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Providence, R.I., groups organize for change
Published Feb 8, 2009 7:47 AM
More than 50 people from many community groups gathered in the lobby
rotunda of the Rhode Island State House on Jan. 19 for the Providence Martin
Luther King Jr. 80th Birthday Mobilization for Progress. The rally called for
an end to foreclosures, evictions, utility shutoffs and layoffs, and for
funding human needs—not budget cuts. It promoted the slogans “Bail
out the people, not the banks!” “Human needs, not capitalist
greed!” “Tax the rich, not the poor!” and “Foreclose on
the wars, not our homes!”
Speaker after speaker saluted the historic gain shown in the election of an
African-American president but called for a people’s mobilization to
fight for human needs and to bring about the meaningful change that people
voted for in November. Grassroots organizing efforts that were highlighted
included the struggle to remove the words “Providence Plantations”
from the official name of the state of Rhode Island, fighting for environmental
justice by opposing school construction on contaminated land, the George Wiley
Center’s organizing for jobs in safe environments, and to repeal the flat
tax in Rhode Island. All vowed to continue organizing. Said one speaker,
“If we don’t change, there is no change.”
—Frank Neisser
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