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"Buy Back the Government" Telethon(hosted by Critical Resistance)
For just $2.3 million, the people of the state of California can buy back the government from the pro-prison/anti-education lobby. Join us in an informative day of fund raising to "Buy Back the Government", and find out how you too can have Governor Davis in your back pocket.
Please circulate...and JOIN US!
THURSDAY, JUNE 27 @ 11AM
STATE CAPITOL(See carpool info below)
ORGANIZERS TO LAUNCH "BUY BACK THE GOVERNMENT" TELETHON
LEGISLATORS FUND $595 MILLION DELANO PRISON DESPITE
DECLINING PRISON POPULATION, BUDGET CRISIS & PUBLIC OPINION
SACRAMENTO, CA - Setting a goal of $2.3 million - the same amount California's prison guards' contributed to state legislative races -- grassroots organizers will hold a "Buy Back the Government" Telethon in front of the State Capitol on Thursday, June 27 at 11 am.
Organizers will set up a phone bank to accept calls from contributors on the north side of the
State Capitol and will accept on site donations as well. As a premium, each donor to the campaign will receive a laminated picture of the Governor or a legislator so everyone, not just the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), can have the Governor in his or her pocket. And school children, weathering severe cuts to next year's education budget, will set up a lemonade stand to raise their "Buy Back the Government" donations.
Earlier this month, despite a $23 billion deficit, a declining prison population and a statewide poll
finding that Californians strongly favor a freeze on state prison building, the joint budget conference committee funded the controversial $595 million Delano prison plan.
"Our goal of $2.3 million may seem unrealistic to some, but we've learned what it costs to win in Sacramento," said Dorsey Nunn, M.C. for the Telethon.
"It's telling that in the midst of the worst budget crisis in a decade, the prison guards get a 34%
raise, a $595 million new prison and the Corrections' budget is going up, not down," commented Rose Braz, Director of Critical Resistance, noting that the Governor's May Revision to the Budget provides for a $185.9 million increase to the state's $5 billion prison budget.
"You really do get a lot of bang for your buck in Sacramento when you're the number one contributor to state legislative races," continued Braz, commenting that the guards contributed an additional $251,000 to the Governor only weeks after he granted the guards a pay hike of as much as $1 billion dollars.
The Delano prison will siphon $124 million from the general fund per year to operate and repay the debt for the next 25 years. Every major newspaper across the state, including the Los Angles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Orange County Register editorialized against construction of the prison.
A statewide poll of likely voters recently found that Californians strongly favor a freeze on state prison construction and cuts to state prisons, over any other state program, to address the budget crisis.
The poll of 600 likely voters also found that 76% of those surveyed supported requiring voter approval of new prison construction. The legislature did not seek voter approval before authorizing the contentious Delano prison. In 1990 and again in 1996 voters turned down proposed prison bonds 2-1. The poll was conducted by Fairbanks, Maslin. Of those surveyed, 71% described themselves as conservative or moderate.
Groundbreaking for the prison was set for February 2001, but has been delayed by the mounting opposition.
Opposition to the Delano prison plan has come from a coalition of over 80 organizations including: the Central Labor Council of Alameda County; the San Francisco Board of Education; Service Employees Union International (SEIU) Local 250; the Delano Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment; American Federation of Teachers (AFT)- University Council; Hotel
Employees & Restaurant Employees, Locals 2 and 2850; California State Employees Association, Civil Service Division Council (SEIU Local 1000); NAACP chapters; and the statewide University of California Students Association.
JOIN US!
CARPOOLS WILL LEAVE FROM MACARTHUR BART AT 8:30 AM.
for more infomration Call: 510-444-0484
Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612
(510)444-0484
fax: (510)444-2177
http://www.criticalresistance.org
rose [at] criticalresistance.or
THURSDAY, JUNE 27 @ 11AM
STATE CAPITOL(See carpool info below)
ORGANIZERS TO LAUNCH "BUY BACK THE GOVERNMENT" TELETHON
LEGISLATORS FUND $595 MILLION DELANO PRISON DESPITE
DECLINING PRISON POPULATION, BUDGET CRISIS & PUBLIC OPINION
SACRAMENTO, CA - Setting a goal of $2.3 million - the same amount California's prison guards' contributed to state legislative races -- grassroots organizers will hold a "Buy Back the Government" Telethon in front of the State Capitol on Thursday, June 27 at 11 am.
Organizers will set up a phone bank to accept calls from contributors on the north side of the
State Capitol and will accept on site donations as well. As a premium, each donor to the campaign will receive a laminated picture of the Governor or a legislator so everyone, not just the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), can have the Governor in his or her pocket. And school children, weathering severe cuts to next year's education budget, will set up a lemonade stand to raise their "Buy Back the Government" donations.
Earlier this month, despite a $23 billion deficit, a declining prison population and a statewide poll
finding that Californians strongly favor a freeze on state prison building, the joint budget conference committee funded the controversial $595 million Delano prison plan.
"Our goal of $2.3 million may seem unrealistic to some, but we've learned what it costs to win in Sacramento," said Dorsey Nunn, M.C. for the Telethon.
"It's telling that in the midst of the worst budget crisis in a decade, the prison guards get a 34%
raise, a $595 million new prison and the Corrections' budget is going up, not down," commented Rose Braz, Director of Critical Resistance, noting that the Governor's May Revision to the Budget provides for a $185.9 million increase to the state's $5 billion prison budget.
