Democracy Spring - Philly

05/23/2017

This is happening today! Please share everywhere what www.facebook.com/marchonharrisburg2 is doing! Call PA State Daryl Metcalfe and ask him to bring HR 39 up for a vote! Thank you and March On Harrisburg for making a sacrifice to help us all win!

07/12/2016

Democracy Spring is in town!!

We just moved into our Philly movement house and wanted to invite you to warm the place up with us and plug into the work we are doing in preparation for the DNC action.

Join us this Friday the 15th at 5:30 at our place near University City. Turn out, turn up!

This’ll be a great opportunity to get to know other Philly activists, both from Democracy Spring and other local organizations that we’re coordinating with for the convention. It’ll also be a time to discuss next steps for the campaign and to bring onboard anyone who is interested in volunteer roles that are the backbone of this movement. We need folks with many different skill sets in order to pull this off.

Whether you’re a great writer, a graphic designer, logistics fiend, caretaker, or just ready to throw down for the cause in whatever way you can, the movement needs you!

Our address is 3730 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia (we have free street parking).

Hope to see you soon! Please RSVP here to let us know you’re coming.
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06/24/2016

ARE YOU READY FOR THE DNC?!?!!!!!!!!!!
Democracy Spring - Philly, do you want to help organize 'on the ground efforts' during the DNC for Democracy Spring? We will re-initiate activity on our Slack Team(https://dsphillyroh.slack.com) for DNC planning and support. If you didn't participate in Democracy Spring here in Philly and are not a part of the Slack Team already, please let us know with a comment. We'll connect with you, so you can be invited to the Slack Team and begin contributing.

The campaign to get money out of politics and fix the American economy for the middle class is just beginning. Out on the streets may be the only place the people can be heard.

05/26/2016

Hey Everyone, even though this doesn't have to do with Democracy Spring, I wanted to share about an exhibit our friends at the https://www.facebook.com/Ethical-Humanist-Society-of-Philadelphia-178753859459/?fref=ts is hosting in June. The exhibit is a anti-racism art installation and community engagement project called . If you're interested in going, I've attached a flyer about it as well. If people want to go as a group, the installation's creator, Tieshka K. Smith, and the Ethical Society Leader, Hugh Taft-Morales, would love to do a group visit, where we could view the exhibit and engage in conversation about the theme and how it resonates with us. If you're interested in going as a group, please respond to this post.

04/27/2016

Can you join us tomorrow night, 04/28, for a webinar about Democracy Spring next steps? Let us know.

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04/22/2016

Congress may not have listened, but the courage and sacrifice of the hundreds who were arrested day after day spoke loud and clear: the American people will no longer tolerate the status quo of corruption and inequality in our democracy.

From April 11th-18th, 1,300 people were arrested on the steps of the US Capitol as part of the largest civil disobedience action of the century, demanding a democracy that works for everyone.

We're just getting started. Join the movement.

www.democracyspring.org

04/21/2016

The lack of media attention to this historic campaign is appalling, but that won't stop the movement! We will continue to spread the message of political equality person to person until this movement becomes a revolution that can no longer be ignored by the pundits and politicians! Join us as we continue the message of into the heat of the 2016 election! www.democracyspring.org

04/14/2016

"700 people have been arrested over the last three days, demanding a democracy that works for everyone, not just the billionaires and corporations who fund our elections. "

Change will take more than people following on social media. Get yourself to DC and make history with us this week. Sign up at www.DemocracySpring.org!

04/09/2016

"Our nation lacks a protest culture, allowing our government to legislate against our interests with no remorse, fostering socioeconomic inequality. Our public is largely ignorant that the people do not answer to the government, the government answers to the people. In solidarity, we hold the power to change the system. Mass mobilization facilitates change. Let's start acting on it."

Miss New Jersey - Sameera Khan discusses pageantry, politics, the 2016 election, and her support for Bernie Sanders on Inside Politics on Time Television.

04/06/2016

Hello Democracy Spring Supporters!
Thanks to all of you who came out this weekend to support our kick off rally in Philadelphia.
For those of you still looking for a way to get to DC for the first day of protests, we're working on a shared bus ride down to DC. We need to gauge interest for a shared bus ride to DC on Monday April 11, which would cost approximately $20 round trip. Please email Bo Dirnbach ([email protected]) if you're interested in this transportation option, which would (tentatively) leave Philadelphia on the morning of April 11th and return in the evening of that same day. (We haven't nailed down all the details on departure, since it depends to some extent on the feedback we get from this email!)
As another way of supporting Democracy Spring's commitments to campaign finance reform, we have information on how to participate in Democracy Awakening. On Sunday, April 17, a bus is traveling to Washington D.C. from Philadelphia, for the Democracy Awakening Rally. The bus will depart from 2301 W Oregon Ave Philadelphia, PA 19107 at 8:30 a.m. and will return at 7:30 p.m., that evening. The Democracy Awakening weekend mobilization will happen at the end of Democracy Spring and we’re trying to fill the bus and get another. You can purchase your ticket at this link http://democracyawakening.nationbuilder.com/philadelphiapabus
Thanks so much for everything you do, it's been amazing to see this movement come together in the last few weeks, let's keep it going to effect real change in getting money out of politics.

Where will you be when ?

04/06/2016

As we speak, people are nearly 1/3 of the way on their march to Washington, DC. I walked out of the city with them on Day 1, and I can tell you it's not easy. For them to be in this for a full 10 day, 140 mile journey is incredible and grueling. Not one of them will be the same person when they get to DC as they were when they left Philly. And each of them knows that each step is not their own, but in honor and support of thousands of others around the country who simply could not join them.

I donated today to support their logistics, to help them buy food to fuel them along the way, to help with the costs of getting over 100 people to weather that trek. If you can give any amount, please do. It's going directly to this effort that leads to the largest act of civil disobedience this century.

https://politics.raisethemoney.com/cxheskvbwh-zvm9wptnqbw

04/04/2016

Great Rally and start of the amazing march to Washington, D.C.! You can still join! The march finished in Wilmington, DE today and will be marching to Newark, DE tomorrow, so its just a short trip to be a part of this historic action. Will you be there?

Watching all of our marchers' updates with excitement?

It's not too late to join us & thousands more at the finish line in DC: bit.ly/DS-Pledge

If you've already pledged to join us, take the next step & make your plan to get here: bit.ly/DS-Plan