Links to activism for August 2016

[Roberta]

This is in my email this morning. "Army officials have informed Chelsea Manning that she is facing serious new charges directly related to her suicide attempt. These new charges include:

1) Resisting a group of prison guards called "the force cell move team" (Chelsea was unconscious when this team arrived, which makes this charge particularly absurd.)
2) Prohibited property (for the items she used to attempt to take her own life.)
3) Conduct which threatens (for somehow putting the prison at risk while attempting to take her own life, quietly, in her own cell."

Click here to call for humane treatment for her:

act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12415

[anni]

The Legislature is back in session in Sacramento, mulling over 1500 bills before they adjourn at the end of the month.  If you've been reading Steve Lopez' columns in the Times about the California Coastal Commission this year, you'll probably want to send a letter to your state senator supporting AB 2002 -- something like this one by the California League of Conservation Voters:

secure2.convio.net/clcv/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=FA410BB7CFC6F4B297D6FDE15E0DCA80.app260a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=308&autologin=true

[Brian]

If you're like me, you've received scads of e-mails since August 8 about yet another arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which uses U.S. weapons to kill Shiite civilians in Yemen.  Congress has 30 days to block the sale, and it's on vacation until September 6.  I chose this petition by Just Foreign Policy to the House and Senate -- my signature is the 14,094th:

petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-block-transfer?r_by=1135580

[Sharon W]

I'm number 14,179 and Bill is 14,180 - and I notice Anni is 14,177.