N.O. needs jobs, housing, schools & healthcare, not war.
RALLY FOR PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD!
Just a few years after the architects of the official hurricane recovery effectively dismantled local public services the twin scourges of recession and war now menace New Orleanians. Orleans Parish unemployment jumped from 4.4% in March 2008 to 7.3% in March 2009. HUD has demolished 4,000 units of local public housing since December 2007. Governor Jindal is pursuing the closure of NOAH’s children hospital and mass layoffs at University Hospital. “Public education” in post-Katrina N.O. continues to degenerate into a monstrosity ever more hostile to poor children and union friendly workers. Meanwhile President Obama is asking Congress to provide him with $89 billion to continue the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Averting what shows all the signs of another catastrophe in the making requires that people here take to the streets to demand that human need is put ahead of corporate greed.
RALLY FOR PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE NOW!
3p.m. Saturday, June 6, 2009
Jackson Square in front of the St. Louis Cathedral
*LIVING WAGE FEDERAL JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED*
*REBUILD PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLISHED POST-K*
*KEEP NOAH OPEN/RENOVATE & REOPEN CHARITY*
*STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF N.O. PUBLIC SCHOOLS*
*U.S. TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN NOW*
Sponsors: C3/Hands Off Iberville, Committee to Reopen Charity, May Day New Orleans, First Unitarian Universalist Church, NOCAW.
Meetings 7pm Thursdays in St. Jude’s Basin Hall(410 Basin St.)
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