Tickets for 11/8 Annual Dinner; Help wOutreach Thurs.. ECHC Vigils Continue

Written by Victoria Ross on . Posted in Resist Militarism!, Talking Peace News, Urgent Appeal

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Dear Friends,

Our/Your WNY Peace Center 52nd Annual Dinner is just 17 days away! Please get your tickets (easy to order on the website  – including the 3 menu options [yes we do have vegetarian after all – it’s Eggplant Rolatini. Please see website ;).

CodePink’s Medea Benjamin will illuminate: No Green New Deal Without Peace; Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy. The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus will sing and receive the Alt-imate Activist Award; and Valentino Dixon the Emerging Leaders Award! !

Also come on out anytime between 10:30am and up to 8:30pm Thursday, 10/24, if you’d like to help with dinner outreach! You can also drop off any donations for silent auction or baskets at that time. We’d really appreciate it! We’ll have people make outreach calls. All happening at the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind the building).

Please contact our newest staffperson, Nicole (thanks so much, Nicole!) at assistant@wnypeace.org with any questions. If you prefer to make calls from home, you can also contact Nicole for a list of names and numbers with a guideline script.

This will be another big week, as follows:

– tomorrow, Weds, at 4-6pm, NO MORE! [Deaths, maltreatment] Vigil and protest at the  Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, on Delaware between Church & Eagle). Correction: there’ve been 4 deaths in the Sheriff’s custody in 2 ½  months. Please bring signs – and donations for Joseph Bialkowski’s family to pay the funeral home for his ashes (it is the height of irony that tho the Sheriff’s Dept. was responsible for his death the family is responsible for his ashes. We hope you will join us in this fundraising: either by bringing a donation to the vigil and or by clinking on the link to give $30 TODAY.

– Thursday, 10/24, from 7-9pm, we’re excited to invite you to a screening of Great White Hoax, and a Discussion; At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones.  The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo  State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center.

– Monday, 10/28, from 7-9pm the Peace Coffeehouse will feature “The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA” with local poet and activist Albert O. Cappas, as well as Christian Parra. The history, current situation, and prospects for thisunincorporated territory (read de facto colony) with its magnificent and unique culture will be explored.

See more below, and even more on our website!

Lastly, again, please join our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign. To keep it on WBNY, we must raise funds. You can contribute via the WNYPC – online or with a check sent (and made out) to WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, and write in the memo line: Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo (or in a note in the online submission). We need to keep DEMOCRACY NOW! BROADCAST Live MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. and streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.

Please go to our website (wnypeace.org) calendar for plenty more listings, campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook page.

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

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Events this week:

No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center

Weds, Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6 pm

Yet ANOTHER DEATH – actually 4 in 2 1/2 months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce at this regular Wednesday vigil at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Come ahead – All are welcome. Grieving families will be joining us, and people with related lived experience are more than welcome! Please, too, bring signs. Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), and more.

Film: The Times of Harvey Milk

October 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Great White Hoax (Film & Discussion)

October 24 @ 7:00-9:00 pm

At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center. 

At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St, Buffalo. The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film. A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people

Kings Bay Plowshares Trial (Brunswick, GA)

October 21 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ongoing at least through the week

The trial for these wonderful and courageous, loving activists, our friends Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Liz McAlister, Mark Coville, Martha Henessey, Patrick O’Neil, and Steve Kelly will be in Brunswick, GA, where they are each facing up to 25 years for their vital witness to publicize the nuclear timebomb, threat, and usurping of resources. All are welcome to come and support them during their trial. It will begin with jury selection at 9 a.m. on Monday October 21 at the federal court house downtown. For more info on their action, etc. just click here.

I.C.E. Off Our Buses

October 25 @ 2:30 pm

A the downtown bus terminal on North Division and Ellicott. Organized by International Workers Solidarity Network – Buffalo. Greyhound collaborates with ICE, DHS, and CBP, allowing their agents to board buses and interrogate passengers without a warrant, subjecting them to unnecessary delays and detainment. Buses are for transportation, not deportation!

Prayer Vigil for Kashmir

October 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

At Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Ave, Buffalo 14209. Cosponsored by Interfaith Peace Network, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Riverside Salem UCC/DC, Westminster Presbyterian, the WNY Peace Center and many more. Dr. Khalid Qazi of MPAC just got back from Kashmir and his experience is encapsulated as follows: https://news.wbfo.org/post/back-six-week-nightmare-visitor-kashmir-details-ongoing-lockdown https://buffalonews.com/2019/10/12/viewpoints-six-weeks-in-the-worlds-biggest-open-air-prison/  

Peace Coffeehouse: The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA

October 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan). Speaker Alberto O. Cappas (Poet, Writer, Publisher, and Community Activist; Co-publisher of the  Buffalo Latino Village) on colonialism, Puerto Rico and the current political climate. Sponsored by PeaceAction-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/  Free and open to the public.

