[WestMALocals] FW: Come! Sun, 1/7 State Peace Agenda Mtgs! Details & Great notes In noho!

[Martina Robinson]

>From: Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
>To: martina_robinson at hotmail.com
>Subject: Come! Sun, 1/7 State Peace Agenda Mtgs!  Details & Great notes!
>Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 16:41:26 EST
>
>  Join us!  Friends, (please pass along to peace activists you know!  And 
>the
>notes are readable & worth reading whether you come Jan. 7 or not)
>
>My campaign was very excited to host initial meetings for putting together 
>a
>state-level focused peace campaign (see original email below for more on 
>our
>purpose!).
>
>Our first day of two meetings in December were incredibly interesting and
>very fruitful - we decided to meet again this Sunday, Jan. 7 to continue 
>and to
>do it early enough so we could get anything into legislation quickly enough 
>if
>we want to.
>
>Many of these campaign ideas will be able to move forward without 
>legislation
>because they tackle Massachusett's contributions to the war in other ways!
>
>We are holding two meetings on one day in the hopes that youcan join us at
>one of them - they will cover roughly the same process so there is no need 
>to
>attend both - just please come to whichever one is convenient for you!
>
>Boston 10-12
>Encuentro 5
>33 Harrison Ave.,
>Chinatown, Boston
>
>Northampton 2:30-4:30
>Forbes Library
>West. St.
>
>Any problems with parking or directions, try my cell 617-291-5591
>
>PLEASE join us - please pass this notice and the one to follow with the 
>notes
>along to all your peace activist networks - Love & happy new year 
>(apologies
>- all the holidays got us late on getting this notice out, my fault!)  - 
>Grace
>
>Description of initial meeting:
>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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