BLUE RIBBON VISIBILITY is calling for a national strike to coincide with THE MILLION VOTER MARCH. THE MILLION VOTER MARCH, also known as Voter Rights March, takes place on May 19, 2001, on the Mall at Lafayette Park, in Washington, DC,from 10 am to 6 pm.
The National Strike will begin on Thursday, May 17, and continue through Monday, May 21. The weekend will land in the middle of the strike, making it, essentially, a three "working day" strike.
This national strike will be called "Strike One", because it's just the start. If the first strike doesn't work, we do it again. Perhaps it will go to three strikes and Bush is out.
The strike is to let our government, and all the mega corporations, who bought Bush the White House, know that Al Gore got more votes in both Florida and the USA. Since they had so much trouble counting our votes, and since so many Americans were wrongly prevented from voting, this strike will be another kind of election.It will be an election where we cast our vote by not going to work;; by calling in sick. No matter how large and powerful a corporation is, it cannot exist without the people who work for it. Likewise, our government could not exist without the taxes that come out of our paychecks.
The Fourth Branch of Government
We The People are the fourth banch of government, which, by our consent, the other three branches may govern. It is our duty to help these other branches of government protect democracy. They cannot strongly act without our power visibly behind them.
Just last October the Yugoslavian people tried to vote Slobodan Milosovic out of office. They voted him out, but, he wouldn't leave. He was tampering with the vote count (election fraud) saying he got more votes than he actually did. The people then had a national strike, which lasted long enough to get Milosovic out of office. It was peaceful and it worked.
Having Strike One coincide with the Million Voter March will serve two purposes. It will allow more people to have time to get to the march, and to get home again. It will also give people, all over our nation, a major part to play if they can't get to Washington, DC;; a part with a direct, immediate consequence which cannot be ignored. Bush and his media ignored the inaugural demonstrations, but they can't ignore millions of people not working. On May 19 of the strike, people will have voter rights demonstrations in towns and cities all over the country, in solidarity with the Million Voter March. The goal of National Strike One is to make those demonstrations more than a plantive cry in the abyss of being ignored by the news and government.
We shall not be helpless in begging for voter rights or the real winner of election 2000. Strike One says,"We will shut this nation down unless the real vote count is certified and the real president, Al Gore, is sworn into office.
I hope some of you on my mailing list have connections in the major Unions. We all know that Bush is no friend to Unions. I hope that employers will openly endorse the strike to their employees. It's a very small price to pay for Democracy. I speak equally to our darker skin Americans, AKA African/Black Americans, whose industries have graced this nation with such prosperous and original genius, and whose votes were so egregiously abused.(That means you, too, in big time sports industries.) All peoples who are targets of racism and hate crime have a home in this strike. Let's not forget our school teachers and law school professors, who teach the laws broken for Bush's coup d' etat. Someone translate this into Spanish, please. Yo habla espanol un poquito, nada mas.
Ofcourse, emergency services such as hospitals and fire departments are not being asked to join in the strike. They can wear the blue, orange, and black ribbons which have come to represent what I call Election Fraud 2000.
Election Fraud 2000: Coup d' etat
Make no mistake, Election Fraud 2000 was a coup d'etat. It didn't happen with guns and bombs, but, it had precisely identical results as a coup d'etat:: a sudden and decisive measure in politics, especially one effecting a change of government illegally or by force.
Having a father who was born in Czechoslovakia, I know what it looks and feels like to not live in a democracy. I was born and raised in the USA, but also within a part of the Czech underground fighting USSR occupation. I learned that you cannot allow this kind of takeover to succeed for even one year without horendous consequences. One must refuse immediately. Otherwise it becomes entrenched and harder to throw off. I saw this kind of trend start in earnest in 1980. Few listened then, but, at last, the far right has gone too far for the American people to tolerate.
National Strike One is a power which is available to everyone. I know the vast majority will want to join in. I know it will take far less than that for it to succeed. (Note how just a few days of a pilot strike or garbage strike works)In fact, if we really mean it, we might get justice with just the absolute certainty of a national strike. We want who the American people voted for. If we let Bush get away with stealing this election, they'll do it again.
If Strike One does not get Bush and his gang out of the White House, then we will call Strike Two, starting Monday, July 2, on through the entire Fourth of July week. If that doesn't work, Strike Three will be an OPEN ENDED, NO TIME LIMIT STRIKE to begin the first week in October.
1-2-3 STRIKES AND BUSH IS OUT!!!
Ofcourse, the official song of these strikes is, what else?: Take Me Out To The Ball Game.
We The People have great power in our own hands. We shall peacefully assert that power, with confident optimism, and gain immediate results.
THE RIBBONS
BLUE RIBBON VISIBILITY JOINS THE ORANGE AND BLACK:
ORANGE STANDS FOR THE FLORIDA CATASTROPHE
BLACK STANDS FOR THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY
ALL REPRESENT A NATION EMERGENCY
WE NEED EXPRESSED AS OUR VOTE
BLUE RIBBON VISIBILITY
by Estrella Holtzknecht/Berosini
Blue stands for the first place winner
Blue stands for the Black vote blues
Blue stands for the Al Gore States on the news
It stands for all our views
Issues
Born of the dragon, tyranny,
Come up from the depths again
To singe our dignity
And make us rise to our full height
And then
Persevere against
our lowest aspirations
and those who have succumbed.
It is the deep sky blue
In sunshine day bright
A ribbon of clear sky consolidation
Worn to show this vast human hue
Which shall not let their treason
Stand the light of day
Nor otherwise prevail.
VOTER RIGHTS MARCH: SATURDAY, MAY 19, IN WASHINGTON DC:
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On Saturday, May 19, 2001, Voter March will sponsor the Voter Rights March to Restore Democracy at the West Capitol steps, the National Mall, and Lafayette Park in Washington, DC from 12:00 pm noon to 6:00 pm, along with a companion March on the West Coast (location and date to follow.) We will protest election fraud and the disenfranchisement of voters that occurred in election 2000 and the U.S. Supreme Court's highly partisan decisions which usurped on the rights of voters. Tens of thousands of individuals from all over the nation will voice their outrage over the fraud of the latest Presidential election and to call for critically-needed voting reforms, including strict enforcement of the Voting Rights Act to prevent the disenfranchisement of voters, and to fully investigate responsible Republican party operatives, government officials and Judges. We are also joining other organizations in protesting the illegitimate President's right wing agenda to turn back gains in civil rights, the environment, a woman's right to choose, and separation of church and state during the first 120 days of Office. You may purchase your round-trip bus tickets from New York City to Wash DC online at http://www.ersvp.com/reply/event8057 For other locations, contact your Local Organizer or Group at http://www.votermarch.org/local.htm >
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>COUNTER-INAUGURAL INDEPENDENT FILM:
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>At our last Voter March meeting in New York City we played the VHS Tape "Raining on the Parade: Inauguration 2001" by Deep Dish TV and it was very well received. This is the best of the counter-inaugural independent films and a lot of time and money was spent in professionally editing it. This 30 minute independent film has original footage from all of the various groups at the counter-inaugurals (including Voter March at Dupont Circle), along with political commentary on the "stolen election." See what the
>mainstream media did not want you to see! We encourage you to have "house parties" and show this excellent independent film. In fact, this film is scheduled to play at Al Gore's birthday party on March 30th!
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>To obtain your own copy of "Raining on the Parade: Inauguration 2001," go to www.votermarch.org and make a $20 contribution using PayPal (or credit card) or mail a $20 check to Voter March LLC, P.O. Box 731, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163-0731.
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>PROGRESSIVE ALERT - ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY EGROUP:
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>PROTEST SONGS BY LES SOUCI ON MP3:
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>People can listen to some protest songs, and more from Les Souci at
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>In addition to be a talented musician, Les Souci is the Speakers Coordinator for the Voter Rights March for Saturday, May 19, and one of the original members of the Voter March Steering Committee.
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ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, EVERY VOTE COUNTED
Following is an invitation to participate and contribute your talents to the Voter Rights March and Rally, May 19th from Tamara Lynn Scott. Contact e-mails are included below:
Thanks for your efforts in this fight!
We must assist each other in our struggle to unite.
Please post these following calls for participation and
assist.......
I will be in Washington D.C. for the Voter Protest March and
staging on the 19th,
as a speaker and performer. and am assisting the Platforms for
Media, Entertainment,
Platform, Legal, and Promote. And call out to any and all who
want to do something
in this fight!
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The Platform Committee is currently actively Lobbying in
Washington - and might
be open to coordinating anyone who is planning a trip to
Washington - into a
powerful statement of numbers and presence - active Lobbying!
And to all with thoughts on reform - contributions of pen and
mind.
-Contact Bob ------in Washington D.C. ----to coordinate
meeting.-
or group to begin inputting.
DC Bob Rogers Rar98hawk@aol.com
VoterPlatform@YahooGroups.com
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The Legal Committee is currently fighting in court and needs all
of legal expertise and
mind to assist - it also has material to sign on - as friends of
the court -
Lend your signature to these documents! If you are lawyer -
investigator -
We must do what our F.B.I did not!
Contact Phil Berg - VoterRights - Legal -
"VoterLegal"
VoterLegal@YahooGroups.com
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The Entertainment Committee is seeking out all powerful lyrics,
chants, songs utilized
in the J-20 rallies- and any artist willing to travel- to
Washington - or to San Francisco -
to perform them on the 19th.- or for possible future stagings
and events.
Send all materials - sample tapes - CD's - Promo - to
Scott Com -
1271 Lost Acre Drive,
Felton, CA. 95018
contact: Tamara Lynn Scott - memcneil@got.net-----
The Media Committee is needing all who have a pen and heart to
write......and
to PROMOTE - message to all media outlets - television -
newspaper - Schools -
Web sites - Political groups -and the sharing of appropriate
email lists - to assist in this
effort of communicate.
contact Tamara Lynn Scott - memcneil@got.net
Currently on line at web site "Poem To The People" images from
Sacramento Rally -
Script Cuts of "Poem" - to be read in Washington - and Music of
KNOW - to be
performed in Washington.
http://we.got.net/~memcneil/tamara.html
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Please post these calls to all pertinant lists - groups - and
people appropriate.
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We share in this fight.
We must learn to cooperate, organize, and unite.
We must learn to step forward,
participate,
become,
lest we never be free.
