October SOS for Elections Our democracy is in critical danger after the signing of the Military Commissions Act. The only way back away from the brink is an overwhelming Republican defeat. Please do what you can from the following list. And above all, help your local candidates to get out the vote! Action Items: We are taking the battle for Emergency Paper Ballots to the States! Please sign the petition to our top state election officials demanding emergency paper ballots for November 7. This is a Hail-Mary bill to ensure that our vote counts can be verified in each of our states. Join numerous high-profile names and organizations that sent letters to all the election officials in all fifty states demanding Emergency Paper Ballots for the November election. Tell them 1 ballot per registered voter should be available at each precinct: http://pdamerica.org/petition/paper-ballot-emails.php More exciting news! The Paper Ballot Act of 2006 (HR 6200 IH) has been introduced into the House by Congressman Dennis Kucinich! Lets start building the volume for this MUST-PASS bill! Read about it here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?&bill=h109-6200&tab= Tell your representatives to support and co-sponsor the bill: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ Print and distribute widely this plea to vote the thugs out: http://www.mach2.com/williams/ Promote this Chain Letter Activism to save our elections: http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_kevin_la_061018_help_save_american_d.htm When you write your letter, add action items 1, 2, and 3 to it. Then forward as widely as possible to your friends, activist networks, blogs, webpages, and every American. October surprise? Many think that our administration is about to create a provocation for war with Iran to derail the election. Demand direct negotiations with Iran, and spread the word : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/828535772?ltl=1161229235 . Sign the No War On Iran letter to Condoleezza and key Senators: http://democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/Peaceact/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=358 Write letters to the editors, 5 at a time: http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/dbq/media Tell your representative to support Congressman Peter DeFazios resolution requiring Congressional action prior to any military action on Iran: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/80 and join 60,000 people who have already signed this petition: http://www.dontattackiran.org Demand accountability on the Foley case: http://americanfamilyvoices.com/page/petition/Foley Protect womens rights in the November election: https://secure.democracyinaction.com/dia/organizations/feministmajority/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1340&t=c3.dwt Our elections are corrupted by propagandist media. If you are desperate about the steady decline of PBS/CPBs formerly unbiased news and programs: http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/10/a_fair_analysis.html , add your voice of protest to this loss of a free press stalwart. Find contacts here: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2971 Prevent election fraud. Support clean election proponents for Secretary of State: http://www.secstateproject.org/ and ALSO: For California SOS: http://www.debrabowen.com/ If you attend any debates for Congress or the Senate, use this handy reference for pointed questions to ask the candidates about their stance on Iraq: http://www.faithfulamerica.com/article.php?id=112 Gird yourself for the inevitable discussions around the kitchen table and the water cooler, with this election-time guide: http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/html/tool_kit.htm Defend your right to dissent! Make it known you know what went down Tuesday October 17, 2006- a day that will go down in infamy. Torture was signed into law. Freedom to dissent was fire-bombed. The Decider gave himself the right to rule untrammeled over the land- without interference from Congress, the courts, or Rule of Law. The Decider achieved the same level of accommodation and unaccountability as Der Fuhrer used in Germany to push forward his Nazi agenda. We lost our protections from an abusive government with the signing of the Military Commissions Act: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_terrorism Here is an excellent analysis of that Act: http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/milcommissions_1007 Join your voice in condemnation of this unconstitutional, un-American, immoral and dangerous bill: http://capwiz.com/uusc/issues/alert/?alertid=9100511&type=PR Copy the text of that letter and send it also to your representatives here: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ Write letters to the editors, 5 at a time: http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/dbq/media Demand repeal of the Military Commission Act: http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=56 Sign the Amnesty International Pledge: http://believe.amnestyusa.org/site/c.igLQIUOCKtF/b.2070843/k.BDE5/Home.htm?sid=63224440 Hire the ACLU to defend you by joining its ranks: http://www.aclu.org Rove, Bush, and the GOP as usual will run election-time smear ads against the only patriots in Congress that opposed the infamous Military Commissions bill, claiming they are soft on terrorists. The traitors who voted to give away our liberties and protections are the ones who should be vilified, and especially the 3 Senior Senators who put on a kabuki theater for the nation aided and abetted by the media. John McCain, John Warner, and Lindsey Graham are Brutus personified. PLEASE write to your representatives and make it clear to ALL of them, including the 3 traitors, that you condemn what these 3 have done to the nation. Remember how they and the media made themselves out to be heroes acting in opposition to torture and to the loss of habeas corpus? Remember McCain playing the war hero concerned about our servicemen, should the White House get its way on torture? Remember how they claimed they had reached a compromise with the White House? Read the truth here: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=11095 See the evil, suffering, and depravity that Bush and Cheney, and the rubber-stamp Republicans are causing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,8543,-10104919007,00.html Heres the list of Democrats that voted for it: http://uspolitics.about.com/od/antiterrorism/a/HR6166.htm Bills that would prevent renditions were buried in committees: House bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00952:@@@L&summ2=m&; Senate bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00654:@@@L&summ2=m&; You can give an earful to the Republicans here (replace text to suit your needs): http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.goJTI0OvElH/b.953489/k.B86E/Action_Center_Home/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=goJTI0OvElH&b=953489&aid=6966 Sorry I do not have a link to reach all Dems. You can do it the hard way here: http://www.senate.gov and here http://www.house.gov and to reach your representatives: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ Here's the full list of traitors: http://yannone.blogspot.com/2006/10/who-voted-to-violate-constitution-and.html Thank you for all you do.
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