[OBupdates] Fwd: Democracy Spring is Coming --- And DSA Will Be There! And You?

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We have big plans for this spring. The *Democratic Socialists of America,
Young Democratic Socialists, AFL-CIO, People for Bernie, People Demanding
Action, United States Student Association, Working Families Party* and a
growing coalition of over 100 groups are organizing Democracy Spring — one
of the largest American civil disobedience actions in a generation — this
April in Washington, D.C.






*Over 2,200 people have already pledged to risk arrest – let Democracy
Spring know you’re ready to make history.
<http://www.dsausa.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyspring.org&e=a21c6dce20a4c31f5a18510ca7e6f602a0be9301&utm_source=dsausa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=demspring1&n=1>Please
fill out this form
<http://www.dsausa.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2F19rZxB3vZIs1e7YrLsUfEhEKtjEeSQojkMoiiMacqEnM%2Fviewform&e=a21c6dce20a4c31f5a18510ca7e6f602a0be9301&utm_source=dsausa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=demspring1&n=2>
to let DSA if you are interested in joining other members while in
DC.[image: democracyspring_bak_copy.jpg]*

Our democracy is in a state of emergency. The 2016 election will be the
most big money-dominated, secret money-drenched, voter suppression-marred
contest in modern history, with an estimated price tag of $10 billion.

If the status quo is left unchallenged, this election is almost certain to
produce a president and a Congress more bound to the masters of big money
than ever before, halting progress on the urgent problems facing our
nation: from labor and racial justice, to climate change, to wealth and
income inequality, to mass incarceration. Our people and our planet simply
cannot afford for that to happen.

But there is another way. We can intervene in the business-as-usual of this
election cycle and make it a turning point toward reform by coming together
in mass nonviolent action to demand true political equality for all
Americans.

Pledge to be one among thousands who will sit-in and risk arrest to save
democracy.
<http://www.dsausa.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyspring.org%2F&e=a21c6dce20a4c31f5a18510ca7e6f602a0be9301&utm_source=dsausa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=demspring1&n=3>

The time has come to take back our democracy. We can create a watershed
moment in this country that rapidly shifts the political weather,
catapulting this issue onto center stage, and impacting the election to
lift up the candidates who will fight for fundamental reform and leave
behind those who fail to heed the people’s call.

Join the historic sit-in to save American democracy. Even if you can’t risk
arrest, we need you with us. We need your support.
<http://www.dsausa.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyspring.org%2F&e=a21c6dce20a4c31f5a18510ca7e6f602a0be9301&utm_source=dsausa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=demspring1&n=4>

In solidarity,
David Duhalde

P.S.: Here’s the most current 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., at which time
Congress will be faced with a simple choice: take immediate action to make
the 2016 elections free and fair for all people as equal citizens, or be
prepared to send thousands of patriotic Americans to jail simply for
demanding an equal voice.

When the marchers arrive, they will be greeted by the thousands who have
gathered in Washington from all across the country to be a part of this
historic moment. At that point, either Congress will have miraculously come
to its senses and passed the perfectly viable reform bills now pending
before it, or those who protect corruption will leave us no choice but to
reclaim the People’s House in mass nonviolent sit-ins.

Beneath the dome of the rotunda, on the steps outside the Capitol, and in
the offices of our elected officials, we will engage in peaceful civil
disobedience for at least five consecutive days. Millions of people will
watch as Congress puts thousands of disciplined, dignified democracy
defenders in handcuffs instead of simply doing its job to protect the
bedrock American principle of "one person, one vote," to ensure equal
representation for all people.



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-- 
"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits
of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11
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