Press Conference
Event: Press Conference to Announce People's Summit
Date: Friday, June 12, 4:00 p.m. at Grand Circus Park
Sponsor: Moratorium NOW! Coalition
Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344
E-mail: ac6123@wayne.edu
URL: http://www.peoplessummit.org
Press Conference Will Announce People's Summit in Detroit
Working people (both employed and unemployed), along with youth and students from the metropolitan Detroit area and around the country, will gather at Grand Circus Park
to organize four days of active resistance to the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Between June 14-17, activists will pitch tents, hold rallies, demonstrations, workshops, strategy sessions and cultural presentations in order to pose an alternative program to what the National Business Summit will be promoting at the Renaissance Center.
The National People's Summit is designed to build a movement to win a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions, full employment, universal health care, the end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and every other progressive right advanced by people throughout the country.
Organizations and coalitions from numerous cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta, New York, Boston, Toledo, Cleveland and Durham, are in Detroit to talk about their respective struggles and to build solidarity with the people in this city.
To announce the People's Summit and its schedule, we are holding a press conference this Friday, June 12 at 4:00 p.m. at Grand Circus Park. Members of the press who need additional information on the People's Summit can contact us at the web site or by calling our office.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
People's Summit & Tent City at Grand Circus Park
For Immediate Release
Media Advisory
Event: People's Summit & Tent City at Grand Circus Park
Dates: June 14-17, 2009, Four Straight Days of Resistance
Sponsors: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions
Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344
E-mail: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
URL: http://www.peoplessummit.org
People's Summit To Present Alternative Fightback Program For Economic Recovery: Four Days of Active Resistance to Foreclosures & Evictions, Mass Layoffs, War and Repression
Organizers for the upcoming People's Summit will put forward four days of alternative ideas and strategies for working people and the poor to fightback against the deepening economic crisis engulfing the Detroit area and the United States as a whole. People from this region and throughout the country will gather in Grand Circus Park beginning at Noon on Sunday June 14 where non-stop speeches, workshops, mass demonstrations and cultural presentations will take place.
On Monday evening a mass demonstration will leave Grand Circus Park at 4:00 p.m. and march to the Renaissance Center to confront the National Summit of CEOs and bankers taking place for three days. Our objective is to point out that the corporations and banks responsible for the worst crisis since the Great Depression cannot provide a solution to the problems facing Detroit such as home foreclosures, plant closings, school closings and environmental degredation.
The following day, Tuesday June 16, unemployed autoworkers will lead a demonstration to the Renaissance Center where the CEO of American Axle Richard Dauch is scheduled to address the business summit on the future of manufacturing. Later that day at Grand Circus Park a workshop will be held where workers will discuss strategies for keeping plants open and stopping permanent lay-offs.
The People's Summit has been endorsed by over 40 organizations from Detroit and around the country. People who wish to participate are encouraged to come and pitch a tent and set up a literature table.
Representatives of the People's Summit are available to speak with members of the press. Just contact us at the numbers above and we will be glad to provide interviews and other information on the Summit.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Media Liason, People's Summit
Media Advisory
Event: People's Summit & Tent City at Grand Circus Park
Dates: June 14-17, 2009, Four Straight Days of Resistance
Sponsors: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions
Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344
E-mail: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
URL: http://www.peoplessummit.org
People's Summit To Present Alternative Fightback Program For Economic Recovery: Four Days of Active Resistance to Foreclosures & Evictions, Mass Layoffs, War and Repression
Organizers for the upcoming People's Summit will put forward four days of alternative ideas and strategies for working people and the poor to fightback against the deepening economic crisis engulfing the Detroit area and the United States as a whole. People from this region and throughout the country will gather in Grand Circus Park beginning at Noon on Sunday June 14 where non-stop speeches, workshops, mass demonstrations and cultural presentations will take place.
On Monday evening a mass demonstration will leave Grand Circus Park at 4:00 p.m. and march to the Renaissance Center to confront the National Summit of CEOs and bankers taking place for three days. Our objective is to point out that the corporations and banks responsible for the worst crisis since the Great Depression cannot provide a solution to the problems facing Detroit such as home foreclosures, plant closings, school closings and environmental degredation.
The following day, Tuesday June 16, unemployed autoworkers will lead a demonstration to the Renaissance Center where the CEO of American Axle Richard Dauch is scheduled to address the business summit on the future of manufacturing. Later that day at Grand Circus Park a workshop will be held where workers will discuss strategies for keeping plants open and stopping permanent lay-offs.
The People's Summit has been endorsed by over 40 organizations from Detroit and around the country. People who wish to participate are encouraged to come and pitch a tent and set up a literature table.
Representatives of the People's Summit are available to speak with members of the press. Just contact us at the numbers above and we will be glad to provide interviews and other information on the Summit.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Media Liason, People's Summit
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Detroit City Council Grants Permit for the People's Summit in Grand Circus Park, June 14-17, 2009
For Immediate Release
Media Advisory
Contact: Moratorium Now! Coalition/People's Summit
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313.887.4344, 680.5508, 671.3715
E-mail: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
URL: peoplesummit.org
Video: People's Summit Introduction
Event:
People's Summit & Tent City
June 14-17, 2009
Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan
Detroit City Council Grants Permit for the People's Summit in Grand Circus Park, June 14-17, 2009
The Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions--along with the People's Summit--enthusiastically welcomes the passage of a resolution by the Detroit City Council on May 5 granting a permit for holding the planned gathering in Grand Circus Park next month.
