<div class="gmail_quote">Mass. Global Action is helping organize 2 (overlapping) events this coming Tuesday, September 20, 2011. The first brings together organizers of the New Lynn Coalition's Workers Center for Economic Justice with activists building Boston's Downtown Workers Center and the second focuses on the military budget and its relationship with the debt deal. Mass. Global Action is an organizer of the Majority Agenda Project and a partner of the Downtown Workers Center. Note: the New Lynn event was originally scheduled for July 20, 2011 and postponed to this date due to a request from a community organizer working on an event with to be addressed by Congressman McGovern.<div>
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<font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. Crosby & McClain - New Lynn, MA: Safe, Decent & Just</font></h1></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:15px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><strong style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 7:00 p.m. encuentro 5 </strong></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Join organizers Jeff Crosby and Carly McClain in a conversation about the Workers Center for Economic Justice organized by the North Shore Labor Council and the New Lynn Coalition. The coalition’s mission is to organize all sectors of working class people in the region into a unified permanent, political and economic force that is union and non-union and transcends racial, linguistic, ethnic, citizenship and gender boundaries. Together the organizations within the New Lynn Coalition are identifying goals for regional development which revolve around social and ecological needs and concerns and where there is a renewed sense of the public role in social welfare.</font></span><div>
<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Carly McClain is a member of IBEW 2321. She has been working for more than a decade doing community and union organizing work across Massachusetts. She lives in Salem, MA and is the mother of 3 kids. She is the organizing coordinator for The New Lynn Coalition which is comprised of union and community groups that have a solid base in the community and have a history of working together to create change.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Jeff Crosby is president of IUE-CWA Local 201 in Lynn. He worked for 30 years as a grinder on aircraft engines for General Electric and is serving his seventh term as the Local’s president. Previously, he served eight years as a shop steward. He is also the President of the North Shore Labor Council, representing 30,000 workers from unions on Boston's North Shore. Crosby is also a vice-president and member of the state Executive Board of the Mass. AFL-CIO. He was an active participant in the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle (November, 1999) and against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec. He visited Colombia in solidarity delegations to Colombian trade unionists. He has written on the labor movement for labor journals such as Working USA, New Labor Forum, Labor Notes, etc.</span><div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Background reading: "<a href="http://labornotes.org/2011/04/old-city-building-new-common-sense" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">In an Old City, Building a New Common Sense</a>" by Carly McClain and Jeff Crosby, <em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Labor Notes</em>.</font></p>
<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This event is organized by the Downtown Workers Center. <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org" target="_blank">encuentro 5 is at 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111</a></font></p>
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);line-height:20px"><font color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>2. </b></font></span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:29px;font-weight:bold;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The Debt Deal, Entitlements, Taxes, Budgets, and Military Spending</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><h2>
<b><i><span>Training for Activists</span></i></b><span> </span></h2><h3>Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 7pm.<br>Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston - Copley Square T</h3><h3><b><span><img alt="Jo Comerford" width="120" height="145" vspace="5" hspace="10" border="1" align="left" src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/JoComerford.gif">Jo Comerford</span></b><span>, Executive Director, <a href="http://www.nationalpriorities.org/" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank">National Priorites Project</a></span></h3>
<div><span>Three years after the onset of the Great Recession, Washington is focused on cutting deficits instead of on creating jobs. Senator John Kerry is one of 12 members of a Super Committee charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the deficit.<span> Will he stand firm?</span></span></div>
<div><span> </span></div><div>Ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, cutting the sprawling military budget, and restoring reasonable tax rates on the wealthy would free up enough money to fund job creation, green energy infrastructure, and rehire laid off teachers, while still saving the $1.5 trillion. <a href="http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank">The People’s Budget</a> provides the blueprint. But there is a real danger that the Super Committee will instead cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs, while making only token gestures towards military cuts and taxes.<span> </span></div>
<div><span> </span></div><div><span>This training seminar will give activists the knowledge they need to explain the federal budget, the debt deal and the People’s Budget in their communities and build pressure on Sen. Kerry and our Congressional delegation to do the right thing.<span> Specifically, it will build understanding of:</span></span></div>
<ul type="disc"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span>the major components of the federal budget -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the military, human services: how they are funded, what the issues are with each, and how the Peoples Budget might be used to mobilize people around a real alternative to the present solutions being offered.</span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><span>the debt deal</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span>the impact that likely spending cuts will have on people in Massachusetts</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span>how military spending cuts can radically alter the kind of debt deal we get and the impacts of such a deal on people</span><span><br>
</span></li></ul><div><span>Sponsored by:</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>Majority Agenda Project – <a href="http://www.majorityagenda.org/" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank"><font color="#000099">www.majorityagenda.org</font></a> - <a href="mailto:info@majorityagenda.org" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank">info@majorityagenda.org</a> - <a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/617-661-6130%2520ext.%2520123" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank"><span>617-661-6130 ext. 123</span></a></span></div>
<p><span>Fund Our Communities / Cut Military Spending 25% Campaign – <a href="http://www.25percentsolution.com/" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank"><font color="#000099">www.25percentsolution.com</font></a> -<span><a href="mailto:25percentsolution@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank">25percentsolution@gmail.com</a> - </span></span> <span><a href="tel:617-491-3333" value="+16174913333" style="color:rgb(20, 125, 186)" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent !important;border-color:initial !important;border-left-color:rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;border-left-style:none !important;border-left-width:0px !important;border-top-color:rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;border-top-style:none !important;border-top-width:0px !important;border-right-color:rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;border-right-style:none !important;border-right-width:0px !important;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;border-bottom-style:none !important;border-bottom-width:0px 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