NAACP People's Assembly Sets FOundations of New Working Class Movement

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.workers.org/2007/us/naacp-0301/

The HKonJ “People’s Agenda” included:

1) “All children need high quality, well-funded, diverse schools
2) Livable wages and support for low-income people
3) Health care for all
4) Redress two ugly chapters in NC’s racist history: the overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977
5) Same-day registration and public financing of elections
6) Lift every historically black college and university
7) Document and redress 200 years of state discrimination in hiring and contracting
8) Provide affordable housing and stop consumer abuse
9) Abolish racially biased death penalty and mandatory sentencing laws; reform our prisons
10) Put young people to work to save the environment and fight for environmental justice
11) Collective bargaining for public employees
12) Protect the rights of immigrants from Latin America and other nations
13) Organize, strengthen and provide funding for our civil-rights enforcement agencies and statutes now
14) Bring our troops home from Iraq now!”

Unions & anti-war groups unite

[magellan]

1. Gets a recommend from me

Thank God for the NAACP and similar groups. They're in touch with the real world.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. agreed

very few people left willing to push a progressive agenda..

[magellan]

3. kick for the overnight crew