many think that Protesters are a bunch of crazy anarchists. HOW WRONG THEY ARE

[annm4peace]

http://www.bailoutpeople.org/

Protesting is one of the last resorts after calling, writing, meeting with politicians and leaders.
We as Americans have a RIGHT to protest, march and speak out.



Occupants of the Bail Out the People Movement Tent City will be marching from Freedom Corner (the intersection of Centre Avenue and Crawford Street) to the Mellon Corporation Headquarters (500 Grant Street) at 4:30 to demand a national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Participants in the march will include homeless and unemployed people from across the U.S., trade union activists, community organizers and local residents.

The Tent City kicked off Sunday with a spirited March for Jobs, with more than 1,000 protesters marching through the streets of Pittsburgh in the first G-20-related demonstration. Carrying hundreds of placards bearing the image of Dr. Martin Luther King, and slogans such as “Fight for the right to a job,” the long march was enthusiastically greeted on the streets of Pittsburgh by Sunday worshipers getting out of church, many of whom joined the march.

Rev. Thomas E. Smith, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church and one of the organizers of the march, told the rally, “We must tell the G-20 leaders that we reject the notion of a jobless recovery. An economic recovery that leaves unemployment in the double digits adds insult to injury to all who have lost their jobs and their homes during this terrible economic crisis, both in this country and around the world.”

Buses of protesters came from New York, Rhode Island, Detroit, Cleveland, and other places. Vans and cars and caravans came from literally every part of the country, as far away as Boston, Florida and Los Angeles. Joining the many who came from out of town were a large turnout of Pittsburgh residents, especially those who live in the historic African-American section of Pittsburgh called the Hill district, where the march was mounted from.

The end of the march was Freedom Corner, near downtown Pittsburgh, where there is a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders and activists. Amongst the many speakers at Sunday's rally were: Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; Rakhee Devastali, Feminist Students United, UNC-Chapel Hill; Oscar Hernandez, participant in the 11-month Stella D’Oro bakery strike in New York City;Sandra Hines, Mich. Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions; Larry Holmes, Bail Out the People Movement; John Parker, Bail Out the People Movement activist, who brought a van of people from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh; Fred Redmond, vice-president, United Steelworkers; Lynne Stewart, civil rights attorney, target of government repression; Brenda Stokely and Jennifer Jones, NYC Coalition in Solidarity with Katrina/Rita Survivors; Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, San Francisco and Million Worker March Movement; Victor Toro, an immigrant facing deportation with the May 1st Coalition for Immigrant and Workers Rights; Rosemary Williams, homeowner fighting foreclosure in Minnesota; and Rev. Bruce Wright, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign.

After the march and rally, hundreds of protesters returned to the rally’s beginning point, Monumental Baptist Church in the Hill district, and began to prepare their tents to prepare to live in a tent city dedicated to the unemployed of the world that will stand next to the church for the entire week of the G-20 summit.

The tent city is full of tents and hundreds of residents. Organizers expect the population of the tent city to grow as the opening of the G-20summit grows closer. Throughout all three days of the Tent City, local Pittsburgh residents have been coming by to donate food and water and to express their support for the demand for a real jobs program.




http://www.bailoutpeople.org/pdfs/youthjobs.pdf

The Bail Out the People Movement and Rev. Tom Smith from Monumental Baptist Church initiated a demonstration to demand a national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. An emergency press conference was held the day before to announce the action. The protesters, mainly residents at the Tent City on the Hill, gathered at the historic Freedom Corner and were joined there by antiwar activist, Cindy Sheehan. The march passed by the Mellon Arena until reaching the Mellon Corporation HQ in downtown Pittsburgh, where the protesters formed a picket line and rallied. Many passersby stopped to listen to the message of the protesters, some of them homeless, linking the struggle for jobs with the struggle for housing and other human needs.








Representatives from the Minneapolis-based Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign joined the tent city to voice the plight of the homeless. The Rev. Bruce Wright of the Refuge Ministries in Tampa said most of the people in his group are homeless or recently have been, and they came to Pittsburgh to show the world "we're no longer going to be silent."

"What we're trying to do is bring forth our belief that housing, jobs and health care are human rights," Wright said.



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"It's funny, with all these things where folks gather, the authorities put these stories out there that there's going to be violence," Parker said. "They're just trying to scare people from coming out and protesting."

LaBash joked about being considered an "outside agitator."

