Good morning all. How about some good news for your day? (A version of this is also up at TOP.)

Hope you are up for some good news for a change, news of our fellow citizens taking it to the streets.....

Emails from several groups have sent out invitations to a coordinated effort of diverse groups whose action includes a march from Philadelphia to an occupation in Washington DC :

Via Social Security Works email:

Today, Citizens from across the country are gathering in Philadelphia to march toward Washington. The march will culminate with a massive peaceful demonstration in our nation’s capital and demand that Congress act to strengthen our democracy.

Whoa, really and truly hopeful to see so many taking action.

The huge crowds at Sander’s rallies have been so inspiring.

Now people are making a stand to strengthen Democracy in this country, demanding changes to the broken system:

We demand that Congress pass:

The Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and increase protections against voting discrimination.
The Voter Empowerment Act, which would modernize voter registration and ensure equal access to voting for all.
The Democracy For All Amendment, which would overturn U.S. Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United and limit the undue influence of money in politics.
The Government By the People Act/Fair Elections Now Act, which would amplify small contributions from everyday Americans.

Greedy liars on Wall Street have used inequality to build wealth and power for decades. They have used this wealth and power to attempt to dismantle our Social Security system, Medicare, Medicaid, and any regulations that stand between them and consolidating more power.

Link to sign petition of support:

> Even if you can’t join the march, you can still show your support by signing this petition today.

Exciting to see, this is really and truly a grassroots BFD.

Just look at the groups supporting this

democracyawakening.org

We’re a broad coalition of organizations representing the labor, peace, environmental, student, racial justice, civil rights and money in politics reform movements. We share a firm belief that we will not win on the full range of policy issues we all care about until we combat attacks on voting rights and the integrity of the vote by big money.

Want to join our coalition? Endorse the mobilization.

350.org
350 Hawaii
99 Rise
act.tv
Adjunct Faculty Union
Adjunct Faculty Union Special Ops
AFL-CIO
African American Ministers In Action
Agenda Project
Alliance for a Green Economy
Alliance for Citizenship
Alliance for Democracy
Alternative Banking Group of OWS
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
Amazon Watch
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Family Voices
American Friends Service Committee
American Postal Workers Union
American Sustainable Business Council
Americans Take Action
Andrew Goodman Foundation
Artful Activist San Diego
Avaaz
Ballot Box Tees
Ben & Jerry's
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT)
Big Apple Coffee Party
BlueWave NJ
Brandywine Peace Community
Brave New Films
Bridgeroots
Broader Representation Advocacy Team (BRAT-PAC)
Campaign for America's Future
Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy
Center for Biological Diversity
Center of Concern
Center for Earth Ethics
Center for Emergent Diplomacy
Center for Environmental Health
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Popular Democracy
CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
Center on Conscience & War
Chapel of Support for Women's Rights & Justice
Church Women United in New York State
Clean Elections Texas
Coalition to Restore Democracy
CODEPINK
Coffee Party USA
Coffee Party Savannah
Collections B2NGO Missions
Common Cause
Common Cause Hawaii
Common Ground for Texans
Communications Workers of America
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Conscientious Credit Funding Organization
Conscious Elders Network
Consortorium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
Corporate Accountability International
Courage Campaign
CREDO Action
Crescent City Media Group/Open Democracy Project
Daily Kos
Dallas MoveOn Council
Dancing Roots Farm
DC for Democracy
DC Environmental Network
DC Fair Budget Coalition
DC Jobs With Justice
DC Latino Caucus
DC Vote
DC Working Families
Delaware Get Money Out
Demand Progress
Demand Universal Healthcare (DUH)
Democracy 21
Democracy for America

Democracy in Action Chicago
Democracy Initiative
Democracy Matters
Demos
DuBois - Bunche Center for Public Policy
Earth Day Network
Elder-Activists
Endangered Species Coalition
Energy Action Coalition
Equality Federation
Every Voice
Fair Elections Legal Network
Family Farm Defenders
Fellowship of Reconciliation
First Unitarian Church of Wilmington
Fix Democracy First
Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment
Food & Water Watch
Franciscan Action Network
Free Speech For People
Friends of the Earth - United States
Genius Hip Hop
Get Money Out MD
"Go, Granny D!"
Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition
Greenpeace
Hightower Lowdown
Housatonic River Initiative
Humanist Leader Productions
In Granny D's Footsteps
Innovative Digital Media Marketing
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Policy Studies
Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
Interfaith Power & Light
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Jobs With Justice
Just Foreign Policy
Keystone Progress
Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
League of Conservation Voters
Main Street Alliance
March Against Corruption
Mark Osten Consulting
Marriage Equality USA
Maryland Committee to Amend
Maryland United for Peace and Justice
MAYDAY.US
Money Out Voters In
Money Out, Voters In Wisconsin
MoneyOut! PeopleIn!
MoveOn Austin Council
MoveOn.org
NAACP
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
National Council of Jewish Women
National Family Farm Coalition
National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
National LGBTQ Task Force
National Nurses United
National Organization for Women
Native Organizers Alliance
Nazareth Housing Dev. Corp.
Neighborhood Commerce Institute
NETWORK
Network of Spiritual Progressives
New American Leaders Project
New Economy Maryland, a project of IPS
New Progressive Alliance
New York for Democracy Coalition
NH Independent Voters
NH Rebellion
No Longer Strangers
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
North Jersey Public Policy Network
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Northwest Bronx for Change
Occupy.com
Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)
Office of the Americas
Oil Change International

Organic Consumers Association
Organize Now
Other98.org
Our Green Nation
OWS Special Projects Affinity Group
Pacifism 21
Participatory Politics
Pay 2 Play
Peace Action
Peace Education and Action Center
Peaceworkers
People Demanding Action
People For the American Way
PeopleNow.org
People Over Politics
The People's Email Network
Pesticide Action Network
Phenomenal Diversity Dolls
Pride at Work
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
Project Vote
Public Citizen
Ramsay Merriam Fund
Reclaim Our American Democracy (R.O.A.D.) From Big Money
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Restore Democracy Group NJPPN
ReThink Media
Roosevelt Network
RootsAction.org
Rootskeeper
Rootstrikers
Say No To Big Money
SEIU
Shalom Center
Sierra Club
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Institute Justice Team
Small Planet Institute
Southern Anti-Racism Network
Southern Illinois People for Progress
Stamp Stampede
Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC)
Story of Stuff Project
Student Debt Crisis
SUMAR PLEGATS
Tabor House Community
Takoma Park Veterans of Foreign Peace (Peace Corps Vets)
Targeted Individuals Activism
thagreymatter
The Coalition to Restore Democracy
The Helpers Organization
THE US REBEL ALLIANCE
The Workmen’s Circle
Tigard First
Tikkun
Treasure Coast Florida Politics
unifyUS
Union of Concerned Scientists
Urban Citizens for Social Justice
U.S. Action
U.S. Labor Against the War
U.S. Peace Action
U.S. PIRG
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice in the National Capital Region
United States Student Association
United for Peace & Justice
Universal Health Care Action Network
UnKoch My Campus
Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice & Peace
Washington Peace Center
We Are Seneca Lake
Western Mass Jobs With Justice
We the People of Kansas
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
Wisconsin Grassroots Network
Wisconsin United to Amend
Wolf Pac - The Young Turks
Women Donors Network
World Beyond War
WV Citizen Action
Young People For (YP4)

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