[Peace] Help Us Defeat the $738B "Defense" Bill that Continues Yemen War

[Robert Naiman]

Here's who I heard is doing alerts along this line today so far:

Moveon
Codepink
Demand Progress
Freedom Forward

House floor vote expected late tomorrow afternoon.

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From: Erik at Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:55 AM
Subject: Help Us Defeat the $738B "Defense" Bill that Continues Yemen War
To: <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>


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Dear Robert,

The House and Senate are poised to vote this week on a National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) – the bill that uses half of our income tax
dollars to fatten the Pentagon and its contractors like Boeing, Raytheon,
and Lockheed Martin - that doesn't end unconstitutional Pentagon
participation in the genocidal Saudi war in Yemen!


This is a shameful betrayal of promises by Democratic leadership to use the
NDAA as a vehicle end the Yemen war after the House and Senate have
repeatedly voted to end US participation in the "world's worst humanitarian
crisis." When the news broke late last night, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep.
Ro Khanna
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<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MgwG51F596hdE7R9xQj%2B2fZ8rLAuBie4>immediately
issued a statement
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calling on all members to vote against this "disastrous" bill.


*We need to pressure members of Congress to vote against this NDAA that
doesn’t end the war -- and we need your help getting them on the
record. **Here’s
how you can help:*


1. Take a look at this spreadsheet
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and call your representatives in the House and Senate at 202-224-3121 to
tell them to vote NO on any NDAA that doesn’t end the war -- and ask them
if they will do so. When you reach a staffer, you can say:


“I urge [Rep. or Senator] to vote NO on any NDAA that fails to end the
Yemen war as Democratic leaders promised they would. I urge [Rep. or
Senator] to publicly announce their intention to vote NO on any NDAA that
doesn’t end the war. Can you tell me how [Rep. or Senator] intends to vote?”


If you’re not allowed to talk to a human but have the opportunity to leave
a voice mail, you can say: “I urge [Rep. or Senator] to vote NO on any NDAA
that fails to end the Yemen war as Democratic leaders promised they would.
I urge [Rep. or Senator] to publicly announce their intention to vote NO on
any NDAA that doesn’t end the war.”


2. Fill out this survey form to let us know the results of your outreach.
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZbZgpWoeluqndhSWkoYAsfZ8rLAuBie4>We
will update the tracker as results come in.


3. Tweet at your members of the House and Senate (and others!) to ask them
to vote against the NDAA if it doesn’t end the war and to let us know if
they will. A list of Twitter handles for Members of Congress is here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=x6zyFla8Nq8IpZtmlcst7Hm%2Bv0d2pfTy>.
You can tweet something like:


"Pentagon support for the Saudi regime’s #YemenWar has helped kill hundreds
of thousands of people. [MEMBER TWITTER HANDLE] must oppose the #NDAA if it
doesn't end U.S. support for #YemenWar. Will [MEMBER TWITTER HANDLE] vote
NO on #NDAA?"

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4. Retweet our post on Twitter.
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5. If we already have results for your Representative or Senators, please
call and tweet them anyway and tell them to oppose the NDAA if it doesn’t
end the Yemen war.

Thank you for all you do to make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Erik Sperling, Sarah Burns, and the Just Foreign Policy team

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