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Labor Party
Organizing Notes
& Short Takes
Education
on the Ballot
The Massachusetts Labor Party, having persuaded voters in
three communities to overwhelmingly approve nonbinding
referenda for Just Health Care, now plans to put public
education on the ballot as well.
Labor Party organizer Ed Bruno says LP activists in up to
ten communities may petition to put the following resolution
before voters this November.
"Shall the representative from this district support
legislation that equitably invests state funds in local public
schools for quality education; reduces class size; excludes
use of voucher programs which siphon funds from public
education; bars for-profit schools from public funding;
suspends the MCAS [standardized test] as the criteria for
promotion or graduation, and establishes an authentic and fair
assessment system of education progress for our students and
their schools?"
This ballot question will be a tougher sell than Just
Health Care, predicts Bruno. But, he and other LP activists
believe, with education privatizers trying to snatch away
public dollars for their for-profit education schemes, now’s
the time to start a Labor Party Campaign for Public Education.
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Call for 100 Volunteers
The 2000 elections are a harsh reminder of how
desperately we need a political party to represent the
interests of working people. The problem is, we need money to
grow. And unlike the Democrats and Republicans, we’ll
never get a cent from corporations.
In each issue of Labor Party Press, we
have called for 100 members to contribute $1,000 to the Labor
Party. And each issue, new volunteers step forward. We’re
extremely grateful to all of you.
If you have not yet given, and you are in a
position to contribute $1,000, please do it right away. Your
dollars will help us build a powerful Labor Party that can
offer working people a real political choice.
Please make out your (non tax-deductible) check to:
Labor Party
P.O. Box 53177
Washington, DC 20009
— Tony Mazzocchi
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