<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Conference call - this Monday at 7pm - on the war and famine in Yemen, and the prospect of blocking an upcoming arms sale to Saudi Arabia which is promoting that war.</div><div><br></div><div>With Peace Action, and a bunch of other groups including Just Foreign Policy.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> -- Stuart</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action" <peaceact@reply.salsalabs.com> </div><div>Date: 6/3/17 07:00 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: stuartnlevy@gmail.com </div><div>Subject: Invitation: Join the call Monday 6/5 to end the war in Yemen </div><div><br></div></div>
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</b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Urgent Yemen Briefing and Action Steps: Stop the Saudi Arabia Arms Sales</span> </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Stuart,</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please join this important conference call to help prevent a further humanitarian disaster and mass famine from happening in Yemen and stop the U.S. from selling arms to Saudi Arabia.<br>
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Next Monday, June 5th from 5:00 - 6:00 PM Pacific, 6:00 - 7:00 PM Mountain, 7:00 - 8:00 PM Central, 8:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern<br>
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Dial-in Number: (605) 472-5575<br>
Access Code: 944808<br>
iPhone:<br>
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<b>Agenda</b> (Eastern Times)<br>
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<b>8:00 - 8:20 PM</b> (20 mins) What you need to know about the Yemen crisis and Saudi Arabia arms sales - Kate Kizer, Director of Policy & Advocacy, The Yemen Peace Project (Bio Below)<br>
<b>8:20 - 8:30 PM</b> (10 mins) Q & A<br>
<b>8:30 - 8:40 PM</b> (10 mins) What you can do to end the war in Yemen? How can you stop the Saudi Arms sale? - Kate Gould, Legislative Representative for Middle East Policy, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) (Bio Below)<br>
<b>8:40 - 8:55 PM</b> (15 mins) Q & A<br>
<b>8:55 - 9:00 PM</b> (5 mins) Next Steps<br>
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Briefing Call Cosponsors:<br>
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Center for International Policy<br>
CODEPINK<br>
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)<br>
Global Progressive Hub<br>
Just Foreign Policy<br>
National Priorities Project<br>
Peace Action<br>
People Demanding Action<br>
STAND: The Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities<br>
The Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM<br>
The Yemen Peace Project<br>
United for Peace & Justice<br>
United Methodist General Board of Church and Society<br>
US Labor Against the War<br>
Win Without War<br>
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<b>About the Expert Briefers:</b><br>
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<b><i>Kate Kizer<br>
Director of Policy & Advocacy, The Yemen Peace Project</i></b><i><br>
Kate has worked on human rights and democratization in the Middle East for nearly ten years. Kate received her B.A. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from UCLA, studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo, and is currently an M.A. candidate at Georgetown University’s Democracy and Governance program. Kate has also traveled extensively in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Syria. Her writing and commentary have been featured in numerous news outlets, including Reuters, Al Jazeera America, Middle East Eye, OpenDemocracy, and the Huffington Post.<br>
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Kate directs YPP’s policy and advocacy program to ensure US foreign policy in Yemen reflects the needs and interests of Yemenis and Yemeni Americans.<br>
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<b>Kate Gould<br>
Legislative Representative, Middle East Policy, FCNL</b><br>
Kate Gould serves as the Legislative Representative for Middle East Policy. Kate directs FCNL's lobbying on Middle East policy, and is one of only a handful of registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. working to support diplomatic solutions to disputes between the U.S. and Iran and the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Israel/Palestine.<br>
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Gould was profiled in 2015 as the “Quaker Lobbyist Behind the Iran Deal Fight,” by Congressional Quarterly, an outlet with readership that includes 95% of members of Congress. Kate's analysis on Middle East policy has been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, CNN, Reuters, AFP and other national outlets. Kate has appeared as an on-air analyst for various TV and radio programs, including the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, The Thom Hartmann Show, The Real News Network and CCTV. She is a Political Partner at the Truman National Security Project, and serves as a board member of the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship and Churches for Middle East Peace.<br>
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Before coming to FCNL, Kate taught Palestinian school teachers for AMIDEAST while coordinating a radio program on peace building efforts at a joint Israeli-Palestinian think tank in Jerusalem. Kate also interned for Senator Jeff Merkley both in her hometown of Medford, Oregon and in his Washington, DC office. Kate is inspired every day by people she met in the Middle East who practice nonviolence in the face of so much violence: the Palestinian shepherds, Israeli rabbis, Palestinian women’s cooperative owners, therapists in Gaza treating children who have lived through three wars, and Syrian and Iraqi refugees who have started over to make a new life. Kate is a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington.</i><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Paul Kawika Martin<br>
Senior Director, Policy and Political Affairs<br>
Peace Action<br>
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P.S. Please forward this invitation to your </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">friends, family and colleagues.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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