Dear Editor,
On Monday, Sept. 1, workers, students, foreign-born neighbors, small-business owners, families, and others in Chester and surrounding communities will hold a rally joining hundreds of thousands of people in thousands of cities nationwide to demand Workers Over Billionaires.
The rally will be held from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., on the Chester Green. Speakers will include Becca White, Vermont state senator; Joe Major, Vermont state senator; Leona Watt, legislative committee chair for the Vermont State Employees Association; and Alison Sylvester, secretary-treasurer of the Vermont NEA.
From the fruit orchards in California, to the classrooms of Boston, to the backroads of Chester, working people are standing up to defend their rights and demand a country that works for all of us.
We demand to build a society that we all deserve and can be proud of. These demands insist that we stop the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration; protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people; fully fund schools, health care, and housing for all; stop the attacks on immigrants, black, brown, indigenous, and trans people, and other communities; and invest in people, not wars.
The people of the United States are protesting in record numbers against the billionaire agenda of randomly firing federal workers, thoughtlessly dismantling Medicaid, stacking the economic deck against regular working people, greedily stealing wealth from public services to give billionaires even more tax cuts, and violently building private ICE armies.
Join your neighbors and bring your friends on Sept. 1. Register for the rally at www.mobilize.us/event/82547. Sponsored by the Chester Town Democratic Committee.
For further information, contact Steve Dock styeve35@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Chester Town Democratic Committee