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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">in this email:</font></div>
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<div><font size="+0"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">1) 3/7 - March
17 Press Conference<br>
2) <span class="158185821-05032007">The Occupation of Washington Begins
- 1 More Week<br>
3) Get on the Buses for March 17<br>
</span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font size="+0"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span
class="158185821-05032007">4) 3/9 - Hector Rivas Memorial - One Year
Later the Struggle for Justice Continues</span></font></font></font></div>
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<hr></div>
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<div><span class="158185821-05032007"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>1)
March 17 Press Conference</strong></font></span></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>PRESS CONFERENCE</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
Contact:</strong> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Chuck Turner, Boston City Council,
District 7 - 617-635-3510, 617-427-8100<br>
Jonathan Regis, ROSA7053 - Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Comm. -
857-204-7357<br>
Rachel Nasca, Women's Fightback Network - 617-524-1535<br>
Peter Cook , Troops Out Now Coalition - 617-522-6626</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>
<strong>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 10:00am BOSTON CITY HALL - PIEMONTE ROOM</strong></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong></strong> </font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>BOSTON ANTIWAR
ACTIVISTS TO JOIN FORCES WITH TEAM UNITY TO ANNOUNCE PLANS TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE MARCH 17 RALLY/MARCH ON THE PENTAGON TO DEMAND:</strong></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong></strong> </font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>BRING ALL THE
TROOPS HOME FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN!<br>
DEFUND THE PENTAGON - $$$ FOR AIDS, JOBS, HEALTHCARE, HOUSING AND
EDUCATION!</strong></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">City Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles
C. Yancey, Sam Yoon, and Felix Arroyo, who make up Team Unity, together
with a coalition of supporters including labor, human rights, anti-war,
youth, community leaders and activists will host a press conference
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 to further publicize a Boston City Council
resolution opposed to the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
and to announce plans to participate in the March 17th rally/march on
the Pentagon.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">On March 17 tens of thousands of
people will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand "Bring ALL
the Troops Home From Iraq and Afghanistan", "Defund the Pentagon - $$$
for AIDS, Jobs, Housing, Healthcare and Education". </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">On February 14th, by a vote of 8-3,
the Boston City Council passed a resolution to support a withdrawal of
troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and to cut the military budget in
order to have the resources that are needed at home. The cuts in local
and federal funding for schools, housing, youth workers and HIV/AIDS
programs are all detailed in the resolution.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">People will be participating in this
demonstration from over 200 cities throughout the country. In Boston
buses will depart from Roxbury Community College at 10:30pm on Friday,
March 16. For more bus information contact the Troops Out Now
Coalition at 617.522.6626, visit <a title="http://www.iacboston.org/"
href="http://www.iacboston.org">http://www.iacboston.org</a> or <a
title="http://www.bostonrosaparkshumanrightsday.com/"
href="http://www.bostonrosaparkshumanrightsday.com">http://www.bostonrosaparkshumanrightsday.com</a>.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in
March 2003, the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan has cost the
people more than $357 billion. Besides this financial burden, the war
has cost the lives of over 3000 U.S. GI's, over 650,000 Iraqi people
and impacts millions more. The 2007 Pentagon budget may exceed 500
billion to perpetuate this so-called "war on terrorism", while jobs,
health care and education are being divested. In the words of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on February 1967: </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><em>"The security we profess to seek
in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs
in Viet Nam explode at home: they destroy the hopes and possibilities
for a decent America…Poverty, urban problems and social progress
generally are ignored when the guns of war become a national obsession."</em></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dr. King's words resound with the
cries for support from our cities today. With its tremendous focus on
the war, the government has neglected its own people. Today, there is
broad support across the US for Congress to vote against funding the
Pentagon and to take a firm resolve to not support this war effort. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Locally the March on the Pentagon has
