To all addressees :

Attention all who live in the DC Metro area: Housing for out-of-towners

is urgently needed for Jan. 19 and 20. If you live in the DC metro area

and can provide bed, couch or floor space, please call and e-mail George

Ripley, listed below, and also register the number of people you can

accommodate on http://www:j20.org

The latest roundup of events and resources contains these additions:

· Events in DC today, Martin Luther King’s Birthday;

· location of the Jan. 19 Progressive Challenge electoral reform forum:

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902;

· an earlier rally time (gather at 10, rally begins at 11) and additional details on the Day of Resistance, Shadow Inauguration march to the Supreme Court;

· Establishment of a Welcome Center at Kaffa House, 1212 U St. NW, phone 202-462-4513 (There will be a housing table at the center, but requests for housing are far greater than spaces identified thus far; hotels in the DC Metro area are full.);

· Three inauguration nite parties are planned—one at Kaffa House (above); other addresses will be posted later; and

· An additional list of websites at the end for information on practically everything.

Pro-Democracy Week: January 15-20, 2001 (as ofJanuary 15, 2001)

Contacts, Resources, Events, Voters’ Bill of Rights, Endorsers

Contacts and Resources for Pro-Democracy Week Planning:

Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)

Pro-Democracy Campaign

Phone: 973-338-5398

e-mail: indpol@igc.org

http://www.ippn.org and http:www.leftlink.org (These sites have the full

Voters’ Bill of Rights, list of local actions organized by state, and links to other key resources.)

Center for Voting and Democracy

(materials on instant run-off voting, proportional representation and

related subjects)

http://www.fairvote.org

Jan. 20 Million Voter March — Rally at Dupont Circle

Also list of local voter rights’ events around the country

http://www.VoterMarch.org

International Action Center (IAC)

Focus on opposition to death penalty and voter disfranchisement, justice

for Mumia Rally permit for 10 am at 14^th and Pennsylvania, NW; phone:

212-633-6646

http://www.iacenter.org (has flyers for downloading for J20 actions)

Justice Action Movement (JAM)

DC-area organizing coalition

Focus on decentralized training events and formation of small affinity

groups

http://www.inaugurauction.org or http://www.j20.org

Inauguration Day Song Parodies

http://www.agitate.net

HOUSING: (Space is extremely limited as of 1/15/01

DC Housing Coordinator

George Ripley

Phone: 202-986-5977

dchousingj20@juno.com

Additional Housing Coordination

Use http://www.j20.org to offer housing or indicate need for housing.

There is a housing listserve at

http://j20housingdc-subscribe@egroups.org

There will be a Welcome Center at Kaffa House, 1212 U St. NW,

202-462-4513

See additional resources at the end of this messag

Washington DC Calendar

Saturday, Jan 13: “Focus on Police Brutality” was an enormous success. Congratulations to Linda Schade, Zein el-Amine and the Justice Action Coalition on a job excellently done.

Monday, Jan. 15, — Dr. King’s Birthday

Justice Action Movement-initiated Martin Luther King Day Parade through

Anacostia at 12:00 noon. Meet at 11 am Birney Elementary School at the

corner of MLK Rd. and Sumner Rd. which is just south of the Frederick

Douglas Memorial Bridge on MLK Rd. and about 2/3 rds of a mile south of

the Anacostia Metro stop on MLK Rd. Bring banners and signs which point

to the justice efforts of your organization. Bring drums, noise makers, puppets and flags. The parade route is about 3 miles long.

Street Theater at 3:30 pm in front of the Supeme Court: “Lady Justice

and the Silent Majority: Down But Not Out”

Friday, Jan. 19, 10 am-5:30 pm Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902:

Institute for Policy Studies-sponsored and AfD-endorsed Progressive

Challenge Capitol Hill Forum on Electoral Issues and the Voters’ Bill of

Rights. Take North Elevators to 9^th Floor, 2^nd and C St, NE, 5 blocks from Union Station Metro. See attached agenda.

Saturday, Jan. 20 (Bush is sworn in at noon at the Capitol; parade from Capitol to White House along Pennsylvania Ave. follows swearing-in.)

Voter March — Rally and Speakers beginning at 10 am at Dupont Circle (on

Metro Red Line), after which participants will go in affinity groups to inaugural parade route. Rally at the Ellipse (south of White House) after the inaugural parade. (See http://www.votermarch.org for more details.)

