The Inter-Alliance Dialogue and the Institute for Policy Studies are hosting an ad-hoc hearing on May 12th to sponsor a progressive dialogue concerning the injustice of three decades of policies favoring the wealthy.
The Inter-Alliance Dialogue and the Institute for Policy Studies are
hosting an ad-hoc hearing on May 12th to sponsor a progre
Voices From the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis:
A Bold Agenda for
Change
May 12th 2009
10 AM to Noon
The financial meltdown is eliminating jobs at
a rate of over a half million a month in the United States. Millions are
losing their livelihoods, their homes, their health care, and their
communities. Many foreign-born workers in the United States are being
forced to return home, only to find their countries of origin suffering equally
deep crises. There is rising anger throughout the nation against the
injustice of three decades of policies that favored the wealthy over ordinary
hard-working people in this country and the rest of the world.
The groups that make up the
Inter-Alliance Dialogue include hundreds of thousands of the people most
severely affected. They include maids, janitors, day laborers, housing
activists, worker rights advocates, and others from the front lines of the
economic crisis.
Organizations that represent these
employees have rallied around a bold agenda that creates good jobs here
and abroad, advances justice here and abroad, and addresses the
environmental havoc caused by climate change here and abroad.Members of these organizations will present
them at this ad-hoc hearing.
Cities for Progress is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. For more than four decades, IPS has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment as the nation's oldest progressive multi-issue think tank. http://www.ips-dc.org.
