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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">On Monday, November 5th, the day before the Presidential election, </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">members of the Burn The Ballot Caucus of Movement for a Democratic </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Society (MDS), other activists and disgruntled voters, will burn </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">presidential ballots in protest against what we consider to be a false </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">choice in a fake electoral system of a pretend democracy. There will </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">be ballot flames from Oakland, California to New York City to draw </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">attention to the fact that there is no democracy in the United States </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">and that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are two corporate puppet </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">candidates representing the two corporate puppet parties that are the </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">two faces of the United States Empire. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We acknowledge the historic struggles for suffrage. We acknowledge </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">that some people believe the vote to be "sacred." However, this </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">election is anything but sacred. It is, in fact, profane for many </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">reasons. For some of us, it makes sense to vote on ballot </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">propositions and candidates for local offices. Others of us, refuse </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">to vote based on the beliefs that the US electoral system is beyond </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">redemption and that voting in a bogus anti-democratic system is a vote of confidence </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">in that system. Whatever your perspective, we invite you to burn your </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">real or replica presidential ballots. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The "leadership" of neither party is sufficient on the urgent issues </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">of US imperialism, the environment, and nuclear proliferation. That is </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">because they are beholden to the greedy capitalist corporations who </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">have always put gross profit before people, health, safety, and the </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">environment. What passes for an electoral process in this country is </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">neither democratic nor representative of the will, needs or desires of </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">the people. With the signing of the 2012 National Defense </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Authorization Act (NDAA), the pretense of democracy is more </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">transparent than ever before. And the mass media system of </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">communications is but a mockery of the idea of a society of free </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">discussion. The mass media is a tool of the corporations who own it. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We believe that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would serve the interest of </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">the 1%, the wealthiest citizens. They would expand American military </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">aggression around the globe. Barack Obama is a proven war criminal, </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">assassin, perpetrator of torture and rendition, violator of human </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">rights and civil liberties and prosecutor of whistleblowers. Either </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">party will give us more endless war and poverty. This election </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">guarantees only continued death and destruction for a global </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">population already under the boot of a murderous US empire. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Forty-eight years ago, Mario Savio said, "There's a time when the </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">operation of the machine becomes so odious--makes you so sick at </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">heart--that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">prevented from working at all." </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We find those words applicable today. We will not consent to empire </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">or fascism under Obama or Romney. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Join us in burning presidential ballots. We do not expect Congress or anyone to </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">fix the system. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We are pledged to no business as usual for the empire. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We are pledged to working for real participatory democracy! </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">BURN THE BALLOT CAUCUS, Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">*********************************************** </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Check out Burn The Ballot 2012 statement </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img border="0" src="http://nyc.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif" style="display: block; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><a href="http://www.movementforademocraticsociety.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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<p>On Monday, November 5th, the day before the Presidential election, <br />members of the Burn The Ballot Caucus of Movement for a Democratic <br />Society (MDS), other activists and disgruntled voters, will burn <br />presidential ballots in protest against what we consider to be a false <br />choice in a fake electoral system of a pretend democracy. There will <br />be ballot flames from Oakland, California to New York City to draw <br />attention to the fact that there is no democracy in the United States <br />and that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are two corporate puppet <br />candidates representing the two corporate puppet parties that are the <br />two faces of the United States Empire. <br /><br />We acknowledge the historic struggles for suffrage. We acknowledge <br />that some people believe the vote to be "sacred." However, this <br />election is anything but sacred. It is, in fact, profane for many <br />reasons. For some of us, it makes sense to vote on ballot <br />propositions and candidates for local offices. Others of us, refuse <br />to vote based on the beliefs that the US electoral system is beyond <br />redemption and that voting in a bogus anti-democratic system is a vote of confidence <br />in that system. Whatever your perspective, we invite you to burn your <br />real or replica presidential ballots. <br /><br />The "leadership" of neither party is sufficient on the urgent issues <br />of US imperialism, the environment, and nuclear proliferation. That is <br />because they are beholden to the greedy capitalist corporations who <br />have always put gross profit before people, health, safety, and the <br />environment. What passes for an electoral process in this country is <br />neither democratic nor representative of the will, needs or desires of <br />the people. With the signing of the 2012 National Defense <br />Authorization Act (NDAA), the pretense of democracy is more <br />transparent than ever before. And the mass media system of <br />communications is but a mockery of the idea of a society of free <br />discussion. The mass media is a tool of the corporations who own it. <br /><br />We believe that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would serve the interest of <br />the 1%, the wealthiest citizens. They would expand American military <br />aggression around the globe. Barack Obama is a proven war criminal, <br />assassin, perpetrator of torture and rendition, violator of human <br />rights and civil liberties and prosecutor of whistleblowers. Either <br />party will give us more endless war and poverty. This election <br />guarantees only continued death and destruction for a global <br />population already under the boot of a murderous US empire. <br /><br />Forty-eight years ago, Mario Savio said, "There's a time when the <br />operation of the machine becomes so odious--makes you so sick at <br />heart--that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. <br />And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, <br />upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it <br />stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the <br />people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be <br />prevented from working at all." <br /><br />We find those words applicable today. We will not consent to empire <br />or fascism under Obama or Romney. <br /><br />Join us in burning presidential ballots. We do not expect Congress or anyone to <br />fix the system. <br /><br />We are pledged to no business as usual for the empire. <br /><br />We are pledged to working for real participatory democracy! <br /><br /><br />BURN THE BALLOT CAUCUS, Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) <br /><br />*********************************************** <br /><br />Check out Burn The Ballot 2012 statement <br /><img border="0" src="http://nyc.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif" /> <a href="http://www.movementforademocraticsociety.org/">http://www.movementforademocraticsociety.org/</a> <br /><br />"Like" our FB page <br /><img border="0" src="http://nyc.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif" /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BurnTheBallot2012">https://www.facebook.com/BurnTheBallot2012</a> <br /><br />Join the FB event page <br /><img border="0" src="http://nyc.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif" /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/353448018078644/">https://www.facebook.com/events/353448018078644/</a> <br /><br />To sign the Burn The Ballot pledge and to join our discussion list, email us at<img border="0" src="http://nyc.indymedia.org/img/maillink.gif" /> <a href="mailto:mdsburntheballot@gmail.com">mdsburntheballot@gmail.com</a> </p> <p><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-6996" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/6996">B3_Match_Light_WEB_s640x553.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/B3_Match_Light_WEB_s640x553_0.jpg?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-load" alt=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/drupalimc_large/public/B3_Match_Light_WEB_s640x553_0.jpg?itok=vz3wsPxy" alt="" title="" /></a> </div> </div> </div></p>
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