It’s time to escalate for the 99%
Things never should have reached this point. That’s why students are taking direct action in the fight to preserve our campuses, protect workers, and make sure students have a say in how our campus operates.
Last week, students like you proved that we can create an economy that works for the 99%. At UMass-Amherst, students were able to prevent over 70 student workers from being fired. In Sacramento we saw over 15,000 students come together and take direct action to defend education, forcing a subcommittee to reject Gov. Brown’s proposal to withhold CalGrants from 72,000 low-income students.
At a time when our movement is more energized than ever before, Slapatista’s have been putting our skills to use and winning campaigns. When students and workers came together in Madison last year, we knew something special was about to happen and launched our national “WTF: Where’s The Funding?!” campaign asking the question, “Corporate Greed or Public Need?” After seeing public programs continue to be slashed while the 1% sat on record breaking profits, something remarkable happened: the Occupy Movement sprung up around the country, changing the dialogue about corporate power and economic inequality.
Now it’s time to take the next step. This April, students, workers, and communities are united to bring grassroots trainings to communities and campuses across the country. And once again we need your help. For this to work, we need organizers like you to step up as trainers and host events on campuses and communities across the country.
I’d like to host a training on my campus April 9-15.
I can’t host, but I’d like to be a trainer
We’re joining more than 40 other organizations to launch the 99% Spring. From April 9-15 we will gather across America, 100,000 strong, for an unprecedented national movement-wide training. We’ll explore together the story of what happened to our economy, on the history of peaceful direct action, and how — following in the footsteps of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — we can take direct action this spring to reclaim our country.
As an experienced organizer, you have a unique power to drive this movement forward, by teaching others how they can take action. We’ll provide you with materials and support, and you’ll make sure others are prepared to take direct action for economic justice. Will you join us?
Yes, I want to host a training!
This spring we will take on the greediest of the 1%. Young people are at the forefront of these fights across the country, and by leading the 99% Spring we can be part of the next major offensive to build a movement for full and fair employment and make education a right.
