This week, unemployed and underemployed people, students, community activists, union members, healthcare advocates, and occupiers from coast-to-coast are joining together to“Take Back the Capitol.” By day we’ll show up at Congressional hearings and the offices of K Street lobbyists, and by night we’ll crash in church auditoriums, union halls, and in tents around the Capitol.
The situation for the 99 percent is dire. Nearly 14 million workers in the U.S. are without jobs and income inequality is at its worst since the 1920s. Unless Congress acts swiftly, federal unemployment insurance programs will expire December 31–cutting off benefits to nearly 2 million jobless Americans in January alone, with more than 6 million cut off during the coming year. And while the middle class and working people are suffering, taxes for the 1% are at an all-time low.
If you can’t be in DC, you can still make an impact.
- Click here to send Congress a message as members of Congress deliberate the extension of unemployment insurance benefits for more than 2 million people and decides on deficit reduction recommendations. We’ll be stopping in on Congressional offices to remind members of Congress that the Capitol is the People’s House.