been endorsed by Chuck Turner, Boston City Council; Tony Van Der Meer,
Co-Chair Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee; Dorotea Manuela,
Co-Chair Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee; Boston Workers
Alliance; The Most Rev. Filipe C. Teixeira, OFSJC; USW L. 8751, Boston
School Bus Drivers; Boston Troops Out Now Coalition; Women's Fightback
Network; Rev. Franklin Hobbs, Director Boston HIV State of Emergency
Comm.; Greg-eugene, Chair Boston Bayard Rustin Committee; MLK Jr.,
Bolivarian Circle; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti;
ROSA 7053; Voices of Liberation; Stonewall Warriors; Boston Stop the
Wars Coalition; International Action Center; Chelsea Uniting Against
the War<br>
</font>
<hr></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="158185821-05032007"><strong></strong></span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span class="158185821-05032007"><strong>2) <span
class="158185821-05032007">The Occupation of Washington Begins - 1
More Week</span></strong></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="158185821-05032007"><strong><font
color="#660000" face="Verdana" size="6">Encampment to Stop the War <br>
March 12-19+<br>
</font></strong></span></font></div>
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<td align="middle" valign="top"><a
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"
href="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"><font
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><strong
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/">Blog</strong></font></a><font
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/">
</font></td>
<td align="middle" valign="top"><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><b
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Volunteer</font></b></a><b
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml">
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<td align="middle" valign="top"><a
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"
href="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"><font
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml">Donate</b></font></a><font
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"><br
title="https://mail.action-mail.org/Redirect/troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml">
</b></font></td>
<td align="middle" valign="top"><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"><b
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Endorse</font></b></a><b
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/mar12endorse.shtml">
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<td align="middle" valign="top"><big><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><a
title="http://www.myspace.com/encampmenttostopthewar"
href="http://www.myspace.com/encampmenttostopthewar"><small
title="http://www.myspace.com/encampmenttostopthewar">Encampment
MySpace</small></a></b></font></big><small
title="http://www.myspace.com/encampmenttostopthewar"><br
title="http://www.myspace.com/encampmenttostopthewar">
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color="#660000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></big></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font
size="4"><b>Let us know if you are coming to the Encampment</b>: </font><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml" size="4">http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml</font></a></big></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><br>
<font size="4">Dear Friend:<br>
<br>
<big><b>O</b></big>ver the past few days, response to the call for an <b>Encampment
to Stop the War</b> has been overwhelming. Students, antiwar
activists, veterans, military families, community organizers, and trade
unionists are coming from all over the U.S. to join the Encampment.<br>
<br>
Soon, Congress will be asked to vote on President Bush' request for
another $245 billion for the war in Iraq. <b>This will be, in effect,
a vote to continue the war. </b>The current Congress was elected with
a mandate to stop the war, and the antiwar movement must be in DC to
hold them accountable for their actions. <br>
<br>
The Encampment to Stop the War will start in one week - March 12 - and
there is an enormous amount of work to be done in a short period of
time. We have an opportunity in the next few days to have a major
impact, if we work together--here's how you can help:<br>
<br>
</font></big></font></div>
<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font size="4"><b>Let
us know if you are coming to the Encampment.</b> Use the Volunteer
form at </font><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml" size="4">http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml</font></a><font
size="4">. </font></big></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font size="4"><b>Volunteer
at the Encampment </b>- we will need hundreds of volunteers during the
week of the Encampment let us know how you can help (logistics,
security, medical, greeter, etc) - </font><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml" size="4">http://troopsoutnow.org/march12volunteer.shtml</font></a></big></font>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font size="4"><b>Donate
to to help with the enormous costs of the Encampment </b>- </font><a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"><font
