Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice and Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee... Important public meeting, please pass the word
CLEVELAND HEARING ON PEOPLES BUDGET PRIORITIES
Thursday, April 16 6 - 8 pm Epiphany Catholic Church 11901 Oakfield Avenue (near Union and E. 120th Street)
Community organizations and individuals are invited to prepare and give testimony (up to 3 minutes) on community needs and to propose ways in which federal tax dollars should or should not be spent.
Oral testimony will be recorded and sent to federal elected officials. Written statements will be copied and sent as well.
Congress holds the power of the purse. WE THE PEOPLE must make our voices heard! For the fiscal year that begins October 1, Congress will budget and spend $3.6 trillion (more than 4 times as much as the stimulus package Congress recently enacted). For many years, more than half the Budget Congress decides each year has been going to war, weapons systems, bases worldwide, war preparations and interest on funds borrowed for war. Not counting wars, the military budget expanded 40% under President Bush. Unless THE PEOPLES' VOICES are heard, Congress is set to approve an even larger military budget and cuts in social programs.
US Representatives from the Cleveland area and both US Senators from Ohio are being invited to attend.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE WELCOME! Sponsored by the Peoples Budget Priorities Task Force c/o Peace in the Hood 13422 Kinsman Road, Cleveland, OH 44120 Phone: (216) 283-4400 Ext. 2266 or (216) 381-1372 Other initiators of this event are Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice and Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee