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'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday, January 20 | Rally to Unite Citizens for Democracy | St. Paul's Cathedral | 138 Tremont St, Boston |&nbsp;4pm - 8 pm</span>'''
<span style="font-size:x-large;">[http://www.campaignfinancereform.us/take-action/rally-summit '''CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED SCHEDULE''']</span>
 
*4:00 - 4:30 - Community Gather Time
*'''4:30 - 4:50 - "We the People"&nbsp;Rep.''&nbsp;''Cory Atkins&nbsp;'''
*'''4:50 - 5:10 - " Cross-Partisan Organizing: Finding Areas of Agreement"&nbsp;Szelena Grey of Rootstrikers'''
*5:10 - 5:45 - Break-out Sessions on Corporate Influence
**Financial Industry (Pam Wilmot)
**Environmental Concerns (TBD)
**Housing Chrisis (TBD - Domenic?)
**Military Spending (TBD - VFP, MPC,&nbsp;?)
**Immigration (TBD)
**Education (TBD - Occupy Harvard)
**Corporate Culture (Grace Ross)
**Healthcare (MA Nurses Association)
**Agri-business (Terra Friedrichs)
*'''5:45 - 6:00 - Occupy Legislation Handbook - Jamie Eldridge'''
*'''6:00 - 6:30 - Corporate Personhood Panel&nbsp;with John Bonifaz, Donna Palermino and TBD'''
*6:30 - 7:00 - Questions and Answers
*7:00 - 7:30 - Break-out Group Discussions
**How to talk to people about this subject (Pam Wilmot)
**How corporations work and how to get them to work for us (Grace Ross)
**Five Sources of Campaign Finance (Patrick&nbsp;Frank)
**Tales of Non-Coordination: SuperPACs (TBD)
**Pay to Play (TBD)
**Public Financing of Elections (Jules Levine)
*7:30 - 8:00 - Reception and Entertainment
*8:00 - 8:10 - Closing Remarks
 
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'''Saturday, January 21 | Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy | Suffolk University, Donahue Hall | 41 Temple St., Boston | 10pm - 4pm'''
 
*9:30 - 10:00 - Community Gathering
*'''10:00 - 10:45 - Lawrence Lessig Presentation&nbsp;'''
*10:45 - 11:00 - Questions and Answers
*11:00 - 11:20 - Coffee Break and Book Signing
*11:20 - 12:00 - Breakout Sessions II
**Impacting Local Elections (Jules Levine & Harmony&nbsp;?)
**Article V Convention (TBD)
**Consumer Strategies (TBD)
**Corporate and Small Business Alliances (TBD)
**Presidental Elections (Patrick Frank)
**The Pesticide Industry (Ellen&nbsp;? & Theresa&nbsp;?)
**Citizen Journalism and Breaking Through the Media (TBD)
*12:00-12:30 - Lunch
*'''12:30-1:00 - Powermapping (Patrick Frank, Grace Ross, TBD)'''
*1:00-1:45 - Breakout Discussions
**How to Start a Ballot Initiative (TBD)
**How to Pass Local Resolutions (TBD)
**Colation Building (TBD)
**Community Building (TBD)
**Occupy Boston Proposal Groups (TBD)
**FEC (Mass. League of Women Voters - TBD)
*1:45 - 2:30 - Present Break-out Proposals
*'''2:30 - 3:15 - Citizens Lobbying Training Workshop (Grace Ross, Avi Green, Pam Wilmot)'''
*'''3:15 - 3:30 - Next Steps - Join a Working group (Jules Levine)'''
*3:30 - 4:00 - Occupy Boston Open House
*'''3:15 - 4:00 -''' '''Grace Ross - Citizens Lobbying Training Workshop'''
 
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'''Participating Groups for the Rally and Summit Include'''
 
*Boston Amendment Group
*Coffee Party in Boston
*Common Cause
*Dollars and Cents
*Free Speech For People
*League of Women Voters of MA
*Massachusetts Nurses Association
*MassVote
*Move to Amend
*Progressive Massachusetts
*Public Citizen
*Rootstrikers
*Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 615)

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