More info on the Nashville election reform conference (and a web-link)

[Fly by night]

I am writing to invite all Tennesseans to join us at a national conference on the 2004 election and the need for election reform that we are hosting in Nashville on April 8-10. We would certainly appreciate as many election reform activists as possible from Tennessee attending the conference and helping promote this historic Gathering far and wide. The speakers we have assembled are among the most notable in the election reform and election justice movement (they're listed in another thread below.) This will be a rare opportunity for us here in Tennessee that should not be missed.

Please use the following information to promote the conference on your listservs and to your email lists. This information contains a web-link where people can obtain more information about the conference, where they can register and where (if they can't attend) they can donate to help cover conference expenses. People who donate to support the conference will receive videotapes of the twelve hours of plenary sessions. If any of you have questions, please get back in touch. Come on, Tennessee, let's show the nation we can about election reform and election justice.
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On April 8-10, 2005, a Tennessee grassroots organization, Gathering To Save Our Democracy, will be hosting a national conference in Nashville, Tennessee focusing on the 2004 election and the need for election reform. The conference program will include plenary sessions with nationally prominent election reform speakers as well as pre- and post-conference discussion groups on a host of important topics. This conference is intended to bring persons of all political persuasions together to discuss current threats to our democratic process and ways to achieve meaningful election reform and election justice. At present, we have people coming from 20 states to the conference.

On Friday evening, April 8, we will convene at the Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church (which holds 500+) to hear from 1960s civil rights veterans about what it took to obtain voting rights and what it will take to hold onto them. We will also hear update reports from five states involved in post-election investigations of election fraud: Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Washington and North Carolina. On Saturday, we will hear updates from national researchers on the 2004 election, we'll discuss the role of the media in the post-election period and we'll review national and local strategies for election reform and election justice.

The on-line link to our conference information and registration is as follows: www.freepress.org/conf.php .

We look forward to welcoming many grassroots activists from around the country for a very meaningful Gathering To Save Our Democracy. Thanks for your help and consideration in attending the conference and promoting it widely. We look forward to seeing many of you in Nashville on April 8-10. Again, the link is: www.freepress.org/conf.php

Bernie Ellis, Organizer (931/682-2864)
Gathering To Save Our Democracy

[Fly by night]

1. Kick

[tnlefty]

2. This is unfortunate timing...

Reorganization is April 9th and many Tennesseans (I hope) will be at their county party meetings and electing local officers.

:kick: