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NYC Jobs Group Plans April 4 Rally

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Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn’t Fit NYC JOBS GROUP PLANS APRIL 4 RALLY By Veronica Golos New York A wide-ranging coalition of forces has called for an April 4 City Hall demonstration to protest the racist, anti-worker policies of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The protest was initiated by the A Job Is A Right Campaign. Community groups, labor organizations, students, welfare rights, homeless activists and others will demonstrate their outrage against a planned series of cuts and layoffs. The attacks, led by Mayor Giuliani, are in reality a war waged by the banks and Wall Street against the unions, workers and the poor. Their plan is to hurl another 45,000 city workers into unemployment; cut $7.4 million from education including the CUNY system and starve seniors by cutting the meager city-subsidized meals. "The policies of Giuliani and the forces who put him there, are racist to the core," said Larry Holmes, coordinator of the A Job Is A Right Campaign, and organizer of the April 4 demonstration. "His attacks on the homeless, the squeegee workers, the Black Muslim community, all amount to an attempt to mask the unemployment statistics with crime statistics–to try to pit white against Black, to offer jails instead of jobs. We want to protest this," Holmes said. April 4 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. James Butler, president of AFSCME Local 420, is one of the endorsers of the April 4 rally. The local represents workers at city hospitals and has already had a demonstration against layoffs proposed by the Giuliani administration. Public hospitals, already strained by inadequate staffing, are scheduled to be hit hard. And reconstruction of King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn–the city’s largest hospital– will be cut back or stopped altogether. King’s County is the main hospital serving the Black community in Brooklyn. Replacing the aging structures with new plants and facilities has been promised for a decade. Other cuts being imposed on city workers include increasing workers’ share of premiums for health insurance, productivity speedups, instituting anti-union work rules, privatization of jobs, fingerprinting of welfare recipients, take-it-or-face-layoffs severance packages. The only place not facing this kind of cutting is the police department. And Giuliani is already whipping up a racist anti-crime campaign to justify the increases going to the racist cops. At a scheduled Feb. 23 strategy meeting, plans for the protest will be finalized. For information on this and other activities of the A Job Is A Right Campaign phone (212) 633-6646.                                -30- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more information contact Workers World, — + 212-675-9690      NY TRANSFER NEWS COLLECTIVE     212-675-9663 + +           Since 1985: Information for the Rest of Us           +

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A wide-ranging coalition of forces has called for an April 4 City Hall demonstration to protest the racist, anti-worker policies of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wow, he must sure move fast because he just got on the job and hasn’t done a damned thing … WWS and its other title, Maoist Infornation Network or something like that, also produced a flood of articles bylined from the East Village after the October Uprising in Moscow … denying that any nationalist, monarchist or skinheads were present despite actual news footage and pictures to the contrary. gld — Gary L. Dare – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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Filed under: Protest Demonstration

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