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"No Stolen Elections!" Pledge of Action

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 here 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 here. We also recommend that you find or organize 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 here.


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 here.