From martygjf at comcast.net Thu Aug 26 13:18:48 2010 From: martygjf at comcast.net (marty nathan) Date: Thu Aug 26 13:19:09 2010 Subject: [Sage] Northamptonites, this is your chance: Thursday, September 2 at 7:15 in council chambers! Message-ID: The City Council will consider the War Dollars Resolution Thursday, September 2 Attend and Speak out at 7:15 in council chambers! Rebuilding Our Nation Is Patriotic: Bring Our War $$ Home. The City Schools are in fiscal crisis and facing drastic cuts despite last year's override. Yet everyday Northampton residents are paying $40,000 in federal taxes to support the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq: $14 million this year alone. In the last nine years 5400 American soldiers and perhaps a million Iraqis and Afghanis and Pakistanis have been killed. And overall $111.7 million federal tax dollars from the City of Northampton has been spent on these wars with no end in sight. Those lives lost are priceless. Those federal tax dollars, if spent in Northampton instead, would have paid for a.. 4200 People with Health Care for One Year OR a.. 275 Public Safety Officers for One year OR a.. 1,175 Scholarships for College Students for One Year OR a.. 1,675 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR a.. 200 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR If the War Dollar$ Resolution is passed, our City Council will instruct our Congressional representatives to vote against funding of the wars and bring the troops home. That is their job in our democracy - controlling the purse strings of the federal government - and we are exercising our democratic rights in requesting that they represent us in this way. Congressman Neal just voted against the last appropriation for the wars. We support full funding for the tens of thousands of veterans of these wars not appropriately treated for their wounds, and full protection of the troops on the ground until they are brought home. These wars must be stopped to prevent more bleeding of humans and our economy. Help us support the passage of the Bring the War Dollars Home Resolution: Call your Councilor and tell him/her to support the Resolution. Attend the Council meeting Thursday, September 2 in Council chambers at 7:15 to speak out in support. (Signup at 6:45.) - Alliance for Peace and Justice, martygjf@comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gaiahost.coop/pipermail/sage/attachments/20100826/95ee24e0/attachment.htm From emiliehamilton at yahoo.com Thu Aug 26 16:46:37 2010 From: emiliehamilton at yahoo.com (emilie hamilton) Date: Thu Aug 26 16:46:40 2010 Subject: [Sage] just a note to let you each know - house/pet sitting late August and September Message-ID: <995301.44604.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear friends - Summer is almost over - school is about to begin - but in case anyone needs a house/pet sitter over the next few weeks I am available. I took a couple weeks off for my own little vacation - now I need to get back to work. So if you - or someone you know - may need someone to care for a home and animals please let me know. Thank you. Blessings, Em Let everything you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gaiahost.coop/pipermail/sage/attachments/20100826/e998b60d/attachment.htm From wmjwj at wmjwj.org Thu Aug 26 20:14:54 2010 From: wmjwj at wmjwj.org (WMass Jobs with Justice) Date: Thu Aug 26 20:15:00 2010 Subject: [Sage] URGENT: North Adams RNs rally 9/2 + picket line? Message-ID: <01d101cb457c$e047bc50$a0d734f0$@org> From: Leo Maley LMaley@mnarn.org Nurses at North Adams Regional Hospital are calling on the support of union activists and union supporters throughout Western Massachusetts to help them win their fight! Join them for a rally on Thursday, September 2, 5pm at St. Elizabeth's of Hungary Parish Center (Saint Anthony Drive, North Adams). Click to RSVP for 9/2 Barring a last-minute settlement, join them on the picket line at 71 Hospital Ave., especially on Friday, September 3 (the strike begins at 6 am) and through the Labor Day weekend. Click to RSVP for 9/3+ Directions below. Want to carpool? Need a ride? Can drive? Let us know at wmjwj@wmjwj.org. The 100+ Registered Nurses who work at North Adams Regional Hospital, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, have given official notice to the Hospital for a strike to begin at 6 a.m. on Friday, September 3. This follows many month of protracted and largely unproductive negotiations with the Hospital's high-priced "Union Avoidance" consultant. Among the many management proposals still being proposed by management that the nurses find unacceptable are those that would force nurses to accept staffing policies that would require a nurse to work a shift even if not previously scheduled; cancel a shift without notice; send a nurse home in the middle of a shift; require a nurse to work mandated overtime; remove any certainty about how many hours a week a nurse will work or how much money s/he will make; and remove a provision in the nurses' contract that allows a nurse to decline overtime if she/he is exhausted or ill. As the nurses prepare for the possibility of a strike (negotiations resume on August 31) they are looking for local and regional union and community allies to attend their pre-strike rally on Thursday, Sept. 2, at 5 p.m. at St. Elizabeth's of Hungary Parish Center (Saint Anthony Drive, North Adams). Here is a Google Map link for directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=st.