[Antiracism] URGENT event to help Holyoke city councilor Lillian Santiago

[Mary]

>Message from Carolyn Toll Oppenheim 
><Carolyn at publicpurposecommunications.com> of Shays 2


>Urgent Public Meeting on Racism & Sexism in
>Electoral Politics This November 8th
>
>With Holyoke City Councilor Lillian Santiago
>
>
>Thursday, October 27, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
>Florence Community Center Auditorium
>140 Pine Street, Florence, MA
>
>
>and fellow Holyoke City Council candidates
>
>Denise Selgado and Millie Santana
>
>Hosted by Shays 2
>(Western Mass Committee on Corporations and Democracy)
>www.shaysridesagain.org
>
>At the
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>Florence Community Center Auditorium
>
>140 Pine Street, Florence, MA   (Directions below)
>
>Lillian Santiago, a Puerto Rican city councilor in Holyoke has been 
>fighting a multinational water corporation trying to privatize the 
>city's sewer system. She will report on the Mayor's administration's 
> backlash to her courageous stands. The city's police chief "outed 
>her" for reporting drug dealers who are destroying the neighborhoods 
>of her constituents. Her life has been threatened  because his 
>"outing" of her was published in the Springfield Republican with her 
>picture, so she is suing him. She now needs people to walk with her 
>to help her campaign door-to-door, to feel safe.
>
>For those who saw "Voices of a People's History" with Howard Zinn 
>performed at Mt. Holyoke College this past week,  Lillian was 
>supposed to be a part of the program,  but  SHE HAD TO DROP OUT AT 
>THE LAST MINUTE BECAUSE SHE WAS urgently NEEDED AT  a Holyoke city 
>council meeting because the EPA fined Holyoke over the sewer 
>situation.
>So, while Valley residents enjoying the readings of Western Mass. 
>Radical activists from history, Lillian Santiago was  down in 
>Holyoke joining six other city councilors trying to keep a 
>corporation from taking over a city service.  Her struggles against 
>drug dealers who bring drugs to the whole Valley, and against a 
>multi-national corporation seeking to privatize water all over our 
>region, are causes worthy of our help.
>
>Please  come to discuss how we can all help.
>
>Directions:
>Route  #9 (Elm St.) north to Florence Center
>Left onto Maple St. at the Mobile gas station
>  right onto Pine St.---go just past the first stop sign
>7:30 - 9:00 pm Thurs. Oct. 27th
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