Budget for All: Budget Briefing and Action Planning
When: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Where: Haymarket People's Fund • 42 Seaverns Ave • Green Street
T (Orange Line) • Jamaica Plain
 The Budget for All Coalition presents a briefing on the federal budget
battles now underway.
The Budget Briefing
will analyze the budget battle in Congress, our moment of opportunity, and the
national strategy to save social programs and make Pentagon cuts. First,
we’ll look at what’s in the Jan. 1 deal and what’s coming up to be
addressed by Congress before the Mar. 1 deadline. We’ll review the programs
that would be cut under “sequestration†vs. those that would be cut by the
Republican, Administration, and progressive proposals. We will look at the
impact of various budget scenarios on jobs and public programs in
Massachusetts. We’ll examine the Pentagon budget and proposals to cut or
increase it.
Then we'll do Action
Planning so our elected officials honor the will of the people of Massachusetts
in their votes on upcoming budget legislation, including significant decisions
to be made by February. We'll work on plans for our Feb. 14 "Have a
Heart" rallies, legislative action, and plans to contact the media.
 As it
becomes clearer that key programs will not avoid cuts, we expect the political
outcry to grow during the money of February. Our job is to ensure that Pentagon
cuts and taxes on corporations and the rich are continually presented as viable
alternatives.
Presenters will
include Mike Prokosch, national coordinator of the New Priorities Network,
member of Dorchester People for Peace and of the Budget for All steering
committee; Michael Kane, executive director, Massachusetts Alliance of HUD
tenants; Cole Harrison, executive director, Massachusetts Peace
Action
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Cole Harrison
Executive Director
Massachusetts Peace Action
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
02138
617-354-2169 w
617-466-9274 m
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