Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, along with members of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and residents of the Highland Towers outside DTE Energy headquarters on September 3, 2009.
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Media Advisory
Sunday September 20, 2009
Dateline Detroit, Michigan
Event: Michigan Delegation to Depart For National Jobs March in Pittsburgh
Location: Michigan Center for High Technology, Third at Temple, Detroit
Time: The Bus Will Leave at 6:00am for Pittsburgh
Sponsors: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs
Contact: 313.671.3715
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.moratorium-mi.org
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Lead Michigan Delegation to Pittsburgh for the National March for Jobs to Kickoff Protests Surrounding the G20 Summit
A delegation of people from Detroit and Michigan will attend the National March for Jobs in Pittsburgh on September 20. The march, organized by the Bail Out the People Movement (BOPM), will place a strong emphasis on the need to create 30 million jobs in the United States in response to the worsening economic crisis facing working people and the poor.
Members of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition will be joined by unionists, youth activists and anti-war advocates. Tenants from the Highland Towers apartments in Highland Park will be part of the delegation to Pittsburgh. Residents at the Highland Towers have waged a struggle against an illegal lockout and eviction by absentee landlords and DTE Energy, which shutoff their power to the building on August 31. With the support of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Legal Aid and Defenders office, the tenants forced DTE Energy to restore power to the building.
The Michigan delegation has been fighting for the governor of the state to declare an economic state of emergency in light of astronomical rates of foreclosure, evictions, utility shutoffs, layoffs and people living without health insurance. The Moratorium NOW! Coalition in June organized a four day People's Summit and Tent City in downtown Detroit countering the corporate National Business Summit held at the world headquarters of General Motors Corporation. The main slogan of Moratorium NOW! has been: Bailout the People, Not the Banks!
Some of the prominent concerns of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and other members of the Michigan delegation are: the immediate ending of the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for an immediate moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs, the adoption of a comprehensive single-payer universal health insurance program, the enactment of a real jobs program to address large-scale unemployment and poverty as well as other important issues.
Michigan delegates feel strongly that they must make their presence felt at the National Jobs March in Pittsburgh since this state has been at the center of the world economic crisis and the burgeoning fightback movement to win justice for working people and the poor.
Members of the Michigan delegation are available for comment by contacting the numbers listed above.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Media Liaison
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs
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