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| Rally, Monday, April 24, in support of New York City transit workers! In December, A.N.S.W.E.R. organizers and volunteers worked around the clock during the entire three days of the New York City transit workers' strike in an effort to widen the solidarity with their heroic struggle to defend their pensions and health care benefits. We were on the picket line morning until night, we passed out thousands of flyers, and ANSWER supporters sent more than 10,000 letters to the mayor and to the MTA demanding that the fines and threats against the Transit Workers Union Local 100 be lifted. We are now urging everyone who can to join in a rally for justice tomorrow, Monday, April 24, at 4pm in New York City to show support for the Transit Workers Union, which is subject to vicious repression by the state. In the last week or so, the New York state courts have fined the union $2.5 million, suspended dues check-off (which threatens the financial sustainability of the union altogether), and sentenced TWU President Roger Toussaint to ten days in jail. At the same time, the MTA has said that the offer extended to the TWU at the end of the three-day strike (which the TWU membership recently approved by 71 percent) is no longer on the table. The government has teamed up with the MTA to punish the transit workers in particular, and intimidate the labor movement as a whole. They hope to make a statement by bankrupting Local 100. For those not in the New York City area, we would like to keep you abreast of these developments, so that a nationwide support movement can follow and respond to these injustices. For those in the New York City area, there will be a rally Monday, April 24, 4pm, in support of TWU President Roger Toussaint. See the information below to participate. Monday, April 24, 4pm The rally is to be concluded with a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, to the Manhattan House of Detention (at 125 White St.) , alongside Roger Toussaint. REMINDER: The May 1st National Boycott and other May 1st actions in support of immigrant rights continue to gain momentum. Volunteers and organizers from all five borroughs in New York have been coming to the A.N.S.W.E.R. office to pick up May 1st leaflets and other literature. If you would like to receive copies of May 1st literature to distribute in your neighborhood or workplace, call the New York A.N.S.W.E.R. office at 212-694-8720.  |
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
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