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<br><font size="3"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bostonsocialism.org/2009/12/peoples-state-of-union-community-forum.html">http://www.bostonso cialism.org/ 2009/12/peoples- state-of- union-community- forum.html</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ONE YEAR AFTER
OBAMA TOOK OFFICE…</span></i></b></p> 

<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><a rel="nofollow" title="Click here to download event flyer" target="_blank" href="http://sites.google.com/a/bostonsocialism.org/resources/home/flyers/PSOTU.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W-J8Fnnure4/SyvbnWkItsI/AAAAAAAAAcw/g57lVEqvT_0/s400/obamontage.JPG" border="0"></a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 24pt;">"THE PEOPLE'S STATE OF THE UNION" A COMMUNITY
FORUM</span></i></b></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Consolas;">Trillion
Dollar Bailouts for Wall Street. Rising Unemployment. Escalation of Wars.
Budget Cuts for Education and Public Services. LGBT Discrimination. Health Care
Crisis. Continued Foreclosures & Evictions</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></b></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Join the International
Socialist Organization for a community forum to assess the past year of the
Obama administration and the effects of its policies on our
lives as well as the state of our social movements. Speaking at the Forum:</span></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Steve Meacham</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-Activist
with City Life/Vida Urbana, a neighborhood housing rights organization leading
the fight against foreclosures and evictions.</span></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Julie Keefe</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-Activist
at UMass Boston speaking on the multi-million dollar budget cuts and fee hikes
at the city's only public university.</span></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kate Leslie</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-Activist
with Join The Impact, on the state of the national movement fighting for
equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in all matters
governed by civil law in all fifty states.</span></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PLUS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-a local
antiwar activist on the state of U.S imperialism under the Obama
administration.</span></p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><em><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(39, 78, 19);">7pm, Thurs,
Feb 18th</span></b></em><b><i><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(39, 78, 19);"><br>
</span></i></b><em><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Haymarket People's Fund</span></b></em><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><br>
<em><span style="">42 Seaverns Ave, Jamaica Plain</span></em></span></i></b></p> 

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