Day of Resistance and Shadow Inaugural March and Rally at the Supreme

Court— gather at 10 am; rally and ceremonies begin at 11 am, Stanton

Park, near the Supreme Court (see below). The Supreme Court

demonstration

was initiated by Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network. It

now

includes in leadership: Ron Daniels/Center for Constitutional Rights,

Walter Fauntroy/National Black Leadership Roundtable, the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King III and the Detroit

chapter of the NAACP. The demonstration will assemble at the 6^th St. NE

end of Stanton Park, which runs between 4^th and 6^th Streets NE,

intersected by Maryland Ave. NE, just a few blocks from the Supreme

Court

and by Imani Temple Church. By Metro, take the Red Line to Union

Station

and walk toward the Capitol and Supreme Court. Cross Constitution Ave.,

walk one block to Maryland Ave. and turn left, following it to the rally.

International Action Center-convened rally protesting the death penalty

and voter disenfranchisement, 10 am, permit has been granted for Freedom

Plaza and the Justice Dept. at 14^th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

Inaugural Parade (begins at 2 pm): Pennsylvania Ave., between the White

House and the Capitol: Protesters will form in groups of 25 or fewer so

as not to exceed the limit of number needing a permit. (Families of 2 or 3 people could be a group.)

Counter-Inaugural Parties are planned at several sites in the northwest sector of DC. One will be at Kaffa House, 1212 U St. Times and addresses for others will be posted when they are announced.

Sunday, Jan. 21

Various organizations are planning follow-up meetings

A Voters’ Bill of Rights (see http:www.ippn.org or http://www.leftlink.org for full version)

1) Strict Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act

2) Abolition of the Electoral College

3) Clean Money Elections

4) Instant Runoff Voting

5) Proportional Representation

6) Voting Rights for Former Prisoners

7) Make Voting Easier and More Reliable

8) Easier Candidate Access to the Ballot, Media and Debates

9) Independent and Non-Partisan Election Bodies

10) Statehood for the District of Columbia

Endorsers of Pro-Democracy Week as of 1/9/01(more join every day)

National and Multi-State Groups

1. 1 World Communication (www.1worldcommunication.org)

2. Alliance for Democracy (www.afd-online.org) 3. Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (www.coax.net/people/lwf/bfaa.htm)

4. Campaign to End the Death Penalty (www.nodeathpenalty.org.)

5. Center for Constitutional Rights (ccr@igc.apc.org.)

6. Center for Voting and Democracy (www.fairvote.org)

7. Coalition to Save the Urban Forest (www.urbanforestsave.org.)

8. Committees of Correspondence (www.cofc.org.)

9. Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org)

10. Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4peace.org.)

11. The Greens/GPUSA (www.greenparty.org)

12. Independent Progressive Politics Network (www.ippn.org)

13. International Socialist Organization

(www.internationalsocialist.org.)

14. Institute for Southern Studies (www.southernstudies.org.)

15. National Lawyers Guild (www.nlg.org.)

16. North American Farm Alliance

17. Organizers’ Collaborative (www.organizenow.net)

18. Progressive Challenge (Institute for Policy Studies)

(www.netprogress.org)

19. Project South (www.projectsouth.org)

20. Quantum Leap 2000 (www.QuantumLeap2000.org)

21. Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org)

22. Reform America (www.reformamericainc.org.)

23. Ruckus Society (www.ruckus.org)

24. Save the Redwoods/Boycott the GAP (www.gapsucks.org.)

25. The Shalom Center (www.shalomctr.org)

26. TIKKUN Magazine (www.tikkun.org)

27. Unity and Diversity World Council

28. We the People

29. Z Magazine (www.zmag.org.)

30. ZNET (www.zmag.org)

State and Local Groups (alphabetically by state abbreviation)

1. AZ - Arizona State U. Campus Greens

2. AZ - Green Party of Pima County

3. CA - Campaign for Municipal Democracy, Los Angeles

4. CA - Peace and Freedom Party, LA County (www.peaceandfreedom.org.)

5. DC - Alliance for Democracy (www.afd-online.org)

6. DC - Statehood Green Party (www.freespeech.org/dcstatehood/) 7. HI - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Coalition 8. IL - War Zone Education Foundation (Decatur) 9. IN - Community, Faith and Labor Coalition (Indianapolis)

10. IN - Our Party (Indianapolis)

11. IN -St. Joe Valley Greens (South Bend) (www.sjvgreens.org)

12. IL - Edgewater-Uptown Greens of Chicago (www.edgeupgreens.org.) 13. MA - MA Bay South Alliance for Democracy 14. MD - Coalition Against Global Exploitation, Baltimore (cage@mobtown.org.)

