
Towards Full and Fair Employment and a New Economy
National Day of Action – September 15
Declare a Jobs Emergency!
Protest members of Congress and their corporate backers that are blocking good jobs and a real recovery
We will not accept a “Jobless Recovery”!
We demand:
- Full and Fair Employment, starting with the Local Jobs for America Act
- Make Wall Street speculators pay to fix the crisis they caused.
The Economic Emergency:
15 million Americans are out of work, and without a major federal investment in creating jobs, (official) jobless rates will be 8-13% into the next decade.
This “jobs deficit” is eroding State and local revenues, threatening vital public services – not to mention putting another 500,000-700,000 more people out of work.
Corporate America is getting their “jobless recovery.” The bailed-out banks are making “bumper earnings,” while major US corporations that laid off millions of workers are sitting on $8.4 Trillion in cash reserves (yes, that’s Trillion, with a “T”) – the highest level since 1963. With only 20% of those corporate cash reserves, we could put 5 million Americans to work at $70,000/year … for five years.
The Political Emergency:
Corporate apologists in Congress are strangling a real recovery for the rest of us, hiding behind budget deficit grandstanding. If Congress cannot recognize we’re in a state of economic emergency, and that the jobs deficit is top priority, we the people need to declare it – loudly.
After all, the best way to address our public budget deficits is to get people back to work and paying their fair share of taxes (and making Wall Street pay its fair share as well).
September 15 National Day of Action: Declare a Jobs Emergency!
- Targets: Senators and Representatives that have been standing with Wall Street and Corporate America rather than workers and communities.
- Demands to Congress:
- Recognize the jobs emergency; Stop blocking a real recovery; Fix the jobs deficit first
- Full and Fair Employment, starting with the Local Jobs for America Act, which will save or create one million good jobs providing needed public services in local communities
- Make Wall Street pay for the mess it made (taxing speculation provides $200-500B/yr)
- Possible tactics: be bold & creative!
- Hang a large “Declaration of Jobs State of Emergency” banner
- Blockade your target’s office, because s/he is blocking a jobs recovery
- March with emergency vehicles and/or sirens, delivering the ‘declaration of emergency’
Free Soup!
We will gather at the State of Oregon Employment Offices, 119 N Oakdale Avenue, Medford, for a show of solidarity and demand jobs for working class people. In the spirit of the WPA, free soup will be served for all!
Sponsored locally by Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice.
for more information please call 541-482-6988
Towards Full and Fair Employment and a New Economy
National Day of Action – September 15
Declare a Jobs Emergency!
Protest members of Congress and their corporate backers that are blocking good jobs and a real recovery
We will not accept a “Jobless Recovery”!
We demand:
· Full and Fair Employment, starting with the Local Jobs for America Act
· Make Wall Street speculators pay to fix the crisis they caused.
The Economic Emergency:
15 million Americans are out of work, and without a major federal investment in creating jobs, (official) jobless rates will be 8-13% into the next decade.
This “jobs deficit” is eroding State and local revenues, threatening vital public services – not to mention putting another 500,000-700,000 more people out of work.
Corporate America is getting their “jobless recovery.” The bailed-out banks are making “bumper earnings,” while major US corporations that laid off millions of workers are sitting on $8.4 Trillion in cash reserves (yes, that’s Trillion, with a “T”) – the highest level since 1963. With only 20% of those corporate cash reserves, we could put 5 million Americans to work at $70,000/year … for five years.
The Political Emergency:
Corporate apologists in Congress are strangling a real recovery for the rest of us, hiding behind budget deficit grandstanding. If Congress cannot recognize we’re in a state of economic emergency, and that the jobs deficit is top priority, we the people need to declare it – loudly.
After all, the best way to address our public budget deficits is to get people back to work and paying their fair share of taxes (and making Wall Street pay its fair share as well).
September 15 National Day of Action: Declare a Jobs Emergency!
· Targets: Senators and Representatives that have been standing with Wall Street and Corporate America rather than workers and communities.
· Demands to Congress:
o Recognize the jobs emergency; Stop blocking a real recovery; Fix the jobs deficit first
o Full and Fair Employment, starting with the Local Jobs for America Act, which will save or create one million good jobs providing needed public services in local communities
o Make Wall Street pay for the mess it made (taxing speculation provides $200-500B/yr)
· Possible tactics: be bold & creative!
o Hang a large “Declaration of Jobs State of Emergency” banner
o Blockade your target’s office, because s/he is blocking a jobs recovery
o March with emergency vehicles and/or sirens, delivering the ‘declaration of emergency’
Contact Jobs with Justice for more info and materials on organizing local actions. info@jwj.org



















