[Peace] TODAY: Press Dick Durbin to talk about famine at Illinois Wesleyan

[Robert Naiman]

When I called, I had to let the phone ring several times before I could
leave a message.

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Subject: TODAY: Press Dick Durbin to talk about famine at Illinois Wesleyan
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Dear Robert,

At 5:30 PM today, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is having a Town Hall
Meeting at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. [1]

*Please call Dick Durbin's office in Springfield now at 217-492-4062
<(217)%20492-4062>.* When you reach a staffer or leave a message [you may
need to let the phone ring several times], you can say something like:

"I urge Senator Durbin in his speech at Illinois Wesleyan to join the
bipartisan call on Saudi Arabia to permit humanitarian groups access to
Hodeida to avert famine in Yemen."

When you've made your call, *please report it here*:

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Yesterday, a bipartisan group of ten Senators urged Secretary of State
Tillerson to launch an urgent diplomatic effort to address obstacles in
northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen preventing
humanitarian aid from being delivered to people who desperately need it. [2]

About Yemen, the ten Senators wrote:

[...]
In Yemen, the World Food Program estimates that 80% of the population is in
urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In short, *millions of innocent
people will starve to death without concerted and urgent action in the
coming weeks*.
[...]

[...]
In Yemen, we ask that the Department of State work urgently with
stakeholders to persuade combatants to *permit humanitarian groups
increased access to Red Sea ports like Hodeida* to deliver much-needed
assistance to vulnerable communities.
[...]

Please call Dick Durbin at *217-492-4062 <(217)%20492-4062>* now.

And if you haven't signed our petition to Senator Durbin yet, *you can do
that here
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References:
1. https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDurbin/posts/1290072631028407
2. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-
releases?ContentRecord_id=7D1BDC36-79DE-4AB2-A9F1-1A89B8B5111D

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