MESSAGE FROM THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE WEBSITE REGARDING PEOPLE TO HONOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. OVER NEXT FEW DAYS

Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities over the next few days use speeches, singing and community service to honor the civil rights leader, author, pastor and Nobel Prize winner. Dennis Kucinich, a Congressman from Ohio and presidential primary candidate, is the guest speaker at the Montana Human Rights Network's Martin Luther King Day fund-raiser tonight, January 14th. The event includes a reception and silent auction at 6 p.m. in the Great Falls International Airport, followed by dinner at 6:30. Kucinich is chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and in 2003 won the Gandhi Peace Award. The Montana Human Rights Network works to protect human rights through education, community mobilization and political action. Tickets cost $35 and are available at Kaufmans Menswear and A. Hooker's Gallery. Call 442-5506.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM "WORKING FAMILIES" - Sign Petition To Protect Social Security
President George W. Bush, his Republican allies in Congress and corporate chiefs are on an ideological trophy hunt to destroy Social Security. The most important family security effort in America's history. Their privatization plans to replace guaranteed benefits with risky private accounts would fatally undermine Social Security, cut benefits drastically, most likely raise workers' retirement age--and saddle our children with $2 trillion in debt. Now is the time to fight back:
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/O7akW6411ccF/

There is no way we're going to yield an inch on Social Security. No way, no how. To defend Social Security, we need to show President Bush, congressional leaders and the media that millions of Americans reject Social Security privatization and its benefit cuts. That is why the AFL-CIOis launching a petition to secure Social Security. One part of a multifaceted campaign to protect Social Security. Please take a minute right now to sign our petition by clicking on the link below:
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/O7akW6411ccF/

Our goal is to get 100,000 petition signers between now and Jan.20th. President Bush's Inauguration Day. Right now, Bush's allies are raising millions for an election-style PR campaign, like we've never seen, to privatize Social Security. They'll launch it on America immediately following Bush's inauguration because they want to dominate the message on Social Security. Don't let them! It's urgent that after you sign the petition you spread the word to your friends, family and co-workers. We need as many people as possible to demand over the next two weeks that we keep Social Security secure. Bush's Social Security privatization plan would devastate working families like ours, while handing billions of dollars to rich Wall Street investment companies. We can't let it happen. The fight to protect Social Security is really heating up. Newspapers are reporting on a secret memo by a Bush administration official to corporate special interests backing privatization. The memo discusses a strategy to outright deceive the public, privatize Social Security and cut benefits.

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. Thomas Jefferson [1779]

HOLD CONDOLEEZZE RICE ACCOUNTABLE!!
Go to Senator Barbara Boxer's [PAC for a Change] website link [http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings] and sign a petition. We need to support Senator Boxer and hold Rice accountable. We Americans DO NOT want Rice appointed to the position of Secretary of State. What a nightmare that would be ... worse than last four years ... please sign petition today. Thanks! Peace & Solidarity!