{"id":9226,"date":"2020-10-03T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2020-10-03T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T01:16:18","slug":"citizen-education-launch-on-amendment-5-monday-5-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2020\/10\/03\/citizen-education-launch-on-amendment-5-monday-5-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Education Launch on Amendment 5 (Monday, 5 October 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Education Launch on Amendment 5 will happen on Monday (5 October 2020) at 6:30 PM via <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYpc-irqzopG9X4NcQGOhA2mX-qMJ3URGA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Message from retired Lieutenant General Russel Honor\u00e9:<a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9229\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LTGRusselHonore.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m writing to invite you to the launch of an education campaign to oppose Constitutional Amendment 5 which is on the ballot this November.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s one of the worst things to hit Louisiana since Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re launching a citizen education campaign to fight Amendment 5 this Monday, October 5th, at 6:30 PM on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to invite you to attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can have up to 1,000 people on the Zoom call.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYpc-irqzopG9X4NcQGOhA2mX-qMJ3URGA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can register for the call here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Amendment 5 Would Do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amendment 5 would allow industrial corporations to negotiate what they pay in property taxes, while the rest of us pay what the law requires.<\/p>\n<p>It would defund public education, pull money away from roads, bridges, healthcare and hurricane recovery and shift the tax burden to working families and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot language was &#8220;engineered to intentionally confuse the average American voter,&#8221; as one reporter put it.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why the community education campaign we&#8217;re starting is so important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attendees to the event on Monday will receive:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear, concise information about where Constitutional Amendment 5 came from and the impact it would have<\/li>\n<li>A packet of educational material and social media posts to share with your congregation, organizational members, clients, customers, neighbors and local media<\/li>\n<li>Information about how to get involved in the campaign to defeat Amendment 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So please join us on Monday (5 October 2020) at 6:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Tell your friends.\u00a0 Organize your neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYpc-irqzopG9X4NcQGOhA2mX-qMJ3URGA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Use this link to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Education Launch on Amendment 5 will happen on Monday (5 October 2020) at 6:30 PM via Zoom. A Message from retired Lieutenant General Russel Honor\u00e9: I&#8217;m writing to invite you to the launch of an education campaign to oppose Constitutional Amendment 5 which is on the ballot this November. I think it&#8217;s one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2020\/10\/03\/citizen-education-launch-on-amendment-5-monday-5-october-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citizen Education Launch on Amendment 5 (Monday, 5 October 2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-events","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}