Several hundred people have been marching through Pittsburgh’s predominantly black Hill District demanding jobs in a protest ahead of the Group of 20 economic summit meeting in the city this week.
Marchers held signs demanding “Jobs not jail” and calling for “economic justice.” The “Bail Out The People Movement” organizers are also calling for an end to foreclosures and evictions….
One reverend said churches in America need to speak up for the unemployed.
Friar Luis Barrios, of the Episcopal Church in New York, said, “If the church keeps silent in front of this reality, it is not fair.”
A few years ago some of the economic leaders of this group was here in Detroit. On that weekend we hosted about 100 youths sleeping over for the YOUTHQUAKE event at nearby Ford Field. The neighboring VERY progressive methodist church was hosting the protestors for the summit. I had a chance to go over to speak with some of them – most were anarchists, sprinkled in with communists. No one I met was interested in talking about faith or prayer.
I wonder if the Main Stream Media will interview some of the anarchists and communists, show their signs, and then report that there is a vast undercurrent of hostility, racism, and potential violence? Most likely, it will be the wonderful, peaceful, average people asking for economic justice and jobs.
I wonder…who do those anarchists think is going to supply those jobs? Are these more of those big-government anarchists?
I feel like protesting too. I protest that I can’t receive or send shipments on Thursday or Friday critical to my work. I protest that I had to detour three times yesterday when doing my weekly aerobic bike ride. I protest the police motorcycles driving at a completely unacceptable high speed through a crowded campus today. I’m sure I’ll protest the tax increase to pay for this expensive event while the commerce in this city comes to a halt. Who’s idea was it anyway that the G-20 should come to Pittsburgh? I’m sure it wasn’t the average resident. Power back to the people! Yes, I’m being sarcastic.