2011-04-11 “Vote Mobs” spreading across Canada. Also “Voter Socials” – what a riot! (Re)Generating our democracy.

So much has happened in the last month! Over 4,000 Canadians joined the process you started in your events by participating in the values survey and priority voting. The result is the Declaration for Change.

Now, we need your help to change the story of this election. In short, we need your help to build a wave of voters going to polls before election day to vote for the Canada they want. You made (Re)Generation: Voices for Canada possible, so we’re asking you to host a “Voter Social” first, so that when we invite people from our large action list, everyone will see that there are already events signed up and be encouraged to join.

http://www.leadnow.ca/en/vote-wave

Here’s the problem: our politics have become so toxic, divisive and uninspiring that people are tuning it out. People will act when they think it will make a difference. If people do not think that the election will matter, then they will not raise their voices for the issues they care about, and they wont vote. The consequence will be more of the same in Ottawa. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

To change the status-quo we need to speak up with a call for a new kind of politics, and we need to show that there is a growing wave of voters who are going to get out to the polls to vote for the Canada they want.

By turning out in large numbers during advanced polling, we will make a media splash and inspire Canadians to get out and vote on election day.

What’s a Voter Social? Simple: invite a bunch of your friends to meet you at an advanced poll, go in and vote together, and then celebrate afterwards however you choose. The more Voter Socials, the bigger the media splash, and the more Canadians will be inspired to vote on election day. Voter Socials can be big or small, public or private, and we’re here to help make it easy to host and find your advanced polling station.

Can you host a “Voter Social” during advanced polling, on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd or Monday 25th April? Pre-registration is now open, and you can sign up your Voter Social here:

http://www.leadnow.ca/en/vote-wave

Thank you,

Matthew, on behalf of the Leadnow.ca team

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Matthew Carroll
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Thursday April 12th  –  Leaders Debate: Tweetup for Democracy

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APPENDED

“Democracy”    Leonard Cohen

It’s coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It’s coming from the feel
that this ain’t exactly real,
or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.
It’s coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don’t pretend to understand at all.
It’s coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.

It’s coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin’
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It’s coming to Canada first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It’s here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
It’s here the family’s broken
and it’s here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.

It’s coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we’ll be making love again.
We’ll be going down so deep
the river’s going to weep,
and the mountain’s going to shout Amen!
It’s coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.

Sail on, sail on …

I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene.
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to Ca – Na  – Da.

Have fun! 

Over and out,  Sandra

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Sandra Finley

Green Party Candidate, Saskatoon-Humboldt

306-373-8078

sabest1@sasktel.net

www.sandrafinley.ca 

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