Links to activism for February 2017

[Brian]

The Friends Committee on National Legislation wants you to write to your House Representative using its template to support H.R. 4837, the No Unconstitutional Strike on North Korea Act, and to advocate for spending on human needs, instead of more for the Pentagon:

act.fcnl.org/act/no-preventive-war-north-korea?t=13&utm_campaign=lam&utm_source=ak&utm_medium=email&akid=8081%2E51518%2EAaqIT7

The letter is thankfully customizable. I started by deleting the first words, "As a person of faith."

[Oss Rae]

This morning Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, etc. discussed the divestment movement vis-a-vis the war industry.

It seems to me that boycotts/divestments from the Military-Industrial Complex may be our best chance to stop all these wars. Efforts to do it by other means don't seem to have gotten us as far as we need to go.

She was a guest today on KPFK's World Focus with Blase Bonpane, which can be heard here: archive.kpfk.org/ (scroll down to World Focus on February 4). This particular discussion begins about 23 minutes into it.

The website for this movement is www.divestfromwarmachine.org

It appears there'll be a big kick-off for this campaign this week.

[anni]

Roots Action is hosting a petition to the House Majority Leader, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader opposing a military parade:

act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13251

[Roberta]

From an email I got yesterday from Courage to Resist: excerpts, a link for more and an opportunity to weigh in:

What's happening right now is that a National Commission … has been appointed to study the question of whether draft registration should be continued, whether it should be expanded to make women, as well as men register for the draft, whether a draft itself should be started, whether there should be some other kind of Compulsory National Service enacted.

The Pentagon would say, and it's true, they don't want a draft. It's not plan A, but it's always been plan B, and it's always been the assumption that if we can't get enough volunteers, if we get in over our head, if we pick a larger fight than we can pursue, we always have that option in our back pocket that, "If not enough people volunteer, we're just going to go go to the draft, go to the benches, and dragoon enough people to fight these wars."

[This] is the first real meaningful opportunity for a national debate about the draft in decades.

couragetoresist.org/tell-feds-end-draft-registration/