Armchair activism ahoy!
Sep. 30th, 2004 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorf"Extraordinary rendition" is the euphemism the White House and Congress use for the practice of sending terrorism suspects to places that don't have human rights laws, like Syria. Needless to say, this is liek bad, and stuff. Read Teresa Nielsen Hayden's post here for more.
"But Alice," you cry, "This is awful! I am only one person, what can I do?" Well, fair reader, I'm making this as easy for you as possible. Go to congress.org and type in your zip code. Click on your House Rep's name and paste in the letter under the cut. Customize as you see fit. Send a snail mail letter if you want. It'll take like ten minutes, and if you save some poor bastard from being tortured, it's like a thousandfold karmic return on your investment.
Dear Representative [last name]:
I am writing you to encourage you to vote against Section 3032 and 3033 of H.R. 10, the “9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act of 2004”. These sections would attempt to legalize extraordinary rendition, the outsourcing of torture to other countries. The course of action that these sections propose are unfair, inhumane, and immoral.
Unfair, inhumane, and immoral are not words that I have ever associated with you, which is why I hope you will vote against these provisions.
Representative Edward Markey, from Massachusetts, is planning on offering an amendment to H.R. 10 that would replace those sections and take a strong stand against extraordinary rendition. Representative Betty McCollum, your colleague from St. Paul, has cosponsored a bill to this effect with Rep. Markey. I encourage you greatly to get in touch with Rep. Markey and Rep. McCollum to find out how to also become a co-sponsor of this action.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you for your time.
"But Alice," you cry, "This is awful! I am only one person, what can I do?" Well, fair reader, I'm making this as easy for you as possible. Go to congress.org and type in your zip code. Click on your House Rep's name and paste in the letter under the cut. Customize as you see fit. Send a snail mail letter if you want. It'll take like ten minutes, and if you save some poor bastard from being tortured, it's like a thousandfold karmic return on your investment.
Dear Representative [last name]:
I am writing you to encourage you to vote against Section 3032 and 3033 of H.R. 10, the “9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act of 2004”. These sections would attempt to legalize extraordinary rendition, the outsourcing of torture to other countries. The course of action that these sections propose are unfair, inhumane, and immoral.
Unfair, inhumane, and immoral are not words that I have ever associated with you, which is why I hope you will vote against these provisions.
Representative Edward Markey, from Massachusetts, is planning on offering an amendment to H.R. 10 that would replace those sections and take a strong stand against extraordinary rendition. Representative Betty McCollum, your colleague from St. Paul, has cosponsored a bill to this effect with Rep. Markey. I encourage you greatly to get in touch with Rep. Markey and Rep. McCollum to find out how to also become a co-sponsor of this action.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you for your time.
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:48 pm (UTC)