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Greg Palast in Boston: Steal the Vote '08
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A Benefit for The Alliance for
Democracy and Election Defense Alliance
Thursday, September 28, 7:30 p.m.
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Church St. and Mass. Ave. - use the main entrance on Mass. Ave.
The church is handicapped accessible.
Purchase advance tickets here.
Is the fix in for '08? And what can we do about it? Find out when Greg
Palast, "America's best investigative journalist" and author of Armed
Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy speaks Thursday,
September 28, 7:30 p.m., at the First Parish Church, 3 Church St.,
Harvard Square, Cambridge.
His talk is a fundraiser for Election Defense Alliance (a project of
the International Humanities Center) and the Alliance for Democracy.
Event co-sponsors include Boston Mobilization, Massachusetts Global
Action and Velvet Revolution.
Greg was
a speaker at the Alliance's 2002 National Convention in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, where he described the partisan disenfranchisement of
thousands of mostly black, overwhelmingly Democrat voters on the orders
of Florida's Republican secretary of state Katherine Harris (who
was also Bush's Florida campaign co-chair).
Greg broke that story in the
UK media (the US media were strangely disinterested!). He's written for
the Guardian/Observer and Harper's, and appeared on the BBC, Democracy
Now, and Air America. You can read excerpts from Armed Madhouse.
We're very
honored to be hosting Greg in the Boston area, and hope you'll be there
to be amused, outraged and inspired by his talk. For an update on Greg check out his blog.
Here is a recent article:
Some
years from now, in an economic refugee relocation “Enterprise Zone,”
your kids will ask you, “What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?”
The trick of class war is not to let the victims know
they’re under attack. That’s how, little by little, the owners of the
planet take away what little we have.
This week, Dupont, the chemical giant, slashed employee pension benefits by two-thirds. [More...]
The suggested donation is a sliding scale from $10 to $20 in advance, $20 at the door. Order
tickets here, or by phone at 781-894-1179, M-F, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m., or by
mail to the Alliance for Democracy, PO Box 540115, Waltham, MA 02454.
Election Defense Alliance is a new
group established as a national coordinating body for the 150+
grassroots groups working at the local and state level throughout the
nation to restore integrity and public control of the voting process in
the United States and to ensure that our elections are honest, secure,
transparent, and worthy of the public trust. AfD’s Boston/Cambridge
chapter has voted to work closely with them during the upcoming
election season.
Purchase advance tickets here.
For more information, contact the AfD office at 781-894-1179 or at
afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org |
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