:) i'll meet you guys on white bridge road -- oh, i can't wait! i'll be wearing orange fleece with "We Are Being Lied To" sticker on my back :) -- i'm going to try and get my husband's lunch crowd to come! software developer geeks for democracy!
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More from Bernie on tomorrow's rallies:
One suggestion out of our third Gathering To Save Our Democracy yesterday (Sunday, 1/2/05) in Nashville was to stage simultaneous rallies in front of all local offices of Senators Alexander and Frist across the state on Wednesday, 1/5/05. We would love to do this in every Tennessee city where these Senators maintain local offices, and to generate local press coverage for those rallies.
We already have the rallies organized for Nashville and Jackson but would like to have them happen in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Blountsville and the Tri-Cities area also. So if you're a Tennessean and can take a long lunch break on Wednesday, please PM me with your email address and I'll send you the details and hook you up with others from your city who want to join with you.
Our plan is to show up simultaneously (at 11:00 am CST Wednesday at Alexander's offices and at noon CST at Frist's offices) with pro voting rights and anti-election theft-related posters, orange ribbons and with the local media in tow. We also want to come prepared to hand to the local offices signed petitions asking Alexander and Frist to stand against accepting the Ohio electoral college votes and supporting a full inquiry into the 2004 election theft. A copy of the petition is attached. Please download and print a copy, collect signatures among your own communities, and then bring three copies (one original and two xeroxed copies) of your signed petitions to the rally (one for Alexander, one for Frist and one for us to fax to all our U.S. Representatives.)
While we know that this is a LONG shot to get our Senators to do the right thing (particularly for Frist), the chance to get local and statewide media coverage for the election theft is well worth it. And I expect it would be a bit unnerving for the Senators' Washington offices to get calls and faxes from ALL of their Tennessee offices on the election theft at the same time on Wednesday.
So if you live somewhere other than Nashville or Jackson, please write me back if you're up for facilitating a little statewide strategic street theater on Wednesday, and spread this message to other listservs and activists in your local area to create your own local response to the election theft. (I have attached another document that lists the locations of all statewide local offices for our Senators.) We will have a big crowd in Nashville and a very savvy group are handling things in Jackson. (If you live near Jackson, get in touch with Diane Brown at
[email protected] for details on Jackson's rally.) How about it, eastside and westside -- let's do this thing up right, all across the Orange State!!
More details on the Nashville rallies:
I hope that every one of you who lives near Nashville can take an early lunch hour on Wednesday, January 5, to join us for our rallies in front of the offices of Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Bill Frist in Nashville. We will rally at Senator Alexander's office first (at 11:00 am) and then will proceed en masse to Senator Frist's office. If you are unable to be with us at Senator Alexander's office, please join us at Senator Frist's office at around noon. (Wait for us if we're not there precisely at noon.) Be sure to bring lots of election fraud-related signs and wear your orange ribbons. Please pass the word among your co-workers, friends and family to join us there also.
I will work to get continued press coverage for these rallies and to support similar rallies in other Tennessee cities where our Senators have field offices. I will ask those cities in East Tennessee to start with Alexander's office at noon Eastern time and Frist's office at 1:00 pm Eastern time. The other cities in the Central time zone (Memphis and Jackson) should follow our Nashville timetable. If we are able to pull this off, our Senators will receive simultaneous phone calls and faxes from ALL of their Tennessee field offices that there are lots of concerned believers in the democratic process who will be watching their actions on January 6.
Here are the Nashville office addresses where we will be rallying:
Senator Lamar Alexander: Nashville
3322 West End Avenue, #120
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 736-5129
Fax: (615) 269-4803
Senator Bill Frist: Nashville
28 White Bridge Road, Suite 211
Nashville, TN 37205
615-352-941
615-352-9985 (fax)