"Election Rigging 101" Teach-In, Oakland CA on 2/26

ELECTION RIGGING 101
A National Teach-In
On the 2004 election and what we must do to restore democracy

With Bob Fitrakis
Ohio Attorney, Editor, Columbus Free Press
(one of the four attorneys fighting sanctions in Ohio for Moss v. Bush)

Saturday, Feb. 26th
10am - 4pm
1st Congregational Church
2501 Harrison St. Oakland

$10 suggested donation
please bring lunch
more information to be posted soon at: www.democraticrenewal.com

How to Rig It:
-11 hour lines for democrats only
-"kerry" votes defaulting to "bush"
- registered voters purged
- exit polls ignored
- recounts that weren’t
and much more.

How to stop it:
- stunning documentary footage
- speakers
- action

Butch Wing, Rainbow Push
Larry Bensky, KPFA
Walter Riley, East Bay Votes
Speakers from Blackboxvoting.org
VotersUnite.org
Open Voting Consortium
the MMOB
and more

www.democratic renewal.com

emlev,

Where did you get this? If not a state secret, please let me know.

Doug & I try to do as much as possible in the area. I'd like to contact the organizers and ask what they need.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Beth in SF

The correct web site for the OAKLAND TEACH-IN is:

http://www.democraticrenewal.us/

Please RSVP Contact Don Goldmacher: dongolmacher@sbcglobal.net

Directions:

1st Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison St. Oakland (Harrison & 27th - BART 19th & Broadway - shortcut make a right on 24th and Broadway three or four blocks to Harrison).

Somebody should STREAM THIS CONFERENCE so we can all watch and learn something!!!

Sounds like a wonderful program.

or afternoon or evening.

Sounds like old times. Love it, love it, love it.

I would love to visit it, because they're doing a great thing. Do you have another address?

http://www.democraticrenewal.us/
This is the Club's main website. Their calendar lists the event. More details will be posted there in the next couple of days, I'm told.

Horribly, I can't go, I'm working! But I will do everything I can to promote this! And the Teach In needs to hear about Kevin Shelley, and all that's happening in Sacto. This is so important, oh god! I wonder if Shelley's ready to speak out. If not, someone needs to explain what happened, and people need to get on top of the Schwarz appointment to Sec of State (Bruce McPherson), not only re: e-voting, but also the redistricting scam.

I will post this all around. Back later...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=325113&mesg_id=325113

For those who don't know, Kevin Shelley, CA Sec of State, just driven out of office on trivial, unproven charges, in a shark attack led by SF Chronicle and some Democrats (Perata, Romero and McCormack, LA county elections head)--after he decertified and sued Diebold for their lies about the security of their machines, and provided Californians with a paper ballot option. Shelley, THE national leader on e-voting accountability. VERY BAD THINGS GOING ON IN CALIFORNIA RE WALLY O'DELL AND H. AHMANSON COUNTING ALL OUR VOTES IN SECRET--and on Schwarz taking Enron's grand theft out of the hides of Calif. pensioners, and on Schwarz plans to redistrict Calif. (a la Tom Delay in Texas?).

After keel-hauling anti-Diebold SoS Shelley into the blue Pacific, Schwarz just appointed Repub. Bruce McPherson (to be approved by Leg), who seems to say the right things about verified voting, but could well be a wolf in sheep's clothing re both e-voting and redistricting. CALIFORNIANS NEED TO BE ON THIS MATTER NOW.

Whose leadership on this California SoS issue do you respect who's in California and might be available to speak?

Thanks for writing about this. I'd noticed the issue was missing from the day, but it didn't get to the top of my list to contact the organizers about until you wrote.

Another possibility:

Kim Alexander
see http://calvoter.org/index.html
She also supported Shelley. She's giving a presentation on e-voting at a Sacramento MoveOn.org event on Feb 20 in Sacto.

