SFPC SCREEN PRINTING PARTY

2:00-5:00pm Sun. Jan 17th, Submission / Balazo Gallery, 2183 Mission St. at 18TH in SF.

The SF Print Collective is hosting a screen printing party to make picket signs for the Western Regional Advocacy Project and their upcoming Jan 20th demonstration. If you want to help make pickets, please join us. No experience necessary.

MARCH ON THE SF FEDERAL BUILDING

Weds. Jan 20th. Visit WRAP for more info on the demo.

January 20, 2010 marks the one-year anniversary of the Obama Administration. He came to power through a powerful grassroots campaign movement. That movement – driven by hope and change – has foundered on business-as-usual politics in DC. We do know that change can come quick, just look at the +700 billion in taxpayers’ dollars that bailed out Wall Street. What did those most in need get? $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing funds! What are the consequences of these priorities? 39.8 million people living below the poverty line (17 million people in “deep poverty”), a 26-year high unemployment rate, 46.3 million uninsured people, and 49 million people facing food insecurity. Homelessness is up 12 percent in cities across the country.

In response to this growing crisis, many local governments and business improvement districts have created programs that force growing numbers of poor people out of gentrifying or neglected neighborhoods and into jails. From anti-homeless loitering, sitting, and sleeping laws to immigration checks at health programs and public schools to arrest histories in public housing and employment, we must stop this pattern of oppression and demand our human rights. It’s quite simple: organize or die!

On January 19 and 20, 2010, communities from up and down the West Coast will converge in San Francisco to demonstrate our immense energy and BE THE CHANGE this administration needs to do what is right. Shoulder to shoulder we will take the necessary steps to win affordable housing and civil rights for everyone! For two days we will organize, dance, and grow the movement for social justice.We demand a people’s bailout, given just as fast as what was given to the banks!