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Texas Board Member Suzanne Burkhead says "Art Lynch's years of service have allowed him to gain the respect of members across the country.
It has been an honor to work alongside Art Lynch in the Regional Branch Division and on the SAG0-AFTRA National Board, especially since Art and I share the concerns and challenges that face right to work states.
Art is a passionate, articulate leader who has worked tirelessly on behalf of Nevada members.
He has been fearless during difficult political times and always stands up for what he believes is in the best interest of the members.
Art Lynch's years of service have allowed him to gain the respect of members across the country.
Art is a unionist. He has the ability to understand the greater good, while making sure that even the least of us have our voices heard.
Suzanne Burkhead
Dallas-Fort Worth
A dedicated unionist who does not give up the fight, Suzanne represents a fellow Right-to-work state and works with us to make sure the board keeps Right-to-work (for less), the needs of background performers, the nature of location based markets and the need to be a truly national union in front of the entire staff and national board of directors. -Art Lynch
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Kevin Scullin: "Art Lynch deserves your continued confidence and your vote!"
"My friend Art Lynch is a SAG Board colleague and fellow committee member and has been for over 10 years. My experience of Art is his thoughtful, detailed and honest approach to every committee and Board meeting he's attended over his many years of service. His devotion to the best possible contracts, the Nevada membership and the profession of actors is unquestionable. It has been and honor to serve on National Committees and National SAG Plenaries with him. Art Lynch deserves your continued confidence and your vote!" -Kevin Scullin SAG New York Division Board Member |
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SAG-AFTRA Long Time Nevada Council Member Charlie DiPinto strongly endorses Art Lynch for National Board
My professional as well as personal support to finish your work...Charlie Di Pinto
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Chicago SAG Board Rep John Carter Brown endorses Art Lynch for reelection to the SAG National Board
Art Lynch is a true dyed-in-the-wool Unionist. He always keeps the interests of Nevada members at the top of his agenda.
- John Carter Brown, National Board of Directors, Chicago.
A solid unionist, JCB's career spans coast to coast, on the west coast, in California, and in his adopted home of Chicago. He produces, directs and acts in theatre, on film, as well as television, commercial and voice work.
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In 1869, the year the Lone Ranger is set, railroad technology was progressing at a breakneck pace. It was also the year that the final link in the transcontinental railroad was put into place. See the movie opening July 3rd.
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This is the time for strength, integrity, respect and working relationships. For Nevada and the membership, return Art Lynch to the National Board of SAG
Art Lynch is a friend, a respected colleague and fierce representative for the Nevada Branch. His history and experience with the two past merger attempts are invaluable, both during the planning of the current merger and once we move forward as one.
National Secretary Treasurer
Screen Actors Guild and SAG-AFTRA
Art Lynch's years of service have allowed him to gain the respect of members across the country.
Suzanne Burkhead
SAG-AFTRA National Board
Dallas-Fort Worth
At this vitally important time in our union's development, it is crucial to retain experienced voices in the National Board.
Betsy Beard
Executive Vice President
SAG-AFTRA, Arizona
"Art is extremely intelligent and passionate in the work he champions and the individuals he mentors and represents."
Hrair Messerlian
California Statewide Field Coordinator, SEIU Local 1000
CDCR, DMH, DDS, DVA, Special Schools
As the Guild begins once more the attempt to find an equitable resolution to the problems stemming from our multiple-union representation, the continuity of service and the familiarity with Guild history that Art has will be invaluable, not only to Nevada members, but to Guild members nationwide.
Will Lyman
William Tell, Frontline, Hostile Takeover, Little Children, Commander in Chief, Threat Matrix, The West Wing, Law & Order.
Lyman has narrated a series of Dos Equis commercials, revolving around their The Most Interesting Man in the World character. He has also been the voice for BMW and many other
commercials.For many years I have worked closely with your national director, Art Lynch. He is a passionate and knowledgeable advocate for each of you.
