Brent Perry is the Socialist Action Candidate for Ward 12 Minneapolis City Council.
Here is a summary of some of the things Brent Perry will be fighting for:
Unionize All Workers, Support the Right to Strike
Establish a Minimum Wage for Minneapolis at $12.50/hour
No Foreclosures! No Forced Evictions! Cancel Usurious Debt Payments
Build Quality Low Income Public Housing
Eliminate Sales Tax and Replace it with a Progressive Income Tax
End Corporate Welfare, No Public Funding for Private Stadiums
Massive Expansion of Public Transportation
Make Public Transportation Free
End Police Brutality
Open an Independent Investigation into the Shooting of Fong Lee
Quickly Move Minneapolis to 100% Renewable Energy Sources
Support Immigrant Rights, Stop Police Cooperation with ICE
“Which Side Are You On?” sung by Florence Reece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavxi9OTFoo
Florence Reece was the wife of a coal miners’ union organizer who was harassed by company thugs during a 1931 union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. After an incident with armed men terrorizing her and her family she wrote the words to this song, setting them to the hymn tune “Lay the Lily Low.”
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