Kim Alexander - CalVoter
Address: 503 4th Street Suite B
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-750-7650
Fax: 530-750-1799

See my purist reservations about her at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=327402&mesg_id=327402

She's backed by a lot of BIG foundation and tech company money (Rockefeller, Apple, H-P. etc.), and has a mission of promoting technology so that it enhances democratic processes. This kind of language put me off. BUT she does seem right on, on the issues--questions closed source code, insists on VVPB (real one), etc. AND she was supportive of Shelley when he most needed it. Very knowledgeable, too. But not likely to be flaming radical on election fraud, by any means--nor to see the Shelley thing in the Bush Cartel conspiracy terms that I see it in. I want to say she's a "player" but that has some really negative connotations that I don't mean. I just mean she's funded by the biggies, spoke at the Commonwealth Club on e-voting (a good speech)--that sort of thing. Well-connected (in ways that would raise leftist eyebrows). I do not know her personally, and only know about her from her web site. She seems to have made a personal decision to challenge the basic flaws in e-voting, after she realized how serious they were.

Paper ballot nuts (like me!) might not fully appreciate her perspective. But I'm sure she would be informative on e-voting, knows that subject inside out, and is quite concerned about it.

I don't know how much of the truth about the Shelley disaster she knows, or would be willing to say publicly.

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ALSO, how about our own sfexpat2000!!!? She would be great! Look upthread. See her postings on the Shelley threads.

Documentation of v.m. fraud, systematic dirty tricks, malfeasance, & manipulation of absentees & provisionals to suppress minority/Eem vote in over 20 states

http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html

:kick:

California Democratic Party
CA Democratic Party Chair Art Torres

http://www.cadem.org/site/apps/fc/form.asp?c=fvLRK7O3E&...

Sacramento Office
1401 21st Street, Suite 100
Sacramento, California 95814
(916) 442-5707 phone
(916) 442-5715 fax

Los Angeles Office
888 S. Figueroa Street, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90017
(213) 239-8730 phone
(213) 239-8731 fax

Mainstreet Moms Operation Blue, formerly Mainstreet Moms Oppose Bush

http://www.themmob.com/

...teach in's? Easier to keep them kicked. I'm going to work now. Stay on the kicking. LOTS OF PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THESE.

It looks great!

...going to look for it now, and post it here.

from emlev post...


"Who Got Glitched: An Election Reform Teach-In"
Sunday, Feb 27th, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
The Church at Ocean Park
(2nd and Hill, Santa Monica)

Presenting:

Bev Harris, Black Box Voting, Investigator

Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Free Press,
(Attorney, Moss vs. Bush/Cheney/Blackwell)

The Jonas/Quinn/ Ritt legal team for Ohio

Blair Bobier, Green Party, ‘The Ohio Recount’
Great Film Clips &
‘Building a Civil Rights /Voter Rights Coaliton’

Moderated by Ian Masters, KPFK
with Butch Wing, Rainbow Push
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange & Codepink
Brad Freidman, Velvet Revolution
Kevin Spidel, Progressive Democrats
Blair Bobier, Green party
Susan Clark, Pro-Democracy Advocate
Mandeep Gill, Citizen Lobbyist ..and YOU!

Tickets $10 - No one turned away for lack of funds
Ticket orders & info: tickets@citizensact.org
Seating limited. Reservations recommended.

http://www.citizensact.org/pages/2/index.htm

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Program Overview

I. The Arc Of Justice: We've Been Here Before

* DVD excerpt: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., "Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement"

* Lynn Landes, journalist, "How America Used to Vote"
* John Gideon, VotersUnite!,  "Analysis of HAVA Misinformation in the Press"


II. Voter Suppression

* DVD excerpt: "Columbus Ohio Election Day Footage", by Linda Byrket, http://www.votecobb.org/video/#video5,
* Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Free Press, "The Taking of Ohio Prior to Nov. 2"
* Emily Levy, Juice for Justice, "Precinct Analysis in Ohio"
* Warren Stewart, National Ballot Integrity Project, "Recounting New Mexico"


III. What Happened In 2004: Red Shifting Exit Polls

* DVD excerpt: Susan Truitt, Ohio attorney

* Jonathan Simon, Alliance for Democacy,  "Analysis of Exit Polls"
* Allyson Washburn, US Countvotes.org, "The Reluctant Republican Responder"
* Larry Bensky, KPFA, "The Disappearing Media"


