Jan. 20 Demonstration Endorsers and Resources
1.Groups Endorsing and/or Organizing Around the Pro-Democracy Week, Jan.
15-20, 2001
2.LIST OF JANUARY 20 ENDORSERS as of 12/27/00 - for the January 20 Stop the
Death
Machine Counter Inaugural protest
3. CALL TO: Protest the Inauguration of the Next President SATURDAY, JANUARY
20, 2001,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
4. The Progressive Challenge: An Action Agenda on Electoral Reform January
19, 2001
in Washington, D.C. on the day before all the Bush inauguration protests.
5. The Nation Counter-Inaugural Calender
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Groups Endorsing and/or Organizing Around the Pro-Democracy Week, Jan. 15-20,
2001
If you represent an organization, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To endorse. Please indicate 1) What kind of activities your group is
planning, either
for January 20, the 5 days preceding, or in coming months, 2) your contact
person and a
phone number, 3) your web site if you have one, and 4) a description of your
group
including whether you are local or national, and your mailing address if you
do not have
a web site. Thank You!! We sign up all endorsers for the d-week announcement
email list.
You may also contact us by telephone at 973-338-5398 (ask for Lauren).
National and Multi-State Groups:
1.1World Communication (www.1worldcommunication.org)
2.Alliance for Democracy (www.thealliancefordemocracy.org.)
3.Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
(www.coax.net/people/lwf/bfaa.htm)
4.Campaign to End the Death Penalty (www.nodeathpenalty.org.)
5.Center for Constitutional Rights ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6.Center for Voting and Democracy (www.fairvote.org)
7.Coalition to Save the Urban Forest (www.urbanforestsave.50megs.com.)
8.Committees of Correspondence (www.cofc.org.)
9.Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org)
10.Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
(www.space4peace.org.)
11.The Greens/GPUSA (www.greenparty.org)
12.Independent Progressive Politics Network (www.ippn.org)
13.International Socialist Organization (www.internationalsocialist.org.)
14.Institute for Southern Studies (www.southernstudies.org.)
15.National Lawyers Guild (www.nlg.org.)
16.North American Farm Alliance
17.Organizers' Collaborative (www.organizenow.net)
18.Progressive Challenge (Institute for Policy Studies) (www.netprogress.org)
19.Project South (www.projectsouth.org)
20.Quantum Leap 2000 (www.QuantumLeap2000.org)
21.Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org)
22.Reform America (www.reformamericainc.org.)
23.Ruckus Society (www.ruckus.org)
24.Save the Redwoods/Boycott the GAP (www.gapsucks.org.)
25.The Shalom Center (www.shalomctr.org)
26.TIKKUN Magazine (www.tikkun.org)
27.Unity and Diversity World Council
28.We the People
29.Z Magazine (www.zmag.org.)
30. ZNET (www.zmag.org)
State and Local Groups (alphabetically by state abbreviation):
1.AZ - Arizona State U. Campus Greens
2.AZ - Green Party of Pima County
3.CA - Campaign for Municipal Democracy, Los Angeles
4.CA - Peace and Freedom Party, LA County (www.peaceandfreedom.org.)
5.CA - Conference of Social Justice Communicators of Southern California
6.DC - Alliance for Democracy
7.DC - Statehood Green Party (www.freespeech.org/dcstatehood/)
8.HI - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Coalition
9.IL - War Zone Education Foundation (Decatur)
10.IN - Community, Faith and Labor Coalition (Indianapolis)
11.IN - Our Party (Indianapolis)
12.IN - St. Joe Valley Greens (South Bend) (www.sjvgreens.org)
13.IL - Edgewater-Uptown Greens of Chicago (www.edgeupgreens.org.)
14.MA - Rainbow Coalition Party
15.MA - Massachusetts Bay South Alliance for Democracy
16.MD - Coalition Against Global Exploitation, Baltimore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
17.MO - Green Party of St. Louis
18.MO - Mid-Missouri Peaceworks (http://peaceworks.missouri.org. --
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
19.NJ - Green Party of New Jersey (www.gpnj.org.)
20.NY - New York City Greens
21.NY - Westside Local Green Party
22.OH - Alternative Communications (Celina)
23.OR - Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment (Portland)
(www.asje.org.)
