JERSEY CITY PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE to HOLD ‘PEOPLE’S INAUGURATION’ to COUNTERACT TRUMP / CORRUPT SYSTEM – JANUARY 20TH
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JERSEY CITY PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE to HOLD ‘PEOPLE’S INAUGURATION’ to COUNTERACT TRUMP / CORRUPT SYSTEM – JANUARY 20TH, (2pm FROM JOURNAL SQUARE TO CITY HALL by 4pm – 6pm)
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Jersey City People’s Alliance, a new umbrella organization, is networking together as a cohesive collection of progressive community leaders, groups, volunteers and supporters, working on local, county, state, national and international issues that impact the lives of Jersey City residents and beyond. Despite the fact that elections are sold to us with rosy promises for hope and change, the fact is that for most of America there is an ongoing, and worsening, societal crisis. Foreign policy serves corporate profits at the expense of national security and human rights; and the pressing issues of the day, such as police brutality and climate change, are systematically neglected.
We invite all interested members of the community to join us as we hold our own “PEOPLE’S INAUGURATION” in Jersey City on January 20th to counteract the continued dangerous policies of a system which will now be in the hands of a Donald J. Trump administration which appears to be even more dangerous for the vast majority of poor, working class, homeless and middle-class people here.
Please come and join this growing grassroots progressive community movement. Come hear neighbors, community leaders and youth as we call for friendship and solidarity to struggle against any and all regressive and repressive policies. Five of the founding member organizations are: Veterans For Peace, NJ Chapter 021; Food & Water Watch; Action 21; Jersey City Peace Movement; and Anakbayan New Jersey. Many other progressive organizations, community activists and elected officials have been invited to attend and speak.
Jersey City People’s Inauguration
2 pm – 6 pm
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2017
March from Journal Square (2 to 3 pm)
to Jersey City’s City Hall by 4pm (280 Grove Street)
for a rally from 4 to 6 pm
(PUBLIC SIDEWALKS AND AREAS)
Veterans For Peace, Chapter 021 (Northern New Jersey) member and organizer Michael Kramer describes his group as such: “We are an organization made up of military veterans, military family members, and allies. We are dedicated to building a culture of peace, exposing the true costs of war, and healing the wounds of war.
To this end we work with others in Jersey City to increase public awareness of the impact of the costs of war on our city – including our youth, our elders, our schools, our parks and our infrastructure.”
Matt Smith, Regional Organizer in NJ for Food & Water Watch explains,
“While the Flint water crisis has slipped from the national headlines, the nightmare is still very real for Flint families, and so many more throughout the country who are being denied the basic human right to clean drinking water.”
Narciso Castillo, a community organizer with Action 21, (a non-profit community organization for 15 years), explains – “Our tax money is going to the wars, while the number of homeless is going up; we have more than 600,000 who die of depression every year; our taxes pay for a prisoner $45,000 [yet] to educate a child up to high school $20,000 a year; we need legalization by executive decision for all now. The number of victims of violence against women is going up every day; we have no fair housing access for seniors and poor. Corporations are administering our society and the poor have no quality of life, middle class is disappearing. This is why it is time we have this serious conversation with the members of our community.”
Jersey City Peace Movement is a peace and justice organization formed in late 2003, made completely of volunteers, , who also work to demand an end to wars and occupations, to improve social services and infrastructure for all, and to help the needy and homeless in Journal Square every last Sunday of each month. JCPM calls to end all wars, to help our homeless friends, and to get involved in the electoral process. “Our mission in part is to connect the endless wars abroad, including all of our taxes used for them, to the failing infrastructure here at home”, said JCPM’S current director, Erik-Anders Nilsson.
Anakbayan New Jersey is a fighting organization of youth and students educating, organizing, and mobilizing the Filipino people to address the issues they face both in the US and in the Philippines. Trump has alienated not only Filipinos by calling them “dogs” and “terrorists,” but he has also actively taken steps to attack all immigrant communities by ending DACA, continuing mass deportations, and increasing the privatization of education. Anakbayan NJ recognizes that Trump merely represents the problematic larger system of US imperialism. In response, Anakbayan NJ calls on all Filipinos and allies to wage our campaign called Take Back Our Education: People First, Not Profit and War. We demand to (1) redirect funds from war towards education; (2) make public education free and cancel all student debt; and (3) end the privatization of education.
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Jersey City People’s Inauguration
2 pm – 6 pm
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2017
March from Journal Square (2 to 3 pm)
to Jersey City’s City Hall by 4pm (280 Grove Street)
for a rally from 4 to 6 pm
(PUBLIC SIDEWALKS AND AREAS)
