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Strike California! 2011 March and Occupation of Sacramento

by John Anastasio (john [at] anastasiodesign.com)
Strike California! is going to be huge and we could use your support! Bring your strength, your issue, and your expertise to directly challenge California's corporatocracy right where it presides: Sacramento beginning May 1 and morphing into a huge teachers/parents occupation beginning May 9. We will not set an end date. We don't intend to leave. We will not back down http://www.strikemay2011ca.org/
WE'RE ALL UNDER ATTACK - by the rich, the wealthy, and their corporations! FIGHT BACK!!!
Join the March and Non-violent Occupation of Sacramento beginning May 1!– sponsored by Code Pink, Progressives United, Cindy Sheehan and a growing list of others.
For more information go to: http://www.strikemay2011ca.org/ , http://www.bayareacodepink.org/ , http://www.unitedprogressives.org/pages/ ,
http://peaceoftheaction.net/ or contact me.
• We will NOT allow the budget to be “balanced” by continuing tax breaks for the rich while depriving poor and vulnerable people our basic rights and needs.
• We will NOT allow the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan to continue!
• We will NOT allow the continued use and abuse of unrenewable resources to meet our glutton energy wants.
• We will NOT allow nuclear power plants and weapons to exist!
• We will NOT allow public education to be destroyed, tuition to skyrocket!
• We will NOT allow corporations and the wealthy to continue their greedy, mean, deadly rule!
• We will NOT allow tax breaks for the rich, banks, corporations while Head Start, Legal Aid, Planned Parenthood are cut!
• We will NOT allow billions given to corporate interests while Social Security languishes!
• We will NOT allow chemical companies, Monsanto, biotech industries to poison our food, our mother earth, our water, our air.
• We will NOT allow the military/security establishment to take 64% of the discretionary budget!
• We will NOT allow our unions to be demolished!
• We will NOT allow immigrants to suffer racist attacks, by legislation, the INS or Homeland "Security"!
• We will NOT allow individuals to be deemed “illegal” and deported!
• We will NOT allow Black people to be persecuted into prisons, on the streets, in institutions!
• We will NOT allow attacks on women's rights!
• We will NOT allow chemical companies, Monsanto, biotech industries to poison our food, our mother earth, our water, our air.
• We will NOT allow Chevron to continue shirking an oil severance tax while Welfare, Medi-Cal, Pell Grants disappear!
• We will NOT allow our weapons to be sold or “given” around the world!
• We will NOT allow the continued manufacturing of weapons, equipment, skills needed to destroy humans, all the components of war and domination!
STRIKE
ROUTE & FOCUS ISSUES

Day 1 –(May 1): March from IWD rally at Civic Center to Ferry Building, ferry to Vallejo

Day 2 – (May 2): Myth Busting: We’re broke - WRONG! There’s ALWAYS $$ for war & rich! DEMAND $$$ Housing, Health care, Disabled … … Vallejo (a city bankrupt!)

Day 3 – (May 3): Unions, public sector, education … American Canyon & Napa (Napa Valley College, Napa High School)

Day 4 – (May 4): Womyn, People of color …. Suisun (has a 56% people of color population)

Day 5 – (May 5): Occupation, Rape, Torture … Fairfield Travis military base

Day 6 – (May 6): Poor People, Prisons, Police Brutality … Vacaville (2 state prisons)

Day 7 – (May 7): Immigrants … Dixon/Winters (large farmworker community, and 40% Latina/o population)

Day 8 – (May 8): Nuclear radiation, gmo foods, corporate-takeover … Davis (UCD large agricultural 'research' gmo AND NUCLEAR REACTOR owned & operated by UCDavis - UC Davis McClellan Nuclear Research Center!)

Day 9 – (May 9): Join California Teachers beginning their occupation of Capitol Grounds, build TENT CITY! Sacramento

Bring your tents, sleeping bags, PRIORITIES,

INFO! Teach-ins! Strategizing Sessions! Et al!
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