MAY DAY!

Occupy Detroit May Day schedule

No shopping, no work, no school!

Noon: Assemble at corner of Clark Park at West Vernon Highway & Clark Street (near I-75)

1 pm: Rally at Maybury Elementary School, 4410 Porter Street

1:30 pm: Leave Maybury Elementary marching on West Vernon Highway

2:00 pm: Rally at train station, Roosevelt Park at West Vernon Highway and Michigan Avenue

2:30 pm: Leave train station on Michigan Avenue

3:15 pm: Rally at Federal Building

3:45 pm: Leave Federal Building

4:00 pm: Rally at Rosa Parks Transit Center, 360 Michigan Avenue

4:30 pm: Leave Rosa Parks Transit Center

4:30 pm: Start assembling at Grand Circus Park for food and music

6:30 pm: General assembly at Grand Circus Park near the Hazen S. Pingree monument

DETROIT — In support of labor and immigrant rights, on May 1st, 2012, we are organizing a mass participatory and bold collective action: a transnational general strike, mass boycott, student strike/walk-out and mass day of action.  We urge all to hold a one-day general strike and come together in solidarity for a day of art, expression and rallies.

At work: organize people to call in sick.  In school: organize a walk-out.  In your community: participate in a mass boycott and refuse to make any purchase on May Day.  Take the street.  Take the day off.

The assaults against labor and immigrants attack democracy. To counter the erosion of rights won through protest by labor, the worldwide protests on May Day reject the cycle of increased corporatization and privatization of resources.

Children, parents, students, teachers, laborers, artists, mechanics, activists, farmers, pastors, bakers, tailors, writers: anyone and everyone welcome.

For more information on the day’s events, go to www.generalstrikedetroit.info.

Sarah Coffey, Occupy Detroit May 1^st Committee, coffey@gmail.com

Stephen Dewyer, Occupy Detroit May 1^st Committee; info@generalstrikedetroit.info

Jerome Jackson and sister Jettowyne

Jerome Jackson needs your help. Fanny Mae wants to evict him, and the 22nd District Court is going to hear his case on Wednesday, April 18, at 1:30pm.

A paraplegic since he was 14, Jackson moved into an Inkster home designed for wheelchair access in 2004. It’s a modest home, but he couldn’t have afforded it without Community Living Services, which is funded by the Wayne County Mental Health Department.

Jackson paid part of his monthly mortgage, and Community Living Services paid the rest. But in 2009, the agency cut off his mortgage assistance. Jackson had no choice but to default.

Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored, publicly traded corporation, bought his mortgage — and house — at sheriff’s auction.

The coalition fighting to keep Jackson in his house is calling on the court to set aside the eviction pending investigation of Wayne County’s failure to provide affordable housing for Jerome Jackson. They’re also calling on Fannie Mae to modify the mortgage, as regulators have ordered other lenders to do, so Jackson can afford to stay in the home the fits his needs.

Says the coalition’s statement:

The banks were bailed out for their reckless profiteering
and fraudulent practices because they were “too big to fail.”
Jerome Jackson is “too human to discard.”

Date, time, location:
April 18, 2012, 1:30 p.m.
Inkster, 27331 S. River St.
(One block north of Michigan, one block east of Inkster Road, 2 miles west of Telegraph)

Members of the coalition:
Occupy Detroit—www.occupy-detroit.us
Moratorium Now—www.moratorium-mi.org
People Before Banks—www.peoplebeforebanks.org

Michigan Republicans are hosting a fundraiser at the San Marino Club in Troy featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a fellow conspirator with Governor Rick Snyder in the assault on working class families. In peaceful protest, we will deliver a subpoena calling on Walker and Snyderto account for their shared agenda of cutting taxes on the corporate rich, shifting taxes to the 99%, slashing social services for people in need, and stripping voters and working people of their rights.

Partial List of Endorsers: Metro AFL-CIO, 99% Spring, UAW, Good Jobs Now, 99% Pastors, Michigan Welfare Rights, Jobs With Justice, AFSCME Council 25, Michigan Rising, National Action Network