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml" size="4">http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml</font></a><font
size="4">. <b>If you are not able to come to the encampment, help
send a youth activist to the Encampment to the week- donate for
transportation and housing costs <a
title="http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml">here</a>.</b></font></big></font>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font size="4"><b>Get
the word out </b>-- forward messages to your email lists, list serves,
etc. Download leaflets from </font><a
title="http://www.iacboston.org/" href="http://www.iacboston.org/"><font
title="http://www.troopsoutnow.org/" size="4">http://www.iacboston.org</font></a><font
size="4"> and take them to your school, workplace, <font
color="#000066">union hall, community center, or your church, mosque,
or other place or worship.</font></font></big></font> </li>
</ul>
<div><font color="#000066" face="Verdana"><big><br>
<font size="4">Please check the </font><a
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"
href="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/"><font
title="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/" size="4">blog</font></a><font
size="4"> for daily updates on logistics, program, actions, and other
Encampment updates.</font></big></font><br>
</div>
<div>
<hr></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font face="Arial"><font
size="2"><strong>3) </strong></font></font></big></font><font
color="#000000"><br>
</font>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">Can't
participate in the encampment? Come to Washington DC for the </font>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><a
href="http://www.iacboston.org/#031707"><font face="Arial" size="3">March
17 Rally/March on the Pentagon</font></a></font></div>
<p>
</p>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><a
href="http://www.iacboston.org/031707/m17.html"><font size="3"><b>Reserve/purchase
a seat on the March 17 buses today!</b></font></a></font></div>
<p>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Tickets are $55 + $5
suggested donation to assist those who can't afford the full price<br>
Buses will depart from the Roxbury Community College parking lot
(corner of Cedar St. and Columbus Ave.) at 10:30pm on Friday, March 16
and return early in the monrning on Sunday, March 18 (the T will most
likely not be running)</font>
</p>
<p><font color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.iacboston.org/031707/031707_flyer_2.pdf"><font
face="arial" size="2"><b>
<div align="center">Download March 17 Flyer</div>
</b></font></a></font></p>
</div>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font
face="Arial"><font size="2"><strong>4)<span class="158185821-05032007">
</span><span class="158185821-05032007">Hector Rivas Memorial</span></strong></font></font></big></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font
face="Arial" size="2"><strong>ONE YEAR AFTER THE DEATH OF HECTOR RIVAS
THE STRUGGLE <br>
AGAINST CORPORATE NEGLECT CONTINUES</strong></font></big></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><strong></strong> </big></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font
face="Arial" size="2"><strong>FRIDAY, MARCH 9 - 6:00PM<br>
FREEPORT ST. BUS FACILITY</strong></font></big></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font face="Arial"
size="2"><br>
It has been one year since corporate negligence caused the death of
Hector Rivas, a mechanic for the Boston Public School buses. To
commemorate the life of Hector Rivas, demand justice and to defend the
health and safety of workers, students and the community there will be
a special meeting held at 6:00pm on Friday, March 9 at the Freeport St.
Bus Facility - Dorchester Ave. and Freeport St.</font></big></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font face="Arial"
size="2"> </font></big></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><font face="Arial"
size="2">On March 9, 2006, Hector Rivas, a veteran mechanic for the
Boston Public School buses and a United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1596
member, died while at work as a result of carbon monoxide (CO)
poisoning from a First Student service truck. An Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation found that workers at
the Freeport Street Bus yard location were exposed to high CO levels.
On April 18, another BPS bus mechanic, Miguel Camacho, suffered a
shattered pelvis resulting from an accident involving an illegally
modified airlift. On Tuesday, November 14th, 19 persons including
students and bus drivers were sent to the hospital following the
collision of three city of Boston School buses resulting from failed
antilock braking systems. Members of families, the workers, the
students and the communities want to hold First Student and the Boston
Public Schools department accountable.<br>
<br>
for more information contact - 617-524-3507<br>
</font></big></font></div>
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Troops Out Now Coalition
Boston:
617-522-6626
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:iacboston@iacboston.org">iacboston@iacboston.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iacboston.org">http://www.iacboston.org</a>
National Office:
212-633-6646
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://troopsoutnow.org">http://troopsoutnow.org</a> </pre>
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