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Alert:
Still
Time
to
Lobby
Congress
on
Colombia
Vote
6/9/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/439/mcgovern.shtml
On Wednesday, DRCNet distributed
a bulletin informing our Action Alert subscribers that Congressman Jim
McGovern (D-MA) was planning to offer an amendment to the House Foreign
Operations Appropriations Bill to take $30 million away from aerial fumigation
of drug crops in Colombia and transfer it to emergency humanitarian relief
for refugees. Fumigation harms Colombia's environment and people
caught in its way, and eradication has never done more than move the growing
from place to place.
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coca eradication
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The bill appears to still
be in action and the amendment coming up. This means that if you
haven't already taken action, there is still time to do so. Please
help to roll back the futile and destructive drug war that the US has forced
on Colombia by supporting Rep. McGovern's amendment -- visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/stopthehelicopters/
to e-mail your US Representative today!
When you're done with that,
please follow up with a phone call to make additional impact -- follow
the links appearing below and to the right if you need help preparing for
your phone call -- you can reach your Rep.'s office through the Congressional
Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or look up the direct number using our lookup
tool online.)
Though the vote didn't happen
Thursday, it will happen soon. That means your action is needed right
now -- so visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/stopthehelicopters/
to lobby Congress today!
See the web site of the
Latin
America Working Group for "talking points" and information to help
with your phone call. Click
here to read the Drug War Chronicle report on the State Dept.'s latest
coca growing stats -- there's just as much of it now as when Plan Colombia
was started in the '90s!
-- END --
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Issue #439
-- 6/9/06
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