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2008 marks the 40th anniversaries of the assissinations of MLK and RFK, and the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK

In commemoration, COPA has been holding a series of regional meetings:

"The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Killing Hope"
National Coalition on Political Assassinations in Los Angeles
40th Anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
Important New Forensic Evidence
June 6-8, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Custom Hotel, 8639 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway) at W. Manchester
near LAX
(310) 645-0400, or call toll-free in the US and Canada: (877) 287-8601
KJ's Diner, 8731 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway)

Friday, June 6
6:00 pm: Dinner at KJ's Diner, Banquet Room, 8731 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway), at W. Manchester Ave. Banquet Room has separate entrance on Loyola Blvd., parking available
7:00 pm: Keynote
Custom Hotel, 8639 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway) at W. Manchester Ave., Prairie Room, 2nd Floor
to be followed by a
Panel Discussion:
Dr. Robert Joling, forensic expert and co-author of An Open and Shut Case
Philip Van Praag, audio engineer, analyzed tape of RFK assassination with 13 shots, co-author of An Open and Shut Case
Paul Schrade, eyewitness and victim in the Ambassador pantry shooting in 1968, working to reopen the case (Biography)
WITH SPECIAL GUEST:
Dr. William Pepper, Esq, attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, former attorney for James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King family in civil suit exonerating Ray, author of Orders to Kill (Biography)
Films after speakers, 10:00 pm

Saturday, June 7
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
KJ's Diner, Banquet Room, 8731 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway), at W. Manchester Ave. Banquet Room has separate entrance on Loyola Blvd., parking available
Lisa Pease, researcher and co-author of many books, including The Assassinations (Biography)
William Turner, former FBI agent, author of The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (Biography)
Michael Calder, author of JFK v CIA with new evidence from the RFK police files
Summer Reese, lawyer and associate of Lawrence Teeter, Esq., Sirhan's previous attorney, working closely with Sirhan Sirhan's family to establish his innocence.
Shane O'Sullivan, film documentarian, producer of RFK Must Die, new evidence of links to CIA JM/WAVE:
Mark Sobel, Producer of The Commission and new documentary on RFK’s murder: (Filmography)

7:00 pm
IMDB profile Films after dinner

Sunday, June 8
9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Discussion with:
Ted Charach, researcher and producer whose film The Second Gun re-opened the case in the 1970s.
Wrap up discussion of COPA and future plans.
KJ's Diner, Banquet Room, 8731 Lincoln Blvd. (Pacific Coast Highway), at W. Manchester Ave.Banquet Room has separate entrance on Loyola Blvd.
parking available

Friday night's event will be live-streamed at our COPA website: www.politicalassassinations.com

Registration at the door, $50 for all events, plus $75 for five meals. Day rates available.

"And We Are All Mortal..."
June 10, 2008
Washington, DC

Tuesday, June 10
12:30 pm
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, off Ward Circle (at
Nebraska Ave.), Broadcast Center and the eastern end of Reeves Athletic Field
45th anniversary of JFK's speech against the Cold War at American University
Annual Commemorative Event by COPA in Washington, DC. Gather at the commemorative plaque. Researcher lunch follows.
Free to public, parking south side ofNebraska, enter at New Mexico.
See campus map at: http://www.american.edu/maps/campus.htm
Text of JFK's speech at: http://www.american.edu/media/speeches/Kennedy.htm
"The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Death of Democracy"

Fourteenth Annual Regional Meeting of COPA 2008
Coalition on Political Assassinations
November 21-23, 2008
Dallas, TX

Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston St. (at Jackson, off Dealey Plaza)
COPA rate is $79 per night for single or double. Call 214-761-9090 or 877-396-0334 toll free

45th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. Moment of Silence, Grassy Knoll, November 22, 12:30 pm
Speakers: TBA Registration on site A DVD of the last Dallas conference is available free with a $50 donation to COPA

COPA Regional Meeting, Memphis 2008
April 3-6, 2008
This meeting has already taken place.

Our Choice: Defining Real Democracy

by John Judge

I have made some comments already, but this reinforces my thoughts. Recall and referendum as they have been set up are flawed systems open to manipulation by the rich rather than universal rights made easily available to the people. Electronic technology does not, in and of itself, insure a lack of vote fraud or voter disenfranchisement. It seemed to me that two separate ballots were printed for those Florida punch machines, one easily readable and aligned, the other set up to cause confusion, and that these latter were distributed to the predominantly Black and Jewish counties. Remember the election results for Buchanan in the liberal areas? There were also many comments from people in the rich communities and white areas who maligned the blacks for not being able to comprehend the simple ballots that had not confused them at all.

Voter registration should be automatic but not tied to jury duty. Voting methods should range from balloting on site, to electronic voting done in very transparent ways online, to mail-in systems with a consistent and thorough counting mechanism that only decides elections when the counting is done. Voter enfranchisement should be automatic and those challenged on site should have the right to vote until the dispute is settled against them at an election center or in court. Any mass disenfranchisement by computer list, as was engineered in Florida, should require full public notice well in advance.