Friday 3/30 Obama in Vermont: Stand Up for Peace, Economic Justice and a Livable Planet

[Jonathan Leavitt]

Friends,

During President Obama's Vermont visit on March 30th, please join a broad grassroots coalition of Vermonters to celebrate free speech, exercise our right to peacefully assemble and place demands on our elected leaders for a more equitable and just Vermont. See our points of unity below.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Obama in Vermont: Stand Up for Peace, Economic Justice and a Livable Planet

Rally at UVM Campus near I-89 at the intersection of Spear St. and Williston Rd.

Invite your friends https://www.facebook.com/events/270437186358635/

Friday 11:00am until 5:00pm

Points of Unity

Call for Peace

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YES to closing Guantanamo

NO to Expanded Drone Bombings in Pakistan

NO to Occupying Afghanistan

NO to massively expanding Blackwater style contractors

NO to Extending Military Tribunals

NO to Immunizing the Bush administration from prosecution regarding

torture, i.e. those who ordered it, the lawyers who legally approved it,

and those in the CIA & the military who enacted the torture

NO to repeating Bush-era policy of bombing without congressional approval, to overstepping the UN mandate, to seeking regime change, to violation of the War Power Act of 1973

Defend Civil Liberties

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YES to Freedom from State or Corporate Surveillance

YES To Free Speech and Expression

YES to Freedom to peaceably assemble, protest, or occupy

NO to NDAA, which codifies indefinite military detention without charge or

trial

NO to Extending the Patriot Act without reforms

NO to Retroactive Immunity for Telecom Corporations involved in Warrant-

less Wiretapping

NO to Authorizing the Extrajudicial Executions of U.S.A. Citizens, such as

16 year old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Demand Economic Justice

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NO to Extending Tax Cuts for the Rich

NO to Wall Street Bailouts

NO to Promising Big Pharma new healthcare legislation will bar the

government from negotiating lower drug prices

YES to an Economy that works for the 99%

Livable Planet

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YES to closing Vermont Yankee

YES to Carbon Level 350ppm.

NO to Offshore Drilling in the Gulf with no new safety measures

YES to Copenhagen Climate Talks & Good Faith Commitments

YES to Improving EPA Air-Quality Standards

Stand up for Human Rights

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YES to a state, a nation, and a world where the fundamental needs of the 99%, things that make us all humans, are fulfilled regardless of ability to pay

YES to the human rights to nutrition, healthcare, housing, healthy environment, education, decent jobs, free expression and free association