15. MO - Green Party of St. Louis

16. MO - Mid-Missouri Peaceworks (http://peaceworks.missouri.org.— peaceworks@coin.org.

17. NY - New York City Greens

18. NY - Westside Local Green Party

19.OH - Alternative Communications (Celina)

20. OR - Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment (Portland)

(www.asje.org.)

21. PA - Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (www.pcan.org)

22. WI - Progressive Dane (Madison)

23. WI - Wisconsin Green Party (www.excel.net/~pdrewry/wigreen.htm)

Attachment: Progressive Challenge Agenda: Jan. 19

The Progressive Challenge:

An Action Agenda on Electoral Reform

January 19, 2001

Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

10:00am-5:30pm

Exact location to be announced at www.ips-dc.org

Sponsored by: Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus including

Barbara Lee, Bernie Sanders, Earl Hilliard, the Institute for Policy

Studies, the Center for Voting and Democracy, the Nation Institute, and

the member groups of the Progressive Challenge Network

This forum is the kick-off event for a multi-issue action planning

series over the first three months of the 107^th Congress. The forums are

opportunity for Progressives to focus on issues where there are strong

citizen action coalitions, good progressive legislation, and political

momentum for joint action between local organizations and Congressional

allies over the next year. Future forums will examine measures to deepen

democracy, shrink the wealth gap, extend health care to the uninsured, fix the system that has incarcerated 2 million citizens, and promote global economic and environmental justice. Please see www.ips-dc.org in the coming weeks for future Progressive Challenge forums.

10am-11:30pm The Legacy of Dr. King: A Progressive Vision

Moderator: John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies

Opening remarks: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Chair of the Congressional

Progressive Caucus

Ron Dellums*: The Legacy of Dr. King

Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Rev. Walter Fauntroy, National Black Leadership Roundtable

Rep. Barbara Lee*

Rep. Bernie Sanders

Bob Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future

*invited.

11:30-1:00 Plenary on Electoral Reform and Clean Money Elections

Moderator: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Magazine

Rep Jesse Jackson Jr.*

Rep. Cynthia McKinney

Rob Richie, Center for Voting and Democracy

Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund*

Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School

Nick Nyhart, Executive Director, Public Campaign

Stephanie Wilson, Fannie Lou Hamer Project Ron Daniels, Center for

Constitutional Rights

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Session 1 of Workshops on Electoral Reform and Clean Elections

(breakout rooms)

· Clean Money, Clean Elections, Alliance for Democracy and Public

Campaign

· 2000 Electoral Rights Violations and Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, Anita Hodgkiss, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights

· Organizing strategies for Instant Runoff Voting and Proportional Representation, Center for Voting and Democracy

· Independent Electoral and Debates Commissions, Jamin Raskin, American University Law School and Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange

3:45-5:15 Session 2 of Workshops on Electoral and Campaign Finance

Reform

· The Voters’ Bill of Rights: Building a Broad-based Pro-Democracy Movement, Ted Glick of theIndependent Progressive Politics Network, and

Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange

· “Taxation Without Representation”: Voting Rights for Washington, DC, Martin Thomas, Stand Up for Democracy Coalition

· Building Pro-democracy Commissions: The DeFazio/Leach bill and local strategies

· Fusion and Instant Runoff Voting: a strategy for complementary action,

ACORN

No pre-registration required. For more information contact the Progressive Challenge Project at IPS 202-234-9382,x238 or a-quinn@mindspring.com19.

Additional Links for more information

J20 BIG PICTURE

· links:

· J20 Desirable Futures,

· J20 Paths To Desirable Futures

· J20 Present Position

· J20 Past History

· J20 Security

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· J20 DESIRABLE FUTURES

· How To Make U.S. Democracy Democratic

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001215.html

· http://www.truedemocracy.org

· http://www.fairvote.org

· http://www.ballot-access.org

· How To Make U.S. Life Livable

· http://www.leftlink.org

· http://www.peoplesconvention.com/directory.htm

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· J20 PATHS TO DESIRABLE FUTURES

· J20 update for DC

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010111.html

· http://www.iacenter.org/j20_permit.htm

· Tickets Must be Requested for Inauguration Bleachers

· http://dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4687

· Inauguration Hot Line Offers Ticket Information

· http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16343-2001Jan3.html

· J20 Protest

· http://www.j20.org

· http://inaugurauction.org

· 1-212-614-6429

· J20 Protest in LA

· http://www.actionla.org/J20/

· International Action Center

· http://www.iacenter.org

· 1-212-633-6646

· Thousands Expected to Protest Bush Inauguration

· http://dc.indymedia.org

· KWRU Plans on Protesting

· the Inauguration of President Bush

· http://www.kwru.org/updates/01-02-01.html

· INAUGUR-AUCTION: A New Direction for Protest

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010108.html

· Why Protest?