Cece DuBois
National Director, TN
National Chair, Right to Work Task Force
When it comes to looking up to Art in the sense of admiration, Art is a man full of passion when it comes to looking out for Branch members. Some would cower from those who “sit across the aisle”, but I have never seen him back down from a good, healthy exchange of opinions. Art represents you all with integrity and courage, and I will certainly join all the others who ask you to once again elect Art as your SAG National Board member.
Fraternally,
Dave Corey
FL Branch National Board
I cannot imagine anyone more knowledgeable about the issues, more dedicated or more vigilant in representing the interest of Nevada members.
Debra Nelson
National Board Member
Georgia Branch
In this time of great change in our Industry and in our Union, Art Lynch has the experience, skill and determination to lead the Nevada Branch into the future! -
Abby Dylan
and SAG Indie
Abby Dylan
and SAG Indie
Art has spent countless days fighting for you
and has demonstrated over and over
that he can get things done!
Art is a hard working member who works with one interest only, the members of his Branch. It is the members who drive Art to be dedicated to improving their lives and working conditions.
Helen E. McNutt, Philadelphia Branch, National Board
Art Lynch, who fights battles on behalf of the members of SAG Nevada. Art has proved himself an effective advocate for Nevada time and again.
Art Lynch has the knowledge and the experience to fight. He is always in the National Board room to educate and bring to light what is needed for the Branches.
Anne Sward
Utah National Board Member
Utah National Board Member
Art Lynch is who you want standing up, protecting, and defending you.
Fighting tirelessly for union workers in this right-to-work state, Art Lynch walks his talk in the boardroom and on the front lines.
Mary McDonald-Lewis, SAG-AFTRA National Board Member, Portland
National Communication Chair, Screen Actors Guild
He is on top of all national issues and always represents the Nevada general membership with every vote on every issue.
Roy Costley,
New Mexico National Director
Roy Costley,
New Mexico National Director
Art Lynch is a true dyed-in-the-wool Unionist. He always keeps the interests of Nevada members at the top of his agenda.
- John Carter Brown, National Board of Directors, Chicago.
"Feel free to add my name to the list!"
Bill Mootes - Boston
"And add mine Art!"
Rick Deskin - Seattle
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Bobby Bernhardt, Nevada, endorses Art Lynch for National Board
Of course I will vote for Art! The membership at large holds great respect for Art Lynch. I expect his numbers will reflect the dedicated union members.--Bobby Bernhardt
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Integrity
"I, too, endorse Art Lynch. I've seen him in the boardroom and know he fights for the membership!"
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I, for one, can say that Art serves his membership well and with integrity. Please re-elect Art to the SAG-AFTRA National Board.
-Marc Baron NYC
-Marc Baron NYC
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Pardon my dust...and passion.
SAG-AFTRA Election Ballots
are being mailed July 6th.
I am on the Nevada ballot as a candidate to retain the seat I hold on the SAG-AFTRA National Board of Directors.
Campaign material over the past two weeks has been posted in preparation for this mailing.
SAGACTOROnline will continue to provide the same features, news, services, links and lessons as it has for over six years during the election cycle and the amount of "campaigning" greatly reduced (but not eliminated). Please continue to refer to and use SAGACTOROnline and excuse my strong desire and passon about continuing to serve on the SAG-AFTRA National Board.
If you are a SAG-AFTRA member living in Nevada, or know of someone who is, I will appreciate the consideration and vote.
Thank you;
-Art Lynch
(The fourth of July is an appropriate time to launch a democratic election in what David Prindle called "the world's most democratic union."....thus the flag and fireworks.)
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Reelect Art Lynch to the SAG National Board of Directors
I have know Art for many years. We have worked together on the Nevada SAG Council for close to 20 years. Art is a true unionist and gives his all (hard work, knowledge and expertise) to the Nevada Branch and to the SAG-AFTRA National Board as well. I strongly support his experience for the future of this Branch.
