Subject: [big campaign] FW: Emergency 50-State Mobilization this Saturday
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:09:43 -0500
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

See call to action below from MoveOn - Lenore asked me to fwd it out.

DD

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From: Lenore Palladino <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:54:51 -0500
To: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
Subject: Fwd: Emergency 50-State Mobilization this Saturday

Hey David! I hope all's well. Two questions:

 *   Would you all be interested in endorsing this call to action?
 *   Could you possibly re-forward this to bigcampaign@, since it wouldn't let me post there? Trying to get the word out as broadly as possible.

Thanks.

All,

What's happening in Wisconsin is a crucial, turning point moment for our country and for the progressive movement. We've been doing whatever we can think of to support what's happening in WI and help nationalize the pushback and spread the fight, including recruiting for the rallies happening around the country yesterday and today.

But we need a big next thing to look forward to.  So we're launching a call to action for a major mobilization to Save the American Dream for this Saturday at Noon, with rallies in front of every state house.

This is rapid response: we started on this last night. We'll have an event sign-up page up shortly.

Current organizations endorsing the rally are MoveOn, Van Jones, PCCC, CREDO, Color of Change, Democracy for America, NPA, Center for Community Change, Courage Campaign, and Progressive Majority.

Labor folks, including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and AFSCME are all supportive and feel like it's crucial for the broader progressive community to take the lead on this and show that it's not just unions mobilizing.

This is a movement moment. If we all pile on, we can help the bravery of folks in Wisconsin become the spark that ignites a broader, grassroots push against the right-wing cuts and for economic justice. If you're interested in piling on and can promote events either at the state level or nationally, let me know directly ([email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> ) or email [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> . Also, if your organization can be the anchor organization for a particular city or cities, please let us know ASAP.

For individual sign-up and promotion, go to http://pol.moveon.org/callforaction

* Emergency Call to Action *

50-State Mobilization to Save the American Dream

Saturday, February 26 at 12pm (local time)

Calling all students, teachers, union members,  workers, patriots, public servants, unemployed folks, progressives, and people of conscience:

In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response and vital human services.  The right to organize is on the chopping block.  The American Dream is slipping out of reach for more and more Americans, and we have to fight back.

We call for emergency rallies in front of every state house this Saturday at 12 Noon to stand in solidarity with the people of Wisconsin. We demand an end to the attacks on workers' rights and public services across the country. We demand investment, to create decent jobs for the millions of people  who desperately want to work. And we demand that the rich and powerful pay their fair share.

After decades of stagnant wages and a crushing recession, this latest assault on the American way of life is one the middle class cannot endure.

We are all Wisconsin.

We are all Americans.

This Saturday, we will stand together to save the American Dream.

lenore m. palladino
field director
[email-masked]

"We proved to the world, after the false image of Arabs being terrorists, that we brought down a dictator through peaceful means."

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