Budget cutters in Washington have already slashed Meals on Wheels, Head Start, Housing, Education, Fuel Assistance, Unemployment, Health Programs, AIDS Housing, and family violence prevention. Now the President wants to cut even more vital programs.

 

But there is an alternative.

 

Very high income people and giant corporations get hundreds of billions of dollars a year in tax breaks through loopholes and offshore tax shelters. The CEOs of Bank of America, Citibank, and Verizon are key members of Fix the Debt, a corporate group pushing for big cuts in critical public programs and even lower corporate taxes.

 

The US war budget is greater than the military spending of the next 10 largest military powers combined. Much of it funds destructive wars like Iraq, wasteful weapons systems like the F-35, and keeping us in Afghanistan for years to come.

 

 

11 am – Boston: New Location!
Tip O’Neill Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, Boston – North Station (Green Line) Regional Headquarters for the Social Security Administration and Housing & Urban Development. We’ll also visit Bank of America, Citibank, and Verizon at 6 Bowdoin Square, Boston.

 

11 am – Northampton –
Northampton Town Hall, march to Verizon and Bank of America

 

Sponsoring organizations (Boston): Budget for All Coalition; Mass. AFL-CIO; Mass. Jobs with Justice; Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants; American Friends Service Committee; Mass. Peace Action; Disability Policy Consortium; Sierra Club – Boston; Boston Workers Alliance; ACTUP/Boston; Veterans for Peace; Homes for Families; Dorchester People for Peace; United for Justice with Peace; Boston Coalition to Fund Our Communities-Cut Military Spending 25%; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; Human Rights City Boston & Beyond; Survivors Inc.; SEIU Local 509 Lavender Caucus; Brookline PAX; AFGE Local 3258/AFL-CIO; Worcester Unemployment Action Group

 

Sponsoring organizations (Northampton): Western MA Budget for All/Fund Our Communities Not War, Arise for Social Justice, Amherst NAACP, Coop Power, Climate Action NOW, Pioneer Valley Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Can’t Be Neutral, Western MA American Friends Service Committee, Western MA Chapter Progressive Democrats of America, Episcopal Peace Fellowship of Grace Church, National Priorities Project, Traprock Peace Center, Northampton Committee to Stop Wars, Northampton Democratic City Committee, UAW Local 2322, Western MA Jobs with Justice, PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of MA), Springfield Chapter Mass Senior Action Council.

Last year Massachusetts voted 3 to 1 to: Create jobs, Save vital services, Tax rich individuals and corporations, End the war and Cut pork from the Pentagon.

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