24.PA - Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (www.pcan.org)
25.PA - The Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Germantown Monthly
Meeting
(Friends) (http://www.pym.org/philadelphia-qm/germantown.htm.)
26.WI - Progressive Dane (Madison)
27.WI - Wisconsin Green Party (www.excel.net/~pdrewry/wigreen.htm)
The Independent Progressive Politics Network has decided to call for and help
organize a
"Pro-Democracy Week" January 15-20, 2001. We are calling for local actions
around the
country during this time which put forward alternative approaches to address
the huge
democracy gap in this country exposed so glaringly by the recent elections.
January 15th is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, and there will be actions
happening
around the country to commemorate this special occasion. What better time to
initiate a
pro-democracy week! Dr. King's life was devoted to the struggle for
democracy, justice
and human rights.
This is especially true since this election exposed a number of
irregularities that
question basic enforcement of the Voting Rights Act for communities of color
in Florida
and other locations around the country. These serious violations of voting
rights have
been documented by the NAACP, which is going ahead with cases and
investigations. It is
essential that all citizens join together with citizens of color to insist
that
democracy and civic participation is preserved and enhanced for all at the
voting booth
and beyond.
One form of action we would encourage during this week would be teach-ins on
college
campuses, in communities, union halls, churches and wherever else people can
be gathered
together. The IPPN can help provide speakers who have expertise in the area of
alternative, much more democratic electoral systems. It also has experienced
speakers
from civil rights movements and social justice campaigns who continue to be
at the
forefront of the efforts to expand democracy in this country.Other forms of
action could
include local vigils, demonstrations, rallies, banner hangings, street
theater, pickets,
press conferences, whatever local people want to do and can do.
"Pro-Democracy Week" is not the property of the IPPN. It is an idea whose
time has come!
We look forward to working with IPPN's member organizations and other
organizations
around the country who want to work with us. As always, we hope for broad
coalitions of
people from a diversity of communities to make our voices heard together in a
shared
struggle.
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LIST OF JANUARY 20 ENDORSERS as of 12/27/00
TO ENDORSE THE CALL for the January 20 Stop the Death Machine Counter
Inaugural protest,
click on this link:http://home.earthlink.net/~npcboston/jan20end.htm
*for identification purposes only
A Job is a Right Campaign
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire
Activist Student Union of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
African American Holiday Assoc.(AAHA)
African Liberation Month Coalition
African Liberation Support Campaign, UK
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Alice E. Kelsey, Sisters for Christian Community*
All Peoples Congress, Baltimore, Md.
All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party
Alliance for Global Justice
Alternative Press Center
American Women's Work
Americans for Social Justice
Amnesty International of NC State
Anarchist Action of Rochester
Andres Martinez, teacher, Thornton High School; co-sponsor, Students for
Justice
Andrew Kay Liberman, Committee to Restore City Life/UrbanForest/CarShareLA*
Angela Jackson, student, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, O17 Coalition*
Angelfire
Angels Without Wings
Anthony Freddie, Chair, Gary Graham/ Shaka Sankofa Coalition for Justice
Anti-impérialist Front (France)
Anti-imperialist League, Belgium
Anti-War Committee, Minnesota
ArtAction
Asatar Bair, University of Massachusetts
Atlanta Millions for Mumia
Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Australians Against Execution
Bay Area Information Network for Africa (BAINA)
Bill Casey, Associate professor Keiai University, Japan
Fred Jakobcic, AFSCME, Utility Food Service Worker, Marquette, MI
Black Awareness Alliance, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA
Boston-Cambridge Greens
Brandywine Peace Community
Brent Buell, writer, New York, NY
Brian Lutenegger, student, University of Wisconsin-Madison Student
Buffalo Activist Network
Burt Blackburne, Communications Electrical &Plumbing Union*, Australia
BushOnCrack
California Prison Focus
Campaign Against Wrongful Convictions
Campaign for Labor Rights
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Caribbean and Latin America Support Project
CAW 2213, North Vancouver, BC
Center for Critical Consciousness
Central Coast Peace and Environmental Council
Cheryl Lee, Mankato, MN, Dist.24 Mankato Area Green Party
Children's Prison Arts Project, Houston, Texas
Christopher Judge, Sahaja Yoga*
Cindy Holscher, Sales Management, Olathe, KS
Circle Greens-- University of Illinois at Chicago
