TODAY is National Call-In Day: Call Your Representatives NOW

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     Today, be one of thousands of people across the country to phone your members of Congress to call for an end to the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Your calls will make an important difference.
 
     This National Call-In Day is part of Crack the Disparity National Month of Advocacy, a month-long coordinated push to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
 
     The current law:

  • overstates the relative danger of crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine;
  • contributes to the growth of our prison population, increasing the financial burden on taxpayers;
  • disproportionately affects African Americans; and
  • uses limited federal resources on low-level street dealers rather than on the major drug traffickers.

      Twenty-three years of a failed policy is long enough!  It's time to end this unjust and disproportionate sentencing policy. To participate call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard right now at 202.224.3121, and ask to speak to your representatives in the Senate and House. Urge them to support and co-sponsor H.R. 265, the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act in the House and legislation in the Senate that eliminates the 100 to 1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

    You should place three calls because you have one representative and two senators.
 
     Use this link to help you with your calls to Congress.

Click here for talking points and script

Innoncence

MY NAME IS HAZEL JENKINS, I HAVE WRITTEN SEVERAL LETTERS IN THE SAME FORMAT , I AM BEING
TREATED UNFAIR I AM BEING ACCUSED OF THINGS THAT NEVR HAPPEN. I AM 61 YARS OF AGE I NEVER
BEEN IN TROUBLE MY WHOLE LIFE AND NOW I AM BENG CHARGE WITH CHARGES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
I WAS LOCK UP WITHOUT MYMIRANDA RIGHTS BEEN GIVEN TO ME, THE OFICER KEPT ASKING M A LOT
OF QUESTIONS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT AT ALL
MY WHOLE FAMILY IN MY HOUSE HAS BEEN HARRASS FOR YEAR FOR NOTHING, THEY SENT DOGS IN MY
, BROKE SOME OF FURNITURE BY RUSHING IN MY HOUSE . THE OFFICERS THAT CAME IN MY HOUSE SEVEAL TIMES ARE VERY CROOKED AND NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED. TH WHOLE SYSTEM THERE
IN MARTIN COUNTY IS CORRUPT.. IF THERE GONA BE A CHANGE IT NEED TO START WITH PEOPLE WHO
IS BEING