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<div class="">AWARE (Anti-War, Anti-Racism, Effort of Champaign Urbana, Il) </div>
<div class="">will hold their monthly demonstration today at the corner of Neil & Church Sts.,</div>
<div class="">downtown Champaign. </div>
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<div class=""> 2:00 - 4:00pm </div>
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<div class="">Signs will be provided.</div>
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<div class="">All are welcome to join us</div>
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<div class="">Please bring your rainwear as it likely will be wet. </div>
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<div class="">Please see todays flyer below: </div>
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TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES:<br class="">
ASSERT YOUR WAR POWERS BEFORE TRUMP STRIKES SYRIA<br class="">
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Tell your Rep. to sign the Lofgren-Amash letter to stop an unconstitutional strike on Syria. <br class="">
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The New York Times is reporting that Trump has warned Russia that U.S. missiles “will be coming” to Syria. <br class="">
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But Senator Tim Kaine [D-VA] and Senator Mike Lee [R-UT] and the Congressional Progressive Caucus have a very different idea. <br class="">
Under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, Congress, not the President, decides when to use military force. <br class="">
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The NYT reports: 'Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said Mr. Trump needed permission from Congress before action.<br class="">
“He’s a president, not a king, and Congress needs to quit giving him a blank check to wage war against anyone, anywhere,” Mr. Kaine said. <br class="">
“If he strikes Syria without our approval, what will stop him from bombing North Korea or Iran?”’<br class="">
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The NYT’s Max Fisher justly mocked Washington’s 'cult of limited strikes’: "They accomplish nothing but unnecessary killing. <br class="">
But Washington loves them anyway, because past experience doesn’t matter. When it comes to pointless uses of military force, <br class="">
Washington culture is denialist: repeated failure doesn’t cause learning." <br class="">
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Democrat or Republican, Congressional Representatives have an easy way to assert their war powers before Trump strikes Syria: <br class="">
they can sign the bipartisan Lofgren-Amash letter to Trump, telling him to come to Congress for authorization before attacking Syria. <br class="">
That’s what stopped unconstitutional military action in Syria in August 2013 – two hundred Democratic and Republican House members <br class="">
signing letters to the President, saying under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, you have to come to us for authorization before striking Syria. <br class="">
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Call CONGRESSMAN RODNEY DAVIS now at (202) 225-2371. When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say, <br class="">
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“I urge you to defend the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. <br class="">
Sign the bipartisan Lofgren-Amash letter insisting that President Trump<br class="">
get Congressional authorization before striking Syria.”<br class="">
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[Thanks to 'Just Foreign Policy' for the text above. This flyer is circulated by AWARE, a local peace group.]<br class="">
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ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois><br class="">
~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~<br class="">
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Our representatives in Congress from this area - and their email addresses - are as follows:<br class="">
Representative Rodney Davis: <<a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/" class="">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/</a>><br class="">
Senator Tammy Duckworth: <<a href="https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator" class="">https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator</a>><br class="">
Senator Dick Durbin: <<a href="https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email" class="">https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email</a>><br class="">
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