<div><b>1. Yes on the Budget for All Massachusetts!</b></div><div><b>2. The Elections and the Unpeoples: A Debriefing with Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad & Sam Christiansen (Thursday, 11/8, 7:00 p.m., Old South Church)</b></div>
<div><br></div><div><b><font size="4">1. Help Get Out the YES Vote for the Budget For All</font></b></div><div><br></div><div>Election Day Nov. 6 is a few days off and it's time for the last push to get a big YES vote on Budget for All, the referendum for jobs, social security, fair taxes and reducing the military budget and ending the war in Afghanistan. </div>
<div><ul><li>Flyers, signs and palm cards are available</li><li>Volunteers for working the polls <i>on election day</i>, especially 7-9am and 5-8 pm, are needed. </li><li>Flyering <i>this weekend</i>.contact: pshannon@afsc.orgor <a href="mailto:cole@masspeaceaction.org">cole@masspeaceaction.org</a> to sign up!</li>
</ul></div><div>For the Budget for All's question number in your town: <a href="http://budget4allmass.org/question">budget4allmass.org/question</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the full text of referendum and other information: Budget4AllMass.org</div>
<div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b>2. The Elections & the Unpeoples - A Debriefing</b></font></div><div><br></div><div>Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7:00 p.m.</div><div>Chomsky - Prashad - Christiansen</div><div>Old South Church, Copley Square (across from the BPL)</div>
<div><a href="http://chomskyspeaks.org">http://chomskyspeaks.org</a> & <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/446263478753236">http://www.facebook.com/events/446263478753236</a></div><div><br></div><div>No matter how dismal the outcomes may be, every US presidential election is made consequential by our prolonged crises of environment, economy, and peace... </div>
<div><br></div><div>In a surreal political climate where corporations are endowed with the rights of people and people are stripped of the their rights, three distinguished activist thinkers and scholars come together to help us think through the election results and how we should be responding. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Noam Chomsky, renowned linguist and political philosopher, Vijay Prashad, the incisive commentator and analyst of global politics and chronicler of the "Darker Nations," join Sam Christiansen, World History scholar in an evening of conversation and reflection at the Old South Church (<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/gHmn1">http://goo.gl/maps/gHmn1</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Visit <a href="http://www.ChomskySpeaks.org/">http://www.ChomskySpeaks.org/</a> for your event tickets (seating is limited); tickets are $15/person or $10 for low income/unemployed/students. Proceeds from the event will benefit encuentro 5 (<a href="http://encuentro5.org/">http://encuentro5.org/</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>"Unpeoples" is term from scholar Mark Curtis's (2008) analysis of foreign policy, "Unpeople – those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain."</div>