Moratorium Now! petitioned the City Council in February to establish a tent city in downtown at Grand Circus Park. We are calling upon labor, community, youth, cultural, human rights, immigrant rights, women's rights, environmental and all other people's organizations and movements to join us in this endeavor that will strengthen the struggle to win against the corporations, banks and the war machine.
On June 15-17, 2009, the National Business Summit, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, will take place at the Renaissance Center, General Motors Corporate Headquarters. Millionaire capitalists like the heads of Conoco-Phillips, Dow Chemical, General Motors, Chrysler, Humana Inc., Ascension Health, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, BNSF Railway Co., and PVS Chemicals, and well as the presidents of the National Council on Competitiveness and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will gather at this summit. President Barack Obama and cabinet members have been invited.
These wealthy businesspeople will put their greedy heads together to discuss “innovation and policy ideas in technology, energy, environment and manufacturing.” In other words, they will be strategizing on how to further increase their profits at the expense of the ever-shrinking middle class, the vast working class and the growing millions living in utter poverty.
The National Business Summit will be held in a city with record-high unemployment and poverty rates, lay-offs, budget cuts, school closings, utility cost hikes and shut-offs and massive home foreclosures. With a registration fee of $1,495, it is unlikely that any victims of foreclosures and evictions, let alone laid-off workers, will be able to attend the National Business Summit. No one at this event will be speaking in the interests of those most affected by the economic collapse.
The People’s Summit will be a dynamic event. During the People’s Summit, organizers will implement a moratorium on foreclosure evictions by going into the neighborhoods and supporting homeowners who are willing to confront the bailiffs. If there is a strike, demonstration or sit in, the People’s Summit will join it. The People’s Summit will confront the big-business CEOs and politicians gathering next door. Join us!
RAISE YOUR VOICES TO DEMAND:
Bailout the people!
Jobs, healthcare, housing and education for all
Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs – housing is a right
Stop budget cuts and restore social services funding
Stop tuition hikes and school closings
Moratorium on layoffs, plant closings, pension thefts and union busting – A job at a living wage is a right
End racism, sexism and anti-LGBT attacks
Stop attacks on immigrants
Full rights for disabled people
Bailout youth and students
No more police brutality
Jobs not Jails - For prisoners and ex-prisoners' rights
Save the natural environment and stop global warming
U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Money for jobs and human needs, not war
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Initiated by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
www.moratorium-mi.org
Email: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone 313-680-5508
Call today to endorse, volunteer, reserve your tent space and/or make a donation.
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Distributed By: THE PAN-AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER--
E MAIL: ac6123@wayne.edu
Media Advisory
Contact: Moratorium Now! Coalition/People's Summit
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313.887.4344, 680.5508, 671.3715
E-mail: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
URL: peoplesummit.org
Video: People's Summit Introduction
Event:
People's Summit & Tent City
June 14-17, 2009
Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan
Detroit City Council Grants Permit for the People's Summit in Grand Circus Park, June 14-17, 2009
The Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions--along with the People's Summit--enthusiastically welcomes the passage of a resolution by the Detroit City Council on May 5 granting a permit for holding the planned gathering in Grand Circus Park next month.
Moratorium Now! petitioned the City Council in February to establish a tent city in downtown at Grand Circus Park. We are calling upon labor, community, youth, cultural, human rights, immigrant rights, women's rights, environmental and all other people's organizations and movements to join us in this endeavor that will strengthen the struggle to win against the corporations, banks and the war machine.
On June 15-17, 2009, the National Business Summit, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, will take place at the Renaissance Center, General Motors Corporate Headquarters. Millionaire capitalists like the heads of Conoco-Phillips, Dow Chemical, General Motors, Chrysler, Humana Inc., Ascension Health, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, BNSF Railway Co., and PVS Chemicals, and well as the presidents of the National Council on Competitiveness and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will gather at this summit. President Barack Obama and cabinet members have been invited.
These wealthy businesspeople will put their greedy heads together to discuss “innovation and policy ideas in technology, energy, environment and manufacturing.” In other words, they will be strategizing on how to further increase their profits at the expense of the ever-shrinking middle class, the vast working class and the growing millions living in utter poverty.
The National Business Summit will be held in a city with record-high unemployment and poverty rates, lay-offs, budget cuts, school closings, utility cost hikes and shut-offs and massive home foreclosures. With a registration fee of $1,495, it is unlikely that any victims of foreclosures and evictions, let alone laid-off workers, will be able to attend the National Business Summit. No one at this event will be speaking in the interests of those most affected by the economic collapse.
The People’s Summit will be a dynamic event. During the People’s Summit, organizers will implement a moratorium on foreclosure evictions by going into the neighborhoods and supporting homeowners who are willing to confront the bailiffs. If there is a strike, demonstration or sit in, the People’s Summit will join it. The People’s Summit will confront the big-business CEOs and politicians gathering next door. Join us!
RAISE YOUR VOICES TO DEMAND:
Bailout the people!
Jobs, healthcare, housing and education for all
Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs – housing is a right
Stop budget cuts and restore social services funding
Stop tuition hikes and school closings
Moratorium on layoffs, plant closings, pension thefts and union busting – A job at a living wage is a right
End racism, sexism and anti-LGBT attacks
Stop attacks on immigrants
Full rights for disabled people
Bailout youth and students
No more police brutality
Jobs not Jails - For prisoners and ex-prisoners' rights
Save the natural environment and stop global warming
U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Money for jobs and human needs, not war
------------------------------------------------------------
Initiated by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
www.moratorium-mi.org
Email: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone 313-680-5508
Call today to endorse, volunteer, reserve your tent space and/or make a donation.
------------------------------------------------------------
Distributed By: THE PAN-AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER--
E MAIL: ac6123@wayne.edu
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