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Distribute widely!!!
Caravan to Cuba, show your support for Ending the Blockade of Cuba and attend on July 10.
IFCO
/ Pastors for PeaceThe IFCO/Pastors for Peace 21st US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan
– dedicated to and celebrating the children of Cuba – hit the road this weekend in Canada with events in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan
and Ontario. This first of two successful challenges to US policy from the north was on Saturday
from Quebec. Thirty members of the Caravane d'amitie proudly walked boxes of medical and educational supplies for Cuba across
the border into the waiting arms of members of the Let Cuba Live group from Maine. On Sunday came the crossing from Vancouver
with aid for Cuba on a school bus from Saltspring Island
decorated by local children. US customs had given indications in advance that the bus would not be allowed through to go to
Cuba. Well…maybe they were in holiday weekend mode, or maybe the sight of 100 supporters from both sides of the border,
plus a samba band, melted their resolve…and the bus went smoothly through. Or maybe they just realized that the blockade
is totally discredited. Two more Canada crossings, from Manitoba
and Ontario, are due later this week – but today the US part of the caravan
begins with the very first events in Olympia, WA and Greenfield, MA. By July 21st we will have 13 buses and one truck
down at the US/Mexico border and ready to cross into Mexico
and then on to Cuba! JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010 FOR AN EVENT TO SUPPORT THE 21st IFCO FRIENDSHIPMENT CARAVAN
TO CUBA!!!
THE EVENING WILL
START WITH A POTLUCK SUPPER AT 6:00PM, WITH THE PROGRAM BEGINNING AT 7:30PM. THE PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE A SHORT FILM SCREENING, MUSIC AND A GUEST
SPEAKER FROM IFCO. THIS YEAR, WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL HAVE REVEREND LUCIUS WALKER, JR., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF IFCO AS OUR
GUEST SPEAKER. THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT:
THE SOUTH NASSAU UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, 228 SOUTH OCEAN AVENUE,
FREEPORT
For more information about the event or to volunteer to help host the event,
please contact Elaine Babian at 718-471-8249 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 718-471-8249 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Don or Mirna Obers-Cortes at 516-946-9361 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 516-946-9361 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or Mara Bard at , marabard@yahoo.com.
CO-SPONSORED BY: THE SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF
THE SOUTH NASSAU UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, THE LONG ISLAND SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH THE FIVE TOWNS FORUM Directions By Car: Take the Meadowbrook Parkway to Merrick Road,
Exit M9W. Head west for about one mile. A large Supermarket will alert you that the next left turn (south) is South Ocean
Avenue.There is a gas station on the SE corner and a Post Office on the NE corner. Head south for two and one-half blocks
to the church. Enter parking lot at start of church property on South Ocean Avenue. By Train: Take the Babylon Line, LIRR to Freeport Station. Short taxi ride or moderate walk. By Bus: N4 Bus (Jamaica-Freeport
Line) stops at Merrick Road and
Ocean Avenue.
Walk 2 1/2 blocks south to the church
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Nassau lawmakers OK $166M capital improvement budgetOriginally published: April 9, 2010 8:18 PM
Updated:
April 9, 2010 9:13 PM
By SID CASSESE sid.cassese@newsday.com Nassau County lawmakers approved a $166-million capital improvement budget plan Friday
that could renew jobs for thousands of workers in the county, officials said. The plan, pushed and brokered by County
Executive Edward Mangano, gained the unanimous approval of the legislature, which is dominated by his fellow Republicans 11-8.
But Mangano needed Democratic support because it takes a supermajority vote of 13 members to bond projects. "This
plan creates jobs and opportunities today and improves Nassau County's services and public safety," Mangano said at a
news conference in the same building half an hour after the legislative action. Mangano spoke in the executive and legislative
building to a room full of members of locals 66, 138, 1298 and others, including CSEA, police unions, and most of the legislature. The
county executive said Friday's action means "Nassau County will be a better and safer place to raise a family."
The capital plan includes a shift of about $30 million from some projects to others that Mangano has said - and apparently
the legislature agreed - are a greater priority this year, such as the firefighters training facility in Bethpage. Peter Schmitt, the legislature's presiding officer, said, "There's no Republican or Democratic way to fix roads
and buildings." Minority Leader Diane Yatauro of Glen Cove said both the Republican and Democratic caucuses worked hard on the capital budget. Sources had said that Mangano wanted
the legislature to support bonding for all of the $166 million, but Democrats wanted to hold back about $30 million in funding
until later in the year to make sure projects in their districts did not languish. Yatauro said Democrats later gained
"a stronger comfort level with the plan" after the administration assured them the projects in their districts would
be completed and that monthly updates would be given to them on those projects. After the conference, Scott Adrian,
a business agent for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 138, said that 30 percent of his 1,400 member have
been out of work for months. "Now, we'll be able to get just about all of them back to work," he said.
LONG ISLAND NEWS
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