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Coalition Against Global Exploitation, Baltimore, MD
Coalition for Social Justice
Coalition for Social Justice
College Feminists, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
College Voice, College of Staten Island
Colombia Action Network
Colombia Solidarity Committe in Chicago
Columbia Student Solidarity Network
COMCONSULT, Switzerland
Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques
Committee for Peace and Human Rights, Boston, MA
Committee for the Liberation of Mumia Abu-Jamal of Florence, Italy
Committee of 500 Years, Cleveland, OH
Community Organizing Center
Compasssionn Over Killing
Conflict Transformation Program, Harrisonburg, VA
Connecticut Green Party
Convoglio di Solidarietà Internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
Corvallis Action on Globalization
Counterbalance
Critical Resistance
Daniel Biss
DC Coalition to Stop the U.S. War on Iraq
Detroit Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Diane deVeaux, PSC CUNY*
Disabled But Able For Mumia And The DPOCS
Dominican Workers Party-PTD
Don DeBar, Ossining (NY) Progressive Alliance
Donna R. Nassor, Attorney at Law, Selinsgrove, PA
Dr Norman A Handy Sr, City Councilman, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Bob Allen and family
Dr. Glen T. Martin, President, International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO)
Dr. John Gilbert, U Foreign Language Instructors, SNUR-CGIL Trade Union
(Rome, Italy)
Dr. Thomas E. Fitch, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Ecological Villagers Alliance, Oakland, CA
Ed Tant, Athens Human Rights Festival Committee* (Georgia)
Editions Démocrite (France)
Faith S. Holsaert, writer and teacher, Tahoma Park, MD
Fathers for Justice
Food Not Bombs - New Brunswick, NJ
Food Not Bombs, Richmond, VA
Food Not Bombs--Olympia
Freedom Archives
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fuerza de la Revolucion
GABRIELA Network
George Goloff, Shop Steward, Mailhandlers Local 300*
George Lyne, East Coast Coordinator, WE THE PEOPLE....
George Washington University Action Coalition
German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Global Pastry Uprising-Rainbow Affinity Group
Global Women's Strike
Gregory Lewis, concerned citizen/angry voter
Grinnell Coalition In Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Groove Embassy Records
Grt. Pt. Jefferson Outreach Center
Haiti Support Network
Hammerhard MediaWorks
Heather Starssberger
Heidi Plowe, Amnesty International*, Active Students for a Healthy
Environment*
Holistic Health Practitioner, Atlanta, GA
Homeless Action for Necessary Development
Human Deeds for Human Rights
IHRAAM, Canada
INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence
Instant Antiwar Action Group, Vermont
Instant Antiwar Action Group, Vermont
International Action Center
International Action Center- San Diego
International Black Women for Wages for Housework
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International Executive Committee of the Freedom Socialist Party
International Prostitutes Collective
International Socialist Organization
International Wages for Housework Campaign
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
Ismael Guadalupe
Italian Chapter of the Jericho Movement
Italian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
It's About Time Committee
Jahahara AlKebulan-Ma'at National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in
America
Jean Basinger, peace activist, United Methodist Church, Des Moines, Iowa
Jean Rabenold, Pres, Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty
Jessica Zakrzewski, student, Univeristy of Minnesota
Jim Yarker, student and union member
Jo McIntire, Florida Peace and Justice*
Joel Kovel, Green Party*
Joey First, A.G.C. Collective*
John Makohen, Utica College of Syracuse University, tattooist/body piercer
John Small, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Japan
John Zeh, journalist, Cincinnati, OH
Johnson State College Activist Coalition
Jonathan Biss
Joseph Catron, Blue Ridge Earth First!*
Justice Action Movement
Karataboxom (youth group)
Kate Mendenhall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Kent Student Anti-Racist Action
Labor Art & Mural Project
Leslie Feinberg, a founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia, NWU/UAW Local 1981
Linda A. Griesi
LISN - League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations
Louis Posner, Esq., Chairman, Voter March
Mad Anarchist Bakers League, Ohio
Maine Campfire Collective
Maine College Students for Mumia
Malcolm X Association, Italy
Maria Simmons, student, Albany, NY
Mark Burwinkel, disabled activist, Cincinnatti, OH
Mark Taylor, Academics for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Martha Grevatt, auto worker, National Secretary, Pride At Work -- AFL-CIO
Mary Mann, Student, University of Central Florida
Mary Sean Hodges OP, Peace & Justice Promoter, Mission San Jose Dominicans
Mary Zoeter, Action for Animals Network*
Mass Earth First!
