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DemandingDemocracy: Rosa Parks & RollCallForDemocracy.com
by Paul Lehto

On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was tired, tired especially of giving in, of injustice, and of having her rights violated. When she was asked to give up her seat on the bus because she was African American, her refusal to yield helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

Today we face a new challenge from computerized voting systems that hide all of the vote counting and in many cases even the voter's own votes from us. After all the struggles to vote, now the votes are made to be invisible and unknowable as to whether they even exist, much less being counted properly. Even though employees can never legitimately hide information from the employers that pay their salaries, public servants/public employee election officials are hiding the elections from the same public that pays all of their salaries, employs them, and is the true source of all power in this country, *Today, everyone of us is challenged to be a Rosa Parks, because ALL of the American people are being asked to give up their seat on the bus: _The Driver's Seat._*

In honor of Rosa Parks, and to highlight the need for new activism on civil rights of Americans, on *Saturday evening December 1, 2007 at 8 pm* we will launch the RollCallForDemocracy.com site, featuring many organizations that have endorsed the basic principles of democracy and called for them to be remembered by the officials who've sworn to us that they would uphold them. We want to find out where everyone stands, and whether they believe that the American people still ought to be in the driver's seat of this country, and if so what makes them think that secret vote counting is tolerable, for even one second.

Adding to all of this will be the first ever public viewings of original paintings on elections, and original musical scores of the Declaration of Indendence.