Tax Day Protests: Tax Wall Street to Pay for Jobs
Across the country, community and worker advocates will rally at banks and post offices to highlight the need for jobs, and a way to pay for them. Jobs with Justice (www.jwj.org) has led the call for these actions taking place in more than two dozen cities nationwide. Activists will demonstrate support for the Local Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812), which will create 1 million jobs, and for the Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act (H.R. 4191).
In Ashland Oregon, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice will march with members and member organizations in downtown Ashland to protest and demand Wall Street pay their fair share.
For 30 years, corporate CEOs and Wall Street speculators have put the squeeze on workers with globalization, privatization and union-busting. They used their rising profits to buy Congress, convincing them to hand out tax breaks to the rich and gut banking regulations and consumer protections. Then they invented unscrupulous mortgage and investing practices, turning our financial system into a casino. When their speculation didn’t pay off, they got Congress to bail them out to the tune of $15,000 for every household in America.
A tax on the speculators of the Wall Street casino could put 3 million people to work fixing our infrastructure, teaching our children, making our factories more sustainable and improving our public services.
TAKE ACTION TO MAKE THEM PAY.
WE NEED JOBS NOW!
Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice is Planning a series of actions in Downtown Ashland
TAX DAY: APRIL 15, 2010
1 PM to 3 PM
We will meet at the Ashland Post Office, 120 North 1st St. There we will talk to people mailing returns and encouraging folks to sign a petition and make a cell phone call to their Congressional Representatives asking them to rein in Wall Street and make the speculators pay for good jobs for all.
Then we will then march to local branches of national banks. We will deliver a letter asking the banks Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and Wells Fargo to play a constructive role in rebuilding an economy that works for everyone.
To learn more and to see a list of other cities where actions are taking place, please visit
www.taxwallstreet.org.