(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg

October 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

At the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome!

52nd Annual Dinner with Medea Benjamin

November 8 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us to celebrate our 52nd Annual Dinner, with special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years!

The event, Nov 8, 5-9pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, is not to be missed. Not only is Medea and her perspective vital for people and the planet (more on Medea directly below), but we will also be giving out two very important awards:
— The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus, a wonderfully committed & progressively-minded women’s chorus, will be getting the Alt-imate Activist Award (named for WNY Peace Center lifelong stalwart member, organizer, and activist, Wayne Alt);
— Valentino Dixon will receive the the Emerging Leaders Award! As most of you know, Valentino was just released when exonerated after 27 years of outrageous, unjust incarceration.

http://wnypeace.org/wp/52nd-annual-dinner-with-madea-benjamin/


 REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Struggle, One Vision, One Love:

Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show with Vicki Ross hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu.

Buffalo Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! Reading group for the Great Law of Peace meets on the last Tuesday of the month.

Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce – Wednesdays 4-6pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 4 months! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.

Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Postponed: regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, now date tba. at Isaías González-Soto Branch  (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201;  5-6:30pm.

Interfaith Peace Network, 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 9:15am at 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, planning/publicizing, & discussion.

Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of (@250) Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE #CLOSETHECAMPS #NeverAgainIsNow

Buffalo Youth Climate Strike – all are welcome 2-3pm at Niagara Square for a youth-led rally to stand up for People and the Planet, and radical change to mitigate and avert climate catastrophe. Bring signs! See you there! This week runs 2-5pm (see above!)

Environmental Justice Taskforce – Vigil to Protest the Shipments of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada coming over the Peace Bridge. Fridays 2-3pm, Front Park at Vermont & Busti, Buffalo. Signs welcome and also usually available.

Stop The Violence Coalition – 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month; 6pm, United Way Building, Delaware and Summer Sts.

Women In Black – Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black)

Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC – Various progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a pot-luck. 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. This week, Jim Antal’s book.

Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.

We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver

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Below are

– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);

– Taskforce items and campaigns; and

– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

* ECONOMIC JUSTICE

The WNY Poor People’s Campaign meets 2nd Mondays, 6pm at Raqs Solidarity, 322 Amherst St., Buffalo, NY.

The UAW strike at General Motors is entering its fourth week, and, tho negotiations are going on, workers on the line still need our support. After abruptly canceling workers’ health coverage when the strike began, GM was pressured into reinstating it. Now we need to keep the pressure on GM to reach a fair contract. GM pays its CEO Mary Barra $22 million a year –  240 times their average worker – and the company brought in $35 billion in North America in the last 3 years. It can afford to meet workers’ demands for better pay and benefits and to keep plants open.

Show your support at any of these Western New York picket locations:

Tonawanda Engine New York

2995 River Rd

Buffalo, NY 14207

Lockport Components

200 Upper Mountain Rd

Lockport, NY 14094

* EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS

New York State’s Dignity for All Students Act (aka DASA or The Dignity Act) seeks to provide the State’s public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function. More information at: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/dignityact/

BOE Meetings

Board of Education meetings begin at 5:30 pm and are held in room 801 at City Hall, unless a venue change is previously announced. These sessions are open to the public. A schedule of upcoming board of education meetings can be found at https://www.buffaloschools.org/Page/85931.

More information on Buffalo Public Schools can be found at https://www.buffaloschools.org.

* ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge

Join us every Friday from 2 PM to 3 PM at the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St. in Buffalo NY. Vigil against the shipment of high level LIQUID radioactive spent fuel from Chalk River Ontario to Aiken South Carolina. If any of it spills out, it will be next to impossible to clean.

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Two courageous activists were arrested for their work to prevent the outrageously destructive DAPL pipeline. Check it out Here: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/04/dakota-access-pipeline-sabotage/
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Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/

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– NAPL/Northern Access Pipeline (proposed to take fracked gas from PA through WNY) is looming again, as the fossil-fuel-profiteers never give up!!

However, si, se puede! Please send your comments about it to the EPA BEFORE

SeeNorthern Access Pipeline Information for more info.

