[van-announce] Rally this Saturday - RoboGate: WE DEMAND NEW ELECTIONS!

[Derrick O'Keefe]

*Please circulate widely*



RoboGate: TELL HARPER WE DEMAND NEW ELECTIONS!

Nixon, 1973: "I am not a crook". Harper, 2012: "You can't prove I am a crook".

Come raise your voice against electoral fraud and the destruction of Canadian democracy!

Saturday March 3rdNoon-3pmMeet at the Vancouver Art Gallery and march to Victory Square!

We demand:
1) An immediate criminal investigation;
2) Full accountability, including up to the Prime Minister's Office, including the impeachment of Harper himself;
3) Either a dissolution of government, or new by-elections in each affected riding.

Come out on Saturday and make your voice heard! Invite everyone you know and share widely on your social networks!
Demonstrations will be taking place March 3 - March 11 throughout Canada to demand that Elections Canada do its job and restore confidence in our voting system.

This is a non-partisan event.Speakers:Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver EastJamie Biggar of Lead NowJudy Rebick, long time social justice activist and author of "'Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political'. She is currently the Canadian Auto Workers–Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University in Toronto.Irene Lanziger, Secretary-Treasury of the BC Federation of Labour(More to come - check back for updates)
If you have Facebook, please RSVP so we can track numbers: https://www.facebook.com/events/197991766967665/

Join the wave of actions across Canada to protest electoral fraud -- stand up for democracy!

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It has become increasingly clear that there was a vast effort to suppress the vote in the May 2011 elections.

Hoax phone calls have been reported in more than 50 ridings so far. Some were robo-calls and some were live calls from a call centres hired by the Conservative Party.

Some of these calls informed voters that due to potential crowding their polling place was being changed. Some of them called Jewish voters on the Sabbath or very early in the morning and said they were from the Liberal Party, angering and upsetting voters.

Misdirection, lies, and misrepresentation were used to suppress or influence the vote, undermining the very foundation of Canadian democracy - free elections.

http://sixthestate.net/?p=3646
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/29/pol-robocalls-wed-riding-wrap.html?cmp=rss

Conservative Party campaign worker Michael Sona has already resigned from his post and gone into hiding and the Harper government is trying to pass this off as the actions of one rogue campaign worker.

Investigations have shown that the calls are directly linked to a company closely associated with the Conservative's campaign.

(http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/robocalls-watch-conservative-party-linked-to-calls-directing-voters-to-different-polling-stations.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

Despite substantial evidence or widespread electoral fraud - with a number of links to the Conservative Party - Prime Minister Harper has refused to call a public inquiry or to take a shred of personal responsibility for this attack on Canadian democracy. Harper's response has been to stonewall, downplay and distract. Our response is to mobilize and demand real consequences for what appears to be unprecedented electoral fraud.

CANADIANS WILL NOT TOLERATE SUCH GROSS VIOLATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY.



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