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:: Sunday, November 20, 2005 ::

 
    BootCAT meeting Nov 22

BootCAT meeting this week! We'll discuss our ongoing work trying to make connections with churches, universities, and municipalities, and we'll plan for November 29 (see previous blog for details).

When: Tuesday, November 22, 6:30-8:30pm

Where: Christ Church, Cambridge Vestry (Zero Garden Street, Harvard Square T Stop)



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:: Friday, November 18, 2005 ::

 
    November 29 in Copley Square

Please join BootCAT on November 29
the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
as we stand with banners, signs, postcards and flyers
demanding that Caterpillar Stop Bulldozing Palestine!

When:
Tuesday, November 29
11:30 am - 1 pm
(come for part or all of it - come for your lunch break!)

Where:
Copley Square

Why:
Because we are part of a growing national and international movement of civil society, responding to the call of Palestinian civil society to use what power we have to target the institutions and corporations that benefit from Palestinian suffering.



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:: Thursday, November 03, 2005 ::

 
    BootCAT activists target Milton CAT

The following is a report and photos from Saturday in Milford. A longer report - with info about the actions in all 13 Milton CAT locations! - will be coming your way shortly.

Milford, Massachusetts (Milton CAT headquarters)
Saturday, October 29

On Saturday morning, October 29, twenty-eight members of the greater Boston area visited Milton CAT’s headquarters in Milford, Massachusetts. A group of five went early to deliver the letter to Chris Milton, owner/manager of Milton CAT, urging him to put pressure on his corporate headquarters to uphold Caterpillar’s own Code of Conduct. A receptionist met us and told us Mr. Milton was not there, and that there is no weekend manager, so there was nobody we could talk to. We showed her the letter and the War on Want report on Caterpillar, and asked her to deliver them to Mr. Milton. She promised she would, and that if we leave a phone number he would return our call this week.

Outside, we stood with banners and signs for over an hour, giving informational flyers to passersby and leaving hundreds of flyers on car windshields in the nearby mall parking lot. One police car came after about an hour, and the police officer and a CAT manager (apparently there is a manager on Saturday) approached Nancy from our group and told her we could stay as long as we wanted as long as we remain in our particular spot across the street from the main entrance. The manager said he had received our letter and would pass it along to the owner. Nancy asked the manager whether Mr. Milton would be willing to meet with us in the coming weeks, and he promised he would ask him, although he claimed that Milton CAT has no responsibility for or control over what the company does internationally. We will follow up, knowing that as the largest Caterpillar distributor in the northeast, Milton CAT does indeed have influence within the company at large.

PHOTOS from Saturday, October 29:
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