[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: Up the Pressure on the $82 Billion

Fri Mar 11 21:29:51 PST 2005

>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:46:27 -0800 (PST)
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>Subject: Up the Pressure on the $82 Billion
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>ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
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>UP THE PRESSURE ON THE $82 BILLION
>Congressional votes coming up - let them know:
>No more money for war - Bring the troops home now!
>See below for action and protest ideas
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>On Tuesday, March 15th the House of Representative is scheduled to 
>vote on the president's request for an additional $82 billion for 
>the war in Iraq. Just a few days later the 2nd anniversary of the 
>beginning of that war will be marked by protest activities in at 
>least 300 cities around the country, and scores of other places 
>around the world. (Visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org to find an 
>action near you, or to list your event.)
>
>Now is the time to ratchet up our pressure on Congress and let them 
>know how disgusted we are at the waste of our tax dollars for this 
>deadly, criminal war. They have the power to stop the flow of money. 
>Many of you have already made calls, sent faxes, and organized lobby 
>visits. Let's expand and intensify those efforts by bringing more 
>people and stronger tactics into the struggle to stop this obscene 
>$82 billion appropriation.
>
>What You Can Do:
>
>**CALL YOUR HOUSE MEMBER NOW. Call your representative between now 
>and next Tuesday when the House votes on the $82 Billion 
>supplemental request. Tell them to vote NO. It's a straightforward 
>message: Not one more dime for this war! Visit 
>http://www.congress.org for contact info.
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>** PLAN NOW TO PRESSURE YOUR SENATOR LATER THIS MONTH. Congress is 
>in recess between March 21 and April 1. During that time many 
>members are in their home states. The $82 billion request will be 
>taken up by the Senate after that recess, so this two-week period is 
>the perfect opportunity for us to bring our message to our senators.
>
>We urge you to make plans now for a visit to your two senators 
>during this time. Depending on your senators' past stance on the war 
>and their stated position on the $82 billion, your "visits" might be 
>anything from a meeting with your senators or their key aides to a 
>picket outside of their offices to a sit-in or other nonviolent 
>civil disobedience action inside. It's time that the pro-war 
>Democrats, in particular, feel our grassroots outrage.
>
>** PRESSURE THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. We do not have an 
>exact date yet, but sometime in early April the Senate Committee on 
>Appropriations will have a hearing on the $82 billion budget request 
>before it goes to the floor of the Senate. Every member of that 
>committee needs to be flooded with phone calls, faxes, emails and 
>visits. The full list of the committee members is below, and for 
>information on how to contact them click here: 
>http://appropriations.senate.gov/members/members.htm  Even if you do 
>not live in a state that has a senator on this committee, the 
>members should hear from you.
>
>In all of these activities, our message should be clear: Stop the 
>war in Iraq, bring the troops home now, no more money for this war!
>
>Please contact United for Peace and Justice if there is anything we 
>can do to help your local efforts. Be sure to check our web site for 
>new resources and organizing materials.
>
>Let us use the occasion of the second anniversary of the war to 
>re-double our efforts to bring the troops home. And let's make sure 
>Congress gets the message: the antiwar movement is watching what 
>they do!
>
>MEMBERS OF THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
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>Republican Members
>Cochran, Thad (MS) , Chair
>Stevens, Ted (AK)
>Specter, Arlen (PA)
>Domenici, Pete (NM)
>Bond, Christopher (MO)
>McConnell, Mitch (KY)
>Burns, Conrad (MT)
>Shelby, Richard (AL)
>Gregg, Judd (NH)
>Bennett, Robert (UT)
>Craig, Larry (ID)
>Hutchison, Kay (TX)
>DeWine, Mike (OH)
>Brownback, Samuel (KS)
>Allard, A. (CO)
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>Democratic Members
>Byrd, Robert (WV), Ranking Member
>Inouye, Daniel (HI)
>Leahy, Patrick (VT)
>Harkin, Tom (IA)
>Mikulski, Barbara (MD)
>Reid, Harry (NV)
>Kohl, Herb (WI)
>Murray, Patty (WA)
>Dorgan, Byron (ND)
>Feinstein, Dianne (CA)
>Durbin, Richard (IL)
>Johnson, Tim (SD)
>Landrieu, Mary (LA)
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>MARCH 18-20: GLOBAL DAYS OF PROTEST
>ON THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR
>* End the War * Bring the Troops Home Now * Rebuild Our Communities *
>Visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org for more information and to endorse
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