Monday, July 27, 2009

Sign the Petition to Save Our Safety Net

Today and tomorrow, the District of Columbia City Council will make decisions on the Mayor's proposed budget cuts to address the District’s revenue shortfalls.

Reach out — TODAY — to your staff, board, clients, colleagues and friends. Encourage them to speak out against cuts to DC’s safety net — cuts that could be made THIS WEEK — by visiting a new Web site that makes it easy to communicate directly with the DC Council.

Today, City Council will begin deliberation on the budget. Under Mayor Fenty's current proposal, over half of the cuts fall on human services.

It's time to save our safety net. It's not too late to try and change course!

The Coalition for Community Investment has developed a website with a petition calling on Councilmembers to save our safety net. Please help us spread the word about this petition so we can show widespread community support for protecting critical safety net services.

Here's the Web site: www.SaveOurSafetyNet.com

Here's who to tell:
  • Your professional network
  • Your social circle
  • Your organization's action alert network
  • Blog about it, tweet about it, post it to Facebook

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