Action Alert 1: Take guns out of the hands of domestic abusers - Please contact your State Representative and Senator to urge them to support AB 558, AB 559 and SB 380, the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Enforcement Act. Contact for more info: Heidi Rose, Wisconsin AntiViolence Effort 414-351-9283, wave@waveedfund.org
Action Alert 2: Playgrounds for Palestine threatened with military seizure - Contact your member of Congress to notify them of the continuing theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli military, funded by billions in U.S. military aid. Also please call the State Department's Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Near East Affairs, Jeffrey D Feltman (202 647 7209) and demand that the U.S. speak out against this illegal seizure of Palestinian land. Contact for more info: Barb Olson, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (608-238-1227) rafahsistercity@yahoo.com
Action Alert 3: Kucinich War Powers resolution gains a Wisconsin cosponsor - If you are a constituent of Rep. Baldwin, please call her office (202-225-2906) to thank her, and if you live in another Wisconsin congressional district, please contact your representative to urge them to sign on as a cosponsor to the Kucinich war powers resolution. Contact for more info: Joy First, Madison Pledge of Resistance, 608-222-7581, jsfirst@tds.net
Action Alert 4: Nuclear bailout bill moves to House appropriations committee - If you are a resident of Rep. Obey's district, please call him (202-225-3365) and urge him to make the nuclear industry stand or fall in the marketplace on its own merits rather than being kept on life support through taxpayer subsidies. NIRS has also set up an easy-to-use online petition and promises to hand-deliver the signed petitions to members of Congress. Contact for more info: Diane Farsetta, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, (608) 250-9240, farsettad@gmail.com
Action Alert 5: March 20 in D.C. - U.S. out of Iraq/Afghanistan march - Buses to the D.C. march will be leaving from Chicago on Friday, March 19 at 5 pm from behind the Art Institute of Chicago on S. Columbus Dr. between Jackson & Monroe, and will return on Sunday, March 21 at approximately 8:00am. Tickets are $100 round trip. More information about how to purchase tickets here... Contact for more info: ANSWER Chicago, 773-463-0311, chicago@march20.org
Action Alert 6: Strengthen Congressional review of "free trade" agreements - Many members of Congress are supporting H.R.3012, which would "require a review of existing trade agreements and renegotiation of existing trade agreements based on the review, to set terms for future trade agreements, to express the sense of the Congress that the role of Congress in trade policymaking should be strengthened." The companion bill in the Senate is S.2821. Action Step: Senator Feingold has cosponsored S.2821, but Senator Kohl has not. Please call Senator Kohl's office (202-224-5653), and ask to speak to the "Trade staff person", and request that Senator Kohl cosponsor the Trade Act (S.2821). Contact for more info: Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition, 414-344-1733, info@wisconsinfairtrade.org
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