I rest my case.
At 10:02 AM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>===================================
>
>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.
>
>
>==================
>
>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
>
>
>====================================
>
>
>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.
>
>===========================
>
>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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>Thanks!And please visit www.ippn.org for information on the Jan. 15-20
>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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