            5 Minute Stretch

IV. The Age of the Machines

* Jim March, Blackboxvoting.org, "How to Hack a Diebold Vote Tabulator"
* Wayne Madsen, journalist, "The Privatization of the Vote"


Lunch (45 Min)

V. Litigation

* Paul Lehto, Washington attorney, "Verifying Democracy 101:  Sue First, Ask Questions Later"

* Bob Fitrakis, Free Press, "History of Moss v. Bush, the Sanctions, Future Legal Actions"


VI. Legislation

* Butch Wing, political director, Rainbow PUSH, "Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s Constitutional Amendment Guaranteeing the Right to Vote"
* Bob Kibrick, Verifiedvoting.org, "Pending Federal Legislation for Electoral Reform"
* Sharon Cornu, Alameda County Central Labor Council, "Organized Labor and Election Reform"
* Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, "A Voters' Bill of Rights"


VII. Action VII.

* Walter Riley, community activist, "Organize County by County, Precinct by Precinct"
* Lynn Landes, journalist, "A Paper Ballot is the Only Solution"
* Alan Dechert, Open Voting Consortium, "Open Source Code Machines"
* Kathy Dopp and Allyson Washburn, UScountvotes.org, "Citizen Precinct Analysis"
* Open Microphone

        Organizing a pro-democracy movement at the grassroots involving local Democratic clubs, Assembly District committees, the MMOB, the Green Party, Code Pink, and             every group that is concerned about every citizen voting and every vote being counted.

...this speaker's list that tell me that this TEACH-IN is absolutely right on, and it's very heartening.

--that "we've been here before"--marvelous to hark back to the biggest disenfranchisement in the lifetime of many living people, the systemtatic and LEGALISTIC disenfranchisement of black voters throughout the south, the struggle that was so radicalizing to so many people who remember the '60s. Now WE'RE ALL IN THAT BOAT, black and white together!

--Lynn Landes--that greatest of all warriors! --that woman possessed! I remember reading her early on, and she had it so right, so early! --How great that she is on the program!

--and the HAVA disinformation! Yes, yes, yes! Disinformation! Such a key insight!

--and Jonathan Simon! Wow! What an INCREDIBLE speaker's list! He also, one of the first--if not THE first to cry foul on 2004!

--and "The Disappearing Media!--so many vital topics covered here!

--and organizing "county by county, precinct by precinct"! MY schtict! That's the only way reform is going to happen.

--and Open Source Code! My, my!

It's like a convergence--everbody struck by the same things, seeing the same things, understanding the heart of this problem.

I am very, very, very impressed. And not just with the topics, with the PEOPLE, such a great convergence of people, groups and concerns focusing on THIS, the core problem of core problems--that the peoples' will is being thwarted, and how to overcome that.

I don't see the Kevin Shelley situation on this agenda. That's the ONLY thing missing (but I understand it may be covered in Santa Monica). I DO hope someone will bring it up at the Oakland forum. Preserving Shelley's reforms--and building on them--helping him in some way, and addressing the Bushification of California that is in progress with Schwarz appointing the Sec of State and planning re-districting. We need to mobilize Californians about this.

I am as unhappy as I can be that I cannot attend this TEACH-IN. There's no way I can re-arrange my work schedule on such short notice.

But I'm doing everything I can to promote it. And I'll be very glad if someone tapes it, so I can see it and it can be gotten around. I'm sure there must be plans for this.

I agree that it's an amazing line-up (and I'd think that even if I weren't one of the speakers). I hope it'll be a full house (750).

They're trying to set up streaming, and I think it'll be videotaped. Whatever I find out about that I'll post to DU.

And the Shelley situation is very much on people's minds. I've done some work on getting them to add a speaker on this issue but they couldn't squeeze it in, so the topic will be covered in other ways. If you have ideas about how, let me know and I'll pass them along to the organizers.

I'm not aware of any organization in CA having taken on bold leadership on the SoS issue. If you know of one that has, I'd like to get their input about how to involve people. I'm responsible for the handout at the teach-in that will list ways for people to get involved in the election justice/reform movement. It's my hope that I'll get permission to post the contents of the handout to DU (the requests for help come from specific organizations, and they'd need to give permission for me to do that).

