[Platform] 12/17 Locations: State-level Peace Agenda 10am/boston 1pm/worcester

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Dear friends, (please pass along to peace activists you know!)
My campaign is very excited to host initial meetings for putting together a 
state-level focused peace campaign.

We chose two sites so that the December 17th meetings would be as accessible 
as possible for activists across the state!   Please come to whichever meeting 
is most convenient to you.   

Boston: 10-12noon
Enceuntro 5, 33 Harrison Ave.,
Chinatown/Boston

Worcester: 1-3pm
Pleasant St. Neighborhood Network Center 301 Pleasant St.

If you come to one meeting in this process, this is the one to come to!  This 
is going to be brainstorming and then we'll have to be in touch more anyway 
to do all the implementation.  We can arrange for some people to call in and be 
on a speaker phone - let us know.

We are all so proud and excited by the results of the hardworking activists 
on the anti-war referendums across the state - great work to all of you!  And I 
know already people are talking about a campaign to get the governor-elect to 
bring home the national guard while recent national news looks like the 
federal government may be trying to call up more national guard.

We should for sure talk about the referendum and the national guard.  Other 
possibilities include:
o Stop tax breaks for weapons producers
o Youth jobs,
o Youth street workers & other peace at home initiatives
o State assisted counter-recruitment
o Dependence on oil
o No contracts for war mongers
o Bioterror Lab
o Anti-Patriot act?
o Anti-discrimination?  Illegal search?  anti-intervention? Immigrant 
detention?
And other creative ways to get at the state's contributions to war!

Please pass this along and encourage everyone to attend (as many as are able 
and interested!) because there are many short-term and longer term ways we can 
get Massachusetts to stop showing up for the war - and both have a measurable 
impact of the national plans and model for other states other ways to put 
teeth behind our opposition to the war.

Love, grace   (for directions on the day, my cell is: 617-291-5591)