AYANNA PRESSLEY Will be at Tax Day April 17 -- Will You?
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AYANNA PRESSLEY Will be at Tax Day on April 17 -- Will You?
Ayanna Pressley, who represents the 7th Congressional District in Boston-Cambridge, has agreed to appear at the April 17 Dorchester Tax Day rally. Pressley has aligned with other newly-elected progressive House members and advocated during her campaign for reductions in military spending. She will speak at the Uphams Corner Health Center (415 Columbia Road), where the rally will kick off at 4:30 before marching down Columbia Road to St. Mary’s Church (14 Cushing Ave), for a meal and additional speakers. (Rep. Stephen Lynch, who also represents parts of Dorchester, was invited but will be traveling outside the country this week.)
OUR TAXES -- OUR CHOICES
Wars, Military Spending and Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Hurting Our Communities – And Destroying the Planet!
We’ll be gathering at the Uphams Corner Health Center (415 Columbia Rd) on April 17, then marching down to St. Mary’s Church (14 Cushing Ave.) to demand different budget priorities and to support MLK’s message of seeking justice while opposing war and militarism. We’ll also have the BABAM marching band!
State Senator Jamie Eldridge, Acton (Central Mass), who has been a progressive champion at the State House, will also appear. There will be other speakers from sponsoring organizations, including Dorchester People for Peace, Mass Senior Action, City Life/Vida Urbana, Mass Association of HUD Tenants, Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN), New Democracy Coalition, Boston Teachers Union, Mass Peace Action, Veterans for Peace and other organizations, either at the Health Center or St. Mary’s Church.
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This month marks the anniversary of both the murder of MLK on April 4, 1968 and his famous anti-war speech at Riverside Church, exactly one year earlier.
MLK April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence
“We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. . .
“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that 
continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
“America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.”
(listen to it here)
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