Thanks again, for all you do.

I don't want to get jealous of this great line-up up North...

these folks listed at http://www.citizensaction.org:

Bev Harris, Black Box Voting, Investigator
Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Free Press,
(Attorney, Moss vs. Bush/Cheney/Blackwell)
The Jonas/Quinn/ Ritt legal team for Ohio
Blair Bobier, Green Party, ‘The Ohio Recount’
Great Film Clips &
‘Building a Civil Rights /Voter Rights Coaliton’
Moderated by Ian Masters, KPFK
with Butch Wing, Rainbow Push
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange & Codepink
Brad Freidman, Velvet Revolution
Kevin Spidel, Progressive Democrats
Blair Bobier, Green party
Susan Clark, Pro-Democracy Advocate
Mandeep Gill, Citizen Lobbyist ..and YOU!

...they passed a great resolution about Shelley. I'll go looking for it and post it here.

If someone could bring up the Shelley situation--maybe you, emlev (or sfexpat2000, who will be there--DU activist)--in the general forum, just the most basic facts, and how this is a state by state struggle, with BushCons a thousand steps ahead of us in Calif. (and probably elsewhere), and then refer it to the Action segment (Walter Riley et al) for discussion and strategy, that would be great.

We have the problem that almost no one in Calif. knows what the hell's going on here--and we've got major CA Dem leaders on the wrong side of the Shelley thing (Don Perata and Gloria Romero, of the CA Senate, and Connie McCormack, L.A. elections chief), so local grass roots Dems may be very misinformed. So we just need to get the word out, however briefly, that DU activists DON'T BELIEVE the charges against Shelley, and DO believe that he is being targeted because of his anti-Diebold actions, and that there is likely some corruption in Dem circles re electronic voting. And that Texas/Tom Delay style redistricting may be the purpose of all this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=302899#303054

http://patrickhenrythinktank.org/res-shel.html

RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR KEVIN SHELLEY

Whereas, Californians had access to a paper ballot in November, 2004, while people in many others states did not, and California voters will have a voter-verifiable paper trail where there are voting computers in California in 2006 and individuals of other states may not, and

Whereas, unlike J. Kenneth Blackwell, Glenda Hood and numerous other Secretaries of State, Kevin Shelley worked to help voters have an increased opportunity to have their votes counted and has worked in a non-partisan manner to make election results more accurate, and

Whereas, the Republicans have created a politically motivated attack on Kevin Shelley for the apparent purpose of replacing Secretary of State Shelley with someone who will make it easier to rig elections,

Therefore be it resolved that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club supports Kevin Shelley and calls on all government officials to back Kevin Shelley in his fight against the partisan attacks by opponents of fair elections.

Be it further resolved that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club condemns all such attacks upon Mr. Shelley as the partisan attempts to undermine our election system that they are.

Passed unanimously on January 17, 2005.

Let Shelley know you support him:
CALL: (916) 653-6814
Email: elections@ss.ca.gov or ConstituentAffairs@ss.ca.gov
Write:
California Secretary of State
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, California 95814


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This is the only contact info. at their web page--but they seem to be meeting in Tustin, CA.:

info@patrickhenrythinktank.org

...events. Said they need people to bring up Shelley. Not sure if Tustin is in Orange County (i.e., which forum would be most convenient for them).

and posting them on the net?

...traveling there next weekend get to see this message. SPREAD THE WORD!

...that elected John Kerry, and ousted the Bush Cartel, BEING REBORN!

See

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x329512

rumpel needs a video tech to upload Teach-In tape for DUer's who can't go. (I think he's going to the Santa Monica one.)

Here's the link:

http://www.wellstoneclub.org/involve/teach-in.pdf

more info on the teach-in now posted at democraticrenewal.us

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then
they fight you, then YOU win." Gandhi

_________________________
Friends,
The most serious work of our lives begins NOW... to
educate, agitate and activate ALL Americans to DEMAND
that our horrendously broken election system. We
cannot survive another stolen election. It has to STOP
- but only the PEOPLE can stop it.

