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>From Voices in the Wilderness / Voices for Creative Nonviolence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Friends, The U.S. Senate is set to vote to approve the supplemental spending package for the current fiscal year. This includes an additional $67.5 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This vote is scheduled to take place the week of April 24th. Between now and then, the Senate is in recess and U.S. Senators are back in their home states. You are urged to take one or more of the following actions to halt funding of the Iraq war: 1) Visit your Senators offices to tell them to vote against all war funding. Bring as many people with you as possible. Dont let their staff tell them that you need an appointment and dont call ahead to try to schedule an appointment between now and April 24. It normally takes weeks to schedule an appointment with a staff member (let alone a Senator)there is no time to wait this long. It is infinitely more important that Senators know that there is a steady stream of constituents coming to their offices to demand an end to the war than it is to follow proper protocol. 2) Call your Senators offices daily to tell them to vote against all war funding. 3) Write a letter to your Senators offices telling them to vote against all war funding. Faxdont mailyour letter to your Senators offices. Because of mail screening at the mailroom in Congress, your Senators wont see your letter till long after the vote if you mail it. 4) Maintain a public vigil outside your Senators offices. Have signs and flyers with your Senators office phone numbers to let passers-by know how to call to tell their Senators to vote against war funding and the supplemental spending bill. 5) Engage in civil disobedience at your Senators offices demanding that they vote against war funding. Civil disobedience directed at Senators who give lip service to ending the war (while voting for never ending funding for the never ending war) is perhaps more important than civil disobedience directed at Senators who will vote for each and every war, weapons system, military budget, etc. that comes their way. But every Senator voting for war should be held accountable via acts of lobbying, political pressure and civil disobedience. You can find address, phone and fax information for your Senators by using one of the following resources: 1) U.S. Senate Website (http://www.senate.gov) 2) Friends Committee on National Legislation website (http://www.fcnl.org) 3) Calling the Congressional switchboard at 1-202-224-3121. The switchboard will connect you to your Senators office in Washington, D.C. and you can ask the staff member there for relevant contact information. While on the line with this office, tell the Senators staff that you are opposed to funding the war in Iraq. Voices for Creative Nonviolence _____________________________ Note: This message comes from the peace-justice-news e-mail mailing list of articles and commentaries about peace and social justice issues, activism, etc. If you do not regularly receive mailings from this list or have received this message as a forward from someone else and would like to be added to the list, send a blank e-mail with the subject "subscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you can visit: http://lists.enabled.com/mailman/listinfo/peace-justice-news Go to that same web address to view the list's archives or to unsubscribe. E-mail accounts that become full, inactive or out of order for more than a few days will become disabled or deleted from this list. FAIR USE NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the information in this e-mail is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. I am making such material available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in the US Copyright Law.
