<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496503444693_134542">Hi David.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496503444693_134536" dir="ltr">Anne Bjornson Parkinson here. I am very new to the group. What does the acronym BDS stand for? I have not been following that bill. Thanks, Anne<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496503444693_134479"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:06 PM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4256518262"><style>#yiv4256518262 #yiv4256518262 --
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#yiv4256518262 </style><div><div class="yiv4256518262WordSection1"><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Carol was one of only two State Reps who abstained from voting for the anti BDS bill, despite aggressive coercion from Madigan and lobbyists from the Israeli consulate for all State Reps and Senators to vote for it.</span></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">David J.</span></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4256518262yqt2380204704" id="yiv4256518262yqt10733"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Peace [mailto:peace-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl G. Estabrook via Peace<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 03, 2017 6:18 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Robert Naiman<br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> peace<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace] Tomorrow I'll ask Carol Ammons to oppose the Saudi arms deal</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">She was unwilling to oppose Illinois’ support for Israeli apartheid. </div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262yqt2380204704" id="yiv4256518262yqt52624"><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262yqt2380204704" id="yiv4256518262yqt82489"><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Tomorrow afternoon this event is happening in Champaign:</div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">IL - 13 Listening Session: Champaign-Urbana</div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Public · Hosted by Carol Ammons</div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1855909114660297/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1855909114660297/</a></div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Yesterday I asked Rodney Davis to oppose Trump's Saudi arms deal. I presented the IL-13 signers on <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580">our petition</a>, and asked him to cosponsor the bipartisan Amash-Pocan resolution against the Saudi arms deal. Rodney Davis said he would speak with Amash and the other Republican sponsors and get back to me. </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Now Carol is asking: "What do you want your Representative in Congress to do?" I figure that's an easy question for me to answer. I want my Representative in Congress to oppose the Saudi arms deal. </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">So, I figure, why not take Carol the same petition I took Rodney, and make the same ask? </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">I figure: if Carol opposes the Saudi arms deal and challenges Rodney to do the same, it's win-win. Either Rodney agrees, in which case I win, or Rodney doesn't agree, in which case it's a public issue and the News-Gazette has to report on it and Rodney gets in trouble, in which case I also win. </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Is it plausible that Rodney, feeling a little heat, would agree to co-sponsor the Amash resolution? </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Last September, then-Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was one of only four Senate Republicans to vote against the Saudi tank deal. The other 23 no votes were Democrats. Mark Kirk had not previously been known as a critic of Saudi Arabia or its "particularly aggressive" war in Yemen, as the Vatican puts it. </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">What made Mark Kirk flip? Tammy Duckworth was breathing down his neck, putting out a press release every time he didn't say "excuse me" after burping.</div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Could we do that to Rodney Davis? Could we flip him with some pressure? If not, why not? </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">I'll print out the petitions again around noon tomorrow. So there's still time to sign. </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Sign the petition: Congress: Vote NO on Trump's Saudi Arms Deal</div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580">https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580</a></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">===</div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"><br clear="all"></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">Robert Naiman<br clear="none">Policy Director<br clear="none">Just Foreign Policy<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">(202) 448-2898 x1</div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Peace mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="yiv4256518262MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yqt2380204704" id="yqt06769">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Peace-discuss mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>