Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants

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• Monday, May 17, 2021 at 12:00 PM · 1 rsvp

  Tip O'Neill Federal Building in Boston, MA

  This Tax Day: Put People & Planet Over Profits

  As we move into the post-pandemic, Biden era, it’s time to change what we buy with our tax dollars. The pandemic and the resulting economic crisis illuminated glaring inequalities and the human costs of budget priorities that enrich the wealthy and left people unable to protect their health, hungry and homeless, while the military-industrial complex drowns in super-profits and paves the way for new and dangerous Cold Wars. Trillions have been spent chasing demons abroad and “bad hombres” at our borders, but Covid-19 bring us to our knees. This Tax Day, stand with us and demand that your tax dollars be spent on the PEOPLE and on the PLANET, and not on the profits of corporations and wealthy individuals.

   

  Rally Speakers:

  • Steve Tolman, President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO
  • State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven
  • State Rep. Mike Connolly
  • Rev. Savina Martin, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign
  • Vaughn Goodwin, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign; Organizer, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
  • Erik Edstrom, Stoughton-born Afghanistan combat veteran and author of “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of our Longest War”
  • Harris Gruman, Executive Director, Massachusetts SEIU State Council
  • Nick Rabb, Sunrise Boston
  • Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies
  • Mary Regan, New England War Tax Resistance
  • Alan Palm, Organizing Director, 350 Mass/ Better Future Project
  • Michael Kane, National Alliance of HUD Tenants
  • Ronda Jackson, Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants
  • Bruce Taub, Our Revolution Massachusetts
  • Merrie Najimy, President, Massachusetts Teachers Association
  • Erik Berg, Executive Vice President, Boston Teachers Union
  • Brian Garvey, Mass. Peace Action, MC

  Rally participants must be masked and observe social distancing   President Biden’s American Rescue Plan and American Jobs Plan, with the child tax credit, unemployment, child and family care provisions, is bringing relief and hope to millions of Americans. But now the work begins to impact Congress debates over the national budget paid for by our taxes.   Our Call: Make the Rescue Plan’s safety net provisions permanent  Fund housing, healthcare for all, and education – forgive college loans Pass the job creating, GREEN infrastructure bill Tax the 1% and big corporations; create a wealth tax so everyone pays their fair share Repeal the Trump $2 trillion tax cuts  Cut the Pentagon’s gargantuan budget to pay for what we need Defund new nuclear weapons, cut F-35 and B-1 bomber

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