<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Diane Randall, FCNL</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dianerandall@fcnl.org">dianerandall@fcnl.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:54 PM<br>Subject: Your Rep Opposed Syria Bombing - Say Thank You!<br>To: Robert Naiman <<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">Dear Robert Naiman,</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0"><a href="http://fcnl.org/r/E/Mjk1OTk0/NzIxMDE/0/0/bmFpbWFuQGp1c3Rmb3JlaWducG9saWN5Lm9yZw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYXB3aXouY29tL2Zjb25sL2lzc3Vlcy9hbGVydC8_YWxlcnRpZD02MjkyNDkwMSZ0eXBlPVRBIyEjIQ/4834/0" style="color:#007572;line-height:1.2em" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" style="margin:0 1em 1em 1em"></a>Last week, members of Congress listened to their constituents. They heard overwhelming opposition to a U.S. military strike in Syria at town hall meetings, in email, and on the phone. And many of them—including your representative<span>—</span>took action by publicly stating their opposition to the president’s proposal to authorize the use of military force against Syria. <strong><a href="http://fcnl.org/r/E/Mjk1OTk2/NzIxMDE/0/0/bmFpbWFuQGp1c3Rmb3JlaWducG9saWN5Lm9yZw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYXB3aXouY29tL2Zjb25sL2lzc3Vlcy9hbGVydC8_YWxlcnRpZD02MjkyNDkwMSZ0eXBlPVRBIyEjIQ/4834/0" style="color:#007572" target="_blank">Please thank your representative.</a></strong></p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">Now, the U.S. and Russia have agreed on a process that could rid Syria of all its chemical weapons by the middle of next year. Just a few weeks ago U.S. military action seemed imminent. Now the U.S. is involved in international, diplomatic negotiations to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons. The agreement could also pave the way for negotiations to stop the carnage of Syria’s civil war.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">Congressional resistance to unilateral U.S. military action in Syria helped create the political momentum for the next steps in this process. <a href="http://fcnl.org/r/E/Mjk1OTk3/NzIxMDE/0/0/bmFpbWFuQGp1c3Rmb3JlaWducG9saWN5Lm9yZw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYXB3aXouY29tL2Zjb25sL2lzc3Vlcy9hbGVydC8_YWxlcnRpZD02MjkyNDkwMSZ0eXBlPVRBIyEjIQ/4834/0" style="color:#007572" target="_blank"><strong>Please thank your representative for opposing a U.S. military strike against Syria.</strong></a></p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">This progress is something to celebrate, even as we acknowledge how much more needs to be done. Syria is still at war, and people in the country and in refugee camps are suffering and dying every day. The diplomatic negotiations that still lie ahead are likely to be tough.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">The challenges ahead make it particularly important that you contact your representative to say “thank you.” Your representative needs to hear that their constituents support a nonviolent response from the U.S. <strong>Your representative needs to be encouraged to support international efforts through the U.N. to eliminate chemical weapons and bring peace to Syria.<span style="line-height:1.2em"> </span></strong></p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">Thank you for your emails, phone calls and visits to your members of Congress over the past several weeks. I hope that you will continue to follow their statements and actions and continue to remind them of the ways that the U.S. can respond nonviolently to conflicts—sometimes long before they become the crisis that is happening in Syria.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:2em;margin-top:0">Sincerely,</p>
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