• Saudi-Yemen War-Famine Senate Vote: Praise & Protest
    On June 13, 2017, the Senate narrowly failed to vote against Trump's Saudi arms deal, reflecting "mounting concern over the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen’s war," according to the New York Times. "Nearly half of the U.S. Senate sent an overwhelmingly clear message to Riyadh that ... it needs to stop killing civilians in Yemen," Human Rights Watch said. [1] The vote was 47-53, with 43 Democrats and 4 Republicans voting against Saudi Arabia and 48 Republicans and five Democrats voting in favor of Saudi Arabia. The Republicans voting against Saudi Arabia's imposition of famine in Yemen were Heller (R-NV), Lee (R-UT), Paul (R-KY), and Young (R-IN). The Democrats voting in favor of Saudi Arabia's imposition of famine in Yemen were Donnelly (D-IN), Manchin (D-WV), McCaskill (D-MO), Nelson (D-FL), and Warner (D-VA). Special criticism goes to Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who, while Republican, pretends to care about human rights. Yet Rubio voted to support Saudi Arabia's imposition of famine in Yemen. [2] Special praise goes to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who excoriated Saudi Arabia's export of extremist ideology in a strong speech on the Senate floor. [3] "Praise and protest" your Senators by signing and sharing our petition. Then call your Senators at 1-855-68-NO-WAR [1-855-686-6927]. If they voted against Saudi Arabia, say: "I thank the Senator for voting against Saudi Arabia's imposition of famine in Yemen." If they voted in favor of Saudi Arabia, you can say : "I'm very disappointed with the Senator for voting to support Saudi Arabia's imposition of famine in Yemen." When you've made your calls, report them here. [4] References: 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/middleeast/trump-weapons-saudi-arabia.html 2. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00143 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqbebpDHCnE 4. http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/call-in-praise-protest-senate-saudi-famine
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  • @HouseForeign, @HFACDemocrats: Hold a hearing on Trump's Saudi arms deal
    Senators Rand Paul, Chris Murphy, and Al Franken have introduced a resolution in the Senate against Trump's Saudi arms deal. [1] Representatives Justin Amash and Mark Pocan have introduced a companion resolution in the House against the Saudi arms deal. [2] Under the Arms Export Control Act, the Senate resolution against the Saudi arms deal is guaranteed a floor vote. But the House resolution against the Saudi arms deal is not guaranteed a floor vote. The House resolution against the Saudi arms deal could be buried by the House Foreign Affairs Committee [HFAC] and never receive a floor vote. On May 25, Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Ted Yoho sent a letter to HFAC Chairman Ed Royce calling for a full committee hearing to review the Trump Administration’s proposed sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia. The letter noted that the Trump Administration had yet to provide information related to the Saudi Air Force’s capacity to avoid civilian casualties and attacks on civilian targets in its airstrikes in Yemen which was requested by 31 Members of Congress, including members of the Committee, in a letter on April 6, 2017. The Obama Administration suspended the sale in December 2016 following repeated Saudi airstrikes on civilian targets. [3] Add your voice to the demand that HFAC hold a hearing on Trump's Saudi arms deal by signing our petition. References: 1. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/42 2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/102 3. https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-yoho-call-foreign-affairs-committee-review-arms-sales
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  • #EyesOnChechnya - Need Worldwide Organizers!
    I remember learning about the Holocaust in school and thinking to myself: if I was alive then, I would have done something. This issue in Chechnya doesn't affect us here in the United States, however, with our "President" allegedly in collusion with Russia, and this situation unfolding in their republic, it's quite concerning. Twenty-six people have died for being who they are and for who they love. That's unacceptable! And it's being ignored. Our own "President" hasn't spoken out. He doesn't care. Our own State Department has denied Visas to those trying to escape the persecution in Chechnya. Help us fight! Please email me so we can help you organize protests in your cities and countries! Let's all stand together on July 1st to say that our EYES ARE ON CHECHNYA! [email protected] Find our group on Facebook: Safe Passage Alliance (Based in Los Angeles, CA USA)
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  • Join @RepMarkPocan & @PeterBeinart: "Don't Jail This 'Palestinian Gandhi'"
