Budget for All! Lobby Day: Thursday, May 22 Massachusetts State House Meet in the 4th floor cafeteria at 10am Click Here to Sign Up! With over 50 legislators to visit, we need YOU on May 22 to make sure all of them know about the Budget for All! No lobbying experience needed!  We will start with updates and background information on the Budget for All! , then divide up into groups.   Each group will visit their own legislators and additional offices during the day. Click Here to Sign Up for Lobby Day!   Questions? Call 617-354-2169 or email info@budget4allmass.org.   In a front-page article on April 27, the Boston Globe revealed how military industry lobbyists and insiders have been given control, with almost no accountability and transparency, of a $177 million fund set up to refurbish the 6 military bases in the state. The $177 million military bond bill sailed through the state Senate and House last year, with only two legislators voting no.  The article quotes state Sen. Jamie Eldridge and me in opposition to this giveaway of taxpayer dollars. Use this tool to send an email to the members of the Ways and Means Committees asking them to report the Budget for All! favorably. The Military Bond Bill moves the state backwards to a militarized economy, but the Budget for All! points the way to a green peace economy. Yet the very same legislators who sped the Military Bond Bill to passage have not acted on the Budget for All! resolutions, S.1750 and H.3211.  They are now pending before the Ways and Means Committees of the State House and Senate. Supported by 75% of voters in 91 cities and towns across the state, the Budget for All! reso­lutions call on Congress to stop the cutbacks to programs people depend on, invest in jobs, restore fair taxes on the rich and corporations, cut the military budget and bring the troops home from Afghanistan. Use this tool to send an email to the members of the Ways and Means Committees asking them to report the bills favorably. For a peace economy, Cole Harrison Executive Director

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