MassAction
Matthew Glesmann, Colorado State U, Green Party*, Amnesty International*
Matthew Shneider, attorney
Melanie L Stibick, graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Melody Blass, student, Editor-in-Chief, Weathervane Magazine
Merrill Cole, Ph.D., Acting Instructor of English, University of Washington
Metro D.C. Committee of Correspondence
Michael Collins, Founding Member, Edward Wright Justice Coalition*
Michael Morrissey, Lecturer in English, Univ. of Kassel, Germany
Michael Parenti, author of "To Kill a Nation"
Michael Ratner, vice-president, Center for Constitutional Rights*
Michelle Kimball, International Peace Project/FOR*
Michelle VanNatta, College Instructor, Northwestern University
Mid-Hudson National Peoples Campaign
Mihajlo Balic, student, Denton, TX
Millions for Mumia
Minnie Bruce Pratt, author and anti-racist activist
Moms for Justice
Monica Moorehead and Gloria La Riva, presidential candidates, WWP
Movimiento Independencia Unidad y Cambio-MIUCA
Movimiento Popular Dominicano
Movimiento por la Construccion del Partido Socialista
Mr. & Mrs. Delmar G. Clark, retired, Rockford, IL
Mumia Abu-Jamal Support Network in Maine
Mumia Defense Committee, Rochester, NY
National Peoples Campaign
Nicaragua Network
Nick Mamatas, writer, Greenwich Village Gazette*, National Writers Union*
NJ Hiroshima Remembrance Day Committee
North Coast Xpress
NY Coalition to Free Mumia
Oregon Committee to Re-Elect NOBODY for President
Pan-African Students Union, Wayne State University, Detroit
Partido 24 de abril
Partido Comunista del Trabajo-PCT
Pastors for Peace - DC chapter
Paul O'Hanlon, National Union of Students*, Scotland
Paul Williams, Coalition for Peace & Justice/Unplug Salem*
Payday
PEACE, Wilmington, NC
Penn State chapter of Students And Youth Against Racism
Penn State Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty
Peoples Fightback Center, Cleveland, OH
Peter Phillips, Project Censored
Philadelphia/Cardens Sister city Initiative
Pioneer Valley Village
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
Prison Reform Coalition
Progressive Action Organization - U of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Progressive Student Alliance - Cal Poly
Queer Equity Advocate
Queers for Racial and Economic Justice
RADCom, Inc.
Radical Jewish Action Project
Rainbow Flags for Mumia
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
Ray Martínez, Jr., Philadelphia Chapter Chair SEIU Local 668 (Penn. Social
Services
Union)
Real Democracy, Washington DC
Reality News Network
Red Gate Earth First!
