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district of columbia
The Fair Budget Coalition’s Make One City Possible Campaign is planning a number of advocacy actions in order to influence wrap-up of budget deliberations.
- April 30th Committee of the Whole Meeting: Join the campaign at the Wilson building at noon for an advocacy action in conjunction with the COW hearing. Email makeonecitypossible@gmail.com if you plan to show up and participate!
- May 2nd & 3rd Twitter Carnival: Communicate with the Council over Twitter during their mark-up period and encourage them to fund health and human services priorities. If you are on twitter or if your organization is on twitter, contact the campaign. Send the contact info and twitter handle of your organization’s social media person or of anyone particularly active on Twitter to makeonecitypossible@gmail.com
- May 10th - A Day in the Strife: The campaign will be doing a large-scale mobilization (and Council visits) on May 10th, demonstrating the hard choices low-income residents have to make every day because they don’t have enough support. Meet on May 10th 10am-Noon at the Wilson Bldg. Lunch will be provided. Let the campaign know if you’d like to help plan the event.
Mayor Vince Gray is again holding town hall meetings to brief the community on his proposed budget. The FY 2013 briefings are being held in each ward from 6:30-8:30pm (in date order):
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April 2, Ward 8 (Savoy/Thurgood Marshall)
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April 4, Ward 3 (Alice Deal Middle School)
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April 10, Ward 5 (McKinley Tech HS)
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April 17, Ward 7 (Deanwood Recreation Center)
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April 19, Ward 2 (Sumner School)
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April 23, Ward 4 (Brightwood ES)
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April 25, Ward 6 (Eastern Senior High School)
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April 30, Ward 1 (Bell Multicultural)
MARYLAND
The Save Our State Coalition along with other advocacy groups from across the state is urging the General Assembly to go into special session and pass a revenue package that reverses more than $500M in cuts to educatiuon and other services. Click HERE for an action alert from Save Our State with a link to sample language and a form to send your email to tell them it’s time to get back to work!
VIRGINIA
Join Nonprofit NOVA for their next quarterly meeting, where they will look “Under the Hood of the 2012 General Assembly Session: Impact on Nonprofits, Localities, and Safety Net Services in Northern Virginia.”
- Date: May 9, 2012
- Time: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
- Location: Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus – Ernst Community Cultural Center, 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003
- Co-Sponsors: The Commonwealth Institute, The Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative, an initiative of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA).
Click HERE to register.
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