3-27-10 Detroit, MI, Town Hall Meeting

Discussion of joblessness in Detroit and nationally today. WHAT UNEMPLOYED AND UNDEREMPLOYED WORKERS MUST KNOW TO HELP THEMSELVES.

At the height of the Great Depression of the 1930s President Roosevelt created the Works Project Administration (WPA) on April 8th, 1935. The WPA put over 8 million unemployed people to work directly. Today, with tens of millions of workers - especially youth - unemployed, we need a real, public jobs program, NOW! We cant wait for some imaginary future jobs from the banks and corporations who have already been bailed out with trillions of our tax dollars. The government can and must open hiring halls in every neighborhood and get people back to work. In the 1930s the Detroit WPA built Western High School and City Airport and upgraded the Detroit Zoo among many other projects. There is plenty that needs doing immediately in Detroit repairing roads and bridges, cleaning parks, insulating and fixing up thousands of vacant homes so no one is homeless or without heat. The Full Employment Act makes it the governments duty to put everyone to work its the law! Lets organize and tell the politicians A REAL, PUBLIC JOBS PROGRAM NOW!

Town Hall Meeting Sponsored by: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs; Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice 313-887-4344 www.mecwi.org www.moratorium-mi.org

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