-Steve Dressler
Thank you to Steve, immediate past president of the Nevada Branch of the Screen Actors Guild. With trips to Los Angeles as president and as National Board Alternate he can attest to the relationships, negotiations and insight that are put to use for Nevada, for actors and for all performers as incumbent National Board Director. I appreciate the endorsements coming in from those who now the job and what I bring to it, without pay or personal gain. Art
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Nevada Public Radio
Nevada Public Radio was established in 1975 as an independent, non-for-profit, public benefit corporation. KNPR 89.5 FM signed on the air in 1980 as Nevada's first National Public Radio corporation. After 23 years, KNPR became News 88.9 KNPR, an all-news and information station on October 31, 2003 and simultaneously, Classical 89.7 KCNV, a 24-hour classical music station was launched. In addition to the Las Vegas stations, Nevada Public Radio operates three rural stations and a network of 10 translators. For more than two decades, Nevada Public Radio has remained true to its mission "to enhance the quality of life and build a better community by providing high quality, non-commercial radio programming, leadership and services to a substantial audience." Nevada Public Radio is located at 1289 S. Torrey Pines Drive in Las Vegas and can be reached at (702) 258-9895 or at websites www.knpr.org and www.classical897.org.
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SAG-AFTRA Co-President Ken Howard to Run Separately From Slate
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SAG-AFTRA co-president Ken Howard
Disagreement over the future role of co-president Roberta Reardon, former AFTRA president, results in a leaderless slate.
Hollywood Reporter (click here)
In an unusual turn of events, SAG-AFTRA co-president Ken Howard’s campaign for a third term – this time as sole president, not co-president – will see him running without a slate, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He’ll endorse and be endorsed by the Unite for Strength slate, which he has co-led for the last four years, but he won’t actually be part of it.
The same is true of current co-secretary-treasurer Amy Aquino. She’s running for the sole secretary-treasurer slot and remains a key leader of UFS, yet will not be part of the organization’s slate. It remains to be seen how this slate detachment will affect the election results, if at all.
The confusing situation results from disagreement regarding the third key SAG-AFTRA office, executive vice president, a position that is elected at the union’s convention in late September, rather than on the direct ballot, which is how the president, secretary-treasurer, board members and convention delegates are elected. (Candidate petitions for the direct ballot positions were due Friday, with petitions expected to be certified and candidate names released later this week.)
The exec vp shuffle apparently began with a decision by current executive vice president Ned Vaughn– the third member of the triumvirate that has led the union’s boardroom since 2009 – not to run for re-election. Aquino and Vaughn founded the slate in 2008 on a pro-merger platform. Vaughn, who has five children, told THR that “in light of the success [of the effort to merge SAG and AFTRA], I felt it was time for me to move on to other pursuits.”
Meanwhile, multiple sources have confirmed that SAG-AFTRA co-president and former AFTRA president Roberta Reardon has said she intends to run for exec vp, marking a step down from a co-president role.
Aquino at some point insisted that Howard agree to endorse Reardon at the convention or, at least, agree not to favor any other exec vp candidate. Howard refused both demands, setting the stage for an awkward compromise proposed by Vaughn: The two national officer candidates, Howard and Aquino, would run slate-less, while UFS would run as a slate of Los Angeles board and delegate candidates. A source tells THR that UFS will not be endorsing Reardon.
Also likely to endorse and be endorsed by Howard and Aquino is the New York-based United Screen Actors Nationwide. That group, which is actually not nationwide, has been allied with UFS. A source told THR that Reardon, a New Yorker, has support from at least one key USAN member, former SAG president Richard Masur.
On the other side of the aisle, Esai Morales and Jane Austin, former members of the SAG anti-merger slate MembershipFirst, are reportedly running for president and secretary-treasurer. It’s not known what moniker their slate will adopt, nor who will run for EVP on their ticket at the convention.
In any case, if Reardon runs but Howard endorses another candidate, it’s possible that a split convention could hand the exec vp seat to a MembershipFirst candidate. That depends, of course, on whether the MembershipFirst slate wins enough delegate positions to take advantage of any dissension among Howard, Aquino, UFS, USAN and their allies in the locals outside of L.A. and New York.
