Make the rich pay for their crisis!
Bail out poor and working people, not the rich!
The unfolding economic crisis gripping the United States is condemning tens of millions of people to poverty, hunger, and homelessness. Here in Minnesota we see a rising tide of home foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs. By every measure, life for poor and working people is getting worse. Food shelf use is up. Unemployment is rising. Homes and apartment buildings that once housed our families have been foreclosed and are vacant and boarded up.
Tax policy that favors the rich has left Minnesota state government facing a massive budget deficit—at least $4 billion. The budget crisis is expected to continue to grow in the coming months.
Left to their own devices, Governor Pawlenty, along with a host of politicians in the legislature, will enact legislation that serves the self-serving interests of corporations and the wealthy. They will attack public employees. They will try to scapegoat immigrants and the poor. And, they will try to push the burden of the crisis onto our backs.
Low-income organizations, community groups, labor unions, and immigrant rights organizations, along with others who are working for justice, are coming together to meet the effects/challenges of this crisis head on. We cannot afford to allow the funding and programs that serve working and low-income families to be placed on the chopping block. We need solutions to the problems we face.
This legislative session we will place our demands on Minnesota politicians. Join the MN Coalition for a People's Bailout in the fight for:
Jobs or income now!
Extend unemployment benefits.
Make more workers eligible for unemployment benefits.
Create a public works program that puts people to work now.
Put a moratorium on the 5-year time limit for public assistance.
No cuts to programs that serve working and low-income people!
Place a moratorium on home foreclosures! No evictions for renters in foreclosed buildings
No attacks on immigrants!
Protect public education. No tuition hikes!
No one in Minnesota should be cold or hungry!
No layoffs!
No attacks on wages.
No layoffs for University of Minnesota workers and all public employees in Minnesota.
Tax the rich, make them pay for their crisis!
Endorse the call (your email address will not be displayed):
MN Coalition for a People's Bailout, Minnesota
Brad Sigal, MIRAc, Saint Paul
Andy Carhart, AFSCME 3800, Robbinsdale, MN
Iraq Peace Action Coalition, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Nick Espinosa, MIRAC, Minneapolis
Women Against Military Madness, 310 East 38th St., #222, Minneapolis, MN 55409
Tom Lenius, Minneapolis
Mick Kelly, Minneapolis
Welfare Rights Commitee, Minneapolis
Linden Gawboy, Minneapolis
Meredith Aby, Bloomington Federation of Teachers, Anti-War Committee, Minnesota
Anti-War Committee, Twin Cities, MN
Stephanie Taylor, SDS, Minneapolis
Lindsey Laughlin, Saint Paul, MN
Andrew Boos, SDS, Minneapolis
Allison Goin, South Minneapolis
Jesse G, Mpls
Jillian L Hipsman, Minneapolis
Thistle Parker-Hartog, Anti-War Committee, Minneapolis
Minnesota Dawah Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota
Stefanie Yorek, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis, MN
Emily Kreitzer, Minneapolis
Marie Milsten Fiedler, AFSCME 3800, St Paul, MN
Kim Hayden, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis, MN
Billie Spain, Minneapolis, MN
Ben Ellis, Minneapolis
Jennie Eisert, Anti-War Committee, Mpls, MN
Atiya Ahsan, Minneapolis
Jeffrey Kolnick, St Paul
Andreas Schramm, St. Paul
Bill Sorem, Minnetonka
heidi l uppgaard, minneapolis, mn
Alexander Valoczki, private citizen, Minneapolis
Jeanine Webster, Minneapolis
Deb Konechne, Welfare Rights Committee, St Paul
Chris Bart, Minneapolis, MN
ann galloway
Bill Drebenstedt, Anti-War Committee, CRASS, Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Bill 4 Mayor in 09, Minneapolis, MN
Barb Spado, Saint Paul, MN
Chance Lunning
Amy Selvius, AFSCME 3800, St. Paul, MN
Ruthann H. Ovenshire, Minneapolis
Kelly Sullivan, Sioux Falls, SD
Kristin Koppen, St. Paul
Peter Rachleff, St. Paul
Stephen Pesavento, Golden Valley
Diane Bunting, Robbinsdale, MN
Elizabeth Burr, WAMM
Ann Cader, St. Paul MN
Marlys Weber
Caroline Palmer, Minneapolis
Elizabeth Barnum, Minneapolis
Dave Jacobi, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis
Beverly
Jonneke Koomen, St Paul, MN
Sue Allard, AFSCME 3800, St Paul
douglas sembla, afscme 3800, minneapolis, mn
tangela janto
petr dann agency/stefan jiri consult
daniel janto, stillwater mn
Peter Molenaar, Communist Party, Mpls
Marty Lemke, Elk River
Karen Williams, St Paul
Delores Barton, St. Paul
Susan Kang, Brooklyn, NY
Diana Cumming, Minneapolis, MN
Jeanette Scofield, AFSCME 3800, Minnesota
Rose Brewer, Minneapolis
Lydia Schwartz, Minneapolis, MN
Rita , Minneapolis
U of M Students for a Democratic Society, Minneapolis
Abigail Miller, SDS, Minneaplis
Socialist Alternative, Minneapolis
Sam Ross-Brwon
Maggie Sventek, Minneapolis
Phillip Lickteig, MIRAc, Minneapolis
ashley holmes
Rebecca Vick, 4412 43rd Ave S Mpls.
