[Peace-discuss] Actions -- Fwd: Tell Jeanne Shaheen & Todd Young: Stop Starving Yemeni Children

[Stuart Levy]

We talked about this at tonight's AWARE meeting.   AWARE members and
supporters, here are two specific things to do this week:

   Follow Just Foreign Policy's <http://justforeignpolicy.com/>advice --
see below.   Urge Jeanne Shaheen and Todd Young to withdraw their own
bill and allow the *Sanders/Lee/Murphy* bill, ending US support for
Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, to be voted on.   Shaheen and Young's bill
would leave a giant loophole - it would allow US support for that war to
continue.

   Urge our*Senator Tammy Duckworth* to publicly support the
Sanders/Lee/Murphy bill,
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54>too.
  Sen. Durbin already has done so (explains Don McClure), but Duckworth
hasn't taken a position, as far as we've heard.

Contact information:
   Just Foreign Policy's petition -- press Sens. Shaheen and Young to
withdraw their ineffective, competing bill -->
        
https://www.change.org/p/senatorshaheen-and-sentoddyoung-stop-starving-yemeni-children

  
   Sen. Tammy Duckworth -- ask her to support theSanders/Lee/Murphy
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54>Sen.
Joint Res. 54,
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54>
    "to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from
hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by
Congress"   (and you can ask her to oppose the competing S J Res 55, too)
        (202) 224-2854


And, along with Just Foreign Policy's petition, you could also contact
Sens. Shaheen and Young about their bill directly:
   Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) -- ask her to *withdraw* Sen.
Joint Res. 55
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/55/text>:
        (202) 224-2841

   Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) -- ask him to *withdraw* Sen. Joint Res.
55:
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/55/text>
        (202) 224-5623
    


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Tell Jeanne Shaheen & Todd Young: Stop Starving Yemeni Children
Date: 	Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:48:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Reply-To: 	info at justforeignpolicy.org
To: 	stuartnlevy at gmail.com



Just Foreign Policy
Just Foreign Policy
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Dear Stuart,

*Tell Jeanne Shaheen & Todd Young not to sabotage the vote on ending the
war.
 
Sign the petition
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oz9qkWuefXqTgTysBEcjo0wrvhLJiSHv>  *

We expect a roll call floor vote soon in the Senate on the
*Sanders-Lee-Murphy* bill [SJRes54] to end U.S. participation in the
catastrophic Saudi war in Yemen. *Ending U.S. participation will end the
war*, and *save millions of Yemenis* now living on the brink of famine
as a *direct and deliberate* result of the *U.S.-backed Saudi war* and
the *U.S.-backed Saudi blockade* of food, medicine, and fuel from
entering Yemen.

*But now come the Washington dirty tricks* to try to protect the Saudi
princes and allow their war crimes in Yemen to continue. *Democratic
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire* and *Republican Senator Todd
Young of Indiana* are conspiring with Republican leader Mitch McConnell
to sabotage the vote on the Sanders-Lee-Murphy bill. They are
threatening to try to substitute another bill that would *allow U.S.
participation in the war to continue* /in place of/ the
Sanders-Lee-Murphy bill to end the war. 

The Young-Shaheen bill would allow U.S. participation in Saudi Arabia's
war to continue if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson certifies to
Congress that the Government of Saudi Arabia is undertaking "(1) an
urgent and good faith effort to conduct diplomatic negotiations to end
the civil war in Yemen; and (2) appropriate measures to alleviate the
humanitarian crisis in Yemen by increasing access for all Yemenis to
food, fuel, and medicine."

*Rex Tillerson works for Donald Trump*. Donald Trump is "/tizein
bilbass/" with Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman - "two butts in the
same pair of underwear," as the Arabic saying goes. *Mohammed bin Salman
is the chief architect of the Saudi war in Yemen*. Donald Trump's
employee Rex Tillerson will make the Young-Shaheen certification faster
than you can say, "Saudi oil money" - */even if the Saudi government
doesn't do a single thing differently in the future than they have in
the past/*.  

A vote for the Young-Shaheen bill would be a vote to /*continue U.S.
participation in the Saudi war in Yemen for another year exactly as it
is today*/. A vote for the Young-Shaheen bill would be a vote to
/*continue starving Yemeni children to death for another year exactly as
they are being starved to death today*/. 

*Press Jeanne Shaheen and Todd Young to withdraw their bill and withdraw
their threat to sabotage our vote - so that Yemeni children may live -
by signing our petition
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=onO1iZEMkKEUJDZq0X7vG0wrvhLJiSHv>. *

Thanks for taking action, and thanks for all you do to help make U.S.
foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy 

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