A suggestion for the depressed and disenfranchised:
23 November 2004, 19:26
A small group of like-minded people have been meeting in San Luis Obispo, California to plan a town-hall gathering at the library on 12/6 to get this info out and help the buzz grow.
I’m sure this is happening all over the country — at MoveOn’s houseparty event on Sunday (14,000+ across the nation participated), the vote for most important direction to take now: address the voter fraud. We also had a march - almost no notice but over 100 people (town has 53,000) came on Saturday for "Mandate My Ass."
For our 12/6 event:
The planning group is meeting with our county elections officer, who is happy to answer questions but can’t come (we’re asking for a rep from her office to come speak. We trust this woman, actually, but we’re still checking the numbers).
We’ll have a letter-writing area with representative’s address, paper and stamps; we’re also making a long scroll-letter urging Kerry to stand up and champion this cause; we’ll have handouts about other things people can do; there will be an area to talk about ’the next thing’ with snacks nearby.
We’re also taking pictures of people holding their handwritten statement, projecting them at the event and also posting to our website (under construction www.investigatethevote.org). If you’ve seen sorryeverybody.com it’s a similar concept, but rather than just apologizing to the world for this mess we want people to join us in this effort to retain our democracy. The way we’ve done it here is a person hand-writes a statement (on lettersize paper in bold pen) and holds it up just below their eyes, over the mouth like a speak bubble, but also so people who are afraid can cover their faces. When the website is up we welcome you to upload your own photos.
It’s a busy time of year and all of us would rather have peace in the land and homemade organic soup on the stove, but this is too important to let slide. We must not allow these people and their machines of mass deception to destroy democracy.
We join with you and so many others out there to TALK about the election fraud and TAKE ACTION to force recounts and revotes where necessary, and to prevent vote tampering in the future. Stand up and be counted!
A small group of like-minded people have been meeting in San Luis Obispo, California to plan a town-hall gathering at the library on 12/6 to get this info out and help the buzz grow.
I’m sure this is happening all over the country — at MoveOn’s houseparty event on Sunday (14,000+ across the nation participated), the vote for most important direction to take now: address the voter fraud. We also had a march - almost no notice but over 100 people (town has 53,000) came on Saturday for "Mandate My Ass."
For our 12/6 event:
The planning group is meeting with our county elections officer, who is happy to answer questions but can’t come (we’re asking for a rep from her office to come speak. We trust this woman, actually, but we’re still checking the numbers).
We’ll have a letter-writing area with representative’s address, paper and stamps; we’re also making a long scroll-letter urging Kerry to stand up and champion this cause; we’ll have handouts about other things people can do; there will be an area to talk about ’the next thing’ with snacks nearby.
We’re also taking pictures of people holding their handwritten statement, projecting them at the event and also posting to our website (under construction www.investigatethevote.org). If you’ve seen sorryeverybody.com it’s a similar concept, but rather than just apologizing to the world for this mess we want people to join us in this effort to retain our democracy. The way we’ve done it here is a person hand-writes a statement (on lettersize paper in bold pen) and holds it up just below their eyes, over the mouth like a speak bubble, but also so people who are afraid can cover their faces. When the website is up we welcome you to upload your own photos.
It’s a busy time of year and all of us would rather have peace in the land and homemade organic soup on the stove, but this is too important to let slide. We must not allow these people and their machines of mass deception to destroy democracy.
We join with you and so many others out there to TALK about the election fraud and TAKE ACTION to force recounts and revotes where necessary, and to prevent vote tampering in the future. Stand up and be counted!