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Transportation </b></font>
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House</b></span></div>
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arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>1 pm to 11:30 pm</b></span></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As many of
you know, the MBTA Board has come out out with its final
proposal to address this year's budget crisis -- a 23% fare hike
across the board, plus targeted service cuts to bus lines across
the region. In response to 31 public meetings and over 2000
public comments, we continue to be without a comprehensive
proposal to fund transit in the state of Massachusetts, with the
full expectation of having this fight again in a year's time. </font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On
Wednesday, April 4, Occupy Boston will join allies across the
city, state, and country for a day of action around public
transportation. The recent uproar over MBTA cuts and hikes one
of many fights over public transportation<span
style="border-collapse: collapse;"> happening across the
country. Occupations from Portland to Pittsburgh have come on
board, and t<span style="line-height: 13px;">he Amalgamated
Transit Union, the largest labor organization representing
transit workers in the US and Canada, has pledged its
support for the April 4 National Day of Action for Public
Transportation (</span><span style="line-height: 13px;"><a
href="http://occupymbta.org/2012/03/20/transit-union-endorses-april-4-national-day-of-action-for-public-transportation/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://occupymbta.org/2012/03/20/transit-union-endorses-april-4-national-day-of-action-for-public-transportation/</a>)</span></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><span style="line-height: 13px; font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a quick schedule for the
day -- we hope you'll join us! </span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>1 p.m. - MassDOT Board
Meeting (Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza)</u>:
After 31 public hearings and hearing the testimony of
thousands of MBTA riders, the MBTA board's final proposal -- a
23% fare hike, plus cuts to bus lines - is an unacceptable
attempt to balance borrowed debt on the backs of seniors,
students, and the unemployed. Join allies and organizations
from across Boston in saying "No!" to the most recent round of
cuts and hikes. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>3-5 p.m. - People's Assembly
at the State House</u> -- Following that meeting, join us at
the State House for a people's hearing on the future of public
transit! Tell Deval Patrick and Speaker De Leo that we need
a long-term funding solution for transit in Massachusetts.
We’ll take our demands to the halls of the State House, where
the legislature has steadfastly refused to intervene in coming
up with a state-wide transit solution that benefits ALL of the
99 percent. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>5-8 p.m. - Rally in Support of
Public Transportation</u> -- An evening of teach-ins,
speak-outs, music, food, and celebration on the State House
steps. What's next for the T? What happened to get us into
this mess? Join us for an evening of public celebration to
demand a comprehensive transit plan for the 99 percent!</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
arial,sans-serif;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u>8-11:30
p.m. - Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.</u>
April 4th is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s groundbreaking speech "Beyond Vietnam: Breaking the
Silence" in which he explained his understanding that
"America would never invest the necessary funds or energies
in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like
Vietnam continue to draw men and skills and money like some
demonic destructive suction tube." Exactly one year after
this speech, as he built momentum for a general strike, Dr.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. We will end by
observing this day and remembering a great visionary by
continuing his fight for economic inequality and an end to
war. <br>
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