Mark your calendars!

Don't forget:

Community-Wide Working Meeting
Wed., May 30 (TONIGHT!) - 7-8:30 pm
Sacred Heart Church - 303 Paris St. (Downstairs Fellowship Hall)

Come ready to work hard and find out how you plug into this effort!

See you there!

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Dear Neighbor:

No Eastie Casino is a volunteer-led, grassroots group of your neighbors who are opposed to introducing casino gambling to this community. We've been hard at work planning out several important meetings and public events over the next month to increase our visibility and defeat any proposed casino in East Boston. The first of these is this Wednesday -- a working meeting to make signs, learn about reaching out to our neighbors and small businesses, and find out how each of us can plug into the campaign -- today. We'll also begin talking about ways we can start raising money for the effort moving forward. Even if you haven't been to a meeting yet, your presence this Wednesday is crucial to the effort if we are to defeat the casino. (a "Casino 101" course with John Ribeiro will be available for those who want to know more about the approval process or the effects a casino would have on the area) Here are all the details for Wednesday's meeting:

Community-Wide Working Meeting
Wed., May 30 - 7-8:30 pm
Sacred Heart Church

And then, on Saturday, June 2, from 9-11 a.m., we invite you to join us for some Small Business Education/Canvassing in East Boston. A $500 million - $1 billion casino in East Boston -- with its restaurants, shops, nightclubs and bars -- would have drastic effects on local businesses. (even casino insiders admit this) For a couple of hours on Saturday morning, we'll visit our local small businesses with a few simple handouts to make sure they know how they will be impacted. We'll be planning this outreach at the Wednesday working meeting, but if you cannot attend the meeting Wednesday and still want to participate in the small business outreach, please email celeste.myers@gmail.com and find out how you can be involved.

Mark your calendars:

Saturday, June 9, 9-11 - No Eastie Casino Visibility - This will be the public "coming out" for No Eastie Casino. We will hold signs, come up with catchy chants, and march peacefully through the neighborhood -- all the while, explaining who we are to anyone who asks. While the exact locations of the march have not yet been determined, we need as many people as possible to show up this Saturday and stand in solidarity with neighbors who believe a casino will harm -- not help -- our neighborhood.

Wednesday, June 20, 7-9 pm - HUGE No Eastie Casino Community-Wide Meeting - Probably our last large-scale meeting until the Fall, this will again be an important meeting to attend to keep the momentum going throughout the summer. We will invite our compatriots from Chelsea, Winthrop, Revere, and other parts of Boston to join us at this meeting.

Thank you for your continued support, and as always, do let us know if you have questions or comments throughout the process. If you are on Facebook, please come join our page!

Best Regards,

The No Eastie Casino Planning Committee
Celeste, John R., Mike, John D., Alison, Jessica, Giordana, Brian and Steve