Indeed, support outside L.A. and New York may not be so automatic. The union’s April decision to shutter 10 of the union’s 25 offices in a budget and “restructuring” move that angered board members in the affected regions (with even stalwart merger supporter Mary McDonald-Lewis charging in its wake that the “merger was sold on a false promise”) may give MembershipFirst some unexpected traction in the regions outside of L.A. and New York.
Another piece of the puzzle: the union’s other current co-secretary-treasurer, Matt Kimbrough who was also the former AFTRA secretary-treasurer, told THR that he is not running for re-election, saying that it was time for a renewed focus on his acting career. He’s continuing on as an AFTRA Health & Retirement Trustee, however, and will also run as a convention delegate.
With Reardon struggling to find a place and Kimbrough out of the boardroom, two and perhaps all three key national officer positions will likely be held by former SAG activists by the time the election cycle ends in late September.
That dominance by legacy SAG is mirrored on the union’s paid staff: national executive director (NED) David White, chief administrative officer and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, assistant NED for communications Pam Greenwalt, senior adviser John McGuire, chief financial officer Arianna Ozzanto, assistant NED for locals Linda Dowell and assistant NED for awards Kathy Connell are all former SAG executives.
In contrast, the only former AFTRA executives at the top without a parallel SAG appointment are associate NED Mathis Dunn, and two assistant NEDs for areas where AFTRA had sole jurisdiction: Mary Cavallaro (news & broadcast) and Randall Himes (sound recordings).
Other top staff are the assistant NEDs of contracts, Ray Rodriguez (formerly SAG) and Joan Halpern Weise (AFTRA); and the assistant NEDs for organizing (Philip Denniston, AFTRA) and for industry relations (Deborah Skelly, SAG).
Bookmark The Hollywood Reporter’s Labor Page for the most in-depth coverage of entertainment unions and guilds.
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In an unusual turn of events, SAG-AFTRA co-president Ken Howard’s campaign for a third term – this time as sole president, not co-president – will see him running without a slate, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He’ll endorse and be endorsed by the Unite for Strength slate, which he has co-led for the last four years, but he won’t actually be part of it.
The same is true of current co-secretary-treasurer Amy Aquino. She’s running for the sole secretary-treasurer slot and remains a key leader of UFS, yet will not be part of the organization’s slate. It remains to be seen how this slate detachment will affect the election results, if at all.
The confusing situation results from disagreement regarding the third key SAG-AFTRA office, executive vice president, a position that is elected at the union’s convention in late September, rather than on the direct ballot, which is how the president, secretary-treasurer, board members and convention delegates are elected. (Candidate petitions for the direct ballot positions were due Friday, with petitions expected to be certified and candidate names released later this week.)
The exec vp shuffle apparently began with a decision by current executive vice president Ned Vaughn– the third member of the triumvirate that has led the union’s boardroom since 2009 – not to run for re-election. Aquino and Vaughn founded the slate in 2008 on a pro-merger platform. Vaughn, who has five children, told THR that “in light of the success [of the effort to merge SAG and AFTRA], I felt it was time for me to move on to other pursuits.”
Meanwhile, multiple sources have confirmed that SAG-AFTRA co-president and former AFTRA president Roberta Reardon has said she intends to run for exec vp, marking a step down from a co-president role.
Aquino at some point insisted that Howard agree to endorse Reardon at the convention or, at least, agree not to favor any other exec vp candidate. Howard refused both demands, setting the stage for an awkward compromise proposed by Vaughn: The two national officer candidates, Howard and Aquino, would run slate-less, while UFS would run as a slate of Los Angeles board and delegate candidates. A source tells THR that UFS will not be endorsing Reardon.
Also likely to endorse and be endorsed by Howard and Aquino is the New York-based United Screen Actors Nationwide. That group, which is actually not nationwide, has been allied with UFS. A source told THR that Reardon, a New Yorker, has support from at least one key USAN member, former SAG president Richard Masur.
