Budget for All Referendum

April 30, 2012 Cole Uncategorized

Let’s Send a Message to Washington!

How to Get Involved

 
Sign the PetitionVolunteers are needed across Massachusetts to gather signatures between now and July 3.

 
Festivals: Outdoor events like Cambridge River Festival (June 2), Green Roots Festival (June 3), and Gay Pride (June 9) are great places to gather signatures (and fun!). Contact the office or sign up online to join Peace Action at one of these events.

 
Cambridge and Somerville: A Peace Action team goes out every Saturday, usually from about 11-3. Contact the Mass. Peace Action office, info@masspeaceaction.org, 617-354-2169 to get petitions and connect with a group.

 
Boston, Newton and Brookline: Contact the office to connect with other volunteers.

 
Southeastern Mass: Kick-off meeting Sunday, May 27, Dartmouth.

 
North Shore: Kick-off meeting Wednesday, May 30, Ipswich.

 
Rest of the State: Many districts throughout the state are not covered and need volunteers to start working them. Particularly if you are in an outlying area, contact the office, 617-354-2169, to discuss how to get started.

 
Sign up on the volunteer form.

 
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.

 

Can you help gather signatures in your town to put the Referendum on the ballot? Sign up here!

 
A coalition of community, labor, and peace groups are organizing to put the Budget for All Referendum on the November ballot across Massachusetts. We need to collect 200 signatures of registered voters in each State Rep district by July 3.


 
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:

  • Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance;

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  • Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services;
  • 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
  • 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.

     
    Endorsers (list in formation): 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, Boston 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, Brookline PAX, Occupy Arlington, Arlington 25% Campaign, Arlington UJP

     
    To add your organization’s name to the list of endorsers, fill in this form.

     

    Can you help gather signatures in your town to put the Referendum on the ballot? Sign up here!

     
    Download the Flyer!

     
    Check out the Referendum website: budget4allmass.org!