From: "IAC Buffalo" Subject: Control Board Picket Line Sat Sept 6 Date: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:47 PM Control Board Offers "Pretend" Public Hearing this Saturday, September 6th, 9 am to 5 pm, Erie Community College City Campus Auditorium The financial crisis from Bush's endless wars and gifts to the rich has come home to Buffalo. On Tuesday, Buffalo Mayor Masiello handed a four year financial plan to the Control Board. The public--including all the groups who depend on city funding--has three days to read it and figure out what's being taken away. Then on Saturday the Control Board says they want to listen to our comments. They will approve the plan 10 days later. Masiello and County Executive Giambra have joined the bankers on the Control Board, and they are no longer OUR representatives. If it mattered to them what we think, they would have given us understandable information and enough time to prepare our responses. We think this is an insult and a charade!! ON SATURDAY MORNING THE BUFFALO FORUM HAS ANNOUNCED A PICKET LINE AT THIS HEARING TO OPPOSE THE CUTBACKS AND TO DEMAND THAT WE HAVE A REAL VOICE. We support this call and WE URGE EVERYONE TO TURN OUT FOR THIS PICKET LINE --- AND TO SPEAK OUT AT THE HEARING! __________________________ This is the Buffalo/Western New York A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition announcement list, sent to you from the local International Action Center group. If at any time you want to stop getting these notices, please tell us (just reply to our email address above, or buffalo@internationalanswer.org).