Trump’s Deportation Force Trump is threatening to launch a massive deportation force to round up and deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration and ICE have already caused untold suffering; the actions of ICE need to be curbed, not increased. The American Friends Service Committee have written a well-worded letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, which holds the relevant purse strings and thus can limit the ability of Trump to carry out any of his agenda. Action Contact Lucille Roybal-Allard, Chair of the House Appropriations Home Security Subcommittee and the Ranking Member Chuck Fleischmann and, using whatever language from the American Friends Service Committee letter you wish, ask them to reduce funding to ICE. http://faxzero.com/fax_congress/R000486 http://faxzero.com/fax_congress/F000459 Or you can call the Committee at (202) 225-5834.
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Alabama Rapists’ Rights In Alabama, the state which has just passed a restrictive abortion law, rapists potentially have the right to obtain parental rights to any offspring that result from their crime. Whether one is for or against access to abortion, this is clearly an abomination. Action Contact the Governor of Alabama to decry the hypocrisy of demanding that a woman carry a child of rape to term while at the same time failing to subsequently protect her and her child from the rapist. https://contact.governor.alabama.gov/contact.aspx ICE Detention Centers There are plans afoot to house unaccompanied migrant children on federal properties such as former army bases, such as Fort Still in Oklahoma. These facilities would not be subject to investigation or oversight by state child welfare authorities. Action Contact the Governor of your state and ask them to get back to you and tell you whether or not they are aware of any plans to house migrant children in your state and whether they know will run these facilities. Ask them to refuse to collaborate with ICE, and demand that any children housed in your state are protected by local state child welfare laws and authorities and are afforded all the same educational opportunities as native-born children in your state. Conservation Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) has introduced H.R. 2358, 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Act, which would create something like the Works Project Administration, providing work for the un- or under- employed in public works projects, especially in the area of conservation. Action Contact your Member of Congress and ask them to support H.R. 2358, 21st Century Civilian Conservation Act. If your MoC is already a cosponsor, thank them. Murtaja Qureiris Saudi Arabia is planning to execute Murtaja Qureiris, a young man who is a member of the Shia minority, for taking part in a protest when he was ten years old. The Saudis have an unfortunate record of persecuting protesters, especially Shia, extracting fake confessions by torture, and ruthlessly executing large numbers of people, including children. Action Contact the Saudi Embassy to protest their nation’s policy of executing people for “crimes” committed as children in general and their decision to execute Murtaja Qureiris in particular: http://www.saudiembassy.net/contact Save the Whales Balloons released into the air end up killing many marine animals. Action Download this flyer and post it to social media: http://savethewhales.org/balloon-ambassador/ Monsanto/RoundUp, cont’d Unlike Costco, Walmart still sells RoundUp. Action Email Walmart and ask them to stop selling RoundUp. http://corporate.walmart.com/contact-us/store-corporate-feedback Monsanto/RoundUp Costco has officially dropped RoundUp and will no longer be selling it after Monsanto has lost three court cases where the plaintiffs claimed that use of the product caused their cancer. Action Email Costco and thank them for dropping RoundUp! customerservice@costco.com |
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