On the other side of the aisle, Esai Morales and Jane Austin, former members of the SAG anti-merger slate MembershipFirst, are reportedly running for president and secretary-treasurer. It’s not known what moniker their slate will adopt, nor who will run for EVP on their ticket at the convention.
In any case, if Reardon runs but Howard endorses another candidate, it’s possible that a split convention could hand the exec vp seat to a MembershipFirst candidate. That depends, of course, on whether the MembershipFirst slate wins enough delegate positions to take advantage of any dissension among Howard, Aquino, UFS, USAN and their allies in the locals outside of L.A. and New York.
Indeed, support outside L.A. and New York may not be so automatic. The union’s April decision to shutter 10 of the union’s 25 offices in a budget and “restructuring” move that angered board members in the affected regions (with even stalwart merger supporter Mary McDonald-Lewis charging in its wake that the “merger was sold on a false promise”) may give MembershipFirst some unexpected traction in the regions outside of L.A. and New York.
Another piece of the puzzle: the union’s other current co-secretary-treasurer, Matt Kimbrough who was also the former AFTRA secretary-treasurer, told THR that he is not running for re-election, saying that it was time for a renewed focus on his acting career. He’s continuing on as an AFTRA Health & Retirement Trustee, however, and will also run as a convention delegate.
With Reardon struggling to find a place and Kimbrough out of the boardroom, two and perhaps all three key national officer positions will likely be held by former SAG activists by the time the election cycle ends in late September.
That dominance by legacy SAG is mirrored on the union’s paid staff: national executive director (NED) David White, chief administrative officer and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, assistant NED for communications Pam Greenwalt, senior adviser John McGuire, chief financial officer Arianna Ozzanto, assistant NED for locals Linda Dowell and assistant NED for awards Kathy Connell are all former SAG executives.
In contrast, the only former AFTRA executives at the top without a parallel SAG appointment are associate NED Mathis Dunn, and two assistant NEDs for areas where AFTRA had sole jurisdiction: Mary Cavallaro (news & broadcast) and Randall Himes (sound recordings).
Other top staff are the assistant NEDs of contracts, Ray Rodriguez (formerly SAG) and Joan Halpern Weise (AFTRA); and the assistant NEDs for organizing (Philip Denniston, AFTRA) and for industry relations (Deborah Skelly, SAG).
Bookmark The Hollywood Reporter’s Labor Page for the most in-depth coverage of entertainment unions and guilds.
E-mail: jhandel99 at gmail dot com
Twitter: @jhandel
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Scripts and Monologues
Internet Sources For Scripts and Industry Information
(a partial list provided for informational purposes only)
Needed: Your additions, updates and help. All actors benefit.
Needed: Your additions, updates and help. All actors benefit.
