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Below I'm reprinting an e-mail from Victor Tiffany from Move To Amend, an organization doing great work in this effort. Please look at all the ways you can join in this, and other, very important efforts to get money out of politics. Please join the "Rapid Response" to McCutcheon v FEC through "Thunderclap," find an event near you to participate in.
"If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by
tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any
big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside,
or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do
about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three
more like them spring up!"
~~Pete Seeger
Hi folks,
The response to the final environmental report on Keystone XL was an unbelievably powerful message to the president on Monday night, when over 10,000 people gathered at an astounding 283 vigils in 49 states, plus DC and Canada, to protest Keystone XL. Organized in just 72 hours, it was the biggest, rapid-response, on-the-ground demonstration of Obama’s presidency.
We can duplicate that response to the McCutcheon decision, but we need to deploy our social media resources right away.
The following are suggested messages for those with Twitter and Facebooks accounts to use.
First, this is the ThunderClap tweet, scheduled for Feb. 20, and it's something you can sign up to participate in, if you have not already, here:
https://www.thunderclap.it/
The ThunderClap will read:
“IT'S COMING! Did YOU sign up for a #McCutcheon response event? Do it today: http://www.moneyout-votersin. org #getmoneyout
http://thndr.it/1aZmav2”
Second, I suggest for Twitter users between now and Feb 20th when the ThunderClap will go out:
IT'S COMING! Did YOU sign up for a #McCutcheon response event? Do it today: http://www.moneyout-votersin. org #getmoneyout
http://tinyurl.com/mj4luxc
Third, For Facebook users, I suggest:
The U.S. Supreme Court could issue its ruling in the case some are calling the next Citizens United any day starting Feb. 24th. On October 8, 2013 the Court heard arguments for McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. Never before has our political campaign system been as corrupted as now with unlimited corporate spending and dark money. Our
democracy is eroding before us. But all over the country people are
also fighting back and demanding change.
Now is the time to take our fight to the next level and mobilize across the country on the day of the McCutcheon ruling. Have you signed up for a #McCutcheon response event? Do it today: #getmoneyout
Are you with MoveOn? They can blast this out regionally. People for the American Way just sent a blast out to promote this to their members today. We can double the number of events currently planned, but it will require effort from everyone with access to social media. We still have at least two full weeks and three weekends to build this Rapid Response. A copy and paste effort on Twitter and Facebook won't take but a few minutes.
Ready? Set. Post.
Victor Tiffany
Acting State-wide Coordinator, Move to Amend
Writer, The Syracuse Examiner
Senior Columnist, The Amendment Gazette
Ithaca, NY 14850
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