The following memo is issued in response to the recent decline in job growth and economic development in the United States. The ideas here within will offer alternatives to the problem as well as address the need for reeducation of our nation’s public and youth.
Democratic leaders have taken to all corners of the country to stump President Barack Obama’s newly proposed jobs bill, including college campuses
Democratic National Committee Chair, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and White House staffer Kalpen Modi (Kal Penn) hosted a conference call for collegiate journalists Monday afternoon to discuss Obama’s proposed American Jobs Act and how it may benefit students across the nation. The two officials in the call focused mostly on explaining the merits of the bill and its aims, rather than the specifics of how it will accomplish them.
Firefighters from all over Western Pennsylvania congregated at the Cathedral of Learning Sunday to participate in the city’s first fire climb commemorating the First Responders of 9/11.
Climb organizer Sam Huey was crucial to bringing the event to the Cathedral and reached out to the Chancellor’s Office for approval after contacting the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to sponsor the challenge at Pitt.
“The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation was sponsoring a series of [climbs] nationwide. I volunteered down there for the National Memorial Weekend, but I went here,” Huey said. “I contacted the Chancellor’s Office, and they put it through to the council and the in-house attorneys, and they said yes within a week; they approved it right away.”
The firefighters were charged with climbing the Cathedral stairs to the 22nd floor five times, symbolizing the 110 flights of the World Trade Center Towers. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl was there to participate.
[This post in remembrance of 9/11 is brought to you from Andy Smith over at American's Progressive Voice. APV has a thousand activists ready to deliberate with you on the issues; be sure to check them out! For your opinion and contributions, email peopleforpolity@gmail.com.]
[Easy Saturday morning post with a good message. Enjoy! If you have a song you would like to feature, or would like to contribute an opinion, email peopleforpolity@gmail.com.]
And so the time has finally come.
The bourgeoisie has signed the war decree with proletariat blood.
And that blood which flows from their pen is the closest that they've ever been to the people.
You've been to our shows.
You've sung our songs.
Now we're asking you to add to each chorus you've sung and...
Protest!... Against!... Injustice!... State terror!...
On the streets of the world for the disempowered.
You've sung at our shows;
cheered right over wrong.
Now it's time to hit the streets;
back up those words you've sung!
Because our voices alone this time will not get it done...
Looking to stop a rogue regime?
Well the first one that we must confront is Washington, D.C.
The Bush "terror war;" unconstitutional, unconscionable!
We refuse to let him kill, in our name, for oil!
We know their game;
know they're corrupt!
It's up to us to hit the streets -- time to take our rights back!
Protest!... Against!... Injustice!... State terror!...
On the streets of the world for the disempowered.
You've sung at our shows;
cheered right over wrong.
Now it's time to hit the streets;
back up those words you've sung.
Because our voices alone this time will not get it done...
Because the people, united will get it done!
Protest!... Against!... Injustice!... State terror!...
