PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA NEEDS OUR HELP NOW!

[KaryninMiami]

PLEASE KEEP THIS KICKED AND SEND THEM WHAT THEY NEED! This is a great thing guys- they have started the ball rolling and are mobilizing many groups together NOW in DC. PLEASE SUPPORT THEM. Read Kevin from PDA's post and his follow up request (see below).
HE NEEDS OUR HELP- Samples of our letters to media, to congress, etc. Please support them- they are supporting all of us!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x115108

"This will be a huge blitz campaign starting tomorrow. Conyers is sticking his neck out again (like in 2000) and PDA and its activist base, and YOU will be there to support him. We want to get the buzz about this far and wide, so that Conyers can take the hearing TO OHIO! We want to hear from you.. the activists as well

Draft your best Letter to Congress to urge members to join in on this action. Get them to attend the hearings on Wednesday (see details here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120404W.shtml ) Ask them to sign on to the GAO Letter calling for the investigation!
Then draft a letter to the media urging them to cover this!

We are taking several letters from the grassroots, several from our staff, several from policy wonks, and want several from you all to go to our committee. We will then use those for an urgent action we hope to put online tonight.

Follow up post from Kevin at PDA:

We just popped $6k for this software to get YOUR letters out to the media, to self organize and flood the local AND national media AND your members of congress. This is the backend, not public yet, and NOT online yet. To get a rough idea... here is is http://capwiz.com/pdamerica

I NEED CONTENT!!! FROM YOU!!! NOT THE POLICY WONKS!!!

I TRUST DU'ers WAAAAYYY before i trust these "hill" guys!

Please send me versions of the letters you propose to send to CONGRESS (Short and sweet and powerful) and versions of letter to the MEDIA.. with A LOT OF FACTS in that one.

I want to use a template from a DU before i use these guys. PLEASE HELP ME HELP YA'LL!!!! The team is working overtime now...

We are trying to coordinate the media and get our caucuses abuzz.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

1. I have to go out but here's a kick!

I will post my letter when I get back!!

Great idea and thanks Kevin!:hi:

[katinmn]

2. Thanks for the heads up! n/t

[efhmc]

3. these groups keep my small bit of hope alive.

[KaryninMiami]

4. Keep hope alive and keep this kicked!

[Emillereid]

5. Kickin'

[quiet.american]

6. Kicking again n/t

[NVMojo]

7. kick

[KaryninMiami]

8. kicking this again.

[senegal1]

9. kick

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. kick - Everyone act to help get the word out NOW

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. And I mean now -kick

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. And one for good luck /kick

[senegal1]

13. kick

[senegal1]

14. Email Blaster to UU Churches in the Washington DC area

Ask Unitarian Universalists from chruches in the Washington DC area to attend the Dec 8th Conyers hearings and to have their members insist that the DC media cover the event. PLEASE BE POLITE AND DON'T SWAMP THEIR EMAILS!

These are churches which had a voting registration project and are interersted in social action. Many of them don't know or haven't heard much about the fraud issues. Educate them. Thanks.

Below are the email addresses, a sample title for the email, and a sample letter for the email HOWEVER I URGE YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN LETTER.

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Title:
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: UUs Needed to Help Make the Votes Count!

Letter:
I am writing to you today on behalf of all Americans. We can’t be there but you can attend on our behalf! On December 8th at 10:00 EST, Representative John Conyers, (Dem) Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee will hold Ad Hoc hearings into election irregularities in Ohio. This is an unprecedented hearing will hear evidence on consistent and widespread errors and action which served to disenfranchise Ohio Voters. UUs NEED TO PACK THE HOUSE TO LET CONGRESS KNOW THAT WE CARE ABOUT MAKING SURE EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED AND UUs NEED TO INSIST THE MEDIA COVER THE EVENT! Voter complaints in Ohio constitute a troubled portrait of altered votes and suppressed votes. Regardless of the outcome of the election, the U.S. Government needs to examine any and all factors that may have led to these significant voting irregularities. Why have UUs been silent on this central challenge to the integrity of our voting system? Please attend on behalf of all Americans who can’t be there!
ACTION REQUEST:
Organize a phone tree to UUs in your church and in other like minded churches to get out as many people as possible for the hearing and to call and email the media insisting they cover the event. Also UUs need to call their Senator and their House Representatives and urge them to attend this hearing. THIS IS URGENT!
MEDIA:
C-Span: Main number – 202 737 3220, Viewer Services 765 464 3080; emails: [e-mail],[e-mail]
National Public Radio: Listener Services, [phone], NPR Communications, [phone]; emails:[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail], [e-mail]

WETA 90.9 FM, 775 South Quincy St, Arlington, VA 22206 Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], email:
WAMU 88.5 American University Radio, 4000 Brandywine Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20016-8082; Main Directory: 202-885-1200, Comment Line: 202-885-1213, email: [e-mail]
WYPR 88.1 FM, 2216 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 ,Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone] Programming, email: [e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail]
WEAA 88.9 FM Studio Line: 410-319-8888, Business Offices: 443-885-3564, Fax: [phone], Address: WEAA, 1700 E. Coldspring Lane, Benjamin Banneker building room 401, Baltimore MD, 21251 ; Email: [e-mail]

Washington Post: email: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],[e-mail] or call 202-334-7582.

CONGRESSIONAL CONTACTS:
Can be found at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov or Monday morning, call the U.S. capitol switchboard three times (1-800-839-5276). Ask for your Representative, then both your Senators, and request that they attend this hearing.

BACKGROUND: Democratic Representative John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold a hearing on Wednesday 08 December 2004 to investigate allegations of vote fraud and irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election. The hearing is slated to begin at 10:00 a.m. EST in the 2138 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC.
Democratic Representatives Melvin Watt and Robert Scott will also be centrally involved with the hearing. Rev. Jesse Jackson will be in attendance, along with Ralph Neas (President, People for the American Way), Jon Greenbaum (Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law), Ellie Smeal (Executive Director, The Feminist Majority), Bob Fitrakis ( The Free Press), Cliff Arnebeck (Arnebeck Associates), John Bonifaz (General Counsel, National Voting Institute), Steve Rosenfeld (Producer, Air America Radio), and Shawnta Walcott (Communications Director, Zogby International). Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has been invited to attend.
The term ‘hearing’ is technically not accurate in this matter, as Conyers and his fellow Representatives will be holding this forum without the blessing of the Republican Majority leader of the Judiciary Committee. Staffers from the Minority office at the Judiciary Committee describe the event as a ‘Members Briefing.’ That having been said, this event will be a hearing by every meaningful definition of the word. Expert testimony will be offered, and a good deal of data on potential fraud previously unreported to the public will be discussed and examined at length.
The core of what Conyers and his fellow Minority members will be discussing at this hearing can be found in the letter below, which was sent by the Minority office to Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell on 02 December. In the letter, Conyers, along with Reps. Watt, Nadler and Baldwin, outline a broad and detailed series of questions and concerns about the manner in which the Ohio election took place.
Please read the original letter sent to Kenneth Blackwell at this link:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

[texpatriot2004]

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[Kevin Spidel]

16. DONE!!!!!

GO TO www.pdamerica.org and TAKE ACTION!!!! SEND IT FAR AND WIDE!!!

[jamboi]

17. kick

[Kellis]

18. kick

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[crispini]

19. Done

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[BrklynLiberal]

20. Once more with feelling........

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[bj2110]

21. kick!