Budget for All Referendum - Kick-off Meeting May 6
Kick-Off Meeting
The meeting will be live-streamed; check here for details. The meeting will include training on: 1) The policy issues which the Referendum addresses, and on how to talk to voters about those messages 2) How to gather signatures correctly. Registered voters. Districts. Voter file lists. 3) Review of the districts we are targeting, and what the members attending the meeting can plug in. |
Sunday, May 6, 2-5 pm
The Afghanistan war grinds on, the Pentagon budget keeps growing, corporations and the 1%'ers are paying lower taxes than their secretaries, Social Security and other benefits are under attack, and next to nothing is being done to create jobs.
Instead of addressing these problems, the House of Representatives showed that it is still gripped by deficit fever when it passed the draconian Ryan budget, and gave only 78 votes to the Budget for All.
Can you sign up to help collect signatures in your town to put the Referendum on the ballot? Sign up here!
Let's send a mesage to Washington! UJP, American Friends Service Committee, the 25% Campaign, Mass. Peace Action, the Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants, AFGE Local 3258, the Right to the City Civic Action Alliance, Newton Dialogues, Brookline PAX, Watertown Citizens, Arlington 25% Solution, Dorchester People for Peace, Metrowest Peace Action, and other groups, have joined forces to sponsor a non-binding referendum on the Massachusetts ballot this November.
The wording of the question will be:
Shall the state Representative (or Senator) from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the Congress and the President to:
1. Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance; 2. Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services; 4. Redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now. To add your organization's name to the list of endorsers, fill in this form. Can you help gather signatures in your town to put the Referendum on the ballot? Sign up here or check out fundourcommunities.org for details. 
3. Provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and
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