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<h1 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Stand Firm, Senator Kerry!</h1>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Dear friend,</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img alt="Sen. John Kerry" width="125" height="109" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="left" src="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/161/c/3952/images/JohnKerry.jpg">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. Will he stand firm?</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b>Join UJP's 25% Campaign, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Progressive Democrats of America at a <a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/node/3047">Brown Bag Lunch Vigil at Sen. Kerry’s office this Wednesday noon</a></b>! We'll say: Create jobs; no cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or services; ask the affluent to pay their fair share of taxes; stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce Pentagon spending significantly!</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2011/09/11/kerry-entitlement-cuts-tax-increases-likely-hard-truths-supercommittee-work/Qg1pkq1fyK8ZfITpsjS4OJ/story.xml">Senator Kerry says</a> that cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are inevitable. But that is not true: ending the wars and a 25% cut to the military would alone save far more than $1.5 trillion.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b>Call your Member of Congress! </b> The Massachusetts House delegation's meeting with Sen. Kerry about the Super Committee will take place this Wednesday. If you didn't call or email your Member of Congress last week, please do it now at (202) 224-3121. Or <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/161/c/3952/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8203&Zip=%5B%5BZip%5D%5D">send your Representative an email using our online form</a>. Ask him or her to tell Sen. Kerry: <b>stand firm</b> against cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and insist on real solutions instead.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Together, we can remind Sen. Kerry to stand with the people of Massachusetts, not with the billionaires and the military-industrial complex!</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">- Cole Harrison<br>
UJP 25% Task Force</p>
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<h2 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/debt-training">The Debt Deal, Entitlements, Taxes, Budgets, and Military Spending</a></h2>
<h3 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Training for Activists</h3>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img width="125" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="left" alt="Jo Comerford" src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u414/JoComerford2.jpg"><b>Jo Comerford</b>, Executive Director, National Priorities Project</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Tuesday, September 20, 7pm</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Community Church of Boston • 565 Boylston St., Boston • Copley Sq or Back Bay (T)</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">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.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/debt-training">More information</a></p>
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<td class="view-field view-field-node-title"><a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/node/3047">Stand Firm, Senator Kerry!</a></td>
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<td class="view-field view-field-location-name">downstairs from Senator John Kerry's Office</td>
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