We Won't Pay For Their Crisis! At School: Public schools are being closed, teachers laid off, classrooms overcrowded and college and university fees raised, while programs and enrollments are cut. Community Colleges, UCs and CSUs will turn away hundreds of thousands this year. Over 50% of the K-12 budget has been cut in the last three years!
At Work: Nearly 20% of working people are unemployed, with much higher rates for young people and minority communities. Wages are falling, benefits being cut, and attacks on workers and unions increasing as people are doing more work for less pay.
At Home: One million homes were repossessed last year, with over a million more expected in 2011. Vital services like healthcare, public transit, programs for children, the elderly and the disabled are being destroyed, leaving the worst off with even less. Currently in the US one in six people are living in poverty.
At The Top: The very rich are doing better than ever. Last year banks and corporations made their largest profits in recorded history - over $1.68 trillion. California, the 8th largest economy in the world, has 88 billionaires with a total estimated wealth of $245 billion. Politicians have chosen to spend trillions of our tax dollars on wars & bailing out banks and big corporations while cutting public services.
The Time To Organize Our Forces For A Fight Is Now!
Saturday, October 29th 2011, please come to our Teach-In & Townhall to get information and resources, voice questions and ideas, and organize with others to build resistance where you are. We must all become organizers if we’re going to create the fightback we need.
Schedule
- 10:00 AM -- 12:30 PM: Registration, coffee --Atrium
- Videos
- Presentation – Budget cuts when the money is there
- Discussion
- Presentation: What Can we do? How can we fight back?
- Discussion
- 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch in the Atrium
- 1:45 – 3:00 PM Workshops
WHEN: Saturday, October 29th
10am - 3pm (see schedule below)
WHERE: Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center Street (at Shattuck) near Downtown Berkeley BART
