rozziecole's blog

October 7, 2012

Dear Budget for All organizers,

Yard signs and rally signs came in this week!   They look great and are going fast, so if you'd like some for your town, be sure to speak up ASAP!  We're asking a donation of $3.50 for yard signs (if available - only a few left) and $1 for rally signs (coated paper, 18x24).  Below, B4A supporters at Somerville's HONK Festival yesterday.

Legislative Endorsements are piling up!  This week Senators Sonia Chang-Diaz, Tom McGee, and Sal DiDomenico and Representatives Denise Provost, Frank Smizik, Linda Dorcena Forry, Timothy Toomey, Marty Walz, and Jason Lewis announced their support for the Budget for All; the complete list is at www.budget4allmass.org/supporters. Please call your legislator’s office and ask him or her to sign on, and if you can, come down to the State House this Thursday at 11am to visit more legislators.  Meet in the 4^th Floor cafeteria in the State House.  Contact: Laurie Taymor-Berry, laurietaymorberry@yahoo.com, (617) 491-1318, or Bette Keva, bettekeva@yahoo.com, 781-576-0279.

Welcome to the UNITE HERE New England Joint Board, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, Doctors for Global Health, the First Parish Church in Bridgewater Social Justice Committee, and the Ward 15 Democratic Committee, Boston, who signed on this week as sponsors of the Budget for All.   See the full list of sponsors at www.budget4allmass.org/sponsors. 

With the Iraq war fading into memory even as the country still simmers, the U.S. peace movement faces the need to reframe its message.

We have spent the last 10 years resisting the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – tragedies that have not only devastated those two countries and taken tens of thousands of lives, but have left thousands of returning veterans with lifelong disabilities and taken a huge toll on our national economy.

We’ve exposed nuclear weapons’ threat to human survival, organized against sanctions and war on Iran and the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and built alliances with labor and community groups to cut the military budget.

As Congress prepared to vote on “fiscal cliff” legislation, 7 Massachusetts State Senators and 18 State Representatives appealed to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation Dec. 31, asking them to promote only budgetary policies that are consistent with a non-binding ballot question on the federal budget supported overwhelmingly by Massachusetts voters in November.