TOMORROW! Tuesday Morning in DC: SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, END WAR

TOMORROW! Tuesday Morning in DC: SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, END WAR

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 8:30 am Gather at statue of Columbus in front
of Union Station Washington, D.C.
Demonstrate at House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's Speech on the Fiscal
Crisis http://www.thirdway.org/events/26
9:00 a.m. The Columbus Room
http://www.unionstationevents.com/sites/colmbshl.html

Rep. Hoyer has opposed spending money except on wars and the military
and who supports dumping another $33 billion into escalating
Afghanistan. Reportedly he will support cuts to the military (or what he
calls "defense") but how much and what about the wars?

Bring posters! Bring the message: JOBS NOT WARS!

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FROM HUFF POST: EXCLUSIVE: HOYER TO CALL FOR DEFENSE SPENDING CUTS AS
PART OF DEFICIT REDUCTION - Steny Hoyer gives an address at the Columbus
Room at Union Station tomorrow morning at 9 am. A main focus of the
speech will be on the need to make defense spending a major part of any
discussion about deficit reduction. "Any conversation about the deficit
that leaves out defense spending is seriously flawed before it begins,"
he'll say, according to an excerpt provided to HuffPost Hill. "Our
defense leaders, including Secretary Gates, have repeatedly pointed out
that paying for programs we don't need only makes our country weaker in
the long run. Our defense spending cannot be above careful scrutiny and
analysis of alternatives. In an important speech last month, Secretary
Gates drew from the legacy of President Eisenhower, who held that "the
United States...could only be as militarily strong as it was
economically dynamic and fiscally sound." He added: "the proverbial wall
has been brought to our back"; as a result, all the parts of our defense
establishment must "take a hard, unsparing look at how they operate."

LAST-MINUTE Demonstration in Annapolis Friday morning!

From Jessica Sharp:

The National Speakers Conference, put on for Speakers of the House and
funded by a half-million dollars of corporate money, will be held at the
Annapolis Westin this week, including a Friday session called "Election
2010 and the Angry Voters: Who is Going to Pay?"

We plan on showing up on their doorstep to spread the message that no
legislator needs to spend time and millions of corporate dollars hiring
consultants to tell them why voters are angry when they could just walk
outside and ask us themselves! We want to be represented by legislators
who are concerned about us, not corporate shills who act like lapdogs to
their Wall Street puppet masters! Voters aren't petri dishes that need
to be studied, we're just PEOPLE who need to be listened to!

We plan on meeting outside the main entrance of the hotel at 10 AM.
There is parking in the underground hotel lot. Please bring posters,
etc! The more signage, the better. If the Westin staff forces us to
leave, we will re-locate to the grass inside Westgate Circle. Map:
http://tinyurl.com/2btqk4o

Moms -- this will be baby- and toddler-friendly. A lot of strollers
will make a statement! In fact, we (my other friends bringing strollers
and I) will probably turn it into a mass playdate following the
demonstration. Protest, then ice cream and looking at boats, oh yeah! :)

Please invite any media contacts you may have!

For more info, please visit http://www.fairandcleanmd.org

Hope you can make it!