Redleaf
Refuse and Resist
Renacer Machetero
Resyster, San Francisco, CA
Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network
Rev. Douglas B. Hunt, Ph.D., Justice Action*
Richmond Anti-Globalization Network
RightWatch Project, Richmond, VA
Rochester Food Not Bombs
Rochester Mumia Defense Committee
Ron Jacobs, author Burlington, VT
Ruth Holbrook- Sacramento Central Labor Council
Ryan Verzaal, student, St. Augustine, FL Matt Hayashi, student, Brown
University
S. King County Green Party
SALAAM! (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
San Diego Coalition to Stop the Execution ofMumia
San Diego Student Action Network, Southwestern College
San Francisco Food Not Bombs
San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
San Pedro Alternative Media Council
Santa Cruz Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners
Saxakali: connecting communities of color across the world
Sexual Minorities Archives
Simmons College Feminist Union
SMACO - Southern Maryland Activists Coalition
SMC Political Science Club
Socialist Forum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Socialist Party of Greater Philadelphia
Soph Davenport, SMWIA Local 66*, Pride At Work*, IWW Olympia Branch*
Stephen Krevisky, Professor of Mathematics, Central CT. Green Party*
Steve LaFayette, IA 476,IBEW 1220*, Chicago, IL
Storm of '38 Memorial Park Coalition, Inc
Storm Seve Henry, student, West Lafayette, IN
Stuart F. Chen-Hayes, Ph.D., Lehman College
Students for Economic and Environmental Justice, College of William and Mary
Students for Social Change
Sunita Devi Ali, Great Valley High, Newton Sq., PA
Susan Westmoreland, Cop Watch of Greensboro N.C*
SYSTEM
Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
The Engaged Zen Foundation
The Green Party of New Jersey
The Move Organization
The Real Democracy Project
The Real Illumination on the Prison Population
Therapists for Families of Prisoners
Thomas F Gillespie, National Assoc.of Letter Carriers*
Thomas Johansson, editor, The Overwhelmer*, the University of Chicago
Tom Miller, Global Exchange*
Toolbox Productions
Trudy Rudnick, Organizer, AFT Local 3882*
U.P.R.O.A.R.
United Students Against Sweatshops at San Diego State University
Vassar College Student Activists Union
Veterans of Domestic Wars
Vieques Support Campaign
Vince Hayner, Project coordinator, Circle Greens
Vincent A. Griesi
W. Mundle, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Wages Due Lesbians
Walter E. Davis, Professor in Ethics of Sport
Washington Peace Center
Western Pa. Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
WinVisible: Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Workers World Party
World Federalist Association
Writers for Mumia
Youth for International Socialism
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STOP THE DEATH MACHINE!
CALL TO: Protest the Inauguration of the Next President SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,
2001,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
STOP THE DEATH MACHINE! -- STOP THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY -- STOP THE LEGAL
LYNCHING
OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL -- STOP THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX -- STOP U.S.
POLICE TERROR-AT
HOME & ACROSS THE WORLD -- STOP THE GLOBALIZATION DEATH MACHINE
Only the people can stop it - Fill the streets of D.C.
On January 20, 2001, the next president of the U.S will be inaugurated in
Washington
D.C. Whether it's George W. Bush or Al Gore, one thing is certain:
executions will
notstop. Whichever politicians come or go, police brutality and racial
profiling
remains. Thirty years after the Atticaprison rebellion, the racist
prison-industrial
complex will continue to grow.
More than 2 million people will observe Dr. Martin LutherKing's birthday in
U.S.
prisons-including political prisonerMumia Abu-Jamal, who waits with 4,000
others on
deathrow. The people must make it clear to the next presidentthat the death
machine
must stop.No more executions.Mumia Abu-Jamal must be granted a new trial or
set free.
We must stop the U.S. death machine around the world. Thebullets & bombs that
have
murdered and maimed hundreds ofPalestinians are made in the USA. Ten years
after
thebombing of Iraq began on Jan. 16, 1991, the U.S. stillmaintains economic
sanctions
that have killed more than 1.2million Iraqis.
The Pentagon continues to plot another Vietnam war inColombia, and to bomb
the island of
Vieques, Puerto Rico. Along with NATO, the U.S military machine forces
colonialsubjugation of the Balkans, and elsewhere in the world.We must stop
capitalist
deathonomics. U.S. transnationalcorporations and banks, along with their
puppet
institutions--the International Monetary Fund, WorldBank and World Trade
Organization--
continue to impose the death machine of globalization on the world,
reapingsuper-
profits from their exploitation of the planet while more than a billion
people go
hungry, and at least 2 billionlive in abject poverty.
Hundreds of millions of people throughout Africa, Asia,Latin America and
right here in
the U.S. will continue to die because capitalist greed has denied them
healthcare,shelter, jobs and other human needs.
Call issued by: International Action Center, International Concerned Family
and Friends
of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the MOVE Organization; Millions for Mumia; Free Mumia Abu-
JamalCoalition, NYC; Refuse andResist; Korea Truth Commission;The Palestine
Right To
ReturnCoalition ( NY-NJ Based Al-Awda)and a growing list of endorsers.
