Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, covering a demonstration organized by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition on May 29, 2009 in downtown Detroit. (Photo: Alan Pollock), a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Fightback Against the Financial Advisory Board and DPS Emergency Manager
NOT ONE PENNY TO THE BANKS WHO HAVE DESTROYED DETROIT!
NO TO LAY-OFFS, WAGE CUTS, SCHOOL CLOSINGS, PRIVATIZATION & ELIMINATION OF HUMAN SERVICES
National Day of Protest Against Bank of America
Wednesday– May 9, 2012 – 4:00 P.M.
500 Griswold St., Detroit
The Detroit Mayor and City Council caved in to Gov. Snyder and Wall Street by handing the City over to a Financial Advisory Board. The purpose for the FSA is to guarantee the looting of Detroit by the banks by insuring the “payment in full of the scheduled debt service requirements on all bonds, notes and municipal securities” (Public Act 4). According to Snyder’s financial review team, Detroit paid $597 million to the banks in 2010 for debt service.
The City’s long-term debt to the banks is an amazing $16.9 billion ($4.9 billion is interest).
The same banks that destroyed the neighborhoods of Detroit by their racist, predatory, sub-prime, criminal mortgages will be assured of getting paid from the City’s treasury. City services, city jobs, workers’ wages, benefits and pensions will be slashed to the bone to feed the banksters.
80% of state school aid to Detroit public schools goes to debt service to the banks. The DPS Emergency Manager’s only job is to make sure the banks get their money. To do this schools are closed and teachers are laid off. Students who should be applauded for protesting this robbery of public funds are suspended.
We don’t owe the banks a single penny! The banks owe Detroit billions of dollars for the destruction they caused.
SUSPEND CITY DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS
FUND JOBS AND SERVICES
KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS
BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE NOT THE BANKS!
Sponsored by: Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs (moratorium-mi.org); Occupy Detroit Eviction Defense Committee; Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (mecawi.org); SE Michigan Jobs with Justice; Green Party Michigan; National Action Network; Justice for Aiyana Jones Committee
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 313-680-5508
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