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

[BillCunningham]

As a StateCom member, I should know the relationship between activities hosted by "my campaign" and the Party, but I don't.  I'm sorry to disturb the discussion list if I am the only one who isn't clear about this. 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
>Sent: Dec 13, 2006 12:51 PM
>To: statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org, platform at green-rainbow.org
>Subject: [statecom-discuss] 12/17 Locations: State-level Peace Agenda	10am/boston 1pm/worcester
>
>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)
>
>
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Bill Cunningham