Announcing special guest, Scott Silber, on a west coast tour, sponsored by Move to Amend, Olympia. Many others are co-sponsoring events in Seattle, and Portland. We will have fliers for all of these sessions on the Events page, as each is confirmed.
We need to know how many are attending each session, so please register at www.MovetoAmend.orgContact Molly at 360-412-1519, or Andrew at 360-359-8612 with any questions. Thank you!
About Scott Silber
Scott Silber is the former organizing director of Colorado's public workers' union and served as lead faculty at the Youth Organizing Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development. Since 1994 his campaigns --in three dozen states and four continents to date-- continue to add to a community-based toolbox for grassroots empowerment. He works nationally today on "Intervention 2013," a strategy for worker and student walkouts demanding a New New Deal process, beginning with an amendment abolishing corporate personhood and making all electoral campaigns publicly funded.
Scott is the Executive Director of National Intervention, which treats money in politics as an addictive substance. Intervention calls for a national deadline for the ratification of any amendment that abolishes corporate personhood and requires publicly funded elections, viewing any such amendment proposal as an urgent "sobriety checkpoint" for any elected official.
In the event Congress fails to pass that amendment "sobriety test" in time, National Intervention organizes a block-by-block "12-Step National Recovery Platform" campaign, calling on all of us who may be enablers of the addiction system to draw strong boundaries in our relationship to the addicts in power for a new social contract (a New New Deal) while we still have time. Climate Crisis is fueling our urgency. See www.nationalintervention.org.
IMPORTANT: Directions for the Georgetown campus, where the 7 hour training takes place Saturday, Feb 16th, at 6737 Corson Ave. South, are located at http://georgetown.southseattle.edu/general/directions.aspx--Please read them (so you don't arrive at the wrong campus!)
Dates and times: Fliers are posted at the top of MovetoAmendOlympia.org Events page, feel free to distribute widely.
Weds, Feb 13th, 1:30 pm Evergreen State College Seminar II Bldg, C 1107
Thurs, Feb 14th, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 902 Columbia St, (9th and Columbia Bldg), Third floor conference room
Thurs, Feb 14th, Seattle pending finalization
Fri. Feb 15th, Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St., Olympia 6:30 pm (Tacoma friends join us)
Sat., Feb 16th, SSCC Georgetown campus, Bldg C, rm 212. Day long training, lunch provided. $40.
Sun, Feb 17th Portland UU Church, 7 pm -- TV session in the afternoon
Thanks so much for sharing widely. Fliers are posted on the Events page, where you can download them. We are trying to finalize the Seattle venue for a shorter talk. All of you would enjoy the full day at Georgetown, it will be inspiring, challenging and timely.
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