Tax Day Speak Out in Fort Greene
Apr 13, 2013
As part of the Global Day Against Military Spending, a Street Corner Speak Out was held outside Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. Jointly sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace and Fort Greene Peace, hundreds of flyers were distributed while speakers explained to passers-by the reason for the cutbacks in Brooklyn's vital public services, the layoffs to hospital, school and other workers and the threatened closings of six Brooklyn hospitals as well as proposed closures of two libraries. The speakes "connected the dots" between the bloated budget for the Pentagon and the cuts. Amounting to almost sixty percent of the annual Federal discretionary budget, the U.S. military spending budget is greater than the military budgets of the next 14 countries combined!
Another action, marking this year's Tax Day, is scheduled for Monday, April 15th at 7 pm, at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. This forum will clarify the complicated budget debate under way in Washington. Speakers include Michael Zweig, economics professor at SUNY Stonybrook and Chair of the NYC Chapter of US labor Against The War and Mark Dunlea, Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network. The church is located at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Souh Oxford Place in Brooklyn's Fort Greene. Doors open at 6:45 pm.
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![This is the flyer that promotes Monday night's forum to be held at 7 pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church [MAP]](https://photos.smugmug.com/PeaceAndEconomicJusticeCommitt/Tax-Day-Speak-Out-in-Fort/i-fS7Fxr6/0/1c9e3a8c/M/half-letter%20confused%20tax%20day%202013%20flyer-M.jpg)
