Links to activism for April 2019

[Brian]

Since Thursday, three organizations sent me e-mails offering customizable letters to my legislators on Capitol Hill about Trump's veto of the War Powers Resolution for Yemen.  Peace Action addressed a House bill to defund U.S. military support of Saudi Arabia.  Progressive Democrats of America called for the House and Senate to override the veto.  Code Pink's letter combined those asks with support for a different Saudi defunding bill in the Senate:

www.codepink.org/warpowers?can_id=f4321d89eeeb833f0819f096691777db&email_referrer=email_531509&email_subject=even-for-trump-this-is-shameful&link_id=3&utm_campaign=yemen_veto&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Afterwards, you'll get an automatic e-mail from Code Pink's new provider showing the text of the message you sent.

[Brian]

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has a customizable letter to your representative, asking him or her to co-sponsor House Resolution 302.  Like the successful resolution by the California Legislature last year, it supports the United Nation's Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and advises other measures to prevent nuclear war:

actionnetwork.org/letters/h-res-302?clear_id=true&source=email-take-action-can-congress-embrace-nuclear-disarmament

[Roberta]

The groups must know which folks tend to take direct action because Peace Action and PDA both sent me messages asking for phone calls to our Senators ASAP, as a vote to override in the Senate will be “soon.” (And perhaps a House override is a given?). Anyway, I called and made my requests of Harris and Feinstein to override, saying I hoped that vote would be a given. For all the good it will do — apparently something like 7 more GOP Senators than voted for the War Powers Resolution would have to now vote to override. But at least my long-distance carrier (CREDO) made a few cents!

Apr 20, 2019 23:00:17 GMT -8 Brian said:

Since Thursday, three organizations sent me e-mails offering customizable letters to my legislators on Capitol Hill about Trump's veto of the War Powers Resolution for Yemen.  Peace Action addressed a House bill to defund U.S. military support of Saudi Arabia.  Progressive Democrats of America called for the House and Senate to override the veto.  Code Pink's letter combined those asks with support for a different Saudi defunding bill in the Senate:

www.codepink.org/warpowers?can_id=f4321d89eeeb833f0819f096691777db&email_referrer=email_531509&email_subject=even-for-trump-this-is-shameful&link_id=3&utm_campaign=yemen_veto&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Afterwards, you'll get an automatic e-mail from Code Pink's new provider showing the text of the message you sent.