Let’s Send a Message to Washington!
Dear Supporter,
The Afghanistan war grinds on, the Pentagon budget keeps growing, corporations and the 1%’ers are paying lower taxes than their secretaries, Social Security and other benefits are under attack, and next to nothing is being done to create jobs.
Instead of addressing these problems, the House of Representatives showed that it is still gripped by deficit fever when it passed the draconian Ryan budget, and gave only 78 votes to the alternative presented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Peace Action has joined with a coalition of community, labor, and peace groups to put the Budget for All Referendum on the November ballot across Massachusetts. We need your help to collect 200 signatures of registered voters in each State Rep district by July 3.
Can you sign up to help collect signatures for the Budget for All Referendum?
The wording of the Budget for All Referendum is:
Shall the state Representative (or Senator) from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the Congress and the President to:
1. Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance;
2. Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services;
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
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.
Sponsors include: (4/27/12): Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, American Friends Service Committee, AFGE/Local 3258/AFL-CIO, Right to the City Civic Action Alliance, Massachusetts Peace Action, United National Antiwar Coalition – Boston, New England United for Justice, Majority Agenda Project, United for Justice with Peace, Mass Global Action, 25% Coalition, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Boston Workers Alliance, Action for Peace Working Group/Occupy Boston, Dorchester People for Peace, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE), Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, ARISE for Social Justice (Springfield), Fund Our Communities, Not War/Massachusetts, Chinese Progressive Association, MetroWest Peace Action, Occupy Newton, Mary Ellen McCormack Tenant Task Force
Can you sign up to help collect signatures in your town between now and July 3 to put the Referendum on the ballot? Sign up here!
Join us at the kick-off meeting May 6 in Boston to learn about the policy issues the Referendum addresses, how to talk to voters about them, and how to collect signatures!
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