<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">MEDIA ADVISORY</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">For immediate release</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
Thursday, April 25, 2013</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CONTACT: Robert Naiman, </span><a href="tel:773-681-4097" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">217-979-2857</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> (cell)</span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:9pt 0in 2pt 40.8pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">C-U Residents Protest Obama’s
Proposed Cuts to Social Security; Urge Congress to Cut Bloated Pentagon Instead</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:7pt 0in 2pt 40.8pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Thousands Sign
Petitions: Cut Pentagon Pork, Not Social Security & Veterans' Benefits</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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Champaign, IL-- Local residents and </span><a href="http://moveon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">MoveOn.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> members outraged by President Obama’s
proposal to cut Social Security and veterans' benefits will be gathering Thursday
at Rep. Rodney Davis' office in Champaign to protest and to deliver a petition calling
for Congress to cut the bloated Pentagon budget and leave Social Security and
veterans' benefits alone. The petition has been signed by 37,000 people,
including more than a thousand in Illinois. <br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Urbana resident and MoveOn member Robert
Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy, said, “Millions of seniors,
veterans, and people with disabilities depend for their basic quality of life
on these benefits they have paid for and earned through their taxes and service.
Congress should cut the bloated Pentagon budget, not Social Security and
veterans’ benefits. We could end the war in Afghanistan, cut the $1.5 trillion
Joint Strike Fighter Program, and cut Pentagon contracting. Cutting any one of
these things would easily save the government far more money than cutting
Social Security and veterans' benefits.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">This<b> </b>event
will be one of 88 MoveOn petition deliveries Thursday against cutting Social
Security and veterans' benefits at Congressional offices around the country.<b>
</b>MoveOn members will also be delivering "cut the Pentagon, not Social
Security" petitions at the Chicago and Carbondale offices of Senator
Durbin and at the Chicago office of Senator Kirk. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <b><br>
WHAT:</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Mobilization to protect Social Security and
veterans' benefits and cut the bloated Pentagon instead</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">WHO:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Champaign-Urbana
</span><a href="http://moveon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">MoveOn.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> members
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">WHERE</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">: 2004
Fox Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">WHEN: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Thursday,
April 25th at noon</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">To read the petition, go to:<br>
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Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead! </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><a href="http://signon.org/sign/cut-social-security-veterans?source=c.url&r_by=1135580" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://signon.org/sign/cut-social-security-veterans?source=c.url&r_by=1135580</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 40.8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">PHOTO EDITORS: Moveon
members with signs</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div></font></span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
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