+elizabeth's+parish+nor th+adams&fb=1&gl=us&hq=st.+elizabeth's+parish&hnear=North+Adams,+MA&cid=0,0, 15487169268903564906&ei=H2B1TIOYD4W-sAOx1a2gDQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image &resnum=1&ved=0CBMQnwIwAA Please note that because at least one attendee at this rally has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities we are asking people who are coming to the Thursday rally to please refrain from using recently applied chemical hair treatments such as perms, hair straightener/relaxers, coloring and leave in conditioners or scented products such as aftershave, cologne, perfume, hairspray, mousse/gels, highly scented deodorant or soaps. We also ask that people not smoke prior to the rally, or wear clothing which has been recently dry-cleaned or which is brand new, particularly leather products. Second, barring a last-minute contract settlement, the nurses are looking for union and community allies to join them on the Hospital picket line (North Adams Regional Hospital is at 71 Hospital Ave.), especially on Friday, September 3 (the strike begins at 6 a.m.) and through the Labor Day weekend. Firm date/time commitments are best; but drop-ins are always welcome. Here is a Google Map link for directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en &um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=0,0,14829129033442849820&fb=1&hq=regional+hospital&hnear= North+Adams,+MA&gl=us&daddr=71+Hospital+Avenue,+North+Adams,+MA+01247&geocod e=17931512468606757400,42.705939,-73.108405&ei=WZh2TJ-6FsaqlAeq0djtCw&sa=X&o i=local_result&ct=directions-to&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQngIwAQ Please invite family and co-workers to the rally and the picket line. And please RSVP to this email to let me know if you are planning to attend the Thursday rally and/or the picket line and if you will be bringing anyone with you. We especially need to know who is planning to attend the rally. In solidarity, --Leo Leo Maley Associate Director/Region 1 Community Organizer; Division of Legislation and Government Affairs, Massachusetts Nurses Association 781-520-1483 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jon Weissman, Coordinator Western Mass Jobs with Justice 640 Page Blvd #101 Springfield MA 01104 (413) 827-0301 Founded in 1987, Jobs with Justice's mission is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize. We believe workers' rights are human rights and to be successful, we have to be part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. To that end, "J with J" has created a national coalition and a network of local coalitions that connect labor, community, student, and faith-based organizations and activists on workplace and community social justice campaigns. Western Mass JwJ - founded June 5, 1993 - is now a coalition of almost 70 organizations. Our mailing lists: [Workers' Rights] The Western Mass. Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights list posts opportunities for you to learn about and show solidarity with workplace and working class struggles. And these events are opportunities for JwJ members to fulfill their pledge: " I'll be there for workers' rights at least five times a year!" This is the core mission of Jobs with Justice, affirming that workers' rights are human rights. To subscribe, send a blank email to workersrights-subscribe@lists.prometheuslabor.com or go to http://lists.wmjwj.org/mailman/listinfo/workersrights. [Health Care Action] posts events and information that support the large and vibrant Western Mass. movement for health care justice. Nationwide, Jobs with Justice has prioritized Health Care as a basic human right. To subscribe, send a blank email to healthcareaction-subscribe@lists.prometheuslabor.com or go to http://lists.wmjwj.org/mailman/listinfo/healthcareaction. [People's History] posts events and other information related to a people's history of Western Mass, inspired by Howard Zinn. To subscribe, send a blank email to peopleshistory-subscribe@lists.prometheuslabor.com or go to http://lists.wmjwj.org/mailman/listinfo/peopleshistory. [Solidarity Calendar] posts other events of interest to the broader Western Mass. movement. To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj@wmjwj.org with a Subject of "Subscribe Solidarity Calendar". WMJwJ sponsors [WMSLAP], the Western Mass. Student Labor Action Project mailing list. SLAP engages student organizations in economic justice campaigns. To subscribe, send a blank email to wmassslap-subscribe@lists.prometheuslabor.com or go to http://lists.wmjwj.org/mailman/listinfo/wmassslap. WMJwJ co-sponsors [GreenWork], the mailing list of the Western Mass. 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