"I'm 60 years old. I'm retired, and I own a house," she said. "We're not scary. You may not agree with us always, but it's not the way it has been played up."

“In honor of Martin Luther King we are continuing what he started in uniting people together in a poor people’s campaign,” the Rev. Tom Smith, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church and one of the organizers of the march, told the rally. “The G-20 is structuring deals to protect the corporations and not the workers. It’s time for the workers to come together and make a difference.”









At the closing rally, Fred Redmond, United Steelworkers vice president, noted the need for universal health care and affordable education as well as jobs for all. “Enough of our kids are going to school where the rats outnumber the computers,” he said. “We have to assure that every child receives an education to equip them for the 21st century.”

Other speakers at the two rallies included Oscar Hernandez, a participant in the 11-month Stella D’Oro bakery strike in New York City; Clarence Thomas, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 and Million Worker March Movement; Brenda Stokely and Jennifer Jones, NYC Coalition in Solidarity with Katrina/Rita Survivors; Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless; Rosemary Williams, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign; Mick Kelly, Coalition for a Peoples Bailout; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; John Parker, Bail Out the People Movement organizer in Los Angeles; Sandra Hines, Michigan Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs; Rokhee Devastali, Feminist Students United, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart; Larry Hales, FIST (Fight Imperialism Stand Together); Larry Adams, People’s Organization for Progress; Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Victor Toro, an immigrant facing deportation and member of the May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights; Berna Ellorin, BAYAN-USA; Father Luis Barrios, Pastors for Peace; Kali Akuno, U.S. Human Rights Network; and Pennsylvania state Sen. Jim Ferlo.

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GET IT ????

Do you know why they wear bandana ? Because they know the police will use tear gas and pepper spray.
the bandana's are soaked in apple cider vinegar and kept in a baggy till need.
Once the cops put on the riot gear you know they will used their pepper spray and tear gas.

The vinegar helps neutralize the pepper spray and tear gas. Even the 80yr old "anarchists" know this.

[Hansel]

1. Far be it for me to speak for other people but...

I think most people think the people who throw rocks through windows and act violently are anarchists.

Unfortunately these trouble makers are the only people who get media attention because our media only chases shiny objects and is incompetent.

[RKP5637]

3. Exactly, the media of today is incompetent, for the most part.

Investigative and factual reporting has for the most part gone out the window. The media of today focuses on sensationalism because it sells! Hence we get stuck with tabloid news and sadly many believe it represents all of the facts... We are a dumbed down society...

[annm4peace]

7. so do you call baseball fans anarchists??

are college kids anarchists when they have their little riots after their team wins???

In the media, anytime their are young protesters in dark cloths they are called "anarchists".

[BlooInBloo]

2. I'm pretty sure that nobody thinks that *all* of the protesters were anarchists.

[hfojvt]

5. I thought some of them were racists

and others were useful idiots.

[anonymous171]

9. What? Which protestors are you talking about? nt

[Joanne98]

4. The MSM demonized them as usual.

[bluestateguy]

6. Uh huh

I'd really like to know what the Pittsburgh protesters actually accomplished. I mean really, do they think that what they did had any effect on anything?

You say that "We as Americans have a RIGHT to protest, march and speak out." Indeed we do, and we also have the right to call protesters a bunch of insolent agitators who did nothing but cause problems and burden the city's resources.

Just as we denounce the teabaggers as complete fools (some of whom are racist) and anti-American.

[jgraz]

8. Is there ANY type of protest that you would approve of?

Or do you just prefer it when citizens sit down and do what they're told?

[Lagomorph]

15. I think they like it when...

...we fight it out on the internet. We stay up late, then wake up late and hurry off to work or school. We're too tired to protest. We sit in our homes while they line the streets with cameras to keep an eye on us when we dare leave the house.

[annm4peace]

11. Maybe you would like to ask Martin Luther King Jr that same question

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel

The weekend
Women's right to vote
Veterans care
end of child labor
Right to organize
the Revolution
end of Slavery
saving wetlands
etc.

All brought to you by the Protesters.




The Pittsburg protest gathered people of various backgrounds together and supported them through solidarity.
Think of a hand. You can easily break someone's finger individual, but when they roll down together into a palm.. that is solidarity.. a FIST.. something much more powerful than a single individual.

