On January 6th, 2005 Congress will meet in joint session to certify the 2004 presidential election. On that day, if one member of the House and one member of the Senate object to the certification of the vote, then all members of Congress will finally discuss these issues. On January 6, 2001, not a single Senator would join with the Representatives who demanded an inquiry into the Florida recount. This year, let's make our Senators take a stand!
Join Rev. Jesse Jackson, Medea Benjamin, John Bonifaz, David Cobb, Congressman John Conyers (invited), Alysia Fischer, George Friday, Kim Gandy, Asa Gordon, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (invited), Rev. Lennox Yearwood and many others as we: Rally at 10:00 a.m. in Lafayette Park, across from the White House (16th & H Streets, NW). We will then march to Capitol Hill to join with others at the U.S. Capitol at noon.
We need an investigation into the Ohio vote on November 2, the seriously problematic "recount," partisan, discriminatory decisions made by the Secretary of State, electronic voting machine fraud, not enough machines in predominantly Black precincts, and all of the other ways that voters were disenfranchised in the USA.
While our Senators and Representatives are inside Congress, tallying the electoral college vote, We the People must have a presence outside, bringing attention to the disenfranchisement, suppression and fraud that pervaded the 2004 election — and demanding real reforms to extend and protect democracy in the U.S. We are asking everyone to wear orange to this event, as this color is becoming emblematic of the demand for fair elections, both within the U.S. and without.
Please join us on January 6 in Washington, DC. Check www.nov3.us, www.votecobb.org, www.counter-inaugural.org, or www.pdamerica.org for more information.
If you can't come to DC, we urge you and people you can reach out to to flood the Senate with calls every day leading up to and on the 6th. The Capitol Hill information number is 202-224-3121.
This call to action is initiated by United Progressives for Democracy, Backbone Campaign, Beyond Voting, Coalition Against Election Fraud, the Cobb/LaMarche campaign, Code Pink, Global Exchange, Green Party of the U.S., Greenwich Village Coalition for Peaceful Priorities, Independent Progressive Politics Network, International Labor Communications Association, Mercer Island, Wa. Peacemakers, Mercury Coalition for Honest Elections (Denver), No Stolen Elections!, Progressive Democrats of America, Raging Grannies of Denver, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Truth in Elections, United for Peace and Justice, WILPF/Tucson chapter.. To add your group send your endorsement to indpol@igc.org.
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