Check out this email...APRIL: Democracy Spring

[Playinghardball]

Friend --
Our democracy is in a state of emergency and it needs you. The 2016 election is already knee-deep in corporate donations, drenched in dark money, and gaining notoriety as the most voter suppression-marred contest in U.S. history. It's estimated price tag? $10 billion!

Bernie is the ONLY candidate who isn't beholden to big money interests, which is why we have launched this political revolution. But to be a successful movement we must also adopt a diversity of tactics which requires us to be on the streets and in Washington.

If the status quo is left unchallenged, this election will most certainly produce a Congress more bound to the masters of big money than ever before. We will once again see little to almost no progress in solving urgent problems facing our nation: costs of college, climate change, income inequality, immigration reform, and mass incarceration. Our people and planet simply cannot afford it.

Together we have already taken the first step--building local grassroots movements across the country for Bernie Sanders. The next step is to use the grassroots movement to put pressure on the establishment. We must say enough is enough to business-as-usual when it comes to elections and demand real reform, and right now that means coming together for a week of mass non-violent action.

Join The People for Bernie Sanders, Avaaz, 99Rise, and a growing coalition of organizations for Democracy Spring — one of the largest American civil disobedience actions in a generation — next April in Washington, D.C.

Over 1250 people have already pledged to risk arrest –will you join us and make history
take immediate action to make the 2016 elections free and fair for all or prepare to send thousands of patriotic Americans to jail.

Before the marchers arrive, we will gather in Washington by the thousands and hopefully millions to greet them.

At that point, either Congress will have to come to its senses and pass the perfectly viable reform bills currently pending, or we will reclaim the People’s House in mass nonviolent sit-ins. We will occupy the dome of the rotunda, the steps outside the Capitol, and march into the offices of our elected officials. We will engage in peaceful civil disobedience for at least five
The plan:On April 2nd, a pioneering group of Americans will embark on a 10-day march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. and demand Congress consecutive days.

Millions of people will watch as Congress puts thousands of disciplined, dignified democracy defenders in handcuffs who are demanding it does its job and protect the bedrock American principle of "one person, one vote".

This mass civil disobedience will be led by Zephyr Teachout, Ben Cohen, Mark Ruffalo and all of you.

It’s time to launch the democracy movement towards victory. We are asking all of you who are part of our political revolution for Bernie to think beyond the 2016 primaries to the election cycle of 2017. A Bernie presidency will need a grassroots movement that is ready to do whatever it takes to force congress to pass laws and make our country work for the 99% once more.

Join the historic sit-in to save American democracy. Whether you plan on risking arrest or not we still need your support.

In Solidarity,
Winnie Wong, and Charles Lenchner

People for Bernie
http://www.peopleforbernie.com/

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[2banon]

1. Hang on here. I respectfully request you edit your op to

make it perfectly clear in no uncertain terms, that Bernie Sanders campaign did NOT author, send, or authorize this message.

Please make that correction for the sake of Bernie's campaign.

Thank you in advance.

[Playinghardball]

3. I agree...Thanks!

[2banon]

2. Let me be clear, I completely support a march on Washington

I think that's a great idea. I hope to see it come to fruition!

In solidarity!

[2banon]

4. thanks playingforhardball!

[jeepers]

5. Great publicity

When was the last time Washington was any more than inconvenienced by one of these protest marches?
Occupy Wall Street was a national movement with protest and occupations in many cities, what did it change other than peoples awareness? As I said, good publicity.

You say you want a revolution. Get down where the need is, where the ideas come from, where the people organize, where you have a voice, where change happens. Where you live, Work the states. That is where change happens, enough activism at state level pressures Washington to act.

Protest marches will bring out the people and spread the word but we need action that can put pressure on DC and govt. We can do that at the state level.

[malokvale77]

6. Mostly, I agree.

But I live in Texas, which was the blueprint for anti-education.

Far too many states have followed that road.

I had to jump through hoops and spend money I couldn't afford to retain my right to vote. I had to do the same thing for my blind brother.

I'm still waiting for the Democratic Party too stand up for voters rights. All I've seen so far is complicity.