Subject: [big campaign] Campaign to Pass Obama Plan Announced Tomorrow
From: "Brad Woodhouse" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:41:12 -0500
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  CONTACT: Jeremy
Funk, 202-470-5878

DATE: December 17, 2008

***Media Advisory for Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:30 A.M.***

Leading Progressive Organizations, Unions, to Announce Major National
Campaign to Pass Obama Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan 

Call-in: 888-325-3989
Passcode: 585071

Washington, DC - Amid a worsening economic crisis that has left nearly 2
million Americans without jobs and over 2.5 million more without homes
this year, the nation's leading progressive organizations and unions
will announce a major national campaign tomorrow, Thursday, December
18th to pass the jobs and economic recovery package being proposed by
President Elect  Barack Obama and Congressional Leaders.  The
announcement will be made on a press conference call at 10:30 A.M.    

            More than 20 leading progressive organizations and unions
with millions of members have signed onto run a major campaign to pass a
significant jobs and economic recovery package to create millions of
jobs and help the economy grow in the near and long term.  To date, the
following organizations have signed on the Campaign for Jobs and
Economic Recovery Now: AFSCME, SEIU, AFLCIO, NEA, Americans United for
Change, USAction, Campaign for America's Future, ACORN, Health Care for
America Now, Sierra Club, People for the American Way Foundation,
National Women's Law Center, TrueMajority.org, Young Democrats of
America, 21st Century Democrats, Community Action Partnership, Institute
for Policy Studies - Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Working
Group on Extreme Inequality, YWCA USA , Economic Policy Institute, Women
Voices, Women Vote and the League of Conservation Voters.

WHO:  Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now

WHAT: Press Conference Call Launching Major National Campaign to Pass
the Obama Jobs and  

               Economic Recovery Plan

WHEN: Thursday, December 17, 2008, 10:30 A.M.

Speakers: 

Gerald McEntee, President, AFSCME

Khalid Pitts, Director, Political Accountability, SEIU

Brad Woodhouse, President, Americans United for Change

Dean Baker
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XlJOH7q8TAdcnFBY
pq6XuMVj02aRIXe%2B> , Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research

Alan Charney, Program Director, USAction

Roger Hickey, Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future

Debbie Sease, National Campaign Director, Sierra Club

Call-in: 888-325-3989
Passcode: 585071

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Brad Woodhouse, President

Americans United for Change

202-470-5858 

202-251-5669 (cell)

[email-masked]

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