TONIGHT Healthcare NOT Warfare Celebration and Benefit

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Healthcare NOT Warfare Celebration and Benefit
TONIGHT Monday, June 6 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm

       John Nichols         Donna Smith     Thom Hartmann   Norman Solomon    

All proceeds benefit PDA's Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign.

8:00 PM Private reception: $100 suggested donation--order tickers here.

8:30 PM Main Event: $30 suggested donation--order tickets here.
If you can't be there, please support the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign.

The Original Busboys and Poets
2021 14th St NW, Washington, DC

Closest Metro Stop: U St. / Cardozo (Green Line)
Join us for a night of celebration and community!

Featured speakers include:

• John Nichols—journalist for the Nation, political commentator for Democracy NOW! and MSNBC
• Donna Smith—co-chair Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign, CNA/NNU community organizer
• Thom Hartmann—progressive radio host, and award-winning, New York Times best-selling author.
• Norman Solomon—Congressional candidate, National Co-Chair of Healthcare NOT Warfare.
  

8:00 PM Private reception: $100 suggested donation--order tickers here.

8:30 PM Main Event: $30 suggested donation--order tickets here.
If you can't be there, please support the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign.

Speakout to End the Bush Tax Cuts

Tues. June 7, Noon: 10th Anniversary
Speakout to End the Bush Tax Cuts

In Courtyard of the Baltimore Social Security Admin.
6401 Security Blvd., Woodlawn, Md. (map below)
Convened by Progressive Maryland

As our nation's economic crisis continues, some in Congress would continue tax cuts for millionaires while ending Medicare as we know it and endangering our country's safety net. Progressive Maryland on Tuesday will mark the tenth anniversary of the day George W. Bush signed into law a $1.35 trillion tax cut that primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans while leaving our country with massive debt.

Please join Progressive Maryland and allies as community advocates and every day Marylanders testify about the detrimental effects and urgent need to end  tax cuts for the wealthy. This Maryland event is one of dozens across America to support Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security-- and protest efforts to cut essential services while giving trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts, exemptions and loopholes to the super-rich and to corporations.

"Enough is enough," said Executive Director Rion Dennis. "Our economy is in tatters and the middle class is disappearing. Yet some in Congress are at it again. They want to give even larger tax cuts to corporations and the super-rich while slashing essential services, environmental protections and attacking public employees."
Progressive Maryland supports the Taxation in Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat. The bill would create new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires and help working Americans and middle-class families cope with the ongoing economic crisis.    More at http://Progressivemaryland.org

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Support the Democratic National Committee and Bernie Sanders

Please sign this letter to the Senate Democratic Caucus asking them to support the DNC Afghanistan Withdrawal Resolution and Sanders' American Health Security Act of 2011 (S.915).

This letter will be distributed to the members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on June 7, as part of the June 7 Rally and Lobby Day with the Nurses. (If you can't make it to DC, then please participate in the June 7 National Call-in Day.)

Many of our allies in the progressive movement have endorsed and signed this letter: we hope you'll join them. Sign here.

Our goal is to gather at least 25,000 signatures between now and midnight, June 5. Click here to sign, and then please post this to your Facebook page and forward this email to your like-minded friends and family members. (Remember to remove the "Unsubscribe" link at the very bottom before you send the forward.)

Bin Laden is dead; the Afghanistan mission is accomplished. It is time to bring our troops and war dollars home and start addressing the very real hardships facing Americans, including providing comprehensive healthcare for all and the spiraling costs of healthcare.

Join us for a pre-rally benefit for the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign on June 6 at Busboys and Poets!