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THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRACY ACT Northern California Volunteer Page

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George Lakoff video 2/27/2010

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With your help, fiscally broken California
in November 2010 can pass a ballot measure called The California Democracy Act authored by
Dr. George Lakoff. The California Democracy Act Campaign is dedicated to making this happen.
This is your chance to make California history.
 

List of Lists for Events on 3/4
* In the News Re: March 4
* k-12 schools (CTA)
* California State Universities (CFA)
* labor + schools + universities (CFT)
* list of miscelleneous events

Contact: news@ca4democracy.com if you have additional information


THE BALLOT MEASURE IS AN INITIATIVE WHICH CONSISTS OF 14 SIMPLE WORDS:

"All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote."

It strikes out the hyphenated word "two-thirds" and replaces it with "majority" in two places in the California State Constitution. The first instance deals with budget and the second with revenue. For the legislative text of the initiative click here

 

 

 

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ESPECIALLY FOR LABOR: A special web page devoted to our supporters in the labor movement.

Coming up on March 8 and 9, there will be a joint legislative confernece sponsored by the California Federation of Labor and The State Building and Construction Trades Council


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This link will take you to the video of the Song "Tyranny of the Minority", which Teed Rockwell wrote to promote the California Democracy Act. MORE DETAILS HERE

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Green 960, KGGN, the progressive talk radio station in the SF Bay Area is pushing our initiative with a radio spot and is featuring us on their webpage. Check it out!   Green 960 logo  
       

How To Make A Million!

Article by Jerry Lapiroff About David Fielder, Petition Circulator

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Mission: Save Public Education

The year is 2025. The public education system in California is broken. Community colleges and state universities have been shut down due to lack of funding. Those remaining open are private schools, available only to the wealthy......

Click here to read the rest of the story.


The Ugly History Page describes how we got to where we are, who benefitted and why we need to change it back to a majority. The Damage Page tells the story of a dying state strangled by the 2/3 rule and how the state's people are affected.
   

OUR MOST PRESSING NEED:

VOLUNTEERS TO CIRCULATE PETITIONS
From NOW until April 12 2010
---All over California
---Petition Signature Gathering
---1.3 million voter signatures

Thousands of volunteers will collect signatures by convincing voters that California Democracy Act is what is needed to save the California we love.
How to become a petition circulator

We need volunteers for other tasks as well, such as speaking to organizations, data entry, office work, fundraising, media outreach, web site maintenance, publicity, graphic design, event planning, scheduling, phone banking and coordinating the operation. Please fill out a volunteer form to get into the campaign database. That will help us to be more organized in each county and city. You can get this form at the
Official Site:  www.CaliforniansForDemocracy.com 

 

 

If you are a student, you can also join the California Democracy Act Coalition. It is completely managed and run by high school, college, university, private school and graduate students. You will receive the opportunity to become a leader in your own school or college community as well as to help the Student Leadership Statewide Team.

Here is the application to work with the student coalition:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDRSY0FaTlFrWGpLYnIyY1lUZ2l4VkE6MA

If you know of anyone else who would be interested, please send this to them!

For questions or concerns, please contact the student team at california.democracy.coalition@gmail.com.

 

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