    As Peter Beinart reports in the Forward [1], Hebron's Issa Amro has been preaching nonviolent resistance in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr for almost two decades. Amro's organization, Youth Against Settlements, frequently hosts Israeli activists. Amro has won awards from the UN and the EU. Amro doesn’t just oppose violence, he’s also gone to extraordinary lengths to stop it. In retaliation for his advocacy of nonviolence, Beinart reports, Amro faces 18 criminal charges. If convicted, he’ll likely serve a long prison sentence. Amnesty International notes, "Some of the charges ... are not recognizable criminal offences under international standards." [2] The changes include incitement, protesting without a permit and "insulting a soldier." Amro also faces two charges of assault. Amnesty calls these allegations "baseless," noting, "One of the charges of assault refers to an incident ... that took place after he had already been arrested and was therefore not present." [3] Amro faces trial in a military court where the conviction rate exceeds 99%. [4] As the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reported in 2015, "A Palestinian charged in a military court is as good as convicted." [5] Reps. Mark Pocan, Betty McCollum, Earl Blumenauer and Keith Ellison are circulating a letter urging Secretary of State Tillerson to defend Amro's "rights to due process, freedom of expression and peaceful protest." Urge your Rep. to sign the Pocan letter by signing our petition. References: 1. http://forward.com/opinion/israel/373119/why-israel-should-embrace-this- 2. https://www.amnestyusa.org/files/uaa27816.pdf 3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/11/israel-opt-drop-baseless-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-defender/ 4. http://www.haaretz.com/nearly-100-of-all-military-court-cases-in-west-bank-end-in-conviction-haaretz-learns-1.398369 5. http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20150622_presumed_guilty
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  • @FareedZakaria: To Oppose Saudi Terror Support, Urge Vote to Block Arms Deal
    Saudi Arabia is using U.S. weapons to deliberately create famine in Yemen [1]. Trump's Saudi arms deal is widely seen as a U.S. seal of approval for escalation of the famine-producing Saudi-UAE war and blockade. Sens. Chris Murphy [D-CT] and Rand Paul [R-KY] [2] and Reps. Mark Pocan [D-WI] and Justin Amash [R-MI] [3] have introduced resolutions to block the Saudi arms deal. CNN's Fareed Zakaria attacked Trump's Saudi arms deal in a Washington Post op-ed. Zakaria noted that Saudi Arabia has been central to the spread of terrorism; that Saudi Arabia has spread its puritanical and intolerant version of Islam across the Muslim world; that Osama bin Laden was Saudi, as were 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11; that the Saudi government has provided financial and logistic support to ISIS and is in tacit alliance with al-Qaeda in Yemen; that charities 'closely connected with government offices' of Saudi Arabia are funding mosques, schools and imams to disseminate a fundamentalist, intolerant version of Islam throughout Germany; that more than 94% of deaths caused by Islamist terrorism since 2001 were perpetrated by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other Sunni jihadists; that almost every Islamist terrorist attack in the West has had some connection to Saudi Arabia. [4] But Fareed Zakaria has not yet endorsed the bipartisan Congressional opposition to the Saudi arms deal that could force a change in U.S. policy. Urge Fareed Zakaria to endorse the bipartisan Congressional opposition to the Saudi arms deal by signing our petition. References: 1. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670011/murphy-young-yemen-murphy-saudis-deliberately-trying-create-famine-yemen 2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/42/ 3. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/102 4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/saudi-arabia-just-played-donald-trump/2017/05/25/d0932702-4184-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html
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  • We Stand With NATO
    Our NATO allies stood with us during 9/11, the first time in history that Article 5 was invoked. They have gone to war with us, fought with us, and died with us. We will stand with NATO.
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  • Congress: Vote NO on Trump's Saudi Arms Deal
    There's a big Congressional fight coming on Trump's Saudi arms deal. This deal is controversial because Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are using U.S. weapons to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure in Yemen, deliberately trying to create famine in Yemen [1]; and because Trump's Saudi arms deal is widely seen as a U.S. seal of approval for escalation of the catastrophic Saudi-UAE war and blockade. [2] Senators Chris Murphy [D-CT] and Rand Paul [R-KY] [3] and Representatives Mark Pocan [D-WI] and Justin Amash [R-MI] [4] have introduced resolutions to block the sale. [S.J.Res.42 & H.J.Res.102] Urge your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor and vote for the resolutions blocking Trump's Saudi arms deal by signing our petition. References: 1. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670011/murphy-young-yemen-murphy-saudis-deliberately-trying-create-famine-yemen 2. http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trumps-big-saudi-arms-deal-will-cause-more-misery-for-yemen 3. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/42 4. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/102
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  • Tell Congress: No more bombs to Saudi Arabia. Block the arms deal now!
    Saudi Arabia has been using US-sold weapons against civilians in its war in Yemen. It has repeatedly bombed schools, hospitals, public markets, and homes during the war. There are now indications that Saudi is using hunger as a weapon of war by starving Yemenis into submission – all with US political and military support. And the Trump administration just approved a HUGE sale of more weapons to Saudi Arabia this weekend – including a massive package of "smart bombs" that have repeatedly been used to target and kill civilians in Yemen. Americans should not be funding and supplying weapons for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen. It's time for Congress to stop Trump from aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia's war crimes in Yemen by blocking this sale. Tell Congress: No more bombs to Saudi Arabia. Block the arms deal now!
