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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span color=#821000 size=4>Verizon Strike Solidarity Picket</FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>Saturday August 20th, from noon to 2PM</B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>at the Verizon Wireless store in Mission Valley</B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>980 Camino de la Reina, San Diego, CA 92108</B></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span color=#0e61c8><BR></FONT><SPAN style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" class=ecxApple-style-span>Join the ISO in showing support for the 45,000 striking Verizon workers! This Saturday, August 20th at noon, stand in solidarity with our striking brothers and sisters while condemning Verizon's corporate greed and tax avoidance.</SPAN><BR><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" class=ecxApple-style-span><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" class=ecxApple-style-span>The Verizon strike enters its second week today, with 45,000 employees protesting the company’s demand for more than $1 billion in cutbacks to health care, retirement and other benefits. But the company’s aggressive efforts to win concessions come at a time when it is pulling in BILLIONS in profits. Not only did Verizon make more than $20 billion in profit in the last four years – all while paying NO corporate income tax – it used loopholes in the tax code to get a billon dollar refund check from the IRS. Verizon made $12 billion in profits last year alone. They paid zero in taxes, but they did manage to spend $34 million on lobbying.</SPAN><BR><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" class=ecxApple-style-span><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" class=ecxApple-style-span>Spread the word! Bring your friends and family! Stand up to the war on workers!</SPAN><BR><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span color=#0e61c8 face=Arial><BR></FONT>
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<DIV id=ecxygrp-text><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span face=Arial>Facebook event here: <A href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241769449196500" target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241769449196500</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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