[Peace] standby Re: C-U MoveOn Members to Hand Out ‘Romney-Ryan Pink Slips’ in Champaign Thursday, Part of National Effort to Distribute 1 Million Pink Slips

[Robert Naiman]

sorry, I thought this was all set, but apparently it's not. I will
post an update when I have one. It looks now like it will be at 5pm.
You can email me directly if you are interested.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Robert Naiman
<naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> http://www.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=131728
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> MoveOn.org
Political Action
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> MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: August 16, 2012
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> CONTACT:  Robert Naiman, 217-979-2857, naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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> C-U MoveOn Members to Hand Out ‘Romney-Ryan Pink Slips’ in Champaign
> Thursday,
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> Part of National Effort to Distribute 1 Million Pink Slips
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> Ryan Budget Endorsed by Romney Would Kill 1 Million Jobs in 1 Year,
> 129,000 by Cutting Domestic Spending to Protect Military Spending
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> Urbana, Illinois — MoveOn members will distribute 1 million pink slips
> across the country Thursday to inform voters about how Mitt Romney and Rep.
> Paul Ryan’s budget plans would cost 1 million jobs in just 1 year - killing
> more than a hundred thousand jobs by shifting money from domestic spending
> to military spending - and Champaign-Urbana will be part of the action.
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> MoveOn members in Champaign-Urbana will meet at 9AM at 301 N Neil Street in
> Champaign on Thursday and will hold signs and be available to the media
> before they split up to deliver pink slips to voters.
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> The Ryan budget, endorsed by Mitt Romney, would end Medicare and slash
> public education spending and economic investment, asking the middle class
> to pay more yet offering more tax cuts to the rich, while increasing
> military spending. The nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute projected this
> approach would kill more than 1 million jobs in 2013 and more than 4.1
> million jobs by the end of 2014. [1]
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> At least 12.9% of this job loss - 129,000 jobs in 2013, and 530,000 jobs by
> the end of 2014 - will come from replacing planned cuts to military spending
> with increased cuts to domestic spending. A 2011 study by the University of
> Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute showed that every time
> you replace a billion dollars in domestic cuts with a billion dollars in
> military cuts, you decrease the job loss from cuts by at least 25.8%. [2]
> Current plans to cut spending call for a 50/50 split between domestic cuts
> and military cuts, but Romney and Ryan would replace the military cuts with
> domestic cuts. If the Romney-Ryan plan were changed just by restoring the
> 50/50 split, that would eliminate at least 12.9% of the job loss from the
> Romney-Ryan plan.
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> “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would be great for the 1%, but they’d be a
> nightmare for America's working families,” said Robert Naiman, a MoveOn
> member from Urbana. “We’re distributing these pink slips so voters know how
> many jobs Romney and Ryan's budget would destroy, and how much of that
> destruction would come from cutting domestic spending to increase military
> spending.”
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> MoveOn.org Political Action members across the country are organizing
> hundreds of events on Thursday in which they’ll deliver the pink slips to
> voters. MoveOn members and others will also be able share an online version
> of the pink slip with their friends and family members via email and social
> media.
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> WHAT:         Sign-holding and media availability before distribution of
> Romney-Ryan pink slips
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> WHO:           MoveOn.org Political Action members
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> WHEN:        from 9AM to 9:30 AM, Thursday, August 16, 2012
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> WHERE:       301 N Neil Street in Champaign
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> MoveOn.org Political Action is a political action committee powered by more
> than 7 million Americans from every state and every congressional district.
> Since its founding in 1998, MoveOn members have volunteered tens of millions
> of hours for progressive candidates. MoveOn members believe in the power of
> grassroots action to make our country a more progressive place and elect
> candidates who will fight to put the American Dream back within reach for
> all Americans.
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> References:
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> 1. "Ryan’s budget cuts would cost jobs," Ethan Pollack, Economic Policy
> Institute, March 21, 2012,
> http://www.epi.org/blog/paul-ryan-budget-discretionary-cuts-cost-jobs/
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> 2. "The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending
> Priorities: 2011 Update," Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Political
> Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December
> 2011,
> http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_military_spending_2011.pdf
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> --
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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