[Peace] Emergency sequester actions today

[Susan Parenti]

Anyone else going to Davis' office today?

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> From: "Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn.org Civic Action" <moveon-help at list.moveon.org 
> >
> Date: March 1, 2013 9:43:23 AM CST
> To: susan parenti <sparenti at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Emergency sequester actions today
>
> The Tea Party and austerity-obsessed billionaires have gone too far.  
> Can you drop by Rep. Davis's office in Champaign TODAY and ask him  
> to stop the madness and cancel the sequester?
>
> Yes, I'll be there!
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> Today the package of mandatory spending cuts known as the  
> "sequester" takes effect. There's just one word for the impact on  
> millions of Americans: devastating.1
>
> 373,000 seriously mentally ill people are losing care.
> 70,000 kids are getting kicked out of Head Start.
> 100,000 formerly homeless people will soon be back on the streets.
> This is madness. The Tea Party and austerity-obsessed billionaires  
> have finally gone too far—they're holding kids and poor families  
> hostage to force radical benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare  
> and more. Dozens of MoveOn members have started petitions to stop  
> these cuts—and thousands more around the country are asking how to  
> stop the austerity lies once and for all.
>
> Congress and the media are watching to see if the public will  
> swallow the most savage budget cuts in a generation—and an  
> outpouring of constituent anger can change the political calculus  
> and end the politics of austerity once and for all. So MoveOn  
> members are going to congressional offices TODAY at noon—and  
> throughout the day, with an urgent message: Cancel the sequester.
>
> Your closest office is at:
> 2004 Fox Drive
> Champaign, IL 61820
> Phone: 217-403-4690
>
> Can you drop by Rep. Rodney Davis's office in Champaign today (on  
> Friday) at noon or later with other MoveOn members to say, simply,  
> cancel the sequester?
>
> Yes, I can drop by today.
>
> No, but I can chip in to support MoveOn's work to stop the  
> devastating cuts and defend our social safety net.
>
> This is coming together quickly, as it's becoming clear that  
> Congress is really going to let these cuts go into effect—so you  
> don't need to prepare anything. We'll give you a letter to download  
> and deliver to your Member of Congress, and you can wear blue to  
> identify other MoveOn members who are there.
>
> Let's make this the moment that the media and history books  
> understand as the turning point in the Tea Party's attack on our  
> government as a force for good in people's lives.
>
> Click here if you can drop by your member of Congress' office Today  
> (Friday).
>
> Thanks for all you do.
>
> –Ilya, Joan, Nick, Manny, and the rest of the team
>
> Source:
>
> 1. "The Sequester: Senate Democrats, GOP To Stage Votes On Rival  
> Cuts," Huffington Post, February 28, 2013
> http://www.moveon.org/r?r=287746&id=63502-19262636-J2OB0zx&t=5
>
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