Occupy L.A. Activists & Others to Hold Candlelight Vigil for American Jobs Act

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Occupy L.A. activists are joining forces with people from struggling L.A. communities, unemployed workers, community groups, clergy and labor organizations this evening in a candlelight vigil to pray that corporate greed won't kill good jobs.

The event is slated for 6pm and coincides with the eve of the U.S. Senate vote on the American Jobs Act. Good Jobs LA is urging Senators to stand with the 99% of those still battling an economy in crisis in lieu of supporting Wall Street banks and wealthy corporations.

According to the American Jobs Act website, the purpose of the act is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans - without adding a dime to the deficit. The Act will save or create 125,400 California jobs, including 51,500 jobs building CA roads, highways, bridges and mass-transit, 37,300 jobs preventing layoffs of CA teachers, police and firefighters plus 36,600 jobs fixing CA's crumbling schools, as stated in today's release.

Should the Senate fail to vote in favor of the Act, Good Jobs LA will not fail to unleash more aggressive actions on Wednesday, October 12.

Participants should meet at the corner of Broadway and Aliso Street. The candlelight vigil will take place on the Broadway 101 Freeway overpass, a functionally obsolete overpass that could be fixed with the Act's passage. Attendees will be armed with signs, banners, candles and hope.

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By Lauren Lloyd in News on October 10, 2011 11:00 AM 0 Comments

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wackyxaky

I totally support the occupy LA people, but I think it would be great if they moved the protest to Rodeo Drive. It may be more effective at getting the message into the media if the protestors are pissing off Beverly Hills merchants.

David_Barron

To the Occupy Wall Street protesters here in Los Angeles; with 14 million Americans across the USA unemployed, your anger is righteous. You might want to keep the heat on here locally, all the way up to the up-coming LA city council elections.

May I suggest a few demands to your City leaders; demand, this Mayor and City Council repeal the City's business tax, which is driving businesses out of town, and driving unemployment past 14%. Demand, that the City abolish the Community Redevelopment Agency, which collects approximately $680M of our tax money, and re-distributes it as welfare to some of the wealthy corporations, which are affiliated with re-electing the incumbents back into office, which allows the incumbents to continue their over-spending spree. This spending spree is causing our taxes, water, electric, trash, sewer, phone, and parking meter cost to sky-rocket.

Demand that DWP appoint a citizen representative who is not politically connected, to be our 'watch-dog,' regarding any future utility rate hikes. Demand that the mayor roll back his 'Office of the Mayor' budget, which he tripled from $8.8M to $26M, while he was promoting his "Shared Sacrifice." Demand that the Mayor produce an accounting of the tens of millions going to the Gang Youth Reduction Development program. Demand that the City treat all residents as one class, and not operate, as giving the appearance of a 'Sanctuary City.' for a particular class of people.

To discourage 'professional politicians' who don't serve, "Power to the People," in California, demand that legislation pass a law that says, 'if an elected official files to run for another elected office before their current term is up, that they immediately forfeit their current seat.'

Good luck and keep the peace.

James Bean

Here's a good op-ed by Chris Hedges. For those still puzzled by the "occupy-ers", I think this explains better than anything I've read yet what they are all about. For the Trojies among us, this doesn't sound like a bunch of nut jobs to me.

http://www.truth-out.org/why-e...

Donald Callahan Bryan

For all the money that Wall Street donated to the Obama campaign, I hope they are enjoying the fuits (and nuts) of their reward ;-))

trojan2002

LAist... still home for the liberal activist nutjobs.

Your post is not for "news". It's better suited for events... better yet, activists with lack of insight and a fully functioning brain events.

James Bean

Hey Trojie! (I changed my name and avatar.)

Question: Would these folks still be nut jobs if it were a bunch of teapartiers out there raising hell, misquoting the Constitution and misspelling signs? Or would they be "patriots"?

We may get to see the birth of a Socialist Democracy movement in this country. That's very exciting too me!

trojan2002

As you may recall, I was never a fan of the tea party. The tea party is a nut job organization.
My main point is that this site tries hard to pass itself off as legit, but the editors keep putting their ideological driven events and dissertations into the news section. Those should be for opinion and events.
LAist writer spouting liberal opinion and call to action is not news.
By the way, I believe that the Occupy movement started as legit and was a true call to action. But once the unions, moveon types, OFA and the DNC moved in, it de-legitimized the movement. They started off blaming both sides, which was correct as both parties are to blame. The WH is as responsible for corruption as the republicans. Now it's only blame the republicans.
You think Obama and Schumer are going to reign on the banks when 20% of their donations come from banks?