Americans For Democratic Action Update: Peach Festival Parade 8AM Next Saturday In Middletown

http://www.middletownpeachfestival.com/exhibits/

From the inbox ~ Americans for Democratic Action

Online Petition to End Corporate Tax Dodging
Click here to sign our Move-On petition!  The petition will be delivered to our Congressional delegation and reads, "It's time for Congress to stop corporate tax dodging and make sure multinational corporations pay their fair share toward our public good."

Check out these upcoming events:

8am, This Saturday, August 17
Middletown Peach Festival

Delaware Americans for Tax Fairness coalition partners are joining together to ask our Congressional delegation to demand Congress end corporate tax dodging and invest in US!  As organizations around the country participate in similar actions the week of August 17, Delaware ADA is joining Council 81 AFSCME, DACA, Delaware ADA, PDD, SEIU 32BJ, and Delaware NOW to march and table at the peach festival.

March with us!  Arrive by 8am at Meredith Middle School.  The parade is from 9am-10am.  We'll have signs there such as "Public Investment is Peachy!" and "Corporate Tax Dodging is the Pits!"  Click this link for more info or to RSVP.

Table with us!  Let me know if you can table, anytime 10am-4pm.
Check out our booth!  We're #156 and we'll be outside Grace Church off Pennington Street

7pm, Wednesday, August 21

Appoquinimink Library, Middletown
Come learn about how the sequester has affected the MOT area and discuss federal corporate tax reform.

5am, Saturday, August 24

March on Washington, Washington, DC

Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by participating in this Realize the Dream March & Rally.  You can travel for free - the Delaware chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists has two busses heading to DC - one leaving from Wilmington and one leaving from Newark.  They will leave at 5am.  If you are interested in a spot on either bus let me know.

7pm, Wednesday, August 28

Delaware ADA's First Chapter Meeting, Newark Free Library

Delaware ADA is a progressive non-partisan grassroots advocacy group dedicated to social and economic justice.  Come learn more about our group, get to know fellow progressives, and brainstorm the issues we'll be focusing on in the near future.  The meeting will be from 7pm-8:05pm at the Newark library and then those interested are welcome to retire to Home Grown for drinks.  Save the date - we will be meeting on the Fourth Wednesday of every month!

Guest SpeakersPeter Schott, who served over 30 years as a Member of the Board of Directors for ADA nationally

Paul Baumbach, State Representative for the 23rd R.D., who will speak about Social and Economic Justice Issues on Delaware's Horizon

Looking back at the past month:

Delaware Economic Justice Coalition

On July 15, Delaware ADA convened the second monthly meeting of the Delaware Economic Justice Coalition.  Organizations interested in economic justice came to the table to give updates about their work.  If you know of an organization that should be invited to the table, let me know!

Partnering for Justice

Delaware ADA is partnering with other Delaware organizations and coalitions working on social and economic justice.  If you are interested in advocacy for any of the following issues, let me know and I will connect you to the respective organizers:  death penalty repeal, election day registration, increasing the minimum wage, and making drivers' licenses accessible for undocumented Delawareans.  Regarding redistricting reform, while Senate Bill 48 passed the senate and a majority of Democrats in the House are co-sponsors, it appears that House leadership will kill the bill in January.
Tabling at Delaware City Day

On July 20, Delaware ADA had a booth at Delaware City Day.  We talked to community members about corporate tax fairness and the federal budget, redistricting reform, and progressive education reform.  You can check out photos from our table here.

DuPont & Taxes Events

On July 26, Delaware ADA hosted a luncheon and happy hour with special guest Matt Gardner, Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.  Read the Cape Gazette article about our luncheon here and check out photos here.  At our Happy Hour we also announced the launch of an ADA chapter in Delaware.  See the Newark Post photo and caption from our happy hour here and check our more photos here.  Thanks to everyone who attended these events!

Philadelphia Tax Justice Rally

On July 29, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) stopped by Philadelphia as part of their Tax Reform Listening Tour.  They had a private meeting with a business, but no opportunity for the public for the public to make their voice heard.  Delaware ADA helped put together a tax justice rally to make sure Senator Baucus and Representative Camp know that it's time for the 2% to pay their fair share, to end corporate tax dodging, and to invest in US!  You can see photos from this event here and check out a short video of us chanting here.

I Will Delaware press conference

On July 31, Delaware ADA co-sponsored I Will Delaware's press conferences in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington, calling for limiting carbon pollution from power plants.

Thanks,

Ezra

Ezra Temko

302-981-3007

Ezra@ADAction.org

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