<div dir="ltr"><div>When I called, I had to let the phone ring several times before I could leave a message. </div><br><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, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:03 AM<br>Subject: TODAY: Press Dick Durbin to talk about famine at Illinois Wesleyan<br>To: <a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<div align="left" class="m_5100578174345289210content"><p><span class="">Dear Robert,<br>
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At 5:30 PM today, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is having a Town Hall Meeting at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. [1]<br>
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</span><b>Please call Dick Durbin's office in Springfield now at <a href="tel:(217)%20492-4062" value="+12174924062" target="_blank">217-492-4062</a>.</b> When you reach a staffer or leave a message [you may need to let the phone ring several times], you can say something like:</p><div><div class="h5">
<blockquote>"I urge Senator Durbin in his speech at Illinois Wesleyan to join the bipartisan call on Saudi Arabia to permit humanitarian groups access to Hodeida to avert famine in Yemen." </blockquote>
<p>When you've made your call, <b>please report it here</b>: <br>
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<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n0f%2BDA99PZ3ZBU5x3%2BMp2GnU5HeWBsr2" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.<wbr>org/act/call-in-durbin-town-<wbr>hall-famine</a><br>
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Yesterday, a bipartisan group of ten Senators urged Secretary of State Tillerson to launch an urgent diplomatic effort to address obstacles in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen preventing humanitarian aid from being delivered to people who desperately need it. [2]<br>
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About Yemen, the ten Senators wrote:</p>
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In Yemen, the World Food Program estimates that 80% of the population is in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In short, <b>millions of innocent people will starve to death without concerted and urgent action in the coming weeks</b>.<br>
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In Yemen, we ask that the Department of State work urgently with stakeholders to persuade combatants to <b>permit humanitarian groups increased access to Red Sea ports like Hodeida</b> to deliver much-needed assistance to vulnerable communities.<br>
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<p>Please call Dick Durbin at <b><a href="tel:(217)%20492-4062" value="+12174924062" target="_blank">217-492-4062</a></b> now. <br>
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And if you haven't signed our petition to Senator Durbin yet, <b><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sjlD8EkCmzGipvzY8KnrgmnU5HeWBsr2" 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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References:<br>
1. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDurbin/posts/1290072631028407" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>SenatorDurbin/posts/<wbr>1290072631028407</a><br>
2. <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=7D1BDC36-79DE-4AB2-A9F1-1A89B8B5111D" target="_blank">https://www.rubio.senate.gov/<wbr>public/index.cfm/press-<wbr>releases?ContentRecord_id=<wbr>7D1BDC36-79DE-4AB2-A9F1-<wbr>1A89B8B5111D</a></p>
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