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Poor People's Movements

Protest Demands a 'People’s Bailout'
Staff | St. Paul, MN | 12/04/08
While state officials announced a record $5.2 billion dollar budget deficit at the State Capitol here, Dec. 4 , about 25 members of the Minnesota...
Budget crisis, capitalist crisis, Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout
Fighting back against impact of economic crisis
Mick Kelly | St. Paul, MN | 10/29/08
Standing in front of banner reading, “Bail out poor and working people - not billionaires!” leaders of the Welfare Rights Committee announced a campaign...
Budget crisis, capitalist crisis, Welfare Rights Committee
Fight Back! Newspaper RNC special edition
Mick Kelly | United States | 9/14/08
A special issue of Fight Back! prepared for the protests at the Republican National Convention is now available online here along with other coverage of...
Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, Fight Back! at the RNC
A Freedom Road Socialist Organization welcome to the March on the RNC
Freedom Road Socialist Organization | St. Paul, MN | 8/31/08
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following greeting from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to demonstrators at the Republican National...
Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Iraq, McCain, war on terror
Standing up at the RNC
Staff | St. Paul, MN | 8/27/08
These are statements from some of the many people who will protest against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN on September 1-4, 2008.
Anti-War Committee, Colombia Action Network, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Latinos Against War, Palestine, SDS, Teamsters Local 743, Welfare Rights Committee
Lawsuit filed in MN Court to Open up more space for Anti-war, Economic Justice Protests at RNC
Staff | St. Paul, MN | 8/12/08
Anti-war, low-income, labor and student activists have mounted a new legal challenge to Saint Paul’s policy of curtailing protests at the Republican...
AFSCME 3800, Bruce Nestor of the National Lawyers Guild, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Welfare Rights Committee
Getting ready for Poor People’s Contingent in Sept. 1 March on the RNC
Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 8/09/08
The Welfare Rights Committee held a celebration and organizing event Aug. 9 to get low-income families geared up for the Sept. 1 march on the Republican...
Republican National Convention, Welfare Rights Committee
Struggle to save Muhlenberg Hospital
David Hungerford | | 7/24/08
The fight here to save Muhlenberg Hospital continues to intensify and broaden.
capitalist crisis, health care, muhlenberg, People's Organization for Progress
Protest Against Workfare/Slave Labor
Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 6/09/08
The Welfare Rights Committee held a protest outside the Hennepin county welfare office, June 8.
Pawlenty, Welfare Rights Committee
All Out for Sept. 1 RNC protest
Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 6/08/08
Setp 1 at the RNC: We will march to be heard, we will march to stop the war and we will march to show the world that real opposition exists to the...
anti-immigrant attacks, foreclosures homelessness and unemployment, John McCain