next MWPA meeting
Sat. June 9, 2012
After vigil @ 12:45 Location: TBD |
Budget for All referendum in MA. 1) Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, and housing, food and unemployment assistance; 2) Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services; 3) Provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and 4) Redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the Afghanistan war and bringing U.S. troops home safely now |
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Sudbury vigil
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Sat. May 12, 2012
MWPA Monthly Meeting
12:45 , after Sat. vigil Location St. Paul's Church, 39 Central St. (changed 5/2/12 from Library) Natick, MA Agenda: Budget for All public policy questions, 4th of July parade. Reports: UNAC, Citizen United resolution, "Iron Wall" movie, Earth Days.
Meetings open to the public, new members welcome. Email coakley50@earthlink.net for more info. |
Carol Coakley and Susan Massad in front of nuclear globe at Framingham Earth Day. The globe shows all of the nuclear power plants, the number of warheads and the nuclear free zones.
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MA Peace Action's nuclear globe visits Earth Day Framingham
Penny poll, budget for all petitions and nuclear map - Guntram Mueller's globe was a big attraction.
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Thanks to the generous friends and members of MetroWest who collected $80 to help fund this ad. Go to no-war-with-Iran.com and and sign petition to Pres. Obama.
The ad is up on the "T" Red and Orange lines! Let Obama know -no more war.
Sat. April 28th, 2012
Tabling at Framingham Earth Day on the Green (Edgell Rd.) from 11 AM - 3 PM
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Where do your tax dollars go?
Budget banner at Dorchester Speak Out this summer.
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Occupy Natick and Natick Peace Vigil join forces 11:30 - 12:30 on Saturdays.
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Dec. 3, 2011 Natick Vigil
Peace and economic justice together.
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Thank you Cong. Markey,
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Tax Day Tabling at Natick Library
Faith and Malcolm, braving the cold April 16th to Fund Our Communities
Thanks to Faith, Malcolm, David, Judith, Sarah, Carol, Barry , Philip, Lois, and Sheila for a great turnout for Tax Day Tabling at Natick Library. Many positive responses from passersby-I am even more convinced that the polls are right: people would rather cut the military than Medicare.
Where did your tax dollars go?
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http://www.25percentsolution.com/act-april-12-18.html
Click on link above for more tax week info and events
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What Would It Cost to Save the World?
for a dramatic visual on military spending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9po4ggUl-Ew
 Photo by Pat Westwater-Jong.
Vets for Peace, Unions and Gay Rights, St. Patrick's Day Parade, 2011 |
MetroWest Peace Action Monthly Meeting
Saturday May 14, 2011
1:00 Location TBD Please send your suggestions for the agenda to coakley50@earthlink.net. |
Natick Vigil Jan.1, 2011 Our message to Afghanistan Youth Peace Volunteers.
Who We Are
MetroWest Peace Action is a coalition of groups and individuals in the area west of Boston whose mission is to provide opportunities locally to promote peace and justice. Participants are from several towns including Natick, Framingham, Weston, Southborough, Walpole, Sherborn, Millis, Wayland, Sudbury, and Holliston.
Founded in 2009 to strengthen our voice to end war, prevent violence and support the non-violent resolution of conflicts. A message from New Priorities Network -the national coalition -1/27/11 Forty-six states are cutting their budgets. Fourteen to 100 cities could face bankruptcy this year. Local governments are closing libraries and schools, cutting vital safety net programs, selling off valuable public assets, and trying to balance their budgets on the backs of their employees. People are hurting and they’re angry. We can turn that anger into a political crowbar by using local resolutions to end the wars, cut Pentagon spending, and fund our communities. A resolution campaign will allow you to: · Build an ongoing coalition with unions, community organizations, and people who are being hurt by budget cuts and layoffs; Hold public hearings that mobilize your coalition, bring in new people, publicize our campaign, put pressure on elected officials, and start a real dialogue about our national priorities; · Conduct an energetic and creative public relations and educational campaign, · Engage local elected officials in pressing Congress to adopt our new priorities; · Put real grassroots pressure on your member of Congress; and · Build relationships that you will need in our multi-year campaign to cut war spending and fund our communities. For more details see www.newprioritiesnetwork.org. |
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$220,000,000 from Natick for wars since 2001
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Recent letters to the Editor - thanks Sarah!
NATICK —
When veterans come home
The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Nov 16, 2010 @ 12:32 PM
Veterans Day is Thursday, and for a few minutes or a few hours we will think about those who have served in the military. As the parent of an Army Reserve soldier who has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I would like to take a few more minutes to talk about veterans. Veterans who return from these wars are now homeless in huge numbers, they are twice as likely to be unemployed as those who have never served in the armed forces. Reservists and national Guard soldiers find it difficult to find a job when employers know they will probably be redeployed. Multiple deployments mean that people who have not fully healed from their last experience at war return to foreign occupations exhausted and in pain. During the flurry of elections which just ended, I did not hear the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq discussed. Instead of looking at the billions spent on almost a decade of war, we are focused on how to cut back on Medicaid or social programs which soldiers and their families desperately need. For those of you who voted to end the tax on alcohol, do you know that you will be responsible for closing alcohol and drug rehab centers desperately needed by those who struggle with addiction?
Soldiers return to families who have been struggling with a missing parent for over a year. They come back with injury, nightmares, anxiety and all too often addictions to drugs and alcohol which are the only means they have to assuage their pain. They return to children who find their newly returned parent a stranger, and at the same time, the child's school must cut counselors and teachers because we "can't afford" these luxuries. What is that we
send our soldiers to defend?
As civilians we have a responsibility to those who have chosen to serve the rest of us. If we ignore the wars we currently fund, if we turn our heads as the human cost of these wars walk our streets, we cannot complain about the destruction of our communities and we should understand the lack of real
understanding and respect veterans feel when they return home.
SARAH FUHRO,
Natick
When veterans come home
The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Nov 16, 2010 @ 12:32 PM
Veterans Day is Thursday, and for a few minutes or a few hours we will think about those who have served in the military. As the parent of an Army Reserve soldier who has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I would like to take a few more minutes to talk about veterans. Veterans who return from these wars are now homeless in huge numbers, they are twice as likely to be unemployed as those who have never served in the armed forces. Reservists and national Guard soldiers find it difficult to find a job when employers know they will probably be redeployed. Multiple deployments mean that people who have not fully healed from their last experience at war return to foreign occupations exhausted and in pain. During the flurry of elections which just ended, I did not hear the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq discussed. Instead of looking at the billions spent on almost a decade of war, we are focused on how to cut back on Medicaid or social programs which soldiers and their families desperately need. For those of you who voted to end the tax on alcohol, do you know that you will be responsible for closing alcohol and drug rehab centers desperately needed by those who struggle with addiction?
Soldiers return to families who have been struggling with a missing parent for over a year. They come back with injury, nightmares, anxiety and all too often addictions to drugs and alcohol which are the only means they have to assuage their pain. They return to children who find their newly returned parent a stranger, and at the same time, the child's school must cut counselors and teachers because we "can't afford" these luxuries. What is that we
send our soldiers to defend?
As civilians we have a responsibility to those who have chosen to serve the rest of us. If we ignore the wars we currently fund, if we turn our heads as the human cost of these wars walk our streets, we cannot complain about the destruction of our communities and we should understand the lack of real
understanding and respect veterans feel when they return home.
SARAH FUHRO,
Natick
