<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joanna Herlihy <joanna_herlihy@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> boston-discuss@green-rainbow.org; grp-discuss@green-rainbow.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 9, 2012 12:22 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> (Greater Boston Chapter) Fw: Occupy the Courts, 1/20/12: Actions in 80 cities<br> </font> <br>
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<div style="padding:15px;"><img style="width:56px;height:76px;" alt="" hspace="6" align="left"> <span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><font size="5" color="#08088a"><b>Alliance for Democracy</b></font></span><b><br>
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</b></b><b><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">January 9, 2012 • Please forward widely</span></span></span></b></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size:large;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Join AfD and the Move to Amend coalition on 1/20/12 as we</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Occupy the Courts!</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><img alt="" height="258" hspace="8" vspace="4" width="200" align="right">Dear Joanna,</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">You have a great opportunity to mark the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision by joining your fellow outraged Americans across the country as we <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=STsLd1%2FerwHOroMcudeX65XR13FTb3%2Ba"><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>Occupy the Courts</b></span></a><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>.</b></span> <br>
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Occupy the Courts is organized by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ThapVZ%2FRFZVwp66oYRot45XR13FTb3%2Ba">Move to Amend</a>, the national coalition building a broad-based diverse grassroots movement to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fzKIafUxonI83wGm7zvqmJXR13FTb3%2Ba">pass an amendment</a> that states corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of natural persons, and that money is not speech. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>Occupy the Courts on Friday, January 20 is a one day action at Federal courthouses across the US, including the Supreme Court. Events are now planned in 91 cities!</b></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Listen to AfD co-chair and Portland (OR) chapter president <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PVSCzdpzCY7X50QoW7yq4pXR13FTb3%2Ba">David Delk explain why</a> we should "occupy the courts" and find an event near you <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ISQDeicgERIwthM9WqVAUbBamkckPuMn">here</a>. </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">If there is no event near you, organize one now—it's not too late! Click <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C9vwKlnjv2wTgwofxNo1z5XR13FTb3%2Ba">here</a> to sign up. </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
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<td style="text-align:center;"><b><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Download signs, fliers and more <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j%2BSTHgeWQfK9oXxyZVhFPJXR13FTb3%2Ba">here</a>!</span></span></b></td>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>Check out Alliance for Democracy's T</b></span><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>ools for Organizing pages </b></span>for downloadable <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=I7oNGcrb78XhHto7cUDxb5XR13FTb3%2Ba">fliers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bg8QX%2FvnQH5MHe0SgR6fJZXR13FTb3%2Ba">posters</a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Af0cQ%2FOdNVkhJVCEKy%2Bu9pXR13FTb3%2Ba">stickers</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tOzsP5Ot7zBeYzB11VaiNZXR13FTb3%2Ba">ideas for street theater</a>.<br>
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Order materials no later than Friday, January 13 so it arrives in time for your event on the 20th. Email <a rel="nofollow">afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org</a> or call 781-894-1179. </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Occupy the Courts is endorsed by national groups, including the Coffee Party, and by climate activist <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9xDhyA%2BN9cR1o3PuImvnqJXR13FTb3%2Ba">Bill McKibben</a>. </span></span></div>
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<td style="text-align:center;"><b><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Print <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5Uzs4z2qiAKKI2bKWCYLi7BamkckPuMn">signs</a> large for rallies or smaller for the window of your car! <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AmfGaLX1Vv1pvSvSETj8O5XR13FTb3%2Ba">Bumper stickers</a>, too!</span></span></b></td>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bill was a member of the Alliance’s John Muir Democracy Brigade, arrested along with other environmentalists in the Capitol Rotunda in April 2000 to protest big money in politics. The fight continues. Regardless of your issue—climate change, jobs, education, health care, poverty—<span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>if you want systemic change and your voice to be heard, </b></span>join this growing grassroots US democracy movement.<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EoO4%2BbkdDUr9cLqC%2BDdkL5XR13FTb3%2Ba">Alliance for Democracy</a> is one of the founding Move to Amend <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3qb%2Bz2H3UzM%2BEDd8Gw83e5XR13FTb3%2Ba">organizations</a>. AfD chapters have planned and are working in coalition with other groups on Occupy the Courts actions in California, Maine, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Indiana.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Occupy the Courts is inspired by Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country, and by Dr. Cornel West, who in the early days of the DC occupation was one of 19 people who marked the dedication of the Martin Luther King memorial by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eOoieNgMQwEQ9RGl%2FX9nVpXR13FTb3%2Ba">civil disobedience and arrest</a> at the Supreme Court. </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Connect with others in your area, plan an action, and keep growing the movement to restore constitutional rights to real people! <br>
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</span></span><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><i><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">See you down at the courthouse on the 20th!</span></b></i></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><i>For the Alliance Council,<br>
</i><b>Nancy Price and David e. Delk, co-chairs</b><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Your member support keeps our movement growing! If you made an end of year donation to Alliance for Democracy, thank you! If you're not a member, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TUSTpgZrIC1oEjQcDolVNJXR13FTb3%2Ba">please join AfD</a>, or make a contribution to help us build sustainable alternatives to corporate rule. </span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
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