Columbus Says: JOBS NOT CUTS

After votes by Congress to block President Barack Obama's jobs plan, and on the eve of the Super Committee's expected recommendations to enact more job-killing budget cuts, unemployed workers and local residents joined protestors nationwide in declaring an "Economic Emergency for the 99%." Columbus residents marched across the structurally deficient I-71 overpass on East Broad Street today, calling on Congress to create jobs, stop cuts, and make Wall Street banks pay.

The group gathered at The First Congregational Church to hear stories from unemployed and underemployed citizens and then peacefully marched to the overpass to illustrate the "structurally deficient" infrastructure, and others like it, needs work and so do 25 million Americans.

The march was part of a national day of protest at decaying bridges against policies that have enriched the 1% richest Americans and impoverished the 99%. In cities across America people are holding marches and sit-ins at bridges and other sites in need of repair to protest the inaction of Congress, the treatment of Wall Street banks and to demand that Americans be put back to work now.

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