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The Progressive Challenge: An Action Agenda on Electoral Reform January 19,
2001 Capitol
Hill, Washington, DC 10:00am-5:30pm Exact location to be announced at
www.ips-dc.org
(Below is information about an important conference in Washington, D.C. on
the day
before all the Bush inauguration protests.)
Sponsored by: Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus including
Barbara Lee,
Bernie Sanders, Earl Hilliard, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Center
for Voting
and Democracy, the Nation Institute, and the member groups of the Progressive
Challenge
Network
This forum is the kick-off event for a multi-issue action planning series
over the first
three months of the 107th Congress. The forums are an opportunity for
Progressives to
focus on issues where there are strong citizen action coalitions, good
progressive
legislation, and political momentum for joint action between local
organizations and
Congressional allies over the next year. Future forums will examine measures
to deepen
democracy, shrink the wealth gap, extend health care to the uninsured, fix
the system
that has incarcerated 2 million citizens, and promote global economic and
environmental
justice. Please see www.ips-dc.org in the coming weeks for future Progressive
Challenge
forums.
10am-11:30pm The Legacy of Dr. King: A Progressive Vision
Moderator: John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies
Opening remarks:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Ron
Dellums*: The
Legacy of Dr. King Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies Rep. Eleanor
Holmes
Norton Rev. Walter Fauntroy, National Black Leadership Roundtable Rep.
Barbara Lee* Rep.
Bernie Sanders Bob Borosage, Campaign for America's Future *invited.
11:30-1:00 Plenary on Electoral Reform and Clean Money Elections Moderator:
Katrina
vanden Heuvel, The Nation Magazine Rep Jesse Jackson Jr.* Rep. Cynthia
McKinney Rob
Richie, Center for Voting and Democracy Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and
Education
Fund* Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School Nick Nyhart, Executive Director,
Public Campaign
Stephanie Wilson, Fannie Lou Hamer Project Ron Daniels, Center for
Constitutional Rights
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 1 of Workshops on Electoral Reform and Clean Elections
(breakout
rooms) -Clean Money, Clean Elections, Alliance for Democracy and Public
Campaign -2000
Electoral Rights Violations and Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, Anita
Hodgkiss,
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights -Organizing strategies for Instant Runoff
Voting and
Proportional Representation, Center for Voting and Democracy -Independent
Electoral and
Debates Commissions, Jamin Raskin, American University Law School and Medea
Benjamin,
Global Exchange
3:45-5:15 Session 2 of Workshops on Electoral and Campaign Finance Reform
-The Voters'
Bill of Rights: Building a Broad-based Pro-Democracy Movement, Ted Glick of
theIndependent Progressive Politics Network, and Medea Benjamin of Global
Exchange
-"Taxation Without Representation": Voting Rights for Washington, DC, Martin
Thomas,
Stand Up for Democracy Coalition -Building Pro-democracy Commissions: The
DeFazio/Leach
bill and local strategies -Fusion and Instant Runoff Voting: a strategy for
complementary action, ACORN
No pre-registration required. For more information contact the Progressive
Challenge
Project at IPS 202-234-9382,x238 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Pro-Democracy
Week of Action!]
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The Nation Counter-Inaugural Calender
George Bush is forging ahead with Cabinet appointments, policy forums and
political
pronouncements designed to help him push his agenda quickly through Congress.
But the
shock troops of the movements for social justice, environmental protection
and economic
equality are already mobilizing. Civil rights groups and others will take to
the streets
of Washington and other cities starting on January 15, Dr. Martin Luther
King's
birthday, and continuing through the inauguration on January 20, to raise
questions
about the legitimacy of Bush's election, and to press for reforms that will
guarantee
more representative results in the future.
To encourage these efforts, we've launched the Counter-Inauguration Calendar,
which
highlights many of the groups organizing the wide range of expected protest
activities.
Available at:
http://www.thenation.com/special/counterinauguration.mhtml
There are also a number of new editorials, commentaries and articles looking
at the
quickly-assembling Bush Administration currently at http://www.thenation.com
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