TODAY is National Call-In Day: Call Your Representatives NOW
TAKE ACTION
Today, be one of thousands of people across the country to phone your members of Congress to call for an end to the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Your calls will make an important difference.
This National Call-In Day is part of Crack the Disparity National Month of Advocacy, a month-long coordinated push to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
The current law:
- overstates the relative danger of crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine;
- contributes to the growth of our prison population, increasing the financial burden on taxpayers;
- disproportionately affects African Americans; and
- uses limited federal resources on low-level street dealers rather than on the major drug traffickers.
Twenty-three years of a failed policy is long enough! It's time to end this unjust and disproportionate sentencing policy. To participate call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard right now at 202.224.3121, and ask to speak to your representatives in the Senate and House. Urge them to support and co-sponsor H.R. 265, the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act in the House and legislation in the Senate that eliminates the 100 to 1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
You should place three calls because you have one representative and two senators.
Use this link to help you with your calls to Congress.
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