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This site is a work in progress, and will be a part of an expanded web site under the home address of www://artlynch.org. Any additions, corrections, ideas, guest material are greatly appreciated. Please also review the material located along the right hand column, then contact me at art.lynch@artlynch.org. No funds are collected or directly solicited by this site. Google Ads are used to expand Google search and tools reach. Web assistance and a web master are also being sought. Thank you in advance. -Art Lynch
Scripts and Other Stuff Online
Audition Sides
http://www.actorspages.org/sides.php
Simplyscripts
http://www.simplyscripts.com
Whysanity.net
http://www.actorspages.org/sides.php
Simplyscripts
http://www.simplyscripts.com
Whysanity.net
http://www.whysanity.net/monos/monos1a.html
Internet Script Database
http://www.imsdb.com
A Prairie Home Companion: Radio Program, MPR (Minnesota Public Radio)
Internet Script Database
http://www.imsdb.com
A Prairie Home Companion: Radio Program, MPR (Minnesota Public Radio)
Drew’s Script O Rama
AAA Movie Scripts
Screenplay Shop
Script Shop
Hol Cine
Scripts, Scenes and Monologues
Monologues
http://www.actorssource.com/mono.html
Filmfold.com
http://www.filmfold.com/screenplays
Artofprogramming.net
http://www.artofprogramming.net/resources/scripts-screenplays.php
Filmfold.com
http://www.filmfold.com/screenplays
Artofprogramming.net
Various Entertainment Web Sites
www.breakdownservices.com
www.backstage.com
www.talentmanagers.org
www.dga.org
www.americantheaterweb.com
www.castingsociety.com
www.iatse-local1.org/
Screen Actors Guild Young Performers Committee
Coogan Law/ SAS/ For Parents of Young Performers
Children in Entertainment
Entertainment Unions
Screen Actors’ Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Actor’s Equity
Directors’ Guild
Writers’ Guild
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
International Alliance of Theaterical and Stage Employees
Musicians Union
AFL-CIO
Acting Resources
Actors Site Los Angeles
Nevada Film Office
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar)
American Film Institute
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy)
Museum of Televison and Radio
National Film Preservation
Industry Central
Film Foundation/ Actors Rights Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Assorted other sources
Publications
Backstage- Las Vegas
Daily Variety
Hollywood Reporter
BackStage On-Line
e-Online
Internet Movie Date Base
Hollywood On-line
Mr. Showbiz
Screenwriters On-Line
New York Times
National Public Radio (includes Fresh Air, other ent pgms)
Nevada Public Radio
KCRW, Santa Monica Public Radio
LA Times
LA Business Journal
LA Daily News
CNN
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
Chicago Tribune
Talent Resources
AFTRA/SAG Federal Credit Union
Non Traditional Casting Project
Women In Film
Screen Actors Guild Foundation
Entertainment Industry Foundation
Women Stunt Professionals
Screen Actors Guild Pension and Health
Actors Fund
Motion Picture and Television Fund
Contract Services Administration Trust Fund
Society of Singers
Industry Labor Guide
National Arts and Disability Center
Entertainment Resources
Yahoo
Concerts
Los Angeles International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
General Information
Lady Liberty Fireworks
Academy Players Directory
Pro-Act Links to the Industry http://www.pro-act.org/links.html
UNLV and CCSN (including access to libraries)
National Newspaper Association
Books
Video Stores
Web Search Engines
Screen Actors Guild News
Nevada Motion Picture Division
Directors Guild of America
Academy Players Directory
Pro-Act Links to the Industry http://www.pro-act.org/links.html
UNLV and CCSN (including access to libraries)
National Newspaper Association
Books
Video Stores
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Stated: The Declaration Of Independence
It was 236 years ago this Wednesday that church bells rang out over Philadelphia, as the Continental Congress adopted Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Below is the original text of the Declaration, alongside photos of the NPR staff members and contributors who performed the reading.
Declaration Of Independence
The original text of the Declaration of Independence, with photos of NPR staff and contributors who performed the reading:
STEVE INSKEEP
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
RENEE MONTAGNE
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
PAUL BROWN
— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
JEAN COCHRAN
And to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
JULIE McCARTHY
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
DON GONYEA
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
DEBORAH AMOS
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
CHRIS ARNOLD
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
MIKE PESCA
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
TAMARA KEITH
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
SYLVIA POGGIOLI
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
CHERYL CORLEY
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
NINA TOTENBERG
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
ERIC WESTERVELT
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
ELIZABETH BLAIR
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
ADAM DAVIDSON
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
ROBERT SMITH
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
MARA LIASSON
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world; For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent; For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.
LINDA WERTHEIMER
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences, For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.
TOM GOLDMAN
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments; For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
JACKIE NORTHAM
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
MICHELE KELEMEN
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
ARI SHAPIRO
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
SUSAN STAMBERG
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
RICHARD KNOX
A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
SCOTT HORSLEY
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
COKIE ROBERTS
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
RENEE MONTAGNE
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.
STEVE INSKEEP
And that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances,establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
RENEE MONTAGNE
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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