*GENDER JUSTICE

(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg

October 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

At the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome!

* IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE JUSTICE

Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE

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Vive la Casa, shelter for people awaiting documents and/or sanctuary, still desperately needs personal hygiene products and of course, CASH. The recent large influx of refugees has put the facility under real stress. Please give generously.

jrchc.org/vive

(Checks to Jericho Road/VIVE) 50 Wyoming St., Buffalo, NY 14211, 892-4354.

* LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY

Peace Coffeehouse: The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA

October 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Speaker Alberto O. Cappas (Poet, Writer, Publisher, and Community Activist. Co-publisher of the  Buffalo Latino Village) on colonialism, Puerto Rico and the current political climate. 7pm-9pm Oct. 28, at Canisius College – Science Hall convenient parking on Main near Delavan sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/  Free and open to the public.

Peace Coffeehouse: Cuba & the US: Friendshipment Caravans

November 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan) Cuba and the United States: Friendshipment Caravans Speakers Vicki Ross and Marie Schuster: a report on their experiences with the Pastors for Peace Caravan which visited Cuba this July, organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). With IFCO, they challenged the travel restrictions imposed by the United States, which try to stop us from seeing the truth of Cuba for ourselves. Come learn about Cuba-US bilateral relations, reject the new activation of titles III and IV of the Helms-Burton Act, and call for the end of the US blockade against Cuba.

Sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public
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Latin American Solidarity Committee website: http://www.lascwny.org/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/LASC-wny/143873822377380/

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Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE

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Other Latin American Solidarity news:

Invest in the children of farmworkers! A donor has agreed to match gifts given through Rural and Migrant Ministry board members through the end of the year. Contact the Rural and Migrant Ministry for more details. www.ruralmigrantministry.org.

Venezuela Sanctions Petition

People are suffering mightily, including with a breakdown to their water system. Please sign the petition to end US and Canadian sanctions: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/campaigntoendusandcanadasanctionsagainstvenezuela/index.html.

The civilians and general populations are the ones to pay for this kind of foreign policy. The US government needs to stop penalizing the common people and destabilizing other countries. Please sign and share. Many thanks to Shontae Cannon-Buckley for her work on this issue!

– Cuba—IFCO/Irma Relief (same address) Phone: 212-926-5757. Please give generously – the situations continue to be terrible for many!!

-Chenalhó, Chiapas—

If you would like to provide much-needed help, go to weaving-for-justice.org

* PRISONERS’ RIGHTS

VIGIL Wednesdays 4-6pm – NO MORE! [Deaths, Brutality, etc!] Weekly protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Malpractice and maltreatment under the current administration. Deaths at Erie Co Holding Center now at least 28 over Sheriff Howard’s tenure – outrageous!! Please bring signs. Vigil with concerned citizens as well as family members of victims of the maltreatment perpetuated in this system.

Joseph Bialaszweski died on July 26, 2019 after being found unresponsive days earlier in a cell at the Erie County Holding Center in downtown Buffalo. Joseph’s body was taken to a local funeral home for cremation and his loved ones were instructed to pay $900 to recover the ashes, a steep price for an already grief stricken family who have been given very little information about their son’s death.

Monica Lynch, sister to Connell Burrell who also died in the Erie County Holding Center just days later on August 2, 2019, heard about this gross injustice and decided to take action. She has been raising funds so that the Bialaszewski family might have some sense of closure after this unconscionable series of incidents. The two families have become acquainted through local rallies and speak outs as part of a greater effort to raise awareness about the 28 deaths that have occurred in Erie County jails under Sheriff Tim Howard and the egregious manners with which prisoners are treated while in custody.

Local officials, including the Erie County Legislature, have chosen silence while human beings like Robert, Joseph and Connell are locked in cages and subject to violence and mistreatment under a system that targets people of color and poor folks.
 
We hope you will join us in this fundraising: either by coming to the vigil and bringing a donation or by clinking on the link to give $30 TODAY.

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Please join us in promoting the H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement campaign. Please call your State Senators and ask them to cosponsor and vote for the bills S. 4784. (You can also thank the representatives who passed it in the Assembly!)

Other Ways you can help:

– Sign the petition to support the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/HLwqbK

– Encourage your organization to endorse the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/forms/FM2F6DZAcPZp1co32

* RACIAL JUSTICE

Monthly meetings announced on our website calendar.

