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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3">Please forward
widely...<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">Occupy the MBTA Working
Group – 02/18/2012</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><br>
Subject: Call to action
for Massachusetts-wide endorsement of and mobilization for two
major
actions in the coming months: March 14</font><sup><font size="3">th</font></sup><font
size="3">
and April 4</font><sup><font size="3">th</font></sup><font
size="3">.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The </font><font
size="3"><b>GOALS</b></font><font size="3">
of the Occupy the MBTA campaign are to:</font></p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">DEMAND no fare
hikes, no service cuts, and no worker layoffs!</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font
size="3">DEMAND a comprehensive transportation plan that
works for the 99% of Massachusetts</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">raise awareness of
economic inequality, privatization and other mechanisms of
class warfare</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">to further unite
the 99% of Boston and Massachusetts</font></p>
</li>
</ol>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><u>Meetings</u></font><font
size="3">:
Occupy the MBTA Working Group will continue to meet each Friday
at
6pm at SEIU615, 26 West St. near Park St. station, to continue
planning for these events and many smaller actions around the
MBTA's
public hearings to build momentum. We will also be at Occupy
Boston
Strategic Action Assemblies at 5pm on Sundays, working on
creative
actions such as music, street theater, and visual media. </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><u>March 14</u></font><sup><font
size="3"><u>th</u></font></sup><font size="3"><u>
– Lunch break Flash Mob at the MBTA Board of Directors Meeting</u></font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">At this meeting, the
MBTA
Board of Directors will discuss their final solution for
covering the
MBTA's $161 million deficit. This will almost certainly include
fare
hikes, service cuts, and layoffs, all unacceptable ways of
forcing
working people to pay for a problem that they didn't create.
Join
with Mass Senior action to denounce these short-sighted and
damaging
proposals. </font>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">12:30-1:30 – lunch
break
flash-mob / Street theater 'Traffic Jam' outside the hearing</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">3 pm - Visit your state
representative to hand over demands</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">5 pm – Occupy the
commute, flyering, mic-checking, and singing on the
MBTA/commuter
rails</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><u>April 4</u></font><sup><font
size="3"><u>th</u></font></sup><font size="3"><u>
– 'WISCONSIN STYLE' MBT(GA) at the State House</u></font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The MBTA Board of
Directors will finalize their proposal at this meeting. April
4th
also has important historical significance because it is the
anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “breaking the
silence”
speech as well as his assassination one year later in 1968. We
will
model this day of action on Madison, Wisconsin in 2011, where
thousands of people occupied the state house in protest of Gov.
Scott
Walker's ban on collective bargaining for public unions.
Although
centered on public transportation, this action will be an
opportunity
to speak out against all forms of class warfare, where profits
of the
few come before the needs of the many. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><br>
1 pm – Protest MBTA
board meeting at transportation building with Mass Senior Action</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">3 pm – People's Hearing
& MBT(GA) inside the State House. Testimonies from affected
individuals and groups from across the state.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">5 pm – Rally inside to
keep the hearing going. Everyone will be heard!</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">Contact us to get
involved</font></p>
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<font size="3">Twitter: @OccupyMBTA</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">email: </font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="mailto:occupytheMBTA@gmail.com"><font size="3">occupyMBTA@gmail.co</font></a></u></span></font><font
size="3">m</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3">website:
bit.ly/freecharlie<br>
</font></p>
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"Until the power of love is greater than the love of power"<br>
"Our goal is a society that puts the needs of the many before
the profits of the few"<br>
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