Petition: Against MTA budget cuts leading to service cuts

Petition: Against MTA budget cuts leading to service cuts

Purpose: To demonstrate opposition (by way of signatures) against the MTA budget cuts leading to service cuts.

Letter/Petition: You can download a copy of the Letter/Petition from here:

Response Deadline: 12 midnight, Wednesday, March 3, 2010

How to Respond:

• By Email
• Create an email contating the following phrase,
  
  "I support the Letter/Petition of  the The Ad-Hoc Leaders of Harlem and The Residents of Greater Harlem regarding the pending MTA Service Cuts."
• Place your name(s) under the statement
• Send back an email to Fialka Semenuik at fialka_s@yahoo.com
• By "Drop-Off"
• Create a letter/document containing the following phrase,
  
  "I support the Letter/Petition of  the The Ad-Hoc Leaders of Harlem and The Residents of Greater Harlem regarding the pending MTA Service Cuts."
• Sign and clearly print your name(s) under the statement
• Not necessary to place contact information (but helpful for follow-up) under signature (Address and/or Email and/or Telephone Number)
• Date Letter/Document
• Drop-Off letter/document with signature response to:
  
  Community Pride
  Attn: Fernando Lorence
  157 W. 122nd St.
  NY NY 10027
• By Fax
• Create a letter/document containing the following phrase
  "I support the Letter/Petition of the The Ad-Hoc Leaders of Harlem and The Residents of Greater Harlem regarding the pending MTA Service Cuts."
• Sign and type/clearly print your name(s) under the statement
• Not necessary to place contact information (but helpful for follow-up) under signature (Address and/or Email and/or Telephone Number)
• Date Letter/Document
• Fax to the attention of Fernando Lorence at fax number 212-663-2590
• By Snal Mail (Mail As Soon As Possible)
• Create a letter containing the following phrase,
  
  "I support the Letter/Petition of  the The Ad-Hoc Leaders of Harlem and The Residents of Greater Harlem regarding the pending MTA Service Cuts."
• Sign and clearly print your name(s) under the statemen
• Not necessary to place contact information (but helpful for follow-up) under signature (Address and/or Email and/or Telephone Number)
• Date Letter
• Send the letter with signature response to:
  
  The Ad-Hoc Leaders of Harlem & The Residents of Greater Harlem
  c/o Community Pride
  157 W. 122nd St.NY NY 10027

Sponsors: 

• Block Association 122 Inc
• The Ad Hoc Leaders of Harlem

Forum - Stop the Budget Cuts!

Event: FORUM - STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!

Come to a discussion with a panel of NYC activists discussion how we can "Stop the Budget Cuts".

Time: 5:30pm
Day & Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009

Location:
Local 802 Union Hall
322 W 48th St.
(between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Speakers*:

• Marvin Holland: TWU 100*, founder of "Take Back Our Union" movement
• Ajamu Sankofa: Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition*
• Doug Singsen: CUNY Student Union*
• Kit Wainer: UFT*, Teachers for a Just Contract*

Moderator:
Megan Behrent: UFT*, Teachers for a Just Contract*

More Info? Endorse?
Call 646-452-8662 or email nyciso@gmail.com

Background:
You've heard it before: Tough times are ahead, so as much as it hurts, we're all going to have to make do with less. Major cuts will have to be made to programs and services that were already underfunded to begin with.

President Obama has proposed $3.4 billion in aid to NY for education and Medicaid, but this will only soften the blow. It won't stop the cuts (it won't even affect areas outside of healthcare and education—like the proposed MTA fare hike, for instance).

But in a city like ours—the financial center of the United States—it's painfully obvious that not everyone is tightening their belts. When their stock-market gambling habit nearly left the economy in total collapse, the same politicians who said we need to do with less rushed to pass legislation giving Wall Street a $700 billion handout—no strings attached.

Where's the bailout for us? We should demand NO CUTS!

Join us for a discussion about how these budget cuts are impacting working people, and how we can turn the anger against the Paterson-Bloomberg cuts into action.

Sponsors: (List in formation)

• CUNY Grad Center Student Union,
• Independent Community of Educators,
• International Socialist Organization, New York Collective of Radical Educators,
• Solidarity,
• Take Back Our Union Movement,
• Teachers for a Just Contract, Teachers Unite

*Speakers will not necessarily appear as official representatives

Distributed by Peter Lamphere