"You really do get a lot of bang for your buck in Sacramento when you're the number one contributor to state legislative races," continued Braz, commenting that the guards contributed an additional $251,000 to the Governor only weeks after he granted the guards a pay hike of as much as $1 billion dollars.
The Delano prison will siphon $124 million from the general fund per year to operate and repay the debt for the next 25 years. Every major newspaper across the state, including the Los Angles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Orange County Register editorialized against construction of the prison.
A statewide poll of likely voters recently found that Californians strongly favor a freeze on state prison construction and cuts to state prisons, over any other state program, to address the budget crisis.
The poll of 600 likely voters also found that 76% of those surveyed supported requiring voter approval of new prison construction. The legislature did not seek voter approval before authorizing the contentious Delano prison. In 1990 and again in 1996 voters turned down proposed prison bonds 2-1. The poll was conducted by Fairbanks, Maslin. Of those surveyed, 71% described themselves as conservative or moderate.
Groundbreaking for the prison was set for February 2001, but has been delayed by the mounting opposition.
Opposition to the Delano prison plan has come from a coalition of over 80 organizations including: the Central Labor Council of Alameda County; the San Francisco Board of Education; Service Employees Union International (SEIU) Local 250; the Delano Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment; American Federation of Teachers (AFT)- University Council; Hotel
Employees & Restaurant Employees, Locals 2 and 2850; California State Employees Association, Civil Service Division Council (SEIU Local 1000); NAACP chapters; and the statewide University of California Students Association.
JOIN US!
CARPOOLS WILL LEAVE FROM MACARTHUR BART AT 8:30 AM.
for more infomration Call: 510-444-0484
Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612
(510)444-0484
fax: (510)444-2177
http://www.criticalresistance.org
rose [at] criticalresistance.or
For more information:
http://www.criticalresistance.org
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Face the facts America, your government has already convicted you as the "TERRORIST"
This protest sounds like something that those "antiglobalization" liberals thought up.
These clowns believe that the American Government is at base democratic --but it has been corrupted (or bought) by those Evil Corporations. What these clowns want is MORE GOVERNMENT POWER AND REGULATION. This agenda is what people like Ralph Nader and his Public Citizen spew all the time. The phony Progressive media mouthpiece, The Nation, had a similar line when it was celebrating the fact that the "War on Terrorism" would allow Democrats to advocate for greater Government regulation of the Airlines Industry.
This is bullshit. The American Government is part of the problem-- just as much as American capitalism. In fact, there are two sides of the same coin. Capitalism and State power have always been intertwined, contrary to what these "protestors" will tell.
You can't "Buy Back the Government" because the Government was never yours, you fools. All this propaganda about "Of the People, By the People, and For the People" is just that--propaganda for all you Patriotic American suckers to believe
These clowns believe that the American Government is at base democratic --but it has been corrupted (or bought) by those Evil Corporations. What these clowns want is MORE GOVERNMENT POWER AND REGULATION. This agenda is what people like Ralph Nader and his Public Citizen spew all the time. The phony Progressive media mouthpiece, The Nation, had a similar line when it was celebrating the fact that the "War on Terrorism" would allow Democrats to advocate for greater Government regulation of the Airlines Industry.
This is bullshit. The American Government is part of the problem-- just as much as American capitalism. In fact, there are two sides of the same coin. Capitalism and State power have always been intertwined, contrary to what these "protestors" will tell.
You can't "Buy Back the Government" because the Government was never yours, you fools. All this propaganda about "Of the People, By the People, and For the People" is just that--propaganda for all you Patriotic American suckers to believe
For more information:
http://www.savanne.ch/right-left-materials...
Hmm, maybe this is a joke? Maybe you need to lighten up a little?
The telethon was more of an idea to draw attention to how sold out our government is.. The idea to hold a "Buy Back the Government" telethon/rally was an idea to reach out to people who may not necessarily know how sold out "our" state politicians are....
It was quite fun and we got out a lot of information to politicos and staffers in Sacramento, and had a bit of fun in the process...We also got to harrass some politicians a bit and were at one point blessed with the director of the California Department of Corrections fleeting presence(he was running)... We also got to see Sen John Burton as he slipped by, acting like he was busy on his cell phone... Incidentally Burton has received over $200,000 from the main pro-prison lobby group, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association(or the Guards "Union")...
Should be more to come soon... Meanwhile it will take a while before the CDC is able to begin to build the latest California prison, Delano 2, if at all ... Construction is currently held up by environmental issues in regards to the site of the proposed Delano 2 prison site
No more prisons!!! ... more to come
It was quite fun and we got out a lot of information to politicos and staffers in Sacramento, and had a bit of fun in the process...We also got to harrass some politicians a bit and were at one point blessed with the director of the California Department of Corrections fleeting presence(he was running)... We also got to see Sen John Burton as he slipped by, acting like he was busy on his cell phone... Incidentally Burton has received over $200,000 from the main pro-prison lobby group, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association(or the Guards "Union")...
Should be more to come soon... Meanwhile it will take a while before the CDC is able to begin to build the latest California prison, Delano 2, if at all ... Construction is currently held up by environmental issues in regards to the site of the proposed Delano 2 prison site
No more prisons!!! ... more to come
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