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<td height="10" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" size="5">Deliver a Tenants Rights Platform <br />to the Presidential Campaigns!<br /></font><br /></font><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 153, 102);"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" size="4"><font size="3"> With all the talk about saving Wall Street, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">who will save affordable housing</span>? <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /><br /> At 11:00 AM on October 18, 2008</span> join tenant leaders from Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants and allies across Boston to deliver a Save Our Homes Platform as one of several actions around the US for International Housing Rights Day. <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Meet at Park Street Station at Tremont & Winter Streets, Boston at 11:00 AM.</span></font></font><br /><br /><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" size="4"><font size="3"> The Housing Crisis isn't just a homeowner or bank industry problem. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /> THREE MILLION FAMILIES IN HUD SUBSIDIZED APARTMENTS FACE DISPLACEMENT</span> <br /> if Congress does not fully fund Section 8 and Public Housing.<br /><br /> Last week, the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) averted funding cutoffs for Section 8 and won tenant protections in the Wall Street Bailout Bill. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /> But chronic budget shortfalls still threaten millions of families.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> In June, the Obama Campaign met with NAHT and responded to the Platform, but the</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> Republican National Committee refused to accept it and slammed the door on tenants. </span><br /><br /> On October 18 we will try again at the McCain Headquarters in downtown Boston.<br /><br /></span></font></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" size="4"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><font size="5">Join Us to MAKE TENANTS' VOICES HEARD in this election!</font></span></font></font><br /></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partial list of Sponsors:</span><br />
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Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">
Chelsea Collaborative</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">
Boston Workers Alliance</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">
National Alliance of HUD Tenants</span><br />
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For more information and to sign up your group as a co-sponsor of this event, call:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">617.267.2949 </span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001puTVj8SUK5rRtnj8Tuf0n116mXfqsEbKSXOt2L7BzzLTshaY9Q67fIFwt-x4YNWOXtdbyGksiUQzqT8FbSh4QRYtw7c4xNmhwZepcVvXTf2DWM-RpjB3nt8yUNODpsr3" linktype="link" target="_blank">Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants</a><br /></img></font></td>
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