The idea is to pressure Sacramento to approve 3 bills already approved by one chamber to start the process to overturn Citizens United;
1) Issue a formal call for a federal Constitutional Convention to propose an Amendment outlawing big money corruption by passing Assembly Joint Resolution 1 (AJR1).
2) Give California's voters the chance to formally instruct the US Congress to propose such an Amendment and the California legislature to ratify it by passing Senate Bill 1272 (SB1272).
3) Start reining in unlimited, anonymous big money in elections by passing the DISCLOSE Act to require the top donors to be prominently revealed in every political ad they fund.
It should arrive to the Capitol between 2-3PM on Sunday. That day the march starts with a rally from 9:30AM to 11AM in South Sacramento at Fruitridge Park. Them we march about 6.5 miles to the Capitol.
I will join them on Friday night in Elk Grove and march on Saturday too. When we get to Fruitridge there will be another rally where Dolores Huerta will speak. The march that she and Cesar Chavez organized in 1965 was the inspiration.
Navajo is coordinating and Meteror Blades is also going. Check out the announcement in the last Connect, Unite, Act;
Connect! Unite! Act! Protest in Sacramento Sunday! Seattle Meet-up Info — Do You Like Cold Soup?
I'll drive up from LA on Friday and if someone would like to ride share let me know. I will march on Saturday and Sunday.
If you live in the Bay Area you may want to share a bus.
I met Kai Newkirk, 99 Rise co-founder and march leader, in a political salon in LA about one year ago and we became friends. When he spoke and got arrested at the Supreme Court he got my attention. So when he proposed the march I got involved.
Along the way I played journalist and interviewed him;
Past Diaries
By OPOL; Something big is brewing in California
By Words in Action; If You Don't Like Money in Politics
By Dave in Northridge; May 17 - The California March for Democracy Kicks Off (UPDATED with Route Map)
March for Democracy Day 1
March for Democracy Day 3 and 4
March for Democracy - Day 9 - Interview with Kai Newkirk
The March for Democracy arrives in Bakersfield and Dolores Huerta joins them
Day 18 - Lawrence Lessig joins the March for Democracy towards Visalia
The March for Democracy approaches Sacramento
Money in politics, where do you stand? I will stand in Sacramento
March Stops