UPCOMING ACTIONS WEEKLY SFPJ MEETINGS Summer 2008 Update: Due to numerous SFPJ members being away for summer break, the weekly meetings have been suspended until further notice. If you would like to help with the Alliance for Real Democracy (described below), please contact one of the following members: Duke W. Austin: (duke dot w dot austin at gmail dot com) Jordan Hill: (stardusthunter at hotmail dot com) Rebecca Diaz: (nomadicwordmuncher at gmail dot com) Ryan Hartman: (expatriate16 at gmail dot com) THE ALLIANCE FOR REAL DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION DENVER, COLORADO AUGUST 24-28 Visit the Alliance for Real Democracy website at: www.RealDemocracy2008.org Contribute to the Alliance for Real Democracy here: ARD Contributions ARD Mission Statement The Alliance for Real Democracy is a nonviolent, transparent coalition of progressive and radical groups that will organize global justice and peace events and protests at the Democratic National Convention in August 2008. Our goals are to help coordinate the local and national advocacy groups planning to attend the DNC, to foster a spirit of cooperation with one and other, and to create a schedule of events that respects the time and distances between events.  We hope that working together in this way will create the roots necessary to begin the process of moving into the future as a cooperative and cohesive national Movement for a more peaceful and just world. ARD Mission Statement and Organizing Principles.doc The Alliance for Real Democracy consists of the following member organizations: Citizens for Peace in Space CODEPINK Colorado 9/11 Visibility Colorado Green Party Colorado Street Medics Indigenous Support Network (ISN) International Socialist Organization (ISO) Iraq Veterans Against the War - Rocky Mountain Region (IVAW) Jobs with Justice Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission River of Light Enterprise Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) Social Action Council of the First Unitarian Church of Denver Students for a Democratic Society-Denver (SDS-Denver) Students for Peace and Justice (SFPJ) Tent State University United for Peace and Justice Veterans for Peace World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime The following organization endorses the Alliance for Real Democracy: Pax Christi  Come to Denver to end a war!  Students for Peace & Justice will work with The Alliance for Real Democracy to build Tent State University (TSU) outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC). TSU will serve as an "alternative university," a space in which to experience real democracy, a staging area for actions and protests towards the DNC, a venue for musical artists, political theatre, and town hall democracy, multiple '"classrooms" to share and learn tactics and strategies to immediately end the war, and housing for activists dedicated to holding the parties accountable. Tent State University will host tens of thousands of activists. We are progressive democrats, greens, anarchists, students, socialists, soldiers, daughters, and brothers. While we may carry different ideologies or creeds, we are united in a firm determination to end this war.  Our Purpose for Demonstrating at the DNC We are passionate about peace and justice and believe it is imperative to bring critical, progressive issues to the forefront of the national conscience during the DNC convention. Our intention is to convince and pressure Democrats to work for just and progressive policies at home and abroad. Elected Democrats in large part have refused to support these policies on a wide range of domestic and foreign issues. The following are some of our key issues: • We support an end to U.S. militarism and empire building and call on Congress and the President to end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Funds used for militarism and occupation should instead be directed toward domestic programs, veterans, the rebuilding of Iraq, and compensation for losses suffered by the Iraqi people. We call for diplomatic solutions to all conflicts with other nations, including Iran, and for a Middle East policy that complies with international and U.S. laws and pressures Israel to end its occupation of internationally-recognized Palestinian territory. • We support social, economic, and environmental justice. We call for progressive tax reform, fair trade policies that protect workers and the environment, health care for all, and protection for working people to organize labor unions. We call for the abolition of the death penalty, a decrease in our nation's reliance on imprisonment, and an end to the war on drugs and to racism, sexism and classism in the criminal justice system. • We support human rights, including an end to torture and illegal detention. We call fair and comprehensive immigration policies and respect for peoples' native languages. We call for just and equitable practices in all institutions in regard to gender, race, class, and sexual orientation, for continuing and strengthening affirmative action programs, and for immediate, permanent housing solutions for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. • We support the restoration of democracy and civil liberties, the public financing of all campaigns for public office, transparency and voting integrity in elections, the abolition of the Electoral College, and the return of the public airwaves to the people. All laws, practices and institutions which undermine democracy and our constitution, including the corporate control of our government, the PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, the detention camps being built by Kellogg, Brown & Root, and illegal wiretapping, should be revoked or abolished. We call for independent investigations into 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, election fraud, and other potentially illegal activities of our government. We believe that free speech and creative expression are integral to the democratic process. Our intention is to empower all people to nonviolently participate and have their voices heard during the DNC in order to create progress toward major change in our country. We welcome rank and file Democrats and elected officials to participate in our events during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Alliance for Real Democracy Endorses We are America  www.weareamericadnc.org Traveling to Denver? 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