If the economic crisis is over… Then why are we still paying for it?

EconomicCrisis2

 

Wednesday • April 25 2013
7:00pm - 9:00pm

MAGI Cultural Center
2149 W 21st

Companies like McDonalds and Wal-Mart are making record profits while the working people that run their stores and cook their burgers are still having their homes foreclosed on, clinics closed and schools shut down. The economic crisis is not over for working people.

It's called austerity-and it's coming to a school, home and livelihood near you. It can look like CTA rate hikes, lowering rates of unionization and cutting of the few social safety net services we have left.

But there is a way to fight it - uniting to build a mass movement. Together, we can fight for a better world; an alternative to the chaos of the capitalist market- Socialism.

Speaking will be Alan Maass, editor of...

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