Vachon For Congress

MARCH TO PROTECT OUR HOMES AND FAMILIES!


Join your neighbors from communities across Connecticut to demand a

BAIL OUT FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE BANKS:

For an immediate moratorium on all foreclosures and evictions

For an end to the system that protects bankers and corporations while working people suffer

Friday, March 6
Hartford, CT, 4:00 PM

Assemble: Near the Memorial Arch at Ford and Trinity Streets

March: Announce working people’s demands to Webster Bank, Connecticut Bank & Trust and the Bank of America

Rally: Demonstrate our SOLIDARITY at a rally outside the Bank of America

Banks have recieved taxpayer money to be bailed out, but are continuing to foreclose on taxpayers. This is "wealth redistribution" aka, "jackass socialism" where our public assets are handed over to private interests, but we can't get anything public. Not even healthcare....

March & Rally Organized by: People’s Bailout Connecticut
(a grassroots democratic movement)

www.peoplesbailoutct.wordpress.com

We of the working class have sweated and toiled in blue and white collar jobs alike to generate tremendous profits for American Corporations. We have all paid our fair share of taxes to Hartford and Washington seeing little in return. We are now expected to pay for the cleanup of an economy that we have no power over.


Why must we pay for the mistakes of the top capitalists?


The government is considering further budget cuts and layoffs to help the economy...

Whose economy? Certainly not the economy of those being laid off or having services cut.



SOMETHING'S WRONG HERE:



$3 Trillion for Wars Abroad

$800 Billion Bailout for Wall Street Bankers

$800 Billion for The Pentagon Every Year (not including the wars)

Tax Breaks For The Super-Rich

Tax Breaks for Extremely Profitable Corporations

Government Subsidies for Oil, Weapons and Energy Companies

Multi-Million Dollar Salaries for Executives

Abysmal Minimum Wages

….

BUT WE CAN’T AFFORD HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE?!?!

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We obviously cannot count on politicians and big business to do what’s right for the true majority of America. They are only concerned with the bottom line and profit margins, not the public well being.



We all pay taxes and yet have no voice whatsoever in the decisions made about our collective economic future. The state and federal government are now planning to cut services and programs, laying off workers to “fix the economy.” But, as you can see above, we already have more than enough revenue to provide healthcare, living wages and guaranteed retirement. The problem is that we do not have the political power to shift our collective assets from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy….or do we?



Please consider joining the good fight for REAL Change. United and organized we will be stepped on no more!


“Power concedes nothing without a demand" -Frederick Douglass

Wall Street Got One TRILLION Dollars of Our Tax Money
When do WE get bailed out?

That's the question that people everywhere are asking. In the Hartford area, the recession means that the real unemployment rate of 12% could double in 2009, while thousands of people lose their homes and the state slashes social services, education and health care.

The federal government spent a cool trillion dollars bailing out the big corporations. Now Governor Rell plans to slash jobs and social programs instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share. Who's looking out for OUR interests? Come to a community meeting, speak-out and strategy session to talk about what we can do to fight for our survival.

COMMUNITY MEETING FOR A PEOPLE'S BAIL OUT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 FROM 1pm - 4pm
HARTFORD CITY HALL, 550 Main Street

No Cutbacks - No Lay offs - No Foreclosures - No Evictions
Make the Wealthy and the Corporations Pay

Peoples's Economic Justice Coalition 860-570-0782 peoplesbailoutct@yahoo.com
www.peoplesbailoutct.wordpress.com

STEPPING IN ! P E A C E ! A L L is O N E !

How To Vote Vachon in CT on Nov. 4th

Greetings Friends and Supporters,

Moore/Alexander for President and Vachon for Congress, District 2 are registered with the CT Secretary of State as eligible write-in candidates on November 4th.


