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<b><font face="Arial">in this email:<br>
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1) 1/13 - Picket Menino’s State of the City Address<br>
2) 1/13 - Defend the Peoples' Church in Brockton<br>
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<b>1)</b><br>
<big><big><b><font color="#990000">Picket Mayor Menino’s State of the
City Address</font></b></big></big><br>
<br>
<b><big><big>Tuesday, January 13 - 6:00 pm</big></big></b><br>
<b>Fanuel Hall, Boston<br>
(Green Line to Government Ctr.)<br>
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<li><font face="Arial">Stop the Attacks on the Poor</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Money for Human Needs not War</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Declare an Economic State of Emergency</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Heat, Housing, Jobs, Food and Fuel are a Right
- Restore all Utility Shutoffs </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Make Boston a Foreclosure and Eviction Free
Zone </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Roll Back Food and Fuel Prices </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Not One Job Layoff </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Hands Off Union Contracts </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Stop the Budget Cuts and School Closures -
Equal Quality Education is a Right</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">No to Racism, Sexism and LGBT Bigotry</font></li>
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Sponsored by Women’s Fightback Network, F.I.S.T. (Fight
Imperialism-Stand Together), International Action Center<br>
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<b>2) </b><br>
<b><big><big><font color="#990000">Defend the Peoples' Church in
Brockton</font></big></big></b><br>
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<b><big><big>Tuesday, January 13, 2:00 PM</big></big></b><br>
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<b>Brockton Housing Court<br>
215 Main Street, Brockton<br>
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Brockton Housing Court session on Saint Martin de Porres Church<br>
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Calling all progressives! Defend the Peoples' Church in Brockton! This
exceptional church is led by Bishop Filipe Teixeira, who has made the
church a center for immigrant rights in Brockton and Massachusetts,
used the church as a base to fight for workers rights and to fight
against racism wherever it appears, including in the case of the
Somerville 5. Bishop T has also used the church to provide serve the
people programs including childcare, healthcare and food programs.<br>
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Because of his unflinching stance against racism and advocating for the
poor, the racist power structure in Brockton is doing everything in its
power to shut down the Peoples' Church. When they went so far as to get
the church removed from a building provided by the Episcopal diocese of
Boston, Bishop T mobilized help from progressive forces and physically
built a church space in his back yard to continue the work. He has
successfully fought off repeated attacks on the church based on petty
regulatory requirements that are all clearly a smokescreen for the
continued racist attack on the important community based anti-racism
and immigrants rights work the church is doing.<br>
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BE THERE TO STAND UP FOR BISHOP T AND THE PEOPLES CHURCH!<br>
COME OUT THIS TUESDAY AT 2:00 PM AND SAY NO! TO THE FORCES OF RACISM IN
THE BROCKTON ESTABLISHMENT!<br>
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SPREAD THE WORD!</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size="2"><b>Women's FightBack Network</b>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size="2"><b>Boston:</b><br>
617-522-6626<br>
<a href="mailto:wfn@iacboston.org">wfn@iacboston.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.iacboston.org/wfn">www.iacboston.org/wfn</a>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size="2"><b>National Office:</b><br>
212-633-6646<br>
<a href="http://www.iacenter.org">www.iacenter.org </a>
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