Remixing the Election

The pending election will put a long campaign season to rest. Voters will have to pick a side, the media will trot out their very best blue, red and purple maps, and we'll await news of the winner, perhaps wondering what changes are ahead, if any.

While it's your civic duty to exercise your rights and cast a vote, it's your responsibility as a Rootstriker to know that the jig is up. To a Rootstriker, this election isn't about right vs. left — it's about right vs. wrong. It's about a tiny fraction of the population holding our democracy captive with their vast wealth. The real difference between the candidates is not what they say to us on TV, but who paid for their TV spots.

Candidates are caught in a corrupted system that privileges the funders and ignores the people — it's plain wrong, and more people need to know about it. So we made an infographic for the election that makes this message clear. It names the top funders for presidential candidates, and Rootstrikers across the country have remixed it with information for their congressional races. Now, they're leading efforts to spread the word in their districts, and they need your help.

  1. Check out the infographic and remix your own
  2. Join or plan a local action

The more people that join us, the more citizens we can reach. In other words, those many thousands hacking at the branches — voting for their issues — could be striking at the root. Let's show them where to aim.

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Tri Ngo commented 2012-10-31 09:48:46 -0400 · Flag
Sorry here is the correct Google map link for the Washington DC event:
http://goo.gl/maps/swo1w
-Tri
Tri Ngo commented 2012-10-31 09:46:00 -0400 · Flag
This is for the Washington DC Remix the Election Event:

Thanks to everyone that have RSVP’ed. We’ve made some updates to the event. It should be posted soon but here are the changes.

Where:
Dupont Circle Farmer’s Market
Q St NW & 20th St NW
Washington, DC 20036
Google map and directions: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=207909183001549359898.0004cca59bd22156315fa&msa=0

We need help running the table. The shifts are 9-11AM, 11AM-1PM and 12-2PM. If you are interested please email me: tringo@gmail.com with two of your shift preferences. Thanks!
-Tri
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Tammy Savage commented 2012-10-25 17:24:31 -0400 · Flag
Obama Information Czar (Cass Sunstein) Outlined Plan For Government To Infiltrate Conspiracy Groups

Anyone who speaks against their treachery; anyone who investigates and exposes the amazing width and depth of their corruption; anyone who researches and reports straight up factual information on just who it is in all these positions of power, committing these crimes – are to be ruined; branded as racist, extremists, anti-semitic lunatics and ostracized from society. Combining their vast expanse of media it becomes a group effort; a loud booming voice calling out, “hater, hater, anti-semetic, take the light off of us and point it back at the hater” – and that is where it stops.

Many of these attackers are people living in our American society (sayanim). Out of their devotion to their Jewish roots they will join in to assist the Israelis. Their goal: stop the message, defile the messenger; make them appear crazy; then work behind the scenes to destroy the person’s life. No one must be allowed to speak against them. The truth must not be allowed. Thought crimes, hate crimes, hate speech, these are all coming direct from the Anti-defamation League and B’nai B’rith. These laws are carefully crafted so when you identify which actual criminals are the major players and controlling factors in so many major disasters, they have a “hate” law in place to turn the truth around and point back at you as the criminal. You are now a “hater,” an extremist, xenophobic racist just for pointing them out – and they are once again – the poor, innocent victims. This is their way to discredit the messenger, stop the truth and steer you back to their propaganda. They are going for the brass ring, a new world order under their rule, and they need total control of all information or they will lose – bigtime.

With that in mind, these rare, honest independent journalists, people like Jeff Rense, Veteran’s Today’s Gordon Duff, The Truth Seeker – Christopher Bollyn, Brother Nathaniel Kapner or WhatReallyHappened.com’s Michael Rivero, and a very few others, become the last chance for truth and justice in a world quickly slipping toward world government. Support them with everything you have. Support anyone who is willing to speak against this treacherous cabal. Support Constitutional law and the Bill of Rights. We must strip back government to a much lesser beast. ”Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.”

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/
Tammy Savage commented 2012-10-25 17:14:11 -0400 · Flag
if this country has a TRILLION dollars to do the will of BANKERS and MONEY POWERS….then we can handle the taxpayer funding ELECTIONS rather than corporations funding elections.
Tammy Savage commented 2012-10-25 17:10:51 -0400 · Flag
I believe that EVERY VOTER needs to be tested on the Constitution and the issues of the day as well as PAST legislation…..tested to see if they EVEN UNDERSTAND the stakes and issues. THEN there needs to be DEBATES HELD in public arenas, funded by TAXPAYER MONEY for showdowns of ALL CANDIDATES that want to go to office. PERIOD END OF STORY….END OF IT. If they PASS TESTING and SHOW ID FOR CITIZENSHIP….then they can PARTICIPATE in the showdowns, debates for candidates (submit the questions and issues)….this should all be done by the LOCAL GOVT for local officials AND LOCAL TAXPAYER MONEY and then this same group will be the ones VOTING IN THE NATIONAL candidates.
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@mikedk tweeted link to this page. 2012-10-24 18:21:34 -0400
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Szelena Gray commented 2012-10-24 17:44:58 -0400 · Flag
The remixes were done by members, and some of them list third party candidates where information was available, I presume: http://www.rootstrikers.org/remix_the_election
Taran Rampersad commented 2012-10-24 17:37:48 -0400 · Flag
It doesn’t mention the viable third party candidates, so I’m out…
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