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)

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

The U.S. military launched airstrikes against government forces in Syria on May 18. [1] Under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, Congress has the sole authority to decide when U.S. military force will be used if the U.S. has not been attacked. Congress never authorized Trump to attack Syria, which has not attacked the U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA] stated: "If true, this is FRICKIN ILLEGAL. Trump does not have Congressional authorization to attack Syria, a country that has not attacked US." [2] In January, Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said part of why Obama didn't attack Syria unilaterally - without Congress' approval - was fear of impeachment. "[W]e had no domestic legal basis. We actually had Congress warning us against taking action without congressional authorization, which we interpreted as the president could face impeachment," Rhodes said. "They laid down markers that this would not be constitutional. If we got drawn into a conflict in Syria without congressional authorization, without international authorization, without international support, you can see very clearly how that could have completely derailed this entire presidency." [3] When Trump attacked Syria in April without Congressional authorization, Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA] said it was "unlawful" and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin [D-IL] said any escalation would require the approval of Congress. [4] Urge Members of Congress to say that Trump's Syria strike is illegal and impeachable by signing our petition. References: 1. https://www.buzzfeed.com/nancyyoussef/the-us-launched-new-airstrikes-against-pro-assad-forces-in 2. https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/865252746571788290 3. http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528743744/the-president-the-comey-memo-and-the-elephant-in-the-room-impeachment 4. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-syria-congress-reaction-republicans-democrats-236975

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The United Nations Security Council, which under the UN Charter is responsible for protecting international peace and security, has failed to stop the Saudi-UAE war and blockade on Yemen which has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine. A key reason is that the UK, which under UK Prime Minister Theresa May is closely aligned with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is the Security Council "penholder" on Yemen, which means that any UN Security Council resolution on Yemen has to be drafted by the UK. Theresa May's government has used this power to shield Saudi Arabia and the UAE from diplomatic pressure at the UN for their catastrophic actions in Yemen. [1] U.N. officials have said that the threatened Saudi-UAE attack on the crucial Yemeni port of Hodeida would almost certainly push Yemen into famine by cutting off food and medicine imports into northern Yemen. But David Beasley, head of the World Food Program, says diplomatic efforts to protect Hodeida have failed. "I was hopeful two weeks ago that was about to resolve, but evidently that hasn’t happened," Beasley said. [2] Theresa May alone currently wields the power to initiate a Security Council resolution to save Yemen from famine by protecting Hodeida. Urge Theresa May to save Yemen from famine by signing our petition. References: 1. http://sanaacenter.org/publications/item/60-yemen-at-the-un.html; http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2017-02/yemen_26.php 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/world/middleeast/trump-yemen-saudi-arabia.html