Bath Iron Works (BIW), which is owned by the $31 billion aerospace and military conglomerate General Dynamics Corporation, is requesting a $250,000 a year tax break for the next 25 years from the City of Bath, Maine.
Everyone in Maine should email the Bath City Council to reject this request.
Click here to email all nine city council members with one click.
Please forward this email widely to like-minded Mainers.
-- The RootsAction.org team
P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others.
Background:
Organizing Notes: Door-to-Door in Bath
Portland Press Herald: Group Fights Tax Break for BIW
Times Record: So Far BIW Doing Better Than City
Bangor Daily News: Rally Against Tax Break for BIW
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