AND WE WILL. People are flying and driving in from ALL
over the country to attend or present at our Teach-In
on 2/26 & 2/27.

There's a mirror Teach-In in SF on 2/25 & 26. Two
weeks ago, there was a Teach-In/Film night on Election
Fraud in Santa Cruz. The the Civil Rights/Voting
Rights/Pro-Democracy
movement is gaining ground and momentum HERE in
California!!!
(After all, we are the land of Boxer and Waters...)

NOW is the time to inspire all your friends, all the
Americans who had their hearts broken on 11/02/04 to
demand Election Reform. If they
don't understand exactly how the Votes were stolen
last election, this Teach-In will show them.

We MUST become a mass movement immediately. Every
single Social Justice, Civil Justice, Environmental
Justice, Spiritual and Religious group should get on
board, NOW. Get
together and get it done by 2006.

"Determine that the thing shall be done, and then you
will find the way." Abraham Lincoln

Join us. Let's be brave together. Let's stand up to
these Neo-Confederate Corporatist bullies and take
back our Vote. THANK-YOU!
___________________________________________________

*Sat. 2/26, 7-10 pm "Film as Evidence"
A NIGHT OF SCREENINGS
W/ ELECTION FRAUD DOCUMENTARIANS
Venice United Methodist Church - Sanctuary 1020
Victoria Ave. 90291

"Votergate" and other breaking evidence:
Robert Cohen & Russell Michaels show their upcoming
feature.

"Standing out in the Rain with Jim Crow" - The
Election Day Voter Suppression footage that is entered
in the Conyers report. Linda Byrket, director, also
shows her short of the
"Columbus - DC Freedom Winter Bus Ride."

"Electile Dysfunction" a darkly comic and disturbing
overview of the Election screened by director Penny
Little.

THERE WILL BE TIME FOR Q & A with these film makers.
Donations: $10 -- reservations STRONGLY encouraged!
tickets@citizensact.org
*******************

*Sunday 2/27 "Who Got Glitched?" Teach-In 2:00 - 5:30
Teach-In and Symposium on Election Reform The Church
at Ocean Park, 2nd & Hill,
Santa Monica

Keynote Speaker: Rep. Maxine Waters

Program Moderator: Ian Masters -KPFK, The
Neo-Confederates: Voter Suppression in the US.

Part One: "Who Got Glitched" THE EVIDENCE Bob
Fitrakis, Attorney, Publisher of Columbus Free Press:
"What REALLY happened in Ohio."
Blair Bobier, Joan Quinn: The Ohio Recount Fraud Bev
Harris - Crimes of Diebold

Part Two "How do we Fix it?" A SYMPOSIUM

Short Presentations:
Brad Friedman: Divestiture for Democracy; taking the
software companies down; Blogging; Be the Media

Mandeep Gill: An Overview of Election Reform
legislation, grassroots actions and the organizations
directly supporting those efforts.

Medea Benjamin, Kevin Spidel, Building the Progressive
Coalition

Susan Clark & Sheri Myers: Creating Citizen Lobbyists

Greg Akili for PUSH: A Rainbow Coalition for Rep.
Jackson Jr's constitutional amendment guaranteeing the
federally-protected right to vote.

(and ONE more guest... TBA)

5:00 - 5:30
Q & A & STRATEGIZING w/ the PANEL

Res. $1O, $5 STUDENTS -- Reservations STRONGLY
encouraged!
tickets@citizensact.org

I was confused because it says 25/26 up north and 26/27 for the south.

how the teach-in went today. Lots of us are dying to hear, particularly with your large "all-star" lineup of nationally prominent speakers.

How many people were there, who were the best speakers (and the not-so-great), was the press present (how many, from where, etc.), did you folks videotape/audiotape the speakers (if so, how quickly can we get a copy of the tape), what was the vibe like, the setting, the weather .... Oh you know. Just tell us everything.

Sure hope it went well. And that it sets up a cleansing breeze that moves east, stopping in scores of cities and towns to kindle more outrage and gather more righteous steam, 'til it hits D.C. like a democratic lightening bolt. Who knows, maybe the rightwardly anointed will think they've been raptured and fly away of their own accord.

*bump*