· http://www.iacenter.org/j20_eleven.htm

· Be Prepared

· http://dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4567

· Legal Guide to Inauguration Protests

· http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4567

· http://www.InaugurAuction.org/training.asp

· Guide To The Inauguration Protests

· http://dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4689

· Inauguration 2001 Schedule of Official Events

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/inauguration2001/schedule0105

01.

htm

· List of Organized Teach-ins and Counter Protests > (to date)

· http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4695

· Black Block

· http://www.infoshop.org/coronation.html

· CounterCoup

· http://www.countercoup.org

· DemocracyMarch.org

· http://www.democracymarch.org

· Inaugural Voter March

· http://www.votermarch.org

· Independent Progressive Politics Network

· http://www.ippn.org

· Mumia2000.org

· http://www.mumia2000.org

· National Organization of Women

· http://www.now.org

· Presidential Inaugural Committee

· http://www.inauguration-2001.org

· Groups Begin counter inaugural, fight city to protest

· http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4720

· Inauguration: Unprecedented Crowd, Checkpoints, Searches

· http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0110-01.htm

· More J20

· http://dc.indymedia.org/j20.php3

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· J20 PRESENT POSITION

· Independent Media Center in Washington D.C.

· http://dc.indymedia.org

· Independent Media Center Global

· http://indymedia.org

· Democracy Now Radio Show

· http://www.democracynow.org/stations.html

· http://www.democracynow.org

· http://www.webactive.com

· KWRU Radio Show

· http://www.kwru.org

· AGITATE

· http://www.agitate.net

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· J20 PAST HISTORY

>American Mythology

· http://www.13myths.org

· Black Caucus Walks Out On Bush Certification

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010109.html

· Electoral College Vote For Bush Sparks Protests

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001219.html

· Citizens and Newspapers Plan to Count the Votes

· the US Supreme Court Rejected

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001215.html

· Civil Rights Leadership

· Denounces Election as Illegitimate

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001214.html

· New Evidence:

· Machines Cost Gore Another 316 Florida Votes

· http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0106-01.htm

· U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Allow Florida Recount,

· Bush Poised to Assume Presidency

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001213.html

· As Supreme Court Decides Presidency

· Chief Justice Rehnquist is Accused of

· Past Harassment of Black Voters at the Polls

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001212.html

· The Electoral College and Election 2000

> :A Historical Perspective from Howard Zinn

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001208.html

· Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks on the Disenfranchised

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001130.html

· Mob Politics: How Bush Supporters and

· Republican Congressional Staffers

· Stopped the Miami-Dade Recount

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001129.html

· Something Stinks in Fla.

http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-11-10/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-87

984

.asp

· Real Vote Victims: Minorities

http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-11-17/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-88

896

.asp

· Slavery’s Legacy: How Florida Shackled

· Thousands of Black Voters

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001129.html

· Democracy in Chains

· http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0048/fridgeway.shtml

· As Vote Count Continues, A Witness Describes

· Voter Harassment In Florida

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001120.html

· Voteless In Florida: Criminal Records

· Prevent Hundreds of Thousands from Voting

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001113.html

· Voteless in Florida

· http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/floridavote.html

· The Right To Vote:

· A History of Democracy in the United States

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001127.html

· A Look At The History Of ELections 2000

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001113.html

· Why Americans Don’t Vote (part I and II)

· and Why Politicians Want It That Way

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001010.html

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20001011.html

· http://www.beacon.org/f00cat/piven.html

· A Constitution That Disrespects Its People

· from the book

· Toward An American Revolution

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/ConstituDisrespects_TAR.html

· Why Do Corporations Have More Rights Than You?

· http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/RightFrame.html

· Democracy Now Radio Show Archive

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/archive.html

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· J20 SECURITY

· Inaugural Protesters Charge That

· Police Security Is Chilling Free Speech

· http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010111.html

· Protest Organizers Ask Police

· to Explain Their Intentions

· http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id4694

· J20 Infiltrator

· http://www.sinkers.org/cop-exposedDec2700/index.html

· A16 Law Suit by Partnership for Civil Justice

· at the A16 Legal Web Site

· http://justiceonline.org

· 1-202-530-5630

· Bugs, Taps and Infiltrators:

· What To Do About Political Spying

· http://www.drugsense.org/jnr/bugstaps.htm

· If An Agent Knocks

· http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/ifanagentknocks.html

· The Rise of the National Security State:

· FEMA and the NSC

· http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/fema/Fema_0.htm