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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><a href="mailto:appalachiancluster@googlegroups.com">appalachiancluster@googlegroups.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>FW: Democracy Awakening Rally April 17th</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>News about the upcoming events around the Democracy Awakening rallies in Washington, DC. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Congregational Life Mission: Serving Interconnection, Innovation & Impact</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: SMoore@allsouls.ws [SMoore@allsouls.ws]</p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 10:54 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Megan Foley</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Democracy Awakening Rally August 17th</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Democracy Awakening Rally & Pre-Rally UU Rendezvous April 17th</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My Fellow UUs and Members of the Greater Faith Community,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I wanted to share with you the details and logistics of the Democracy Awakening Rally, March, and Vigil that will be occurring at and around the US Capitol on April 17th. As a result of collaboration with our fellow local Washington DC area UUs – including members of UUA, UUSJ, UUCA, UUCF, All Souls, River Road, Silver Spring, Cedar Lane, and others – we have set a "UU Rendezvous" Point for all to congregate prior to the Rally.</p><p class=MsoNormal> As you might know, we Unitarian Universalists are guided by Seven Principles, and in this moment it's that Fifth Principle that calls us to action: “The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.”</p><p class=MsoNormal> The US Supreme Court’s perilous Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to special interest money in our elections to the extent that major corporations and the wealthiest Americans have a far louder voice in our government than the people – and that makes us more of a plutocracy – not democracy.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I want to invite you to learn more, and become familiar with those events in the link provided below, and ask you to join us in coming together – at 12 Noon – before the Rally on Sunday April 17th. We will meet at the Navy Memorial (701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC - Archives/Navy Memorial Metro Station).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> This Rally will be the culmination of a week-long effort by two complementary Democracy Movements: Democracy Spring & Democracy Awakening who will be holding a range of events from Non-Violent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience, Teach-ins, Advocacy event for specific causes, performances, and film screenings the entire week of April 11-18 at US Capitol and throughout Washington, DC with a "teach-n" at All Souls Unitarian Church on Saturday April 16th.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> If you feel so moved, please pass this onto your fellow concerned citizens and congregants. Below is the hyperlinked text with specifics for the UU Rendezvous Point for the Democracy Awakening Rally, March, and Vigil on April 17th, and attached are the two slides that outline the plan to share with your faith leaders.</p><p class=MsoNormal>??????</p><p class=MsoNormal> ?Money in our Politics affects us all. It is the one issue, that if solved would open up the floodgates to a rush of progress for all the other issues we deeply care for. That is why we all must come together to affirm our shared stake and a common belief in this idea: That everyone should have an equal voice in our democracy, that free and fair elections are a democratic right, and no matter who we vote for and what our politics are, we live in a country that’s for the people, by the people – not the just the wealthy and privileged few.</p><p class=MsoNormal> Let’s Fix our Democracy next week in Washington, so we can fight a fair and more efficient fight on each and every issue we care about.</p><p class=MsoNormal>_____________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Brendan Orsinger</p><p class=MsoNormal>Member of All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, DC Co-Chair of Reeb 5th Principle Initiative brendan.orsinger@gmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>@Reeb5thUU</p><p class=MsoNormal>RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1703184916630599/</p><p class=MsoNormal>===</p><p class=MsoNormal>UU Rendezvous Point for Sunday April 17th Democracy Awakening: Rally for Democracy, March, and Vigil beginning at 1pm (We will meet at Noon): The Plan: UUs from across the DC area and from across the country will be first gathering in the Navy Memorial Plaza at the top of the escalators from Archives/Navy Memorial Metro Station (Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/f5DyvdHvCt32) located on Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th & 9th Streets NW starting at noon and leaving from there, at 12:45pm and marching together to the Rally, just a few blocks away. The Rally will begin at 1pm in front of (west side) the U.S. Capitol at 3rd Street NW between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive NW. (Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/kqHiDGZHnRp)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The Rally will run from 1-3pm. The March around the Capitol will run from 3-4pm. After a 30-minute break, we will convene for 4:30pm for the Prayer Vigil at Columbus Circle (Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/v6gFc7fpxXw). For the complete schedule with details visit: http://democracyawakening.org/events/sunday/</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>???????????????</p><p class=MsoNormal>?RSVP and invite others on Facebook:</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://www.facebook.com/events/1703184916630599/</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Appalachiancluster" group.</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to appalachiancluster+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.</p><p class=MsoNormal>To post to this group, send email to appalachiancluster@googlegroups.com.</p><p class=MsoNormal>To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/appalachiancluster/D3F69414A6F72D418F275EA2D5BB272646990A%40Dogwood.uua.org.</p><p class=MsoNormal>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>