join operation green jobs, from may 18 to may 24

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http://www.nationofchange.org/join-operation-green-jobs-may-18-may-24-1367854070



An upcoming action this month is simultaneously taking on the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis, and the corporate corruption of Congress crisis all at once. And it needs your support.

We all know by now that almost every member of Congress doesn’t take votes based on what’s best for their people, but by who gives them the most money. Simply sending a petition to Congress, or calling a Senator or sending an email asking them to create jobs, or to crack down on pollution, or to do what’s in the best interest for the people will have minimal effect if corporate special interests are sending them buckets of money for their re-election campaign war chests. Even if they vote against the will of the people, Congress knows their ass is covered in the next election if they get enough corporate cash.

So from May 18th to May 24th, a determined group of long-term unemployed people from the Philadelphia-based Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will be marching from Philadelphia, PA to Washington, DC, directly to the front door of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s headquarters. As the organization that ranked #1 in lobbying last year with a whopping $136,000,000 spent, and that has an undefeated record in the Supreme Court since President Obama took office, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the main string-puller in Washington.

Unlike local and county chambers of commerce who are made up of local small business owners, the U.S. Chamber spends millions of dollars lobbying on behalf of multinational corporations, putting their interests above everyone else while hypocritically calling itself the voice of America’s small business community. They support job-killing austerity policies that have put millions of Americans out of work. They’ve actually led seminars with the Chinese government teaching American corporate executives how to outsource jobs to China. Their president, Tom Donohue, has gone on record saying that there are “legitimate benefits to outsourcing not only jobs, but work.” This is especially outrageous considering the U.S. Chamber has the word “JOBS” hanging from the front of their building.

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1. du rec.

It's a stupid system that allows mass unemployment to exist right next to urgent unmet societal needs.

I hope this March on Washington is going to spark some big changes.