Casinos & Citizenry: Riverwards town hall
Location
We hope you can attend this town hall so you can help us embolden at least one elected representative, senator, mayor or council person (and maybe more) to declare publicly that slot parlors do not belong in our city as part of our Declaration of Independence from Casinos campaign. At this event, we'll provide a comprehensive update and we'll explain how to get involved so we can make real change.
Two for one!
As an added bonus, we'd like to offer you a special gift: one of our awesome "We the People" t-shirts, which are the talk of the town. Here's how it works: if you RSVP for the town hall meeting on our website, at the meeting we'll give you two t-shirts for the price of one ($20). That's right, a two-fer! Sign up, and you can get a t-shirt for yourself and another for a friend. These are black, high-quality t-shirts specially designed so that during your travels nice people will stop, smile and say, "Hey, I like your t-shirt."
Get the word out
Generating attendance for the town hall will be a key to our success. Here's how you can help:
- Flyering: Download our town hall flyer (PDF) and distribute it in your neighborhood.
- Phone Banking: Please participate in our phone banking sessions (and, yes, we order pizza!). Sign up for the events below:
- Video: Please distribute our town hall video far and wide. It contains clips from our Declaration of Independence from Casinos launch event. Email it to friends and neighbors and post it on your social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
The key to our success is strengthening our voice — that's what the town halls are all about. A very small amendment to Act 71 (the Gaming Act) can eliminate the two casino licenses in our city, and the time is right for people to start talking about this. The economy has the casinos pinned down, there are issues and lawsuits still pending and perhaps more to come, and Rendell is making everyone angry with is crazy idea about video poker. At our town hall, we'll provide a comprehensive update and we'll explain how to get involved so we can make real change. That's what it's all about.
Of course, at the town hall we'll bring the actual Declaration of Independence from Casinos, and you can provide your John Hancock if you'd like. See you on the 18th!
