MInnesota: 6/30 Rallies and Vigils at the State Capitol. Eve of the Shutdown

Several different organized events. Basically from noon to 11pm. but they will probably kick people out of the capitol at 6pm, so we will then be outside rallying/and vigil
(bring your own water and snacks/food if you plan to stay for hours)

Thursday, June 30 · 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

at St. Paul Capitol
75 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul MN 55155

We are bringing our big 14-King Sized sheets that says:

TAX THE RICH!
NO CUTS TO POOR AND WORKING MINNESOTANS!

-- We will BLAST the Republicans that are being bullies and keeping us hostage!

-- Feel free to bring your signs and join us.

While Republican leaders continue to spew lies about the budget and whine about the richest being overtaxed, the fact remains that the richest have not paid one dime for the past decades of budget deficits.

Come to the capitol on Thursday, to demand the Republicans to TAX THE RICH and NO MORE CUTS TO POOR AND WORKING MINNESOTANS!

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then: http://usuncutmn.blogspot.com/2011/06/minnesota-shutdow...

Parade
2 pm, meet at Kellogg Park @1:30 pm

RALLY
Thursday, June 30th
3 – 7 pm
Rain or shine

Minnesota State Capitol
St. Paul


3:00 - 3:15 Lakota Blessings
with Welcome by US Uncut Minnesota, Moveon, The Other 98%, USuncut.org

3:15 - 3:30, Kurt Rutzen, National Board of ARC

3:30 - 3:50 Rob Hager, well-known public interest attorney, for MoneyOuttaPolitics.org

3:50 - 4:00 Autumn Cavender-Wilson, ANPAO DUTA (Dakota Youth Collective)

4:00 - 4:05 Statement by Jim Carlisle of ADAPT, read by Joan Aarvig

4:05 - 4:25 Carl Gibson, cofounder USuncut.org

4:30 - 4:40 Michele Gross, Communities United against Police Brutality

4:40 - 4:50 Joel Gingery, moveon.org

4:50 - 5:00 Pastor James Erlandson, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Saint Paul


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At 7 pm, AFSCME has the Capitol lawn. They will doing a ceremony @ 9 pm to LIGHTS ON the Capitol. Bring a flashlight!

WE APPLIED TO THE CITY OF ST. PAUL FOR A CAMPING PERMIT for low-income people who want to stay since ALL State parks will be closed. It was denied. We feel this violates our free speech and freedom of assembly rights as other organizations WERE granted permits. "Camp No State and/or City Parks" will hopefully be established with lights and water available until the shutdown ENDS, as we will file a lawsuit.

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There is a website, shutdownriseup.org established to help people find shutdown actions and rallies!

Hundreds of workers have taken early retirement to avoid foreclosure and other financial hardship in anticipation of a shutdown.

We will hold a rally of support for the workers and their families as well as their families. We will have fight back speakers to discuss how to defend our state's next steps, rain or shine!

We ask that YOU come and tell your friends, neighbors, relations and co-workers attend.

Also bring a flashlight as we intend to be staying around the Capitol til dark. PLEASE PICK UP YOUR OWN TRASH !!!

If you care to, bring your camping gear. Let's show the City of Saint Paul that it is time to support The People.

We plan to deliver hundreds of pink slips to GOP legislators who are STILL collecting pay for not doing their jobs: which is to provide health and safety for all Minnesotans.

Enough! The People must circle the wagons, now. Citizens must ban together.

Enough is enough. Join with US Uncut Minnesota and its friends to say that our citizens come FIRST. We all rely on the State funds for healthy living choices. Now it's time to get people ON the page. Poverty does not mean second class citizenship; we contribute to the state, too. People need clean water. The People need State park spaces. They shouldn't filling up their own potholes! And 12,000 people should not be facing going to nursing homes; it's more expensive in the long-run.

The ALEC/GOP "plan" is to bankrupt our communities and get unelected receiverships in place, ala Michigan. We must defend Minnesota now.

Enough with politicians who rule out ending tax cuts for millionaires being called "serious" about the deficit. We're serious, too.


Enough with politicians being called "courageous" for proposing the end of Minnesota Care in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

Enough with Republicans holding the country and our State hostage for further cuts while unemployment and foreclosures remain rampant, while the cost of food, gas and health care go up, and while families around the country fall into poverty.

Enough. We are not broke, and there is a better way out of this. Join with us to say: tax millionaires and billionaires instead. Close corporate loopholes, too. And STOP the cuts!