The Three P's For a Fair Budget: Party, Performance, Picket

Please join us Jan 15-16 for the first annual Fair Budget Fair (doesn't that name indicate how sorely you're needed?). Talks, performances, and readings will occur throughout the day and night, with full schedule available at the OlyBlog and the where/when below. I'll be reading/performing Saturday Jan 15 at 630, and several members of our performance research ensemble will be contributing work throughout the two days.

The First Annual Fair Budget Fair

Start: Jan 15 2011

End: Jan 16 2011

From today's inbox:

Brought to you by the Olympia Coalition for a Fair Budget

THE FIRST ANNUAL FAIR BUDGET FAIR

...an urgently needed community response to the continuing -and worsening- cuts to the state budget

Saturday 1/15 11:00am --- 8:00pm Sunday 1/16
The Eagles Hall (bottom floor)
805 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA

The governor's new budget proposal calls for the elimination of Basic Health, the only source of healthcare for 66,000 people as well as eliminating healthcare for 27,000 children. 49,000 people with disabilities will lose state assistance. K-12 education is losing $2.2 billion, and higher education is under attack again too, with higher costs and lower quality.

Community groups, artists, musicians, activists, and anybody else who wants to participate are coming together to inform and get informed about the cuts and to make plans for saving our jobs, and all the public services so many of us need and rely on. There will also be information about local resources for meeting our needs as funding for state programs are whittled away.

COME JOIN US FOR EDUCATION, DISCUSSION, ART, MUSIC, POETRY, AND A RALLY TO ACTION!