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Say
No
to
Drug
War
Funding
for
Colombia's
Abusive
Military:
Senate
Committee
Vote
May
9th
5/5/00
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." Yet through the dishonesty of drug czar Barry McCaffrey
and some members of Congress, our government is preparing to send $1.7
billion of drug war funding to Colombia, the majority of it to go to the
brutally corrupt army, much of it in the form of expensive high-tech Blackhawk
helicopters manufactured in the district of one of the committee members
who passed the bill.
The package has already passed
the House, and is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Appropriations Committee
on Tuesday, May 9th. Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/stopthehelicopters/
to send a free e-mail or fax to your two Senators and to find out their
phone numbers to call.
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/
before the Senate Appropriations Committee takes its vote on Thursday.
Please follow up your e-mail with a phone call, using the numbers the web
site will provide, or through the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
And please tell your friends so they too can stand up for justice and sanity.
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Issue #136, 5/5/00
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