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No
Helicopters
to
Colombia:
Act
Now
Before
May
16th
Vote
5/12/00
On May 9th, the Senate Appropriations
Committee passed a bill to provide more than a billion dollars of drug
war funding, much of it directly to the abusive Colombian military.
Colombia's armed forces have been implicated in gross human rights abuses
through their covert association with Colombia's underground paramilitary
forces -- also known as the "death squads" -- but through the dishonesty
of drug czar Barry McCaffrey and some members of Congress, the bill is
being put through nonetheless. Opposition is much stiffer than expected,
however: 11 out of 26 Senators, five of them Republicans, voted for
an amendment to reduce the package by $800 million, and the total size
of the package is hundreds of millions of dollars less than originally
proposed.
The package could come to
a vote in the full Senate as soon as this coming Tuesday, May 15th.
Please take two minutes and visit http://www.drcnet.org/stopthehelicopters/
to send a free e-mail or fax to your two Senators. While you are
doing that, write down their phone numbers and call them up, or reach them
through the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. And most
of all, please use the "tell a friend" form to spread the word and help
mobilize public opposition to this destructive legislation.
Funding this drug war bill
will make American taxpayers complicit in the torture and murder of peace
and human rights activists, labor organizers, anyone who stands up for
the basic rights of all human beings in the troubled nation of Colombia.
Yet it will have no impact on the availability of drugs in the US, anymore
than the wasted billions spent over the last two decades.
So please take two minutes
today and visit http://www.drcnet.org/stopthehelicopters/
to help stop this bill in its tracks!
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Issue #137, 5/12/00
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