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<h1 style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Budget for All: Budget Briefing and Action Planning</h1>
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<h2 style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Contact Your State Legislators to Co-Sponsor Budget for All!</h2>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><strong><img src="cid:8ae20e8cb55dbc90a9b845f2e076a67b@justicewithpeace.org" width="132" height="132" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" alt="">Friday, Feb. 1</strong> is the deadline for legislators to co-sponsor resolutions backing the Budget for All in the State House. Please call your State Rep and State Senator asking them to sign on!</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">State Reps should contact lead sponsor Rep. Carl Sciortino (617-722-2013, <a href="mailto:Carl.Sciortino@mahouse.gov" target="_blank">Carl.Sciortino@mahouse.gov</a>) to sign on to HD 2679. State Senators should contact lead sponsor Sen. Dan Wolf (617-722-1570, <a href="mailto:Daniel.Wolf@masenate.gov" target="_blank">Daniel.Wolf@masenate.gov</a>) to sign on to SD 856.</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Since the resolutions will take time to be considered, we are also asking legislators to sign a letter to Congress supporting the Budget for All and pointing out that budget cuts are affecting state and local services. Ask your legislator to sign the letter at the desk of Jim Gay in Rep. Peter Kocot's office, State House room 22.</p>
<h2 style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4206" target="_blank">Have a Heart! Valentine's Day Rally</a></h2>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/imagefield/broken-heart-quote%5B1%5D.gif" hspace="10" align="right" alt=""><strong>Thursday, February 14</strong><br>
<strong>12:00 noon</strong><br>
JFK Federal Building, Government Center, Boston</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Join the Budget for All Coalition will rally to demand that Massachusetts' Congressional delegation follow the will of the people, as expressed in November's overwhelming vote for the Budget for All, in Washington budget negotiations.</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Have a Heart: No More Cuts in the Safety Net!<br>
Have a Heart: Invest in Jobs!<br>
Have a Heart: Tax the 1%!<br>
Have a Heart: Bring the Troops Home! Have a Heart: Cut the Military Budget!</p>
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<strong>When:</strong> Sunday, January 27, 2013, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm</div>
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<strong>Where: </strong>Haymarket People's Fund • 42 Seaverns Ave • Green Street T (Orange Line) • Jamaica Plain</div>
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<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/tr130102.gif" width="400" hspace="10" align="right" alt="">The Budget for All Coalition presents a briefing on the federal budget battles now underway.</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">The Budget Briefing will analyze the budget battle in Congress, our moment of opportunity, and the national strategy to save social programs and make Pentagon cuts. First, we’ll look at what’s in the Jan. 1 deal and what’s coming up to be addressed by Congress before the Mar. 1 deadline. We’ll review the programs that would be cut under “sequestration” vs. those that would be cut by the Republican, Administration, and progressive proposals. We will look at the impact of various budget scenarios on jobs and public programs in Massachusetts. We’ll examine the Pentagon budget and proposals to cut or increase it.</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial">Then we'll do Action Planning so our elected officials honor the will of the people of Massachusetts in their votes on upcoming budget legislation, including significant decisions to be made by February. We'll work on plans for our Feb. 14 <a href="http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4206" target="_blank">"Have a Heart" rallies</a>, legislative action, and plans to contact the media.</p>
<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/imagefield/YardSignDesign.200.jpg" alt="Budget for All" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="left">As it becomes clearer that key programs will not avoid cuts, we expect the political outcry to grow during the money of February. Our job is to ensure that Pentagon cuts and taxes on corporations and the rich are continually presented as viable alternatives.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Arial"><span>Presenters will include Mike Prokosch, national coordinator of the New Priorities Network, member of Dorchester People for Peace and of the Budget for All steering committee; Michael Kane, executive director, Massachusetts Alliance of HUD tenants; Cole Harrison, executive director, Massachusetts Peace Action. Refreshments will be served!</span></p>
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