Local Residents To Rally Outside Of Rep. Pallone’s Office Wednesday To Urge Him To Continue To Focus On Jobs Not Cuts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Residents To Deliver New "Contract for the American Dream"

To Representative's Office

Rally Wednesday at noon at

504 Broadway Long Branch, NJ 07740

In the wake of the final debt deal that raises the nation's debt ceiling but fails to protect the middle class, local residents will gather Wednesday, at noon, at Rep. Pallone’s office to ask that he continue to stand up for the American Dream and focus on job creation, while many in Washington are focusing on cuts to vital programs that Americans depend on.

The recently passed debt deal, which will do nothing to create jobs, forces deep cuts to important programs that protect the middle class while asking nothing of big corporations and millionaires. And though it does not require cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid benefits, it opens the door for these down the road via an unaccountable Congressional committee.

“We need Washington to focus on protecting the American Dream and creating jobs, not pushing for more cuts to vital services," said Marilyn Michaels, a local MoveOn member. “The Republicans in Washington are holding our economy hostage in pursuit of their extreme ideological agenda. We need Representative Pallone to continue to stand up for the folks in our community and demand more jobs not more cuts."

The rally will take place on Wednesday at noon at 504 Broadway Long Branch, NJ 07740.

Participants will also deliver to Rep. Pallone a new Contract for the American Dream: a plan, written by over 125,000 Americans, to create jobs rather than destroy them. The Contract was released Monday and is attached.

The rallies being held this week are being organized by the new American Dream Movement. In July, over 800 rallies were held across the country to protest the final debt deal that fails to protect the middle class. The American Dream Movement is a growing movement inspired by protests in Wisconsin and fueled by the brutal right-wing attacks on

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Contact: Marilyn Michaels
973-727-6424-cell phone

Internet Radio Host/Ultra Right-Wing Nut Job, Hal Turner Arrested

- The Hartford Courant

Internet radio host Hal Turner — accused of inciting Catholics to "take up arms" and singling out two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official on a website — was taken into custody in New Jersey late Wednesday after state Capitol police in Connecticut obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Turner, who has been identified as a white supremacist and anti-Semite by several anti-racism groups, hosts an Internet radio program with an associated blog. On Tuesday, the blog included a post that promised to release the home addresses of state Rep. Michael Lawlor, state Sen. Andrew McDonald and Thomas Jones of the State Ethics Office.

"Mr. Turner's comments are above and beyond the threshold of free speech," Capitol Police Chief Michael J. Fallon said in an e-mail announcing the warrant. "He is inciting others through his website to commit acts of violence and has created fear and alarm. He should be held accountable for his conduct."

The remarks on the blog were a reaction to the recent controversy over a bill that would have changed the way the Roman Catholic Church is governed, taking power away from church officials and turning it over to lay members. It was pulled in mid-March following an outcry from Catholics across the state and questions about its constitutionality.

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Comment - If anyone takes the time to listen to Hal Turner or read his blog postings, I think that you would agree, they are simply chilling.  I believe in the right of free speech but there are limits. Inciting others into violent acts is not free speech, it is domestic terrorism!

Comments left by readers and listeners on Hal Turner's blog are also very disturbing, if possible those commenters  should be tracked down and questioned as to their intent.