut-Offs
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National March for Jobs
April 10
On the 75th
Anniversary of
the WPA, joblessness is as bad as it was during the 1930s.
It's time to take the fight to D.C.!
Read the call
Endorse
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Tell Governor Granholm:
IT'S AN EMERGENCY
Demand that the Governor use her powers to
DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY and a
MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES, EVICTIONS, and UTILITY SHUTOFFS
The
people of Michigan need emergency relief NOW to survive the economic
catastrophe that we are in. We demand that Gov. Granholm exercise her
authority under MCL 10.31 to declare a State of Economic Emergency in
Michigan and place an immediate Moratorium on all Foreclosures,
Evictions and Utility Shutoffs. In addition, we demand that the State
Legislature pass S.B. 29 which calls for a two-year moratorium on
foreclosures.
Furthermore, emergency relief is needed in the City of Detroit, the
hardest hit major city with 45% unemployed, families losing their lives
due to DTE Energy shutoffs, neighborhoods destroyed by foreclosures and
evictions, Detroit schools continuing to fail, and City services
diminished due to lay-offs.
We must demand that the Governor apply to President Obama for money to
bail out Michigan cities and towns, especially those with the highest
unemployment. This should also happen in every state. We need
funds for jobs for youth to rebuild the houses that have been stripped
and destroyed, and money to stop the destruction of public education
and services in our cities. The money for the bankers, corporations and
military must go to Bailout the People!
We
demand
that
Governor
Granholm:
- Declare
a
State
of
Economic
Emergency
in
the
State
of
Michigan!
- Order
a Moratorium NOW to Stop all Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility
Shutoffs in Michigan
- Request
President Obama declare Michigan a Disaster Area and Fund a Public
Works Program to Provide Jobs Now
call 313 - 887- 4344 or email: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
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65,000
lined up at Cobo Hall October 6 for a few dollars to pay rent and
utilities -- How many more are desperate and suffering?
IT’S
AN EMERGENCY!
We
won’t starve
or
freeze
this
winter!
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Gov. Granholm has
legal,
constitutional powers to declare an economic emergency and impose a
moratorium to stop foreclosures, evictions, and utility shutoffs. Tell
her to do it. Call 517-373-3400.
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Mayor Bing can request
emergency help—just like in a tornado or flood. Tell him to do it. Call
313-224-3400.
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Let President Obama
know the
stimulus isn’t reaching us.
We need jobs or an
income, today. Enforce the Full Employment Act
We need a national
moratorium on foreclosures and evictions.
Bail out the
people—not
the banks!
Call President Obama:
Comments:
202-456-1111 or Switchboard: 202-456-1414.
TOGETHER
WE
CAN
FIGHT
BACK
AND
WIN
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Demand
a Federal Moratorium on Foreclosures NOW!
BAIL
OUT THE
PEOPLE - NOT THE BANKS
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- 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 David Bing declare a State of Emergency in Detroit, the hardest
hit city in the country by the foreclosure epidemic with an 25% 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.
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SIGN
THE
ONLINE
PETITION demanding
the Feds implement an
IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON
FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS, NOW!
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Help Organize a Mass Movement To Demand
Passage of the 2-year Moratorium on Foreclosures Bill
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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!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- 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, Evictions and Utility
Shutoffs.”
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.
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Endorse the Moratorium on Foreclosures
Bill
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