Here's How to Write in a Candidate

1. Find the line for write-in votes.

2. Fill in the oval for the office sought by the write-in candidate (U.S. Congress, District 2)

3. Write the name of the candidate on the blank space (Todd Vachon)


View a sample ballot at: www. votevachon. com

Despite tireless efforts by dedicated volunteers we were denied access to the ballot this year due to the prohibitive laws set in place by the two-party monopoly. Falling just short of the necessary number of petition signatures, we elected to continue forward with a write-in campaign. We feel that it is important to give progressives, Socialists and Marxists alike an option that they can conscionably vote for. We stand for immediately ending the wars abroad, providing National Health Insurance to all Americans and creating new jobs by updating and repairing infrastructure; all measures that will help the economy to recover for the working class majority.


The Socialist Party has a rich history of electoral politics in The United States dating back to it's formation in 1901. On the National level Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas captured the hearts and minds of millions of working class Americans who understood the injustice of a capitalist economy. In Connecticut we had the honor of electing several mayors and state representatives, including Mr. Jasper McLevy mayor of Bridgeport.


No small testament to perseverance, Mr. McLevy began running for mayor in 1901 and ran in every consecutive election until he finally won in 1933, along with a Socialist majority on the board of Aldermen. McLevy was a loved town leader and re-elected 11 times because of his commitment to the public and his clean and efficient government.

Thanks for the add. ¶ People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they'll need inspiration too. An echo of an echo of Buddha or Jesus becomes encrusted in ritual, and loses context and content. Still, we write what we can. Try to hear the questions behind people's questions. ¶ This world's diverse evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, and murderers — in market, government, and elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, greed, fear. They want us to share that belief, for they use it to justify themselves, to keep us apart, to control politics and the economy, perpetuating war, poverty, and ecocide. Their power comes not so much from cabals as from trojan memes, ubiquitous propaganda, implicit in ads and in their framing of the news. ¶ But they're mistaken about our motives. You and I have found love inside ourselves and our friends. It's in everyone, if only we can wake them, for we're all one flesh and blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor and temporary. The bureacracy of brutality cannot stand if we open the eyes of its workers. ¶ What is human nature? Our task is not just to describe what we see, but to choose what we hope to become. The ideological battle between love and fear shapes the world, and its outcome is not yet written. Watching, voting, shopping are not enough. If you haven't already, join the global conversation, in whatever way feels right for you. Worldwide enlightenment has no precedent, no rules; we must discover and erase them en route. Make love not war is as serious as Orwell and as light as "Chocolat." ¶ For a start, just talk with people; that may not sound like much, but really it's huge. Spread the word. Each of us knows only part of the song, but keep singing, hoping, resisting, questioning. Hand in hand, we may heal this world yet. — Eric

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MLK marchers confront racist Lou Dobbs at CNN
Cuerpo: I just returned from the freezing and dynamic March Against Racism held here in New York City to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr's birthday.

Despite being one of the coldest days so far this winter (27 degrees with a wind chill around 0), and despite being on a weekday holiday that many workers don't get off, more than 1,500 people marched. We stuck it out for almost 30 blocks from Madison Square Garden, new home of racist radio shock jock Don Imus, to CNN headquarters in Columbus Circle, home of immigrant-basher Lou Dobbs.

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The fact that so many people turned out in spite of the weather was thrilling. So was the composition of the crowd -- Black, Latino, Arab, Asian, Native and white, women and men, queer and straight, young and old. The chants included everything from "Free the Jena 6" to "End the Siege of Gaza." We also learned that the march by white supremacists in Jena, LA, brought out only a dozen Klansmen, while counter-demonstrators (including from New York) numbered over 300.

Best of all, though, was near the end -- as the march was filling up the block outside CNN headquarters. The arrogant, slicked-down Lou Dobbs and his posse of beefy bodyguards crossed the street as if they were going to try to take over the stage and give the racist yet another platform.

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Well, Lou Dobbs quickly learned otherwise. This wasn't a crowd that was going to let him turn its cause into a media stunt. While the crowd chanted him down, Million Worker March leader Brenda Stokely was on the mic, denouncing Dobbs, his Time Warner bosses and the corporate sponsors who keep his foul mouth on the air.

In his arrogance, Dobbs actually did a service to the demonstration, since the confrontation means there will probably far more coverage of it in the mainstream media.

To read more about the march and to get involved in upcoming activities to mark the