Please join us at a meeting on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 7:30 at the Walpole Library to plan how we can save our library. The town is proposing a 36% budget cut that will cripple library services. Jerry Romelczyk, Library Director, and Paul Cesary, Chairman of the Library Trustees, will be present to answer questions regarding the impact of the proposed cuts.
The town is facing a financial crisis and all town departments are having their budgets cut. However, the proposed cut in the library budget is far beyond its fair share and would devastate our library services. A cut of this magnitude would result in a drastic reduction of hours and programs. The budget for purchasing new books and materials would be slashed. The library would lose state certification and annual state aid and would almost certainly have interlibrary loan privileges suspended.
With the financial crisis our library is seeing increased demand for borrowing materials and services. Please join us as we seek ways to keep this essential town service funded at a reasonable level.
Please invite anyone who may be interested.
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As a Resident of Methuen, who recently saw its library spared from the budget ax. I do feel for you. I hope it goes well for you. Do you have a Friends Organization that can assist? Have you contacted your State Rep. Senator, or US Congressman?
Gerard
Please consider making a post about our movement and the Bailout Protests on April 11th. Thank you.
anewwayforward.org
LOCAL ANGER AT ECONOMIC POLICY FINDS NATIONAL OUTLET IN THE FORM OF APRIL 11 PROTESTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2009
Contact: Matt Zaccarino
Email: mzaccarino@gmail.com
Phone: 774 573 2805
GRASSROOTS ADVOCATES FOR ECONOMIC POLICY CHANGE PLAN UNIFYING NATIONAL PROTEST
(Boston, MA) On April 11, 2009 at 2pm ET/11am PT, there will be protests in cities across the country. The actions are a direct response to what many believe are flawed economic policies enacted by Congress and the Obama administration. Boston will host its own protest in the area of Boston Common that faces the State House.
With growing frustration over unemployment, foreclosures and how the government has responded to the economic crisis so far, a web organizing platform, http://anewwayforward.org, has emerged to allow people and groups to organize around a progressive approach to economic recovery.
With protests taking place in over a dozen major U.S. cities, the April 11 action promises to be big.
"I think that a lot of people out there feel that congress has been making economic policy that is totally crazy. And the fact that huge sums of government cash have taken the form of executive bonuses is just unacceptable. These protests are being held to give all the people that have similar feelings and opinions a loud, unified voice. One that Congress and the Obama administration will, hopefully, pay attention to," said Matt Zaccarino state coordinator of A NEW WAY FORWARD, MA.
Tiffiniy Cheng, one of the founders of A NEW WAY FORWARD, welcomed the Massachusetts contingent to the effort. "Through campaign money and lobbyists, the financial industry has been pushing politicians to protect their interests in these hard economic times. Massachusetts has a key role to play in demanding change to how economic plans are decided.”
A NEW WAY FORWARD is an all-volunteer grassroots organization supporting a platform of bank nationalization and restructuring that excludes bonuses for top level executives.
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