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URGENT
Action
Items
4/28/00
Please take ACTION on the
following urgent alerts:
STOP THE HELICOPTERS
Help stop the much criticized
$1.7 billion Colombia military drug war package. Only an outpouring
of citizen opposition can stop this ill-conceived legislation from passing
and prevent the increase of human rights abuses that will attend it.
Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/stopthehelicopters/
to tell Congress you oppose the Colombia package, and please tell your
friends and spread the word!
NEW YORK: Rockefeller
Drug Laws
Please join the May 8th protest
on the 27th anniversary of New York's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws,
and New Yorkers please tell your legislators these unjust laws should be
repealed! Visit http://www.drcnet.org/states/newyork/
to send an e-mail or fax to your legislators and get their phone numbers,
http://www.reconsider.org to learn
about ReconsiDer: Forum on Drug Policy, our partner in this New York web
site, and http://www.kunstler.org/wmknewsletter.html
to learn more about the protest, or call (212) 539-8441. Visit last week's
issue at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/134.html#newyork
to find out about upcoming legislative hearings and other important New
York information.
WASHINGTON: Legislators'
Medical Marijuana Sign-on Letter
Washington state residents,
please support the legislators' call for a medical marijuana research program!
Visit http://www.mpp.org/Washington/
for information and to contact your state representative and senator, asking
them to sign-on to Sen. Kohl-Welles' sign-on letter.
RAISE YOUR VOICE:
Students with Drug Convictions Losing Financial Aid July 1st
Tens, perhaps hundreds of
thousands of students will lose all federal financial aid under a provision
of the Higher Education Act (HEA) passed in 1998, going into effect July
1. Several things are needed to help get this destructive law repealed:
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Visit http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com
to send a letter to Congress supporting H.R. 1053, a bill to repeal the
HEA drug provision. Tell your friends and other like-minded people
to visit this web site. Follow up your e-mail and faxes with phone
calls; our system will provide you with the phone numbers to reach your
US Representative and your two US Senators.
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Educators are needed to endorse
our sign-on letter to Congress. If you teach or are otherwise involved
in education, or are in a position to talk to educators, please write to
us at [email protected] to
request a copy of our educators letter and accompanying activist packet
-- available by US mail or by e-mail.
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Please contact us if you are
involved with organizations that have mainstream credibility that might
endorse a similar organizational sign-on letter -- organizations endorsing
already include the NAACP, American Public Health Association, ACLU, United
States Student Association, NOW, and a range of social, religious and other
groups.
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We urgently need to hear from
students who have been affected by this law, especially students who are
willing to go public.
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We need students at more campuses
to take the reform resolution to their student governments. Campuses
recently endorsing it include University of Michigan, Yale University,
University of Maryland, University of Kansas, the Association of Big Ten
Schools, Douglass College at Rutgers University and many more. Visit
http://www.u-net.org for information
on the student campaign and how to get involved.
Visit http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com
and make your voice heard!
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Issue #135, 4/28/00
Do Taxpayers Get a Discount at the Door? DEA, State Agencies Cosponsor Michigan Anti-Drug Reform Conference | Hawaii Legislature Passes Medical Marijuana Bill: Governor to Sign First Bill of its Kind in the United States | Veterans to McCaffrey: Stay Out of Colombia | Hiding in Plain Sight: Panel Maps Drug War's Hidden Costs | New Latin America Drug War Site Pulls No Punches | Patients and Activists Rally in Washington, DC for Millennium Medical Marijuana March | This is Only a Test | URGENT Action Items | New Study Shows Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice System | Events | Media Scan | Editorial: Image of an Invasion
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