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APRIL 15, 2010

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State City Organization Contact Event Details
CA Stockton   Rodney Mara; rjmara at comcast dot net Contact for Details
CA West Covina   Phillip Gomez; flipthrill_82 at yahoo dot com Contact for Details
DC Washington National JwJ (202) 393-1044; ricardo at jwj dot org Wall Street and Economic Experts, Labor Leaders, Consumer, Development and Global Health Advocates to Hold Press Conference on Financial Speculation Tax. Speaking: Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO, John Fullerton, former Managing Director, JPMorgan, Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America, Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice, Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dr. Paul Zeitz, executive director, Global AIDS Alliance, Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen Where: Zenger Room, National Press Club, 12 noon
DC Washington DC JwJ (202) 974-8224; mbaris at aflcio dot org On 4/12, attend city council hearing on budget to demand higher taxes for the richest. 4/15 Metro Center 7:30-9am On Tax Day, labor activists - led by UFCW Local 400, Local 1994 and Local 27 - will display a 3'x5' banner reading "Walmart Dodges Taxes. Now We're Paying For It" outside Metro Center while passing out flyers to area taxpaying commuters outlining retail giant Walmart's tax avoidance practices, including the many loopholes Walmart abuses in order to get out of paying millions in taxes.
FL Miami S. Florida JwJ Alyce Gowdy Wright; tel: (305) 324-1107; alyce at sfjwj dot org Congressional delegation to Rep. Meeks & poss. others to thank them for co-sponsoring Miller Bill + supporting financial reform
FL Orlando Central Florida JwJ (407) 451-2472; centralfljwj at gmail dot com Will do an email and a leafleting at a post office to target Rep Kosmas to sign on; may leaflet at post office with SLAP near the campus
FL Tampa Tampa Bay Florida Consumer Action Network Timothy Heberlein (813) 877-6712 tim at fcan dot org Tax day event: FCAN organizing an event to support the Miller bill through education on the Wall Street Tax.
GA Atlanta Georgia WAND Larry Pellegrini phone: 404-522-4787 lobbywatch at aol dot com Tax day street action with (Women's Action for New Directions) and Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition. When: Friday, April 16 Time: 12 noon Where: Colony Square, corner of Peachtree St. and 14th St. (Atlanta)
ID Boise United Vision for Idaho Adrienne Evans Office: (208) 869-3131 adriennesevans at gmail dot com On Tax Day, Tea Parties are having protests at the state capitol and UVI is planning to attend counter-protests with many of our allies and members, including ALPHA and others. We will be passing out literature about the progressive tax option, tax and budget fairness and talking to folks about the cuts to vital social services that Idaho witnessed this past legislative session.
IL Chicago Chicago JwJ susan Hurley susanh at jwj dot org Chicago JwJ will be promoting its Emergency Campaign for Jobs with our allies at the UFCW Local We will be at the Post Office at Canal & Harrison at 5 P.M881 on TAX DAY: Thursday April 15th.
IL Oak Park Church Social Justice Ron Chew; ronnkarla at aol dot com Contact for Details
IN Bloomington S. Central Indiana JwJ Milton Fisk; fiskm at indiana dot edu Leafletting the main post office. Our theme is taxing the banks for jobs and support for the Miller bill.
IN South Bend St Joe Valley JwJ Joseph Carbone; josephcarbone at yahoo dot com 5pm. US Post Office Downtown South Bend Indiana. JwJ, AFL-CIO North Central Indiana Labor Council, CWA, USW, & UAW, along with community allies, will protest the use of our tax dollars for the economic development of foreign economies and to make the banks pay their fair share of taxes.
LA New Orleans Pax Christi New Orleans Paul Troyano; peace@paxchristino.org 701 Loyola Ave at 5pm. We hand out leaflets and talk with those willing, showing charts for where our tax dollars go mostly to military but this year almost as much went to the bailout.
MA Boston Massachusetts JwJ (617) 524-8778; jwj at massjwj dot net Supporting Shaws workers at Copley Square
MA Westwood   Larry Toussiant; tains46 at yahoo dot ca Contact for Details
MD Annapolis Progressive Maryland Matthew Weinstein 410-685-7004 x19 Matthew at ProgressiveMaryland dot org Tax day event: In Maryland we are planning to do a media event where we present the state Chamber of Commerce with a free lunch as part of our messaging in support of passing combined reporting. We'll hand out new data from the state comptroller showing that one-third of the biggest corporations in the state pay no income taxes.
MD Baltimore ProsperityAgenda.US Kevin Zeese; KBZeese at gmail dot com Contact for Details
MO Jefferson City   Julie Terbrock jterbrock at gmail dot com Tax Day Event MCEF/ProVote are working through our c3 table to put together an event in the state capitol on April 15th engaging leaders/members of our coalitions for a earned media event on the benefits of taxes and Lobby day. AFSCME, MO Budget Project, GRO & PROMO are interested in coordinating and other groups are checking back with their orgs to utilize this opportunity as a piece of changing the conversation around revenue streams. There are a couple of other events being planned in St Louis that ProVote may engage in. I'll be sure to send details as/if they develop.
