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Visit the World Socialist Web Site for daily news & analysis of major world events. Donate to the campaign! We need your support! The Socialist Equality Party
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to send generous donations to our election fund to help finance
our legal challenge against efforts by the Ohio election authorities
to keep Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence, our presidential and
vice-presidential candidates, off the ballot. The SEP campaign has already had to outlay substantial sums of money to fight the attempt by the American state and the Republican and Democratic parties to keep socialist and third-party candidates off the November ballot. In August, at considerable cost,
the SEP filed a lawsuit in Ohio against the discriminatory filing
deadline in the state for third party candidates for Congress.
On August 27 the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld
a lower court decision denying ballot status to David Lawrence,
the SEP’s candidate for Ohio’s 1st Congressional District. The previous month, the SEP successfully
defeated the spurious challenge made by the Democratic Party
to the 2,009 petitions filed by Tom Mackaman, SEP candidate for
the Illinois state legislature from the 103rd District. We are combating organizations that receive tens of millions of dollars from big business. We rely on the working class to provide us with the resources we need. Alongside carrying out our challenge in Ohio, the SEP is preparing for the widespread distribution of our election statement and other programmatic material, as well as energetic campaigning by our presidential, vice-presidential and congressional candidates. We need your financial support to do so. We call on all WSWS readers to send as much as you can. We need your financial support
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The SEP 2004 Campaign is looking for volunteers to assist with publicity, distribution of election materials and much more! California : Colorado : Illinois California: The SEP is in the process of collecting 55 signatures of people willing to serve as electors in order to place Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence on the ballot as write-in candidates. In addition, we are collecting 60 signatures in the state's 29th congressional district in order to register John Burton as a congressional write-in candidate. We are also in the midst of scheduling speaking engagements at schools, universities, and community forms for Burton and representatives from the SEP campaign throughout the state. To sign-up as an elector or to invite the SEP to speak at a forum you are affiliated with, click on the link below. Volunteer to campaign in California Colorado: The SEP's presidential and vice-presidential candidates are on the ballot in Colorado. Over the course of the coming months we will be actively campaigning throughout the state. Join our efforts to bring the SEP's political program and perspective to working people in Colorado! Volunteer to distribute our election statement and help arrange speaking engagements for our candidates at schools, universities, workplaces, and other public forums! Volunteer to campaign in Colorado Illinois: The SEP is currently appealing for support in its opposition to the University of Illinois' anti-democratic efforts to silence SEP state legislative candidate Tom Mackaman's by threatening him with disciplinary action for using his personally funded student email account in connection with his campaign. This is only the most recent effort by a state institution to interfere with the SEP's effort to give workers, students, and intellectuals in Illinois' 103rd District an alternative to the pro-war big-business policies of the Democrats and Republicans. It comes on the heels of the Democratic Party's effort to keep Mackaman off the ballot on the basis of a blatantly bad-faith challenge to our nominating petitions, over which the SEP prevailed. In both instances, the SEP's international campaign in defense of Mackaman and the rights of Illinois voters to hear his message has won widespread support from WSWS readers and SEP supporters throughout the world. Help us continue this effort by joining our campaign. Volunteer to campaign in Illinois Minnesota: On Sept. 13 the Minnesota Secretary of State's Office placed Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence on the ballot after having determined that the 2,404 signatures submitted on behalf of the candidates puts them on the ballot for the November 2 election. Now that we have successfully completed the petition drive in the state, we are actively campaigning to arrange speaking engagements and media coverage for Van Auken and Lawrence. To invite the SEP's candidates to speak at your school, university, workplace, or community organization. click on the link below. We need your help to bring the SEP's antiwar and socialist perspective to millions of Minnesota voters! Volunteer to campaign in Illinois Iowa: The SEP campaign filed petitions on August 12 bearing 1,750 signatures to place its presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the ballot as independents, and we have been certified for ballot status. Help us bring a genuine alternative to Iowa voters by volunteering to help publicize our campaign through the distribution of our election campaign and the arrangement of speaking engagements for our candidates at schools, universities, community organizations, and other public forums throughout the state. Click on the link below if you want to participate in the Iowa campaign. Maine: SEP candidate Carl Cooley is on the ballot in Maine's 2nd Congressional District. Volunteer to distribute our election statement and arrange speaking engagements for Cooley in this state, whose residents have suffered from decades of job losses and declining living standards. Join our effort to give working people an alternative to the Democratic Party and their pro-war policies! Volunteer to campaign in Maine Michigan: SEP candidate Jerry White is on the ballot in Michigan's 15th Congressional District. We are beginning our campaign in this area to give the working class an alternative to the two parties of big business. Through the distribution of campaign materials, speaking engagements, and media coverage we will be fighting to raise the central political and economic questions that concern the vast majority of people--the war in Iraq, jobs, healthcare, education, and social conditions. To volunteer to participate in this effort in Michigan click on the link below. Volunteer to campaign in Michigan Minnesota: On Sept. 13 the Minnesota Secretary of State's Office placed Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence on the ballot after having determined that the 2,404 signatures submitted on behalf of the candidates puts them on the ballot for the November 2 election. Now that we have successfully completed the petition drive in the state, we are actively campaigning to arrange speaking engagements and media coverage for Van Auken and Lawrence. To invite the SEP's candidates to speak at your school, university, workplace, or community organization. click on the link below. We need your help to bring the SEP's antiwar and socialist perspective to millions of Minnesota voters! Volunteer to campaign in Minnesota New Jersey: Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence have already been placed on the ballot in New Jersey. Now we are concentrating our efforts on bringing the SEP's program to as wide an audience as possible in order to give the working people of New Jersey an alternative to both the Democrats and Republicans. Volunteer to distribute our election statement throughout the state! Invite Van Auken and Lawrence to speak at your school, university, place of work, or community organization! Volunteer to campaign in New Jersey Ohio: On October 4, Ohio's 10th District Court
of Appeals upheld the decision of the secretary of state to exclude
Socialist Equality Party presidential and vice presidential candidates,
Bill Van Auken and Jim Lawrence, from the November 2 ballot.
The SEP filed petitions bearing more than 7,900 signatures with
the Ohio secretary of state's office on August 17, but election
officials disqualified more than half of these signatures on
the most spurious grounds. This follows the Washington: On Monday, August 23 we filed the signatures and nomination papers to place our presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the ballot in Washington. We will need your support to bring the SEP's anti-war and socialist alternative to working people throughout the state. Volunteer to distribute our election statement! Invite SEP representatives to speak at your school, university, place of work, or community organization! |
