[Peace] CAPA: Tell Sens Durbin & Duckworth to End US Complicity in the Yemen war

[Stuart Levy]

I called.   Neither office has been getting many calls about this issue
- the staffer in Duckworth's office even said there should be more - so,
people of AWARE, please do call!

On 9/11/19 12:38 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace wrote:
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> Dear Robert,
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> In the coming weeks, House and Senate leadership will decide which
> provisions will remain in the FY2020 National Defense Authorization
> Act (NDAA). Different versions of the bill passed each chamber over
> the summer, and House-Senate negotiators are now working out a final
> agreement.
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> We want the final version to include a House-passed provision to end
> U.S. military involvement in the brutal Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen.
> That amendment was introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna (CA-17), Adam Smith
> (WA-09), Adam Schiff (CA-28), and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and passed
> by a bipartisan vote of 240-185. It is very similar to the Yemen War
> Powers Resolution passed by both the House and Senate with bipartisan
> majorities during the spring of 2019 but vetoed by President Donald Trump.
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> We now have a real chance to end this war, which has never been
> authorized by Congress. The Saudi-UAE led coalition’s aerial
> bombardment of Yemen is one of the leading causes
> <https://click.everyaction.com/k/9848613/98038087/-931477942?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRUFDVC9QRUFDVC8xLzcyNDY4IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImJjYzVhOTgyLWI4ZDQtZTkxMS1iY2QwLTI4MTg3ODRkNDM0OSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibmFpbWFuQGp1c3Rmb3JlaWducG9saWN5Lm9yZyINCn0%3D&hmac=y5W7Vb84iYvXPJUIYhcgw8Uu5SciyVS1aXvmMdrFg50=&emci=b095f030-99d4-e911-bcd0-2818784d4349&emdi=bcc5a982-b8d4-e911-bcd0-2818784d4349&ceid=245631> of
> civilian casualties in the war and a driver of the world’s largest
> humanitarian crisis. More than half of the country’s population is on
> the brink of starvation and over 1 million people have contracted
> cholera, with an alarming 10,000 new cases each week. The United
> States has the leverage to stop the killing, starting by ending its
> logistical and intelligence support for the bombing.
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> *Call Senators Durbin and Duckworth at 202-224-3121 today, and urge
> they to state publicly that they will not support an NDAA that doesn't
> also end US support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen! *
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> *Why end U.S. military support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen?*
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>   * Congress has never authorized the use of U.S. military force in
>     the Saudi-led war in Yemen, making such participation unconsitutional.
>   * The Saudi-led war in Yemen is exacerbating the world's worst
>     humanitarian crisis, with nearly 22 million people in need of
>     emergency assisstance.
>   * Save the Children estimates that at least 85,000 children under
>     the age of five have died from hunger and disease since 2015.
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> Thank you for all you do for peace!
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> Sincerely, 
> Marcia Bernsten and Timi Papas, co-chairs of the CAPA Foreign Policy
> Working Group
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