2012 Oct 31 - 11:00am
2012 Oct 31 - 12:30pm
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled, perhaps on or about Nov 13.
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Economic Justice
Question 4 You: POSTPONED
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Sat, 10/27/2012 - 3:13pm.
When: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 11:00 am
to 12:30 pm
Where: Postponed! • Boston
Budget for All Referendum Kick-Off Meeting
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:05am.
When: Sunday, May 6, 2012, 2:00 pm
to 5:00 pm
Where: encuentro 5 • 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor • Chinatown T • Boston
2012 May 6 - 2:00pm
2012 May 6 - 5:00pm
Read about the Referendum here. We hope everyone who can help collect signatures for the Referendum will make it to this kick-off meeting!
We will live-stream the meeting for those who cannot attend in person. The stream will be on http://masspeaceaction.org/1980 and will also be available for viewing later.
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.
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Budget for All Referendum: Let's Send a Message to Washington!
Submitted by pshannon on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 9:05pm.
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 alternative presented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
A coalition of community, labor, and peace groups are organizing to put a public policy question on the November ballot across Massachusetts. We need to collect 200 signatures of registered voters in each State Rep district by July 3. Join us May 6 to go over the issues and learn how to collect signatures!
The wording of the Budget for All public policy 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;
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
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.