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THE CARIOL HORNE WHISTLEBLOWER FUND – The Western New York Peace Center has created a fund for the purpose of supporting police officers who face reprisals from their department from choosing to strictly uphold their oath to protect and serve the community. gofundme.com/cariol-horne-whistleblower-fund. The Peace Center has named this fund after Cariol Horne who saved the life of a citizen, but was fired just prior to earning her 20-year pension. Our goal is to encourage good police officers in following their moral conscience if and when it conflicts with the infamous blue wall of silence.

We are glad that Mayor Brown has made marijuana arrests the lowest law enforcement priority, so people are no longer being arrested for small amounts of marijuana! Thank you, Mayor Brown!! This will go a long way to improving racial justice!

Each Police District has a Chief and Community Police Meeting. We encourage people to go to them and communicate freely on issues of concern. See wnypeace.org calendar for listings,

and/or call your District and ask when & where the next Chief and Community Police Meeting will be held.

* RESIST MILITARISM!

Resist Militarism! Joint Meetings with Veterans For Peace #128, are 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 5-6:30pm. OCTOBER MTG POSTPONED, date and time tbd. At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201).

(Future dates unless otherwise stated: 8/21, 9/18, 10-tbd, 11/20, 12/18.)


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Stand Up for Global Peace

The world is facing a 25-year peak in violent conflict. It is the main cause of human suffering today – trapping millions of civilians in conflict and uprooting 66 million people from their homes. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, violence containment costs the world $14.3 trillion each year. There must be another way.

Over the past two years, a coalition of peacebuilding, humanitarian, and faith-based organizations have drafted a bill that would address the root causes of violence and fragility. The resulting legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate as the Global Fragility Act (H.R. 1580/S.727). This bill would require the U.S. government – in collaboration with civil society – to develop a 10 year strategy to enhance stability and to reduce violence and fragility around the world.

We know that too much foreign assistance and Pentagon spending is spent on treating the symptoms of violence instead of its causes. By passing this law, the U.S. will be able to more effectively prevent violence around the world and reduce its enormous cost on families.

Today, hundreds of faith advocates will lift up the Global Fragility Act as part of their lobby day ask for the annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days. It is important for YOU to add your voice as well. Together, we CAN build a more Just and Peaceful World for All! Take action today to support the Global Fragility Act of 2019! https://p2a.co/Mc4rH0c

For more information: Global Fragility Act

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Know about the King’s Bay Plowshares? 7 courageous and compassionate Catholic Workers who are on trial right now, facing potentially 25 years each. They went to largest submarine base in the world Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”. Read their story athttps://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org/. Also https://www.facebook.com/Kingsbayplowshares/.

Donate, help us organize on their behalf, and agitate and pray for their acquittal. They face very serious charges of up to a decade of prison time, just for reminding our government of the illegal and foolhardy nature of our nuclear weaponry.
Their trial in Georgia will start on October 21 – all are welcome! Check out the above websites for more info.

Please call our Senators and Congresspersons to urge them to make sure that the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes the amendments passed by the House to . . .

repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

prohibit military force in or against Iran.

support an end to the Korean War.

prohibit support to and participation in the war on Yemen.

prohibit the sale of air-to-ground munitions, used in the conflict in Yemen, to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

prohibit funds from the Special Defense Acquisition Fund to aid Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates if such assistance could be used to conduct or continue hostilities in Yemen.

prohibit funding the transfer of weapons to Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates under the emergency authority of the Arms Export Control Act.

prohibit funding for missiles noncompliant with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

support extending the New START Treaty, and prohibit the use of funds to withdraw from New START.

require that the U.S. military provide Congress with the cost and the national security benefits of every foreign military base or foreign military operation.

require the EPA to designate all PFAS (chemicals with which military bases poison ground water) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

require the EPA to revise the list of toxic pollutants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to include PFAS.

prohibit DoD funding to house any foreign nationals who are in the custody of and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

study potential cost savings with respect to the nuclear security enterprise and force structure.

study cost increases for the W80-4 nuclear warhead life extension program and prevent $185 million from being obligated or expended until the study is completed.

prohibit the use of funds for an exhibition or parade of military forces and hardware.

prohibit the use of funds from being obligated or expended at properties owned by the President or that bear his name.

amend the current statutory prohibition on members of Congress contracting with the federal government to include the President, Vice President, and any Cabinet member.

codify a Department of Defense policy to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System service members who are prohibited from purchasing firearms.

If you’d prefer to send an email to your senators, please do so.

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#Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver


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Si, se puede! We shall overcome. #UnitetheStruggles

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

#Unite!     #OneLove
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