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  • Verdad y Justicia para Jorge Montes/ Truth and Justice for Jorge Montes
    Los campesinos y campesinas del Proceso Pacífico de Alta Montaña de El Carmen de Bolívar, Montes de María, nos dirigimos a la opinión pública para contarles la grave violación a los derechos humanos, que sufre el líder social JORGE LUIS MONTES HERNANDEZ, y pedir la solidaridad de todos los sectores de la sociedad en su caso. We, the campesinos of the Peaceful Process of the High Mountain of El Carmen de Bolívar, Montes de María, want to inform the public about the grave human rights violation that the social leader, JORGE LUIS MONTES HERNANDEZ is suffering and request solidarity from all sectors of society regarding his case.
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  • @UAEEmbassyUS: Renounce Attack on Hodeida or Face @Emirates Boycott
    Nine Senators [1] and 55 Members of the House [2] have demanded that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates spare the Yemeni port city of Hodeida from military assault to avoid pushing Yemen into famine. But David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Program, says diplomatic efforts to protect Hodeida from Saudi-UAE assault have so far failed. [3] On May 17, Senators Murphy and Young took to the Senate floor to denounce the Saudi-UAE war and blockade on Yemen. Senator Murphy said: "The Saudis are deliberately trying to create a famine inside Yemen in order to essentially starve the Yemenis to the negotiating table." Senator Young said: "I urge the Administration to ask the Saudi government to ... renounce any intention to conduct a military operation against the port of Hodeida." [4] The UAE is a crucial co-belligerent in the "Saudi-led" war and blockade and the threatened attack on Hodeida. On March 26, the Washington Post reported: "Yemen operations being conducted by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates [include] a planned Emirati offensive to retake [Hodeida]."[5] Emirates Airline, owned by the UAE government, is vulnerable to public criticism in the U.S. and opposition in Congress. Americans wouldn't support an airline associated with "deliberate famine" in Yemen. Many in Congress of have opposed expansion of Emirates Airline in the U.S. market on the grounds that it is unfairly subsidized by the UAE government and threatens American jobs. [6] If Emirates Airline became widely known in the U.S. as the "deliberate famine" airline, Congressional opposition to the expansion of Emirates Airline in the U.S. would increase. Urge UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba and Emirates CEO Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum to renounce any attack on Hodeida or face a boycott of Emirates Airlines by signing our petition. References: 1. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/join-9-senators-to-tell?sr_by=1135580 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/02/alarm-grows-in-washington-as-saudi-coalition-attack-on-yemen-port-appears-imminent/ 3. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/world/middleeast/trump-yemen-saudi-arabia.html 4. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670011/murphy-young-yemen-murphy-saudis-deliberately-trying-create-famine-yemen 5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-weighs-deeper-involvement-in-yemen-war/2017/03/26/b81eecd8-0e49-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html 6. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/nj_lawmakers_seek_to_block_an_international_flight.html
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  • @UAEEmbassyUS: Renounce Attack on Yemen's Hodeida or Face @Emirates Boycott
    Nine Senators [1] and 55 Members of the House [2] have demanded that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates spare the Yemeni port city of Hodeida from military assault to avoid pushing Yemen into famine. But David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Program, says diplomatic efforts to protect Hodeida from Saudi-UAE assault have so far failed. [3] On May 17, Senators Murphy and Young took to the Senate floor to denounce the Saudi-UAE war and blockade on Yemen. Senator Murphy said: "The Saudis are deliberately trying to create a famine inside Yemen in order to essentially starve the Yemenis to the negotiating table." Senator Young said: "I urge the Administration to ask the Saudi government to ... renounce any intention to conduct a military operation against the port of Hodeida." [4] The UAE is a crucial co-belligerent in the "Saudi-led" war and blockade and the threatened attack on Hodeida. On March 26, the Washington Post reported: "Yemen operations being conducted by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates [include] a planned Emirati offensive to retake [Hodeida]."[5] Emirates Airline, owned by the UAE government, is vulnerable to public criticism in the U.S. and opposition in Congress. Americans wouldn't support an airline associated with "deliberate famine" in Yemen. Many in Congress of have opposed expansion of Emirates Airline in the U.S. market on the grounds that it is unfairly subsidized by the UAE government and threatens American jobs. [6] If Emirates Airline became widely known in the U.S. as the "deliberate famine" airline, Congressional opposition to the expansion of Emirates Airline in the U.S. would increase. Urge UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba and Emirates CEO Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum to renounce any attack on Hodeida or face a boycott of Emirates Airlines by signing our petition. References: 1. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/join-9-senators-to-tell?sr_by=1135580 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/02/alarm-grows-in-washington-as-saudi-coalition-attack-on-yemen-port-appears-imminent/ 3. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/world/middleeast/trump-yemen-saudi-arabia.html 4. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670011/murphy-young-yemen-murphy-saudis-deliberately-trying-create-famine-yemen 5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-weighs-deeper-involvement-in-yemen-war/2017/03/26/b81eecd8-0e49-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html 6. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/nj_lawmakers_seek_to_block_an_international_flight.html
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