[Peace-discuss] draft New Year flyer - comments needed

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Thu Jan 5 13:59:41 CST 2006


Good idea to have a flyer for Saturday.

How about inserting Timmy's address/phone, as follows?

"...Call your member of Congress!

The member of Congress from this congressional district 
(Illinois 15th) is Representative Timothy V. Johnson 
(1229 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515;
phone: 202-225-2371; fax: 202-226-0791). 

Join us in phoning members of Congress in their district
offices on Monday, January 9.  Rep. Johnson's phone in
Champaign is 217-403-4690.

We are urging them to co-sponsor three bills:.."

 
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:52:19 -0800 (PST)
>From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] draft New Year flyer - comments needed  
>To: peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>“Out of Iraq” Events TODAY Nationwide
>
>Local organizations have planned over 70 “Out of Iraq”
>events around the country on or about January 7th.
>(See list at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event.)
>Most are town hall forums, and several will feature
>members of Congress, including Bobby Scott, Diane
>Watson, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith, Bob Filner, Martin
>Sabo, Jim Moran, and John Murtha. Several other events
>will feature congressional staff, congressional and
>senatorial candidates, local elected officials, and
>leaders of the peace movement, including “Gold Star
>Families for Peace” founder Cindy Sheehan, and “After
>Downing Street Coalition” Co-Founder John Bonifaz.
>
>All of these events will focus on ending the war. 
>Many will also address new Congressional resolutions
>to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney
>and to create a select committee to investigate and
>make recommendations on impeachment.
>
>Call Your Member of Congress!
>
>Join us in phoning Members of Congress in their
>district offices on January 9.  
>We are urging them to cosponsor three bills: 
>
>(1) H.Res.635 to create a select committee to
>investigate and to make recommendations on grounds for
>impeachment,
>
>(2) H.Res.636 to censure Bush, and 
>
>(3) H.Res.637 to censure Cheney.
>
>For more about these bills, see:
>http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5768
>For Congress Members' phone numbers:
>http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C
>
>International Commission Taking "Indictments" to White
>House
>
>On January 9, the International Commission of Inquiry
>on Crimes Against Humanity By the Bush Administration
>will serve indictments on the White House for its wars
>in Iraq and Afghanistan, its actions and policies on
>torture and illegal detention, its promotion of
>abstinence-only in the midst of the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
>its fueling of global warming, and its response to
>Hurricane Katrina. This is in preparation for its
>January 20-22 hearings at Riverside Church and
>Columbia Law School in New York City (where the
>Administration will be invited to present a defense). 
>For details see www.bushcommission.org.
>
>To get involved locally, contact:  The Anti-War
>Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE)
>AWARE meets every Sunday from 5pm to 6:30pm at the
>IMC, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana (the Post Office Building
>- IMC entrance is on the north side off Elm St.). 
>Newcomers welcome!
>
>For more on AWARE, see http://www.anti-war.net
>Or call 328-3037
>
>
>
>		
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