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class=879475217-26092007><FONT face="Times New Roman">You are invited to come
and support progressive resolutions before the Springfield City Council on
Monday October 1. The Smithfield Resolution, below, was submitted by
the Justice @ Smithfield Committee of Western Mass. Jobs with Justice (827-0301,
<A href="mailto:wmjwj@wmjwj.org">wmjwj@wmjwj.org</A>). The Affordable
Housing Resolution, also below, is by Mass. Senior Action Council
(543-2334, <A
href="mailto:mbewsee@masssenioraction.org">mbewsee@masssenioraction.org</A>).
There is also a resolution Urging the Federal Reserve to Protect Consumers from
Predatory Lending, submitted by ACORN (737-0169, <A
href="mailto:maacornsp@acorn.org">maacornsp@acorn.org</A>).</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=879475217-26092007><FONT face="Times New Roman"><U>The Springfield City
Council meets at 7:30pm in its third floor chambers in City Hall, 36 Court
Street, across from Court Square. Public Speak-out time is at
6:45pm.</U></FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">Smithfield </FONT></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Resolution<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: Flexure; mso-bidi-font-family: Flexure"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">,</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> the City of
Springfield, Massachusetts, is committed to the right of all workers to have
dignity in their lives, safe conditions at work, a living wage, and health
benefits, and supports responsible employers who follow the law and treat their
workers fairly; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">, Smithfield Foods, Inc., is the largest
pork producer and processor in the world, and the Smithfield plant in Tar Heel,
North Carolina, is the largest pork processing facility in the world, employing
more than 5,000 workers and slaughtering more than 32,000 hogs a day;
and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">,
</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">Human Rights Watch
documented in <I>Blood, Sweat and Fear </I>(2004) that Smithfield Foods has
violated internationally recognized human rights standards by using
intimidation, threats, and violence against workers and still continues to do
so; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">4.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">, Human Rights Watch in the same document
reported evidence showing that Smithfield Foods discourages workers from
reporting workplace injuries and seeking medical care from their family
physician; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 2.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">5.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">, evidence shows that Smithfield Foods has
a history of intimidating, threatening, and harassing workers who engage in
organized activity to defend their rights, to improve their working conditions,
and to ensure their well-being in the workplace;
and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 2.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">6.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">, the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) found Smithfield Foods guilty of violating workers rights to organize a
union and ordered Smithfield to obey the law and allow workers to exercise their
legal rights without fear of retaliation or threats;
and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 2.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">7.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">,
</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">Smithfield Foods has
repeatedly delayed and denied justice for </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns
= "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">Smithfield</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"> workers; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 2.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">8.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f">, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">Smithfield Foods, Inc., and Smithfield
sub-contractor QSI, Inc., were found guilty of using the Company Police to
physically assault workers, cause the false arrest of a worker, and threaten
bodily harm in retaliation for legal activities to protest working conditions,
in violation of federal labor law; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 2.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .15in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-fareast-font-family: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">9.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Whereas,
</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">the efforts of consumers,
community organizations, faith-based organizations, labor organizations, and
government officials will be critical to bringing Justice to
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">Smithfield</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Therefore
be it ordered</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"> that the
City Council of Springfield, Massachusetts, supports justice for workers at
Smithfield Foods, and, as this campaign continues, National and Local actions to
bring justice to Smithfield; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Be
it further ordered </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">that<B>
</B>the City of Springfield review its purchasing of any Smithfield Foods
products from Tar Heel, North Carolina, and suspend these purchases until the
company ends all form of abuse, intimidation, and violence against its workers;
and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Be
it further ordered</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> that the
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">City Council of Springfield,
Massachusetts, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">encourages
local supermarkets to consider suspending their purchase of any such
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Smithfield</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> products;
and <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: MatrixBold; mso-bidi-font-family: MatrixBold">Be
it further ordered</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> that the City Clerk
forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to Chairman Joseph Luter
and CEO Larry Pope, Smithfield Foods, Inc., and the United Food and Commercial
Workers International Union on behalf of the entire City
Council.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=879475217-26092007>Affordable Housing
</SPAN>Resolution<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f1f1f; FONT-FAMILY: Flexure; mso-bidi-font-family: Flexure"><o:p><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>Whereas:
<st1:State><st1:place>Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:State> continues to face
an affordable housing crisis and the need for affordable housing for seniors
is growing rapidly. In the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> there are at least nine seniors
waiting for every occupied unit of affordable elderly housing.
<BR><BR>Whereas: More than 83,000 units of affordable housing in
<st1:State><st1:place>Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:State> are at risk of
"expiring" and becoming market rate. Over 27,000, including more than
1,600 in <st1:City><st1:place>Springfield</st1:place></st1:City>, will be
at-risk during the next three years. <BR><BR>Whereas: The majority of
households in these developments are elderly households (50%) or non-elderly
households with disabilities (35%).<BR><BR>Whereas: Over 2,300
Massachusetts elders including nearly one hundred from Springfield are
sleeping in shelters every night and are the fastest growing group of shelter
users in the state. From 1999 to 2002 elder homelessness in
<st1:State><st1:place>Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:State> increased by over
60%. At the current rate, without intervention, by 2025 the elderly
homeless population could fill Gillette stadium. <BR><BR>Whereas: There
are currently programs available through the federal government that would
enable owners to renew their Section 8 subsidies and maintain affordable
units.<BR><BR>Whereas: The Massachusetts Legislature is currently
considering legislation endorsed by the Massachusetts Senior Action Council
which would give municipalities the tools necessary to prevent the loss of
currently affordable housing. <BR><BR>Therefore be it<BR><BR>Resolved:
That the Springfield City Council supports the efforts of MSAC to win passage
of strong state legislation to preserve affordable
housing.<BR><BR>Resolved: That the City Council urge all state
legislators representing Springfield to vote for legislation which will
accomplish this goal, including Senate BillS782 (An Act to Preserve Publicly
Funded Housing) and House Bill H1284 (the Statewide Enabling Act to Save
Affordable Housing). <BR><BR>Resolved: That every possible step be taken
to ensure that seniors in
<st1:City><st1:place>Springfield</st1:place></st1:City> can find affordable
housing and not be forced to live in shelters or on the streets.</FONT><BR
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