> From: dante strobino <imastringb...@hotmail.com>
> Date: August 19, 2009 6:29:34 PM EDT
> To: <raleighpeoplesassembly@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: 8/22 Peoples Assembly Planning Meeting.... Challenges and  
> New Opportunities
> Reply-To: raleighpeoplesassembly@googlegroups.com

> Share this meeting notice ! Please e-mail,hard mail and telephone  
> all Peoples Assembly,your organization/union members and interested  
> people!

> Dear Peoples Assembly Participants and Supporters,

> We all have been at it ! It's been a busy summer!  Fighting against  
> Budget Cuts that take away resources from our schools, city and  
> state services/programs and fighting for jobs & against lay offs!We  
> made the local city goverments hear our call for a fair budget & NC  
> State Legislators come up with about a Billion$$$$dollars in taxes  
> rather than cut us to the bone ! We have still have more to do in  
> the midst of the struggle for Healthcare Reform.

> We are calling a "report in & planning meeting"  at 12 noon Sat.  
> August 22nd
> at the NC Public Service Workers Union-UE Local 150 Office at 211  
> West Martin Street in Raleigh. Call us at 1-888-44-UE150

> Recently, we all have been engaged in the Healthcare Town Hall  
> meetings to make our demands for Healthcare for All heard !  
> However, news media has been dominated by the right-wing "race and  
> red or solicialist " baiting of the Obama's Administration's Public  
> Option health care plan and those speaking out against Healthcare  
> Reform. These rabid racist right-wingers have sought to close down  
> any type of democratic discussion or  debate on why working people  
> want Healthcare for All!

>  Last week, a timely report was released about the $5.2 million  
> raised by NC members of Congress from donors connected to the  
> health care and insurance industries. The report describes the  
> leading recipients of this money and their votes on past bills,  
> particularly related to the pharmaceutical industry. These right  
> wing racist are also being organized and funded as well.
>   This Saturday at noon, we must convene a planning meeting of the  
> Peoples Assembly organizers and Healthcare for All supporters to  
> report on our work/activities, assess the present situation and  
> develope a plan of action to engage even more of  
> organizations'members and communities. We can not effectively take  
> on the challenges ahead of us during the upcoming  weeks or months  
> without us meeting together and working collectively to win  
> advances on the rough road ahead.

> See you there!

> In Solidarity,

> Nathanette Mayo and Angaza Sababu Laughinghouse for the Peoples  
> Assembly Organizing Committee

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