<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://77/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><br><div style="font-family: Futura; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><table width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><p align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/banner-AFL-CIO-700d.jpg"></p><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Mark,<br><br>Have you heard of a Thunderclap?<br><br>It’s pretty cool. Lots of groups and people get together to pledge to tweet or Facebook a message, all at the same time, on the same day, for maximum effect. You know when someone puts up a megaphone at a rally and everyone yells back their response? It’s kind of like that, but online.<br><br><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=zv1TCc7EF8sELDqUUUfv%2Fv1DjzaBs5C7"><b>We’re partnering with our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness to make sure the labor movement gets the message out on stopping cuts to benefit programs and ending tax loopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2%. Why don’t you join us and send a message to Congress?</b></a><br><br>It’s easy: Click on the link above and you’ll get taken to the Thunderclap. It will ask you to “Support with Twitter” and “Support with Facebook.” It should quickly add your name to the Thunderclap with your accounts. On Jan. 30, the day the Thunderclap goes out, everyone who has signed up will post automatically on whatever account they connect.<br><br>We’ll be sending a message to Congress: Oppose benefits cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid and end tax loopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2%. 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