I just saw that this morning and sent it around to my friends.
Subject: TAKE ACTION: 51 Capital protest NEXT SUNDAY
If you don't think our country can survive four more years of the most corrupt, violent, and dangerous president we have ever had
who has started a war against a country that was no threat to us based on lies
who is destroying our reputation in the world and making us less safe and our goods and currency less desirable
who is doing nothing to wean us off of oil, the addiction that lead to our policies that made the Arab world hate us and is destroying our environment
who driving us into debt to pay for a war for his business partners and tax cuts for his wealthy friends
who is trampling our civil rights in the name of fighting terror while ignoring real sources of threats
who is destroying our education system through chronic and severe underfunding
who will allow the religious prejudices of a few to dictate laws and deny science
who refuses to defend workers and sides with big business in every dispute
who allows our news media to consolidate into fewer and fewer hands, punishes those who ask hard questions, and rewards those who lie on his behalf
who allows blacks to be systemically purged from voter rolls, intimidated and harassed when they try to vote, reduces the voting machines at their precincts then gives them a provisional ballot they don't plan to count, in effect coming within inches of Jim Crow era abuses
who in the name of voting reform gives contracts to far right companies to count our votes and provide proven rig-able voting machines to deny us the right to choose our own leaders and be represented by our government
You need to make a sign, get in your car next Sunday, and go to your state capital.
Why hold the protest on December 12th? Won't that be too late?December 12th is the day before all state electors meet to cast their ballots for President and Vice President. By law (see Electoral College), the Electoral College must meet 41 days after the election . The protest is intended to send a message to our fellow citizen electors. That message is: refuse to vote until the state provides a verified and supervised hand recount of the vote.
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/Half of the people getting this e mail live within an hour or two of your state capital. If you are here in LA, it's five or six. But isn't democracy worth one day of your time?
For the last couple of years, the media has been good about ignoring protests in Washington, but if people turn out in massive numbers in every state capital, we cannot be ignored.
This getting national attention on Air America Radio and should be on Pacifica as well as circulating around the net.
Start planning now. Take a full car. Be there.
For Californians:
Driving Directions to the State Capitol
The capitol is located on 10th Street
between N and L Streets in downtown Sacramento
North on Interstate 5:
Exit Q Street
up to 10th Street.
Turn left.
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