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ACTFORCHANGE
ACTIVISM UPDATE: February 16, 2005
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are receiving this newsletter because you have previously taken action
on ActForChange in support of progressive values.
IN
THIS BULLETIN:
Reject
Bush’s Budget
On
February 7, President Bush released his proposed 2006 federal budget.
Despite record military spending and more tax cuts, the president says
we cannot afford to help many of our most vulnerable neighbors. All this
at a time when he has just proposed spending $80 billion more for the
coming year’s occupation of Iraq and borrowing trillions more dollars
to privatize Social Security!
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here to take action!
Our government’s budget should represent our national priorities.
But Mr. Bush’s priorities are in the wrong place and the consequence
will be suffering for our most vulnerable neighbors. Please urge your
members of Congress to reject this heartless expression of our collective
goals, and vote instead to extend a helping hand to the least among us.
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here to take action!
 Please
forward this newsletter to your friends and
help spread the word about this important campaign!
Tell
the DISH Network that Pentagon Propaganda Channel is not in Public Interest
DISH
Network has just announced it is adding to its broadcast lineup a 24/7
“public interest” channel produced by the U.S. Department
of Defense that previously was aimed only at U.S. military personnel.
Under U.S. law, the federal government is banned from producing propaganda
aimed at influencing the American people. Despite this ban, the television
channel which is one hundred percent controlled by the Pentagon will beam
highly produced daily news programs promoting the interests of the Pentagon
and paid for by U.S. taxpayers into millions of American homes.
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here to take action!
Please
forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about
this important campaign!
Bring
the Leaders of the Darfur Genocide to Justice
Ten
years after the Rwanda genocide, it’s happening again in Darfur,
Sudan. The U.S. government has been a leader on stopping the violence
in Darfur so far, but right now the Bush administration is refusing to
allow the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) to take up the
Darfur cases. This would require a Security Council veto, and the U.S.
is threatening to use it to block the permanent court, which the Bush
administration opposes on principle from acting to bring justice to Darfur.
Tell Secretary of State Rice that you want to see the Darfur genocide
sent to the ICC for investigation and prosecution!
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here to take action!
Please
forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about
this important campaign!
Thank
you for working to build a better world.
Jennifer
Willis
Director
ActForChange.com
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