“OCCUPY FLINT” SUPPORTERS- If you are part of the 99% wanting change in the United States of America join us in Flint MI. Downtown Flint next to the Durant Hotel 505 MLK Ave, Flint MI. Stop by.
99%ERS THIS IS YOUR DEFINING MOMENT JOIN IN THE FIGHT LIKE PROVIDING FOR YOUR FAMILY DEPENDS ON IT! BECAUSE IT DOES! Join with “ Occupy Flint” 505 MLK Ave, Downtown Flint north of the river next to the Hotel Durant.
MESSAGE , FROM TERRY BANKERT,TO “OCCUPY FLINT”AND SUPPORTERS. PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA IN HIS 12/06/11 SPEECH FROM OSAWATOMIE SHOWED HE IS WITH US THE 99% AND NOW OUR “WAR CRY” FOR RENEWED NATIONALISM IS ON.
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY THE DEFINING MOMENT OF OUR TIMES. said President Obama
No more your on your own economics.
SUPPORT THE AMERICAN DREAM, WE DO.
NEW FAIRNESS, NEW DEAL,, SQUARE DEAL,OBAMA CARE WORKING ,REPUBLICANS TRUMPED, DEFEND WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS, NEW POPULISM, RENEWED NATIONALISM.
“Renewed Nationalism “ the call to arms by President Obama from Osawatomie, Kan. 12/06/11
“OCCUPY FLINT” SUPPORTERS- If you are part of the 99% wanting change in the United States of America join us in Flint MI. Downtown Flint next to the Durant Hotel 505 MLK Ave, Flint MI. Stop by.
99%ERS THIS IS YOUR DEFINING MOMENT JOIN IN THE FIGHT LIKE PROVIDING FOR YOUR FAMILY DEPENDS ON IT! BECAUSE IT DOES! Join with “ Occupy Flint” 505 MLK Ave, Downtown Flint north of the river next to the Hotel Durant.
WHAT CAN TO DO TO SHOW YOUR RENEWED NATIONALISM? Protest out side under the Bank Of America Sign downtown Flint.
If your home is in foreclosure and want to fight back we will join with you and to OCCUPY YOUR HOME”.
LOCAL ACTION
Join us in our active support and action in the petition drive to overturn the Michigan Emergency Manager Law, and locally join with us in circulating the Occupy Flint Petition calling for a General Revision of the Flint City Charter and giving our city back to its citizens. Stop by our Camp at 505 MLK Ave downtown Flint next to the Durant Hotel. We are there 24/7.[ Terry Bankert of Occupy Flint]
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN
We must end the Bush Tax Cuts today. President Barrack Obama in his speech from Osawatomie, Kan.joined the “Occupy Movement”
AGAIN.99%ERS THIS IS YOUR DEFINING MOMENT JOIN IN THE FIGHT LIKE PROVIDING FOR YOUR FAMILY DEPENDS ON IT! BECAUSE IT DOES! Join with “ Occupy Flint” 505 MLK Ave, Downtown Flint north of the river next to the Hotel Durant.
"This isn't just another political debate. This is the defining issue of our time," he [OBAMA]said. "At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement."
http://www.freep.com/article/20111207/NEWS07/112070328/Obama-promises-he-ll-fight-to-help-the-middle-class
THE 99% have the right to feed their family and own a home in America. We have suffered decades of economic policies that have benefited the only the richest and destroyed the middle class.
"This country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, and when everyone plays by the same rules," he [ President Barrack Obama] ”
Obama promises he'll fight to help the middle class
http://www.freep.com/article/20111207/NEWS07/112070328/Obama-promises-he-ll-fight-to-help-the-middle-class
Obama call to arms “A New Nationalism" to make his call for the payroll tax cut and deliver a broader message against the Republican economic agenda. It was his third trip out of Washington in three weeks to press for passage of the payroll tax break set to expire next month.”
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/MNQT1M94VA.DTL#ixzz1fpucXNaO
Occupy Flint is an ongoing peaceful ,assembly using the tools of free speech and protest of National and local economic policies that help the few(1%) and harm the many (99%).
Nationally it has been Congressional policy that through bailout and stimulus benefited Wall Street, Big Business and Big Banks. This same policy process offered no meaningful help to our middle class and poor families loss of jobs, home, dignity .ability to live in peace in their own homes and sustain their families.
President Obama spoke 12/06/11 from Osawatomie, Kan.“Infusing his speech with the type of populist language that has emerged in the Occupy protests around the nation, Obama warned that growing income inequality meant that the United States is undermining its middle class. He said it "gives lie to the promise that's at the very heart of America: ... that this is the place where you can make it if you try.
"This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class," Obama said as he sought to make an economic case for his re-election. "At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement."
Obama chose this town of 4,500 people where Theodore Roosevelt once laid out the progressive platform he called "A New Nationalism" to make his call for the payroll tax cut and deliver a broader message against the Republican economic agenda. It was his third trip out of Washington in three weeks to press for passage of the payroll tax break set to expire next month.
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/MNQT1M94VA.DTL#ixzz1fptOhQwI
Locally we have seen in Flint a Municipal government organized by a dysfunctional outdated City Charter that has given preference to the 1% that back and profit from Downtown economic policies to the detriment of Flint having a meaningful neighborhood agenda. Downtown economic policies that cater to Uptown reinvestment and monopolistic policies ot the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce including a Downtown Foundation with its capitalist son.
Long term we plan to change the actors and their agenda in Washington. Locally we plan to change the foundation of local decision by changing the Flint City Charter and thereby changing how economic decisions are made in Flint. What can a Charter do?. It can make Flint City Council positions unpaid and not a career. It can eliminate the Flint Mayors positions that has through several administration walked us into economic irresponsibility and two take overs by the state of Michigan. The Charter can change the number of city council member from the bloated top heavy 9 to an efficient streamlined 5. The Citizens protector the Flint Ombudsman can be given enhanced powers to seek legal remedy when the mayor or council violate the Flint City Charter. The are hundreds of other changes that you can make to your charter to build a better life for you in flint. Join us.
I am proud of the “ Occupy Flint “ movement in Flint.
The founding principals of the occupy movement can be found in the following statement.
This statement was issued from Zuccotti Park by the general assembly at Occupy Wall Street. on or about 10/07/2011
“As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members. That our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors. That a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people, and the Earth, and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
We come to you at a time when corporations — which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality — run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here as is our right to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in workplaces based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is, itself, a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut worker’s health care and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams, but look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products, endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives, or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully kept people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners, even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City general assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble, occupy public space, create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.”
Join us and make your voices heard. I offer to continue to this discussion with you or any group you belong to.
by Terry Bankert of Occupy Flint
810-235-1970
terry@attorneybankert.com
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