Lining up City Councillors to Keep Eagle Plant Open

Work by People First activists and Eagle workers is underway to get every New Bedford city councillor to support a motion urging Eagle to stay in New Bedford.  The plant can't be organized if it's out of town - right?  What's the downside of taking action to keep work here?  The tricky discussion will be about the wording of the motion, which is being considered by all now.  

We need to continue keeping the pressure on before the Nov. 13 meeting - check your calendar and write it in to be there at 6 pm for the rally and meeting. 

Here's the roll call of city councillors and let's keep them accountable:

Agreed to sponsor - all that have been asked - Gonsalves, Lawrence, Morad, Alves, Martins, and Pimental.  Brian Gomes is meeting with workers and supporters tonight.

Needed to be spoken to: Coelho, Saunders, Dehner, and Duarte.  If you have a connection to any of these councillors, please let me know.  Dehner and Duarte and being reached out to by constituents, but we need contacts for Coelho and Saunders.

People First supporter and the experienced and passionate community organizer, Camilo Viveiros, has begun a website to publicize the campaign and for other uses.  Now, it's a list of closed factories and rousing pictures, but there will be more and Camilo is also working on getting video on YouTube related to the campaign.  

The website is at: savenewbedfordjobs.org

Thanks to Gloria Clark for the post on Restorative Justice.  It's part of the People First agenda for hope and good jobs for youth.  Please join her by posting something of interest.