NH Concord & Manchester   Olivia Zink olivia dot zink at gmail dot com Tax day event: We are flyering and having postcard actions at post offices in Concord and Manchester on tax day. We are also doing a training in the evening in Porstmouth on how to communicate the message of fair tax policies/progressive tax policies with elected officals and the media.
NY Buffalo Coalition for Economic Justice / JwJ (716) 892-5877; micaelajaine at gmail dot com Asking people to send a letter to their legislators to demand that Wall Street pay their fair share and demand IDA reform as a long term solution to corporate give-aways, curb wasteful spending and get our economy back on track. Also submitting an op ed to Buffalo News along with letters to the editor in Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester and Albany.
NY New York CWA Local 1180 Arthur Cheliotes; arthurc at cwa1180 dot org Contact for Details
OH Columbus Columbus JwJ Steve Chaffin; sechaffin at roadrunner dot com Contact for Details
OH Oxford Fair Labor Action Coalition Susan Dirr; dirrse at gmail dot com At the sidewalk in front of uptown park, we will be showing support for the Miami University union (AFSCME Local 209) and demanding: tax Wall St to fund jobs.
OR Ashland Southern Oregon JwJ Wes Brain; brain at mind dot net Tax Day Action1-3pm at Post Office. Joint action with Anti-War organization. Tour to different Banks afterwards. Delievering an eviciton notice to BofA at the end. 4/15
OR Bend Central Oregon JwJ tel: (541) 617-3879; organizer at jwjcentraloregon dot org Contact for Details
OR Eugene Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network/JwJ tel: (541) 736-9041; essn at efn dot org Contact for Details
OR Portland Portland JwJ tel: (503) 236-5573; info at jwjpdx dot org Tax Day Action either at Post-Office or Bank 4/15 Contact for Details
OR Salem Mid Willamette Valley-OC Tel: (503) 991-4255; jwjsalemor at gmail dot com Contact for Details
PA Pittsburgh W. Pennsylvania JwJ (773) 428-5378; wpajwj at jwj dot org “Stop the Wal-mart Tax Scam” When: April 15th, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: In front of the United States Postal Office on 700 Grant St., Ste. A, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
PA Quakertown   Steve Nathan; steve_n_58 at Yahoo dot com Contact for Details
RI Providence Rhode Island JwJ (401) 454-4766; camilorijwj at gmail dot com Action on Tax Day with UFCW at the Post Office--messaging around Wal-Mart
TN Nashville Mid Tennessee JwJ Maura Lee Albert; Tel: (615) 545-5056; malbert at seiu205 dot org Anniversary of the silent march--w/ Rev Lawson & someone from AFLCIO (state and national)--messaging tbd TAX DAY
TX Dallas N Texas JwJ (214) 942-4236; labordallas at sbcglobal dot net Leafleting Bank of America at noon on Tax Day; Holding a Workers' Memorial Day Ceremony outside the OSHA offices in downtown Dallas on April 28th
UT Salt Lake City Utah JwJ Linda Parsons; tel: (801) 606-2074; linda at utjwj dot org Tax Day Action-Corner of 700 East and 2100 South in Salt Lake City-April 15th 5:30pm-6:30pm. Come join Utah JwJ and others in demanding an ending of the wars taxing Wall Street to create millions of Good Jobs.
VA Richmond Richmond JwJ (804) 306-3121; richmondjwj at gmail dot com Leafleting out front of post office (location tbd)
WA Olympia Washington CAN! Jill Mangaliman jill at washingtoncan dot org 206-805-6678 On Tax Day, Tea Parties are having protests in Olympia and Seattle. WCAN is planning to attend counter-protests with FUSE and others from the Rebuilding Our Economic Future (coalition working on the state budget shortfall).
WA Seattle Washington CAN! Jill Mangaliman jill at washingtoncan dot org 206-805-6678 Tax day event: WCAN and OUR Washington are having a sit-in of 10+ people in the lobby of a Bank of America branch in Seattle, with a rally outside. The rehearsal is on April 11th.
WA Seattle Washington State JwJ (253) 459-5107; southsound at wsjwj dot org Tax Day Action at CHASE Bank 4/15
WV Charleston WV-CAG Gary Zuckett garyz at wvcag dot org work: 304-346-5891 WV-CAG will join WV Patriots for Peace for a Tax Day event on April 15, 2010. We will hold our event at the main post office in downtown Charleston starting at 5PM. We will hand out information to people as they arrive to mail their tax returns. There is a tea baggers event at noon at the state Capitol so we will be able to counter their argument with evening news media to hit the 6PM newscast The event will focus both on the misplaced military budget as well as our Economic Justice campaign to tax Wall Street, not Main Street. We are still putting plans together for our event regarding whether or not we’ll collect petition signatures…. We will definitely have signs for honk and wave and fliers to give out to taxpayers. The main post office is huge and we will have people at two busy intersections.