Here's the press release from MoveOn.org:

Local Residents to Demand Congress Focus on Jobs, Not Cuts & Urge Wall Street to Pay Fair Share

American Dream Movement Event Part of a National Week of Action to Support the Occupy Wall Street Protests and Promote Economic Justice

Line Up for Jobs
Thusday, October 13 at 4:30 pm
Congressman Heath Shuler's Office
205 College St., Asheville 28801

On October 13, members of the American Dream Movement, led by MoveOn.org, will rally outside of Congressman Shuler's office to demand that Washington make Wall Street and millionaires pay their fair share to create jobs, rather than make cuts that hit the middle class and poor. The event in Asheville is part of a national week of action organized in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and is part of an escalation of American Dream Movement events that have been taking place all summer. 

For months, hundreds of thousands of members of the American Dream Movement have been urging Washington to focus on creating jobs, and make the tax system work for all Americans, not just the super-rich. Yet there are still politicians in Washington who would rather force deep cuts to important programs that the middle class depends on just so they can give tax breaks to the rich—all the while doing nothing to create jobs.

“We are sick of politicians in Washington putting the big banks and corporations before working families,” said Stephanie Hellert, a local MoveOn member. “We need an economy that works for all Americans, not just the richest 1 percent. Americans need jobs not cuts, and we should pay for them by making millionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes like the rest of us do."


The rally will take place on Thursday, October 13 at 4:30 at 205 College Street.


The event is being organized by the new American Dream Movement. The American Dream Movement is a growing movement inspired by protests in Wisconsin and fueled by the brutal right-wing attacks on the middle class and the poor. The American Dream Movement is made up of millions of ordinary Americans, along with dozens of leading grassroots organizations, fighting together for good jobs for all Americans, securing a future for our children and our communities, and finally making corporations and the super-rich pay their fair share in taxes.
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