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GREEN ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY
Dear Women Greens,
We need to be part of the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The fire occurred on the late afternoon of March 25, 1911. The Triangle factory was located on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of what was then the Asch Building at 23-29 Washington Place. It is now called the Brown Building of Science and is located at the north corner of Washington Square East. The fire truck ladders in that day only reached the 6th floor. Over 146 workers, most of them women, either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths.
On Saturday, March 12, there will be a memorial requiem at the Church of the Incarnation (Catholic), at 35 St. & Madison Avenue, from 8-10 pm. On the day of the centennial, there will be a TSFFM dinner whose proceeds endow scholarships for the children of injured workers. The journal for that dinner has an ad deadline of March 9th; I have requested the rates for full, half and quarter ads for it. Please advise if you would like to: [a] contribute toward an ad for the 3/25 dinner, which text would say simply, "The women of the NYC Green Party remember" and if so, how much, and/or [b] attend the 3/12 requiem; and/or contribute toward a bouquet to be placed at the memorial site saying "The women of the Green Party remember."
-- CLAUDIA FLANAGAN
April 9, 2011 National Antiwar Demonstrations in NYC and SF, sponsored by the United National Antiwar Committee of NYC (contact mailto: acpollack2@gmail.com or call 518-227-6947. Bring U.S. Troops Home Now! End the sanctions/stop war. End U.S. Support to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine! Release trillions for jobs, education, social services, an end to foreclosures, single-payer healthcare for all, conversion to sustainable, planet- saving energy systems, public transportation and reparations to victims of U.S. terror. End FBI raids, persecution, torture, drones, death squads, invasion of privacy.
FROM THE DESK OF HOWIE HAWKINS HOW IS GOV. CUOMO HANDLING NY’S $9 BILLION DEFICIT? 1) Slash Jobs, 2) Starve Children, 3) $5 Billion Tax Break for Rich
Hunger Action Alert - Save the Welfare Grant, Stop Full Family Sanctions - Cuomo's proposed state budget cuts funding for a variety of anti-poverty/human service programs to help solve the state's $9 billion deficit, while proposing to spend $5 billion annually to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthiest NYers. We need the Assembly to say NO to these tax cuts. We want to target Assembly member Michele Titus (518-455-5668), the new chair of the Assembly Social Services Committee, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (518 455-3791) We also want to contact Sen. Dean Skelos, the Senate Majority leader. (518) 455-3171.
Message: Please help low-income New Yorkers. Say no to any delay in the welfare grant hike and to full family sanctions. Don't give a huge tax cut to the rich by ending the personal income tax surcharge. We want money for jobs for low-income New Yorkers.
You could also add a message re funding for emergency food. Service levels as the state food pantries and soup kitchens have increased 60% in the last three years. We are also asking for $100 million for jobs for welfare participants. 2 years ago we got $70 million. This year the Governor is proposing zero funding.
Background: Welfare grant hike. The Gov. wants to delay the final year of a promised annual ten percent increase in the basic welfare grant for three years. Full Family Sanctions. The Gov. wants to impose full family sanctions for welfare participants. Now, if an adult is penalized for failing to comply with a welfare rule, only the adult loses their benefits but any children continue to receive assistance. Cuomo wants to deny benefits to children as well. Taxes. 2 yrs ago lawmakers agreed to raise top personal income tax rate for richest by 1 to 2%. $5 billion! Keep it going! Cuomo says no! Jobs. Cuomo proposing no funds Career Pathways & Summer Youth Employment.
THOUGHTS ON TEACHER LAYOFFS, UNION-BUSTING AND CHARTER SCHOOL EXPLOITATION
“Parents and education advocates have long known and their kids have long suffered from the way in which the mayor treats the New York City public schools as his personal fiefdom, to do with whatever he wants, regardless of what research shows and how parents and educators feel. Finally, New Yorkers as a whole are realizing the potential damage resulting from his autocratic behavior. (Leonie Haimson, Huffpo)
If the state budget is cut by $1 billion, we will lose 15,265 teachers or 20% of the workforce mostly thru layoffs & 6,166 additional teaching positions eliminated (21,000 teachers! There are a total of 75,000 teachers in Manhattan). (Fredric Dicker, NY Post)
Mr. Mulgrew, president of UFT, argued that if the state maintained a tax on people earning more than $200,000 a year, set to expire this would contribute $5 billion to be used for the deficit and prevent the kids and teachers from getting so profoundly hurt by massive budget cuts. (Michael Howard Saul)
“This upward class mobility is what the current reforms are targeting. By replacing public schools with charters, reformers aim to destroy the opportunities provided by the teaching profession. By de-professionalizing and devaluing teachers in working-class schools, reformers are creating an entry for profit-seeking educational entrepreneurs that will divert public funds to private coffers. Predominantly white, suburban teachers will have their privileges preserved, while urban teachers will be demoted to private employees, serving at the whim of private corporations and overpaid executives. For the rich, this is a win-win situation: lower taxes, higher profits and they even get to keep their own kids' schools. As usual, the people who will pay the price are the poor communities that depend on schools and the teaching profession for some degree of protection from the ravages of neoliberal reform.” (Christopher Lawrence, truthout)
Ten Key Values of the Green Party
As ratified at the Green Party Convention in Denver, CO; June 2000. 1. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY; 2. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; 3. ECOLOGICAL WISDOM; 4. NON-VIOLENCE; 5. DECENTRALIZATION; 6. COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE; 7. FEMINISM AND GENDER EQUITY; 8. RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY; 9. PERSONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY; 10. FUTURE FOCUS AND SUSTAINABILITY
DENNIS KUCINICH’S H.R. 2424 BILL
Dennis Kucinich has positioned himself to plunge a stake through the zombie heart of the arch enemy of American well being, The Federal Reserve Bank. WE HAVE GOT TO HELP HIM. Kucinich’s bill, H.R. 2424, resonates Green Party values. Robert Malin writes:
“As the nation struggles with long-term unemployment at rates not seen in generations, contracted credit and the hoarding of public dollars by the banks, Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) today [12/22/10] introduced a dramatic new proposal to establish fiscal integrity, reassert Congressional sovereignty and regain control of monetary policy from private banks. The National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2010 would allow the federal government to directly fund badly-needed infrastructure repairs and fund education systems nationwide by spending money into circulation without increasing the national debt. The bill would end the current practice of fractional reserve lending, whereby the economy depends upon private financial institutions to lend money into circulation.”
“Congressman Kucinich stated, “The staggeringly bad employment and economic numbers represent a massive problem which cries out for bold action. Rather than crossing our fingers and hoping that banks will finally lend some of the billions of public dollars they haven’t thus far seen fit to lend, we can take action. My bill would replace the Federal Reserve System’s dependence on private banks to create credit. In its place, a Monetary Authority under the Treasury Department would directly inject liquidity into the economy by purchasing much needed public infrastructure repair. Today, we have idle capital, millions of able-bodied but unemployed workers, unused equipment, and record low interest rates. These conditions are the best possible time to make a long-term investment in ou nation’s infrastructure. My bill would do exactly that.””
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