<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div>So, we have an unusual ask here. We're asking everyone in Illinois to call Gutierrez. </div><div><br></div><div>Why? Because he's on the Democratic platform committee, where a battle royale is brewing over the demands of Team Sanders to include "Palestinian rights" in the platform. </div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Just Foreign Policy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@justforeignpolicy.org">info@justforeignpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:36 PM<br>Subject: Illinois: Urge Rep. Gutierrez to help protect Palestinian kids<br>To: <a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br><br><span class="">
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<div align="left"><p>Dear Robert,<br>
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Luis Gutierrez represents Illinois' fourth Congressional district, in the Chicago area. Usually, we wouldn't ask everyone in Illinois to call Rep. Gutierrez' office on some issue. We'd just ask the folks in IL-4. But Rep. Gutierrez' is now one of four Members of Congress on the Democratic Party's platform committee. That's why we're so eager to get him to sign Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum's letter on protecting Palestinian kids in military detention. One more signer is one more signer; that's great! But getting a member of the Democratic platform committee on the record saying that the US should do more to protect Palestinian kids in military detention? <b><i>Priceless</i></b>. <br>
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<b>Call Rep. Luis Gutierrez now at <a href="tel:202-225-8203" value="+12022258203" target="_blank">202-225-8203</a>.</b> Ask to speak to a staffer who handles foreign policy. When you speak to a staffer or leave a message, you can say something like,</p>
<blockquote>"As an Illinois Democrat, <b>I urge Rep. Gutierrez to sign the McCollum letter</b> and <b>advocate for the Democratic Party to support protecting the rights of Palestinian kids</b>."</blockquote>
<p><i>[Of course, if Rep. Gutierrez is your own Representative, <b>you should definitely mention that too</b>.]</i><br>
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When you've made your call, <b>please report it <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tM6zu1uue4lYpwJOKkszhzY9m9KB7M6j" target="_blank">here</a></b>.<br>
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And if you haven't signed our petition to Rep. Gutierrez urging him to sign the McCollum letter, <b><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=360iayhITxSUZAQHTmHfC63M%2FV5n8kO3" target="_blank">you can do that here</a></b>.<br>
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Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,<br>
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Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns<br>
Just Foreign Policy<br>
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