Bring Our War $$ Home campaign April, 2011
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Tired of endless wars abroad and endless cuts to services? Bring Our War $$ Home is a national campaign to engage our communities and elected officials through resolutions, creative actions, and smart messaging on the cost of war and militarism and the need to redirect funding to public education, job creation, and other life-affirming programs being desperately hurt by the economic recession..
Contact your mayor today to co-sponsor the War Dollars Home Resolution.
LA Mayor Villaraigosa will bring a resolution to the annual Mayors'
Council if 10 other mayors can join him to endorse the resolution!
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RESOLUTIONS TRIED:
City of Portland
Deer Isle
Ogunquit
Solon
Madison
Brunswicketc.
Maine School Administrative District #74
Letter from Maine's legislators to our representatives in the House
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More campaign tools:
bringourwardollarshome.org
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bringourwardollarshome.org
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RESOLUTIONS passed:
City of Portland (passed 7-1)
Deer Isle
School District #74
Northampton, MA
Amherst, MA
Hartford, CT
MAYORS endorsingAntonio Villaraigosa,
Los Angeles, CA
Joanne Twomey,Biddeford, ME
May 17 deadline for resolution to Mayor's conference,
Baltimore, June
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Testimony at news conference on
effects of budget cuts:
Mayors or past mayors
Legislators or past legislators
Health caregivers
Immigrants
Social workers
Teachers
Clergy etc.Mary Beth Sullivan, social workerphoto: Roger Leisner
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PUBLIC HEARINGS
Convened by towns.
Convened by state legislators.
Convened by newspaper
editors.
Convened by citizens.
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Review of Campaign Tactics – What was most effective?GOAL: Generate discussion around war $$ & broaden our constituencies
* Resolutions (whether they passed or not they educated and created local debate)
* Dropping door hangers in 19 Maine communities on the week leading up to April 15 (tax day)
* Draw-a-thons!
* Letters to editor, op-eds & online comments
* Vigil at Rep. Chellie Pingree campaign fundraiser just prior to vote on war supplemental
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