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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Message from Carolyn Toll Oppenheim
<Carolyn@publicpurposecommunications.com> of Shays
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+3">Urgent Public Meeting on
Racism & Sexism in<br>
Electoral Politics This November 8th</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"><b>With Holyoke City
Councilor Lillian Santiago</b></font><br>
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<b>Thursday, October 27</b>, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.<br>
Florence Community Center Auditorium<br>
140 Pine Street, Florence, MA</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Century Gothic">and fellow
Holyoke City Council candidates</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Century Gothic"
size="+2"><b>Denise Selgado and Millie Santana</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Century Gothic">Hosted by<i>
Shays 2<br>
</i>(<i>Western Mass Committee on Corporations and Democracy</i>)<br>
www.shaysridesagain.org<br>
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At the</font><br>
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size="+1"><b>Florence Community Center Auditorium</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Century Gothic">140 Pine
Street, Florence, MA (Directions below)<br>
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</u>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.<i> She
now needs people to walk with her</i> to help her campaign
door-to-door, to feel safe.<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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<font size="+2"><u>Please come to discuss how we can all
help.<br>
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</u></font><u>Directions:<br>
</u>Route #9 (Elm St.) north to Florence Center<br>
Left onto Maple St. at the Mobile gas station<br>
right onto Pine St.---go just past the first stop sign<br>
<u>7:30 - 9:00 pm Thurs. Oct. 27th</u></font></blockquote>
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