[Peace-discuss] VOTE AGAINST AFGHAN WAR FUNDING

[C. G. Estabrook]

	From: Joanne Landy
	Date: July 26, 2010 at 4:02pm
	Subject: VOTE AGAINST AFGHAN WAR FUNDING:
	Call your Congressperson today or tomorrow

U.S. intervention in Afghanistan is facing increasing challenge, and this week's 
dramatic Wikileaks revelations -- the biggest U.S. war expose since Dan 
Ellsberg's Pentagon papers -- make it all the more difficult for Congress to 
keep funding this horrific war. It is an important moment for all of us who want 
immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to raise 
our voices.

It looks like there will be an up-and-down House vote this week on the Afghan 
war supplemental funding. The Senate has stripped the bill of all unrelated 
issues such as funding for teachers, so the meaning of the vote will be clear: 
there will be no excuses for voting "Yes" or abstaining (not that such excuses 
were ever legitimate.)

This is a crucial time to insist that your member of Congress vote NO on war 
funding! You can reach your representative through the Congressional switchboard 
1-888-493-5443 toll-free. If you use this number, it will add to the Friends 
Committee on National Legislation's count of how many people called Congress 
against the war supplemental, so your call will be tallied in two places. (If by 
chance you don't know who your member of Congress is, you can find out at the 
FCNL website: 
http://www.facebook.com/l/882cfNKRc6cOzJWeLrlvV-rJKWQ;capwiz.com/fconl/directory/congdir.tt)

The Campaign for Peace and Democracy has joined with United for Peace and 
Justice, Peace Action, CODEPINK, Friends Committee on National Legislation, 
Peace and Justice Resource Center, Historians Against the War, Just Foreign 
Policy and Progressive Democrats of America in this effort to rally support for 
a "NO" vote. If you can, please send us a brief email at cpd at igc.org to let us 
know that you've made your call.

Our message is simple: Vote no on funding this escalation of war, regardless of 
whether it's a procedural vote, and regardless of any good measures attached to 
it. Our phone calls this week won't turn the situation around overnight. It will 
take massive and sustained street demonstrations, civil disobedience, teach-ins 
around the country, and other mobilizations to accomplish that. But a strong 
"NO" vote now will strengthen anti-war sentiment in and out of Congress, and 
will help build the mass anti-war demonstrations that are planned for October. 
The Campaign for Peace and Democracy is one of the co-sponsors of the 
demonstrations; we will be sending you details soon.

In peace and solidarity,
Joanne Tom
Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison
Co-Directors, Campaign for Peace and Democracy



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