Via Campaign for America's Future: Beyond Wisconsin. The March 10 Jobs Summit.
The right wing billionaires financing the assault on public servants in the states are hoping to fan resentments among voters struggling in this recession. They want people worried about losing their jobs and pensions to resent public workers who still have jobs and benefits.
But instead of dividing the workers, the people of Wisconsin are uniting and fighting back. And polls show 60 percent of Wisconsinites support the fight for rights and fairness.
Most Americans know the real solution: jobs for all -- raising wages and benefits, while growth and jobs increase revenues and bring budgets into balance. This past weekend, tens of thousands rallied at all 50 statehouses to deliver that message and defend our civil servants.
On March 10, let's take it to the next level and get back on offense. Come to the "The Summit On Jobs & America's Future," and we'll reset the terms of the national debate over our economic future.
Like Wisconsin Gov. Walker, conservatives in Washington are demanding painful cuts in services and programs affecting the middle class, children and the poor.
And just like in Wisconsin and other states, Americans are challenging right-wing austerity. The people are demanding investment that will put people to work, and balanced budgets through growth and progressive taxes.
At "The Summit On Jobs & America's Future," leaders, thinkers and organizers will put the spotlight on the big and bold action America needs so we can build an economy where economic opportunity, decent wages, and good jobs once again support a prosperous middle-class.
Not on the feeble measures the pundits deem reasonable. Not on the austerity agenda conservatives are trying to force down our throats.
And not sacrificing the last bastion of the middle-class: America's unions.
Powerful speakers including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, green jobs visionary Van Jones, Wisconsin protest leader from Citizen Action Robert Kraig, social justice champion Angela Glover Blackwell and leading pollster Celinda Lake will wake up Washington and force the focus back on what America is really looking for.
Americans aren't looking for more austerity. They have enough of it right now.
Americans aren't scapegoating unions. They're mad at Wall Street for wrecking the economy.
Americans want solutions to the immediate jobs crisis and plans to take control of our economic future.
Tens of thousands in Wisconsin are standing up, fighting back and taking control of their economic future. The next step is to come to Washington and take control of the national debate.
Join us, and help wake up Washington.
Sincerely,
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Roger Hickey, Co-director Campaign for America's Future |
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