JOIN THE MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C.

A million worker march is planned for mid October 2004. This mobilization, first
initiated by the ILWU, local 10, is in response to the attacks upon working families
in America and the millions of jobs lost under the current administration with
the complicity of Congress. The working class has not suffered such hardships
since the Great Depression. Help us organize and fight back.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Thirty-six years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. summoned working people across
America to a Poor Peoples’ March on Washington to inaugurate "a war on poverty
at home." "The United States government," he proclaimed, "is one of the greatest
purveyors of violence in the world…America is at a crossroads in history and
it is critically important for us as a nation and society to choose a new path
and move on it with resolution and courage"

The crisis facing working people today is even more acute. Under the cover of
systematic lies and deception, wars of devastation have been launched at the
expense of working people everywhere.

In our name, a handful of the rich and powerful corporations have usurped our
government. A corporate and banking oligarchy changes hats and occupies public
office to wage class war on working people. They have captured the State in their
own interests.

The vast majority of working Americans are under siege. Social services and essential
funding for schools, libraries, affordable housing and health care are slashed
and eliminated.

Decent paying jobs are disappearing through outsourcing and privatization whose
real purpose is to break unions and roll back the gains of one hundred years
of struggle.

Sweat shops and starvation wages are imposed on workers across the world and
deployed against workers at home to undermine our jobs and our benefits.

This undisguised class war is waged without restraint against working families
and our children, enforced by anti-labor legislation and decrees, and by courts
serving our exploiters.

The aim of repressive legislation such as the Patriot Act is to terrorize and
suppress the struggles of working people for their rights, and to destroy democratic
control of the economy and of society. The pretext of enemies afar becomes a
smoke screen for repression and autocratic rule.

The time has come to mobilize working people for our own agenda. Let us end subservience
to the power of the privileged few and their monopoly of the political process
in America.

Come together, brothers and sisters. Join the Million Worker March on Washington
as we launch a great movement for social change. Let us forge together a social,
economic and political movement for working people. We are the many .The secretive
and corrupt who control our
lives are the rapacious few.

Let us mobilize together through our unions, labor councils, social and community
organizations, friends and neighbors everywhere. We are on the move and we shall
not be denied.

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18.04.2004
Collective Bellaciao