kim defranco, Welfare Rights Committee, St. Paul, MN
Erin Maher, Welfare Rights Committee, Lindstrom
Tameka Colbert, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cherrene Horazuk, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis, MN
Nicole Duxbury, MIRAc, Minneapolis
Brook Bernini, Minneapolis
Jess Sundin, Anti-War Committee, Minneapolis
AFSCME Local 3800, Minneapolis, MN
mirac
Eduardo Cardenas, MIRAc, South Minneapolis
Brian Payne, MIRAc
Jessica Arndt, Cottage Grove, MN
Kevin Redfield, St Paul
Elim Transitional Housing, Inc. and Integrated Community Solutions, Inc., Metro Area
kathlyn Stone, St. Paul, MN
Jeff Schunk
Brent Michael Davids, Saint Paul
Gregory Stricherz, Minneapolis
Betty Sanders, Sisters in Harmony
Tony Prokott, Citizens for Corporate Redesign, Minneapolis
Dede Francis, WRC
Fr. Duane Pribula, Nevis, MN
cheryl schrader, AFSCME 3800, mounds view, mn
Nancy Wiswell, AFSCME 3800
Carol Bruner, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis, MN
Stephanie Sarich, Minneapolis, MN
Niger Arevalo, FMLN MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS
Mike Toft, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis
Debbie Hansen, AFSCME 3800, Minneapolis
Kem Tae Lynch, AFSCME 3800, Minnesota
Patrick Farwig, Minneapolis
Alicia Ranney, Minneapolis
Trang Do, Minneapolis
Peter Fetsch, Minneapolis, MN
Trista Matascastillo, Minneapolis
Angella Khan, WRC, Mpls
catherine gaines, minneapolis
gene gaines, minneapolis
John Holst, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis
Molly Wilbur-Cohen, St. Paul
Janet C. Nye, Minneapolis
Junkyard Empire, Saint Paul, MN
Lee Bush, 1050 E Hawthorne Ave, St Paul 55106
Ann Galloway,
Frieda Gardner, Minneapolis
Carmen Love
Carol Masters, WAMM, Minneapolis, MN
Christina Hosmer, Apple Valley MN
Beverly Bailey, individual, Richfield, MN
Jeanne Lutgen
Mary Engen, Minneapolis
Mike Wallis
Andrea Kuenning
Ruby Steigerwald, Minneapolis
darlene white, wamm, United States
Karen Kosel Lundgren, Minneapolis
Allan Bostelmann
mary amundson, Bloomington
Kathy Hollander, Minneapolis
Dede Frances, WRC
Nancy Hugg, WAMM
Rebecca Miller, Lyndale UCC, Minneapolis
Solomon O'Lunigh
Paula Fischer
Ben, Minneapolis
Ann Pineles
john sheehan, minneapolis
Patty Schmitt, Welfare Rights Committee, St. Paul, MN
Maggie Doran, Mineapolis, MN
Amina Saleh, MOVE WR Committee, Twin Cities
Deanna Opatrny, Apple Valley
Jacob Katzenberger, Apple Valley
Antonina Iskierska, Poland
Victor Suarez, mpls mn 55407
Lori Tetrick, Burnsville, MN
Jake Tetrick, Burnsville
Jason Tetrick, Burnsville
S.A. Martinson, Minneapolis
Gayathrir R, Minneapoils
allison goin
Janet Ryan, St Paul
John Holst, Minneapolis
chou thor, 4149 lyndale ave n
Mai Thor, Minneapolis
Ronald Johnson, St. Paul MN
John Majerus, Rochester, MN
Valerie Williams, NACA (Neighborhood Assistance Corporation Of America, 1515 S Roberts Street, West St. Paul, MN 55118
Jennifer Lindner, Brooklyn, NY
Crystal Williams, Minnesota