Through this solitary they educate each other and new people at the rallies and also during the marches.. and others are educated by them and are encouraged to get active whether that is by pen, phone calls, or joining the groups and protesting.

Read the protest signs, go on You Tube and see their rallies and listen to what they have to say.


***** If the marches of 1000's of people weren't powerful, weren't effective... they why would they send in 1000's of law-enforcement with less-than lethal weapons??????

The PEOPLE are not allowed into the G20 summit, yet the devastating decisions made by the G20 leaders are destroying the lives of the PEOPLE.
The only avenue THE PEOPLE have left is the Protest. The Rallies, The Marches, the Protest.

I have only seen non-violent civil disobedience. The Corporate media likes to say the protesters were rioting.. but the only violence I saw was by the riot cops.

I do not consider blocking traffic as rioting. I do not consider using a dumpster to block traffic as rioting.

Braking a window is vandalism.. not rioting.

If you want to see rioting.. look at what happened after the Rodney King trials.
Look at the "riots" in Greece.

[Chulanowa]

13. Some corrections...

Women's right to vote - brought to you by active resistance
Veterans care - brought to you by the threat of violence from screwed veterans
end of child labor - brought to you after years of violent clashes between labor and police
Right to organize - Same as above
the Revolution - Was in fact one pack of Oligarchs forcing the poor to fight another pack of oligarchs
end of Slavery - Was decided by the bloodiest war in United States History, and did not truly end until the latter half of hte 20th century - some would argue it still hasn't
saving wetlands - Has yet to be accomplished.

Protest is nothing without action.

[NJCher]

20. Anarchists? Maybe, maybe not

Let's not forget that an agent provacateur is almost always used in any protest. I speak from first-hand experience.

And as far as "bailing out the people" goes, why shouldn't we bail out some of our people? In other countries this is called "reinvesting in human resources." Only here are terms like "welfare queen" and the like used.

Cher

[ashling]

10. But Wolf Blitzer calls the "anarchists" so it must be true

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[Kaleva]

12. Time to go to bed. Thought title read: Protestants are a bunch of crazy..

Edited. Misspelled "bed" in subject line.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Say what you will about them, at least their signs don't contain gross spelling errors.

I mean, those fucking teabagger signs are a MESS.

[Echo In Light]

18. That tends to happen when those involved aren't brainwashed know-nothings

[downeyr]

16. Yeah...

I wish we had the same amount of protest power as those damn French anarchists...they know how to get the job done!

[Zix]

17. Thank you for this post I wish I could recommend it a million times

The authoritarians focus entirely on the "othering" of protestors and they just keep doing it people just keep buying it...

[Orwellian_Ghost]

19. K&R

[annm4peace]

21. after contacting your congress member, contact pittsburgh

click here to see what you can do:
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/5879-stand-with-the-g-20-protesters

The most blatant show of military and police force left protesters tear-gassed, subject to piercing sound, shot with rubber bullets, and not allowed to assemble, while the population of Pittsburgh was kept off the streets and rounded up along with people there to deliver messages of opposition to the G-20 ministers.

We put a quick letter together which we will deliver on Thursday. Please circulate this link everywhere so that thousands sign on.

READ Cindy Sheehan's letter from Pittsburgh
Coverage from Rob Kall, National Lawyers Guild

WATCH video and here and here.

SIGN this letter of outrage, to be sent to federal and PA authorities. Deadline 10-1-2009

CONTACT these officials:
Luke Ravenstahl: Mayor of Pittsburgh 412-255-2626
Nathan Harper: Chief of Police, Pittsburgh 412-323-7800
Ed Rendell: Governor of Pennsylvania 717 787-2500

People of conscience must stand together in outrage and not accept this repression from the government on the people. We cannot allow these actions to go quietly into the night and be forgotten.
We are seizing the opportunity to have our voices heard in unison, denouncing the fascist direction of this country. It is with the utmost urgency and for the sake of stopping the police state and reversing this course that WE WILL NOT BE SILENT.

[AuntPatsy]

22. K & R I am still waiting to see if the police actions in Pittsburgh will

face justice or like bush and his cronies continue to march on free to strike again without fear of reprisal by the very same people who pay their salaries ......

There is definately something wrong in this country when the far right winged fundie hate weilding violence pushing "morans" can protest without police interference time and time again and anyone who is seemingly on the left constantly faces prosection style tactics from our own law enforcement officials if we dare to protest anything....