<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)"><em><img width="801" height="221" alt="Cease & Desist" src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/Cease_Desist.jpg"><br>
</em></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">It’s time to listen to what the voters keep saying about the Budget</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">
</p><table width="350" hspace="10" cellpadding="10" border="1" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" align="right" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><tbody><tr><td><p><b><font size="+1">Wednesday, October 16, 12 noon<br>
Massachusetts GOP Headquarters<br>85 Merrimac St, Boston<br><i>North Station "T" stop</i></font></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><em style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">The <i><font size="+1" face="Franklin Gothic Demi, Arial" color="red">Budget for All!</font></i> campaign calls for an emergency protest:</em><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">
</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">• <strong>No to a Republican shutdown:</strong> too many people get hurt<br>• <strong>No to defaulting on the debt:</strong> even more of us will get hurt<br>
• <strong>No to a bad Grand Bargain:</strong> The president must stand firm against cuts to Social Security and other vital programs <br>• <strong>Yes to the </strong><i><font size="+1" face="Franklin Gothic Demi, Arial" color="red">Budget for All!</font></i><strong> agenda</strong> supported 3 to 1 by Mass. voters in last year’s election:</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)"><img width="264" hspace="10" height="266" align="left" alt="" src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/DesistPoster_264.jpg">1. Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance;<br>
2. Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services;<br>3. Provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and<br>
4. Redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now.</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">
Gather at the offices of the Republican State Committee for a protest. We will deliver a<strong>Cease & Desist Order</strong> to the state Republican Party urging them to repudiate extremist leadership and tell them to raise the debt limit, stop the shutdown, stop sequestration, and support the <i><font size="+1" face="Franklin Gothic Demi, Arial" color="red">Budget for All!</font></i> platform.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)">Speakers will include federal employees who have been furloughed and others directly affected by the threatened shutdown.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(235,244,232)"><i><font size="+1" face="Franklin Gothic Demi, Arial" color="red">Budget for All!</font></i><br><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.budget4allmass.org" target="_blank">www.budget4allmass.org</a> • 617-354-2169</p>
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Cole Harrison</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Budget for All Massachusetts</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138</font></div>
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