<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div id="yiv1744640509"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24pt;"><div><span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv1744640509"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24pt;"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv1744640509"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><div><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-style:italic;"><font size="3">The Militant Labor Forum Presents</font></span></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-style:italic;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span><span><font size="3"><font size="6"><span style="font-weight:bold;">DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS!</span></font></font></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"></span><b><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:26pt;" lang="ES-MX">¡</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-style:italic;" size="6"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Defienda las derechas democráticas!</span></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"></span></div><span
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</div><div class="yiv1744640509MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="yiv1744640509tab"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">The capitalist class and their government are
targeting working people’s democratic rights as they attack our unions, wages,
and working conditions to make us pay for their economic crisis. </span></div>
<div class="yiv1744640509MsoBodyTextIndent"><span class="yiv1744640509tab"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">In Longview, WA, hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse
Union members have faced charges for protesting union busting by EGT
Development.<span style=""> </span>Federal and local
officials are mobilizing cops, Coast Guard ships and helicopters, and other
government agencies to escort a scab ship into the port later this month.<span style=""> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv1744640509MsoBodyTextIndent2"><span class="yiv1744640509tab"> </span>The draft $662 billion US war budget contains
provisions that would give the Pentagon the power to hold in indefinite
detention all “terrorism” suspects, including US citizens. In Boston, Tarek
Mehana was convicted on terrorism charges not for anything he did, but for what
he wrote and views he expressed on the Internet.<span style=""> </span>Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing for a “three strikes” bill
aimed at increasing prison time for workers behind bars.</div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color:black;"><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">Democratic rights are protections against the
capitalist state, at all levels, that working people have wrested from the
propertied classes.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> Join a discussion on how we need to defend our democratic rights today.</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Saturday,
January 28 / S<i>abado, 28 de </i></span><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;" lang="ES-MX">enero,</span><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Arial;"> 7:30 PM</span></i></b></div><h2 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:20pt;" lang="ES-CO">Militant Labor Forum Hall /<i> Local del Foro Militante</i></span></h2><div style="text-align:center;">
</div><h2 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:18pt;" lang="ES-CO"><span class="yiv1744640509yshortcuts" id="yiv1744640509lw_1327327541_0">13 Bennington Street, 2nd floor, East Boston, MA 02128</span></span></h2>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1744640509MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="5"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;" lang="ES-CO">Suggested Donation: $5 </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;">• </span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;" lang="ES-CO">Traducción al español </span></b></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;" class="yiv1744640509MsoBodyText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:11pt;" lang="ES-CO">By train, take the blue line to Maverick Station and walk down Meridian about 5 blocks to Bennington, by Liberty Plaza.</span></div>
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