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This week Gov. Rell unveils her budget for the next 2 years. Budgets are moral documents that set forth who receives social services and who pays for them. The people most adversely affected by the economic depression have an economic right to government services. Those least adversely affected have a responsibility to contribute their fair share of taxes for the common good.
Join People's Bailout CT for a Community Meeting at Hartford City Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 1PM.
Join us in demanding: No Cutbacks, No Layoffs, No Foreclosures, No Evictions.
Corporations and the Affluent: Pay your fair share of taxes!
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| US Catholic Bishops Urge Priority for People Who Are Poor! |
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"Low-income families and individuals are experiencing the greatest hardship and have the least capacity to cope in this time of economic crisis," Bishop Murphy said in the letter, adding that such people were also more likely "to use these new resources quickly to purchase the essentials of life and to help move our economy forward."
Read the full news report here
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| Sick Days for All |
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"In these tough economic times, missing a day's pay to take a kid to the doctor could mean missing a mortgage payment or falling deeper into debt. No one should have to choose between their health and their livelihood. Just a handful of paid sick days a year could provide a much-needed measure of economic security for families struggling with higher costs and stagnant incomes."
-- Joe Dinkin, CT Working Families
Read the full op-ed here
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| Quotable Quotes |
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"God is not threatened by differences. It's we who are."
-- Rev. Richard Rohr ofm
"Action is the antidote to despair."
- Joan Baez, Singer, songwriter, and activist.
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| Clergy Unite on Health Care |
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"In '06, Efrain Agosto, now dean of Hartford Seminary, wrote an essay giving the Christian perspective of the initiative. Jesus, after all, broke the rules and healed on the Sabbath. He reached out to the disenfranchised - the tax collector, the lepers, the outcast women. His recorded miracles often involved healing. Agosto called for 'health-care systems that respond justly.'"
-- Susan Campbell, Hartford Courant Columnist
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| The Nonviolent Life is Here and Now |
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The Nonviolent Life is Here.
And now.
It is not in some other life
or some other world.
It is right here, in this world, in this time.
All around us.
The nonviolent life is
creative, challenging, insightful, modest, audacious.
It is large-hearted, cranky, courageous, wounded.
It is conscious and forgetful.
It is one step forward and seven steps back.
The nonviolent life is aware of its own stubborn violence
and aware of its untapped potential
for transcendent and unpredictable good.
Read the full poem here
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| Call for Israeli Boycott |
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"Israeli leaders and the Israeli apartheid state have to be opposed by the same means people used in the '80s to protest South Africa. We call on Yale to divest from any companies doing business in Israel, to refuse to hire Israeli academics or artists or to invite them to forums, or to have any relation with Israeli academic or governmental institutions. Of course, Israelis who oppose the massive human rights violations committed by their government should be welcomed by Yale with open arms."
Stanley Hellar, Chairperson, Middle East Crisis Committee
Read the full letter here
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| Community Meeting for a People's Bailout |
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When and Where:
Saturday, February 7, 1pm-4pm
City Hall Council Chambers
550 Main Street, Hartford
Who should attend:
Anyone who is angry about Gov. Rell's plans to cut education, human services and vital programs in the midst of a recession.
Anyone who is wondering why the only "sacrifices" in this recession are being demanded of working people, poor people, and people who depend on government programs.
Anyone who thinks that in an economic crisis the interests of the people are more important than the interests of the corporations.
Initiated by People's Bailout Connecticut
No budget cuts! No layoffs!
No foreclosures or evictions!
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| Chicago Sit-Down Strikers Come to CT |
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Monday, February 2 2009
UE Workers from the Republic Factory on a National Speaking Tour
9:00 - 10:30 am
Press Conference and "Meet and Greet" Legislative Office Building
210 Capital Ave., Hartford (room to be announced)
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Labor/Community Forum
First and Summerfield United Methodist Church
425 College St. (Corner of College and Elm), New Haven
Coming off their landmark victory for the working class in the United States, members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) are kicking off a national tour to offer working people an alternative narrative to that being pushed by corporate America: when they say cut back, we say fight back!
More information here
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| MT Winter: Paradoxology - Spirituality in a Quantum Universe |
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Paradoxology: Spirituality in a Quantum Universe
With Miriam Therese Winter
Tuesday, February 3
7 p.m.
Co-Sponsor: The Women's Leadership Institute at Hartford Seminary
When Miriam Therese Winter came to the final chapter of her latest manuscript, she realized she had been wrestling with far more than a book. Here was the trajectory of her heart's journey. The world of the Spirit in which she had been so deeply rooted had morphed into a chaotic and unpredictable quantum reality, and she was immersed in it. Yet she was strangely comforted, for the quantum spirit of the living God remained the thread of continuity in this world of flux. Miriam Therese will share some of her insights regarding that quantum Spirit and a new paradigm, which she calls paradoxology.
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Upcoming Events: February 1 - 7
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Resist & Recover! Chicago Sit-Down Strikers in CT, Hartford & New Haven, 2/2
Iraq Memorial Cairn, New Haven, 2/2, 6PM
Protest Racist, Zionist Warmonger, Wesleyan 2/2, Yale 2/3
MT Winter: Paradoxology: Spirituality in a Quantum Universe, Hartford, 2/3, 7PM
Hartford's Budget Challenge: The Big Picture, Hartford, 2/4, 5:30PM
Civil Liberties Today: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen, Storrs, 2/5, 5PM
Help Increase the Peace Workshop, Hartford, Feb. 6-7
The Iron Wall: Israel's Apartheid Barrier, Film & Discussion, Storrs, 2/6, 7PM
Community Meeting for a People's Bailout, Hartford, 2/7, 1PM
4h Annual Ghana Village Benefit, Hartford, 2/7, 6PM
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