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> NO STOLEN ELECTIONS!
> www.Nov3.US
>
> We all remember the votes that were never counted in
> Florida 2000. While we
> are all working hard for a positive outcome on
> November 2nd, we also have to
> be prepared for a repeat of a 2000 stolen election.
> Below is a pledge for
> people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and
> protect the vote on
> November 2nd and making a commitment to protest
> starting on November 3rd in
> the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing
> this pledge, you will be
> joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd
> Urgent Response
> Network. Please sign the pledge at
> http://www.nov3.us/ and pass it around
> far and wide.
>
> We are setting up a Fair Elections Advisory Council
> made up of U.S. and
> international elections experts who will give us
> their assessment on
> election day itself. If they find significant fraud,
> we will activate the
> Urgent Response Network on or immediately after
> November 3rd, calling on
> people everywhere to engage in protest, including
> non-violent civil
> disobedience, in front of their local federal
> buildings and other
> appropriate places. We will also be asking those
> who can to converge in the
> states where the most serious fraud occurred, as
> well as in Washington DC.
>
> In addition to signing the pledge, please work with
> other people and groups
> in your area to protect the vote on November 2nd and
> to build the Urgent
> Response Network. Pick a venue for your local
> protest in the case that the
> Urgent Response Network is activated, and list the
> time and place on the
> website at http://www.nov3.us / We also recommend
> that you set up a place
> to jointly watch the election results on November
> 2nd.
>
> Let us commit ourselves to making sure that this
> time around, the person who
> occupies the White House is the one who won the
> election.
>
> NO STOLEN ELECTIONS PLEDGE OF ACTION:
>
> "I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000
> and I am willing to
> take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again.
> I support efforts to
> protect the right to vote leading up to and on
> Election Day, November 2nd.
> If that right is systematically violated, I pledge
> to join nationwide
> protests starting on November 3rd, either in my
> community, in the states
> where the fraud occurred, or in Washington DC."
>
> Please sign the pledge now at www.Nov3.US
>
> INITIAL SIGNATORIES:
> Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director, AFL-CIO
> Fred Azcarate, Jobs with Justice
> Patrick Barrett, RadFest: Midwest Social Forum
> Brian Benford, Madison Common Council
> Medea Benjamin, CodePink
> Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Pissed Off Voters
> Mike Brune, Executive Director, Rainforest Action
> Network
> Dennis Brutus, poet
> Andrea Buffa, Global Exchange
> Linda Burnham, Women of Color Resource Center
> Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice
> John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
> David Cobb, Green Presidential Nominee
> Steve B. Cobble, political strategist
> Rev. James Demus, III, Director, NAACP, Chicago
> Southside
> Charlie Derber, Professor of Sociology, Boston
> College
> Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies & Cities
> for Peace
> Theresa El-Amin, Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN)
> Daniel Ellsberg, author
> Larry Fahn, President, Sierra Club
> Lisa Fithian, Root Activist Network of Trainers
> Arun Gandhi, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
> Ed Garvey, Fighting Bob Fest
> Greg Gerritt, Executive Director, Friends of the
> Moshassuck
> Ted Glick, National Coordinator, IPPN
> Jim Goodman, Family Farm Defenders
> Rev. Graylan Hagler, Ministers for Racial, Social
> and Economic Justice
> Jody Grage Haug, Green Peace Action (GPAX)
> Andy Heidt, Madison Common Council
> Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers
> Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH
> Reverend James Lawson, civil rights leader
> Natalie Johnson Lee, Minneapolis City Council
> Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
> Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun
> Pete Karas, Racine Common Council
> Brenda Konkel, President, Madison Common Council
> Doug La Follette, Wisconsin Secretary of State
> Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance
> Ben Manski, Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
> Jessica Marshall, National Youth and Student Peace
> Coalition
> Elizabeth Martinez, Institute for Multiracial
> Justice
> Mike McCabe, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
> Robert McChesney, Free Press
> Holly Near, singer-songwriter
> Maya O'Connor, Labor Greens Network
> Jamala Rogers, Organization for Black Struggle, St.
> Louis
> Rebecca Rotzler, Alder, New Paltz
> Marc Sanson, Co-Chair, Green Party of the United
> States
> Renee Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal
> John Sellers, Ruckus Society
> Charles Shaw, Newtopia Magazine
> Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
> Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority
> Damu Smith, founder, Black Voices for Peace
> Starhawk, activist and writer
> Ajita Talwalker, United States Students Association
> Chuck Turner, Boston City Council
> Chris Vaeth, This Time We're Watching
> Jason West, Mayor, New Patlz, New York
> Bob Wing, War Times
> Dean Zimmerman, Minneapolis City Council
> Howard Zinn, historian
>
> Please join us by signing the pledge now at
> http://www.nov3.us/
>
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