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<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;">“Three Strikes” Law – <br>
An Attack on Workers’ Rights</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;" lang="ES">Ley “Tres Delitos y Fuera” – </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Un Ataque <br>
Contra los Derechos de los Trabajadores</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>In July the Massachusetts
legislature passed the “Three Strikes” bill, which will eliminate parole
eligibility for those with three convictions of certain felonies.</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">“Three Strikes” is an
attack on the rights of working people, and will fall heaviest on those who are
Black or Latino. While Blacks and Latinos make up less than 17% of the state’s
population, they are 55% of the state’s prisoners. </span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">The bill attacks the
constitutional right to trial by jury. Prosecutors will use it to force
defendants to take plea bargains.<span style="">
</span>Currently 97% of federal and 94% of state “convictions” are the result
of plea bargains.</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">The growth of
incarcerations, with vastly disproportionate numbers from the Black
nationality, is part of the propertied rulers’ stepped-up assaults on our
wages, working conditions, safety and rights.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial;">Join a discussion on the resistance to the “Three
Strikes” law and other attacks on working people.</span></i></b></div>
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<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Friday, August 3, 7:30 pm</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Viernes, 3 de Agosto</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial;" lang="ES-MX">,</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> 7:30 pm</span></i></b></div>
<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Militant Labor Forum Hall </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Local
del Foro Militante</span></i></b></div>
<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Arial;">13 Bennington St., 2nd floor,
East Boston</span></b></div>
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<i style="">Traducción al español</i></span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="">
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<div class="yiv1682115580MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;">617-569-9169 </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;
"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> bostonmlf@yahoo.com</span></div>
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Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk five blocks down Meridian to
Bennington at Liberty Plaza traffic circle.</span></div>
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