Reminder: tonight
9 PM MC 309 for GW STAND meeting!
*!!!CALL-IN DAY TODAY*!!! STAND and Save Darfur are working
together
for this National Call-in Day for Darfur. Please use this script and
information today to call your representative and senators. Thanks so
much! ALSO, members of the activism
committee (all are welcome, however) please consider calling members of
the defense subcommittee as directed in FCNL's email from last week.
Thank you to all who are helping
with this important action!
_______________________________________________________________________
After the success of our last National Call-In Day for
Darfur, we hope
that you will join us in picking up the phone once again this Tuesday,
December 6.
Experts from the State Department, NATO, and leading think-tanks have
repeatedly said that funding the African Union is absolutely critical
to
stopping what both the President and Congress have declared to be
genocide. Unfortunately, $50 million intended for African Union troops
in
Darfur was cut out of the recent Foreign Operations spending bill.
There
is, however, one last chance to get that funding back before the end of
the year. An effort is underway to include those funds in the Defense
Appropriations Conference Report when Congress comes back into session
next week. It is vital that we do everything we can to make sure that
Congress knows that their constituents are paying attention to this
bill,
and that we expect them to include these funds. Please call your
Representative and your two Senators and make your voice heard on this
incredibly important issue.
A sample call script is below, and you can find contact information for
your elected leaders Washington, DC office by clicking here
[http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?command=congdir],
or by calling the Capitol operator at (202) 224-3121 and simply asking
to
be connected to your Representative and Senators. Please forward this
along to any friends, family, or coworkers who you think may be
interested, and again, thank you for taking the time to pick up the
phone
and help the people of Darfur.
Sample call script:
Hi, this is___ calling from___. Im calling to urge
Congressman/woman/Senator___ to do everything he/she can to make sure
that
$50 million for African Union peacekeeping troops in Darfur is included
in
the Defense Appropriations conference report. Experts from the State
Department, NATO, and leading think-tanks have repeatedly said that
funding the African Union is critical to stopping what both the
President
and Congress have declared to be genocide. Please tell the
Congressman/woman/Senator know that his/her constituents care about
Darfur
and expect Congress to fund the peacekeepers. Thank you.
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