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calling all sojourners to action march 25, 2008!

Written by sojournersplace on

From: sojournersplace.blogspot.com

Sojourner's Place calls all readers to participate in the Day of Blogging for Voter Justice on March 25 to tell the Democratic National Committee and Senator Clinton to concede the nomination to Senator Barrack Obama. This Day of Blogging, organized by The Afrosphere Action Coalition and its Coordinating Committee members (Frincis L. Holland, Wayne Hicks, Daz Wilson and Yobachi Boswell), will serve as a collective voice of thousands if not millions to the DNC to NOT overturn the expressed will of the voters. Stealing the vote is not acceptable or tolerable!

MARCH 25, 2008: DAY OF BLOGGING FOR VOTER JUSTICE! Join in this effort...show your blogging and voting power!

Also, please sign the petition initiated by Michael Fisher and Francis L. Holland, Esq. in consultation with the Afrospear. Don't have a blog. Then EMAIL, CALL, OR MAIL or mail your statement to the DNC to ensure that your voice will be heard!

The Democratic National Committee:

Mailing Address: Democratic National Committee430 S. Capitol St. SEWashington, DC 20003
Main Phone Number: 202-863-8000
For their email form, go here

For Hillary Clinton’s contact information, go here

A reprint of the petition is below.You can sign for the petition here:

Senator Hillary Clinton Must Concede Defeat and Support the Democratic Presidential Ticket
The signatories to this statement urge that Senator Hillary Clinton must concede defeat in her quest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and must support the Democratic ticket.
Wherefore:
(1) The Democratic Party base has spoken. The delegate count shows that Senator Hillary Clinton cannot win the nomination on the strength of earned delegates, based on the will of the voters.
(2) Mrs. Clinton’s political attacks upon Senator Barack Obama have increasingly appealed to and sought to increase resentment against others based on the color of their skin. Please sign now.
(3) This divisiveness is regrettable because, via the presidential candidacy of Senator Obama, the vast majority of African-Americans stand united with millions of white Americans and Americans of all colors, genders, ethnicities and religious backgrounds, erasing divisions to implement a program of Democratic change.
(4) It appears that Mrs. Clinton is about to shatter this historic unity.
(5) We, therefore, call on Mrs. Clinton to face the reality of the earned delegates count, concede defeat, and thereby contribute to healing a wound which is opening and continues to widen. Please sign now.
(6) Mrs. Clinton must wholeheartedly support the winner of the nomination, who has earned the most delegates, and devote herself honestly and enthusiastically to defeating Republican electoral hopes in 2008, not attacking Democratic politicians and Democratic constituencies.
(7) Should the Democratic Party leadership nullify the people's votes by giving Mrs. Clinton the nomination, despite the popular will as represented by earned delegates, we would then call upon African-American voters and all Democratic Party constituencies and supporters to withhold their support from a Hillary Clinton candidacy in November.
We have survived eight years under President Bush and, if compelled to do so, we will survive four years under a President McCain. However, we cannot and will NOT survive the nullification of our most hard-won right - our votes.
Sincerely,The Undersigned: Available online for signatures at: http://www.petitiononline.com/ACUDP2/petition.html

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner('s Place) ain't got nothing more to say.

SjP

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