SAY NO to the foreclosed home auction! Moratorium NOW on foreclosures & evictions!
Saturday, March 28 @ 12:00 Noon @ Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 Second Avenue So, Minneapolis
On Saturday, March 28, the Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC), one of the biggest private auctioneers of foreclosed homes in the country, is auctioning more than 300 foreclosed homes at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The houses being sold to the highest bidder are the homes of families who were forced out by banks and mortgage companies. Many of these banks have received hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer bail-out money while throwing working people out of their homes. Thousands of people are being evicted from their homes every day. Hundreds of thousands of workers are being laid off each month. We cannot and must not be indifferent to the ugly spectacle of the auctioning of the homes of displaced families. In midst of the biggest economic crisis since the depression of the 1930s, these auctions should not be taking place. Working people and low-income people should not be paying for the crisis brought on by the greed of the banks and corporations. These foreclosed home auctions are a symptom of the cruel and criminal economy that ignores working people and low-income people while protecting corporations. Foreclosures will continue to grow until people unite and say No More!
Come to the Saturday, March 28th picket to speak out against the mounting foreclosure crisis and to demand that the government take concrete steps to stop people from losing their homes. Initiated by the Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bail Out: 612-822-8020 or The People’s Bailout
The TOUR de FLETCHER: Drop the Charges on the RNC 8!
Saturday, March 28th @ 10:30 am @ Powderhorn Park, Mpls
This first week of spring, get on your bike in solidarity with the RNC 8! Reclaim the sites of last fall’s RNC raids in the Tour de Fletcher, join us for a sliding scale chili lunch, or both! The first event of the day will be a legal, fun ride visiting and reclaiming the sites of Sheriff Bob Fletcher’s pre-emptive raids. Put the brakes on bogus terrorism charges! There’ll be activities, speakers, surprises, and more ways to ride with the RNC 8, eight members of our community facing possible prison time in response to their effective political organizing. Whatever the weather - we ride together!
Here’s the schedule - Come for all or part of the day:10:30am: GATHER @ Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, by the rec center, RIDE to 3500 Harriet Ave, 3240 17th Ave., 2301 23rd Ave, 12:30 (approx.): LUNCH at or near Walker Church, 3100 16th Ave. S a sliding scale fundraising event for the RNC 8 legal defense. After lunch, if you’re up to it, 2:00: RIDE to 949/951 Iglehart Ave and 627 Smith Ave (the convergence space) in St. Paul. For every biker who commemorates a raid site, Bob Fletcher sheds a tear! Brought to you by Friends of the RNC 8, CRASS (Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure), the RNC 8 Defense Committee, and supporters like you!
Demand a People’s Bailout! Protest on Tax Day!
Wednesday, April 15th @ noon @ State Capitol, St. Paul
Protest on Tax Day for a People’s Bailout. Organized by the Coalition for a People’s Bailout .
Don’t Enlist! Resist! A day of actions to stop recruitment
Thursday, April 23rd
President Obama has failed to keep his promise of ending the war in Iraq. His plan to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq through 2011 will continue an unjustified military occupation for almost 3 more years. An escalation is planned for Afghanistan, where Obama just deployed 17,000 additional troops. Maintaining these wars and occupations requires military recruiters to entice young people with false promises. Recruiters, who already disproportionately target low income people, will use the economic crisis to intensify pressure on vulnerable youth. We have to shatter the illusion that the war is ending and that new soldiers won’t have to fight.
On April 23, 2009, different actions, using a diversity of tactics, will occur simultaneously at recruiting centers across Minnesota. All will have the shared goal of opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and preventing military recruiting that day. Join us, to help make this day a success.
Join a picket: Various groups will stand in front of different stations that day. Check here to find one of these actions, and join us!
Organize an action: Work with your friends, or a group at your school, your church or in your neighborhood. “Adopt” a recruiting center and plan an action there. Contact us to coordinate, and we’ll list your plans on this site.
Call in day: If you can’t take the day off, use your break to call a recruiter. Check here soon for a listing of numbers, and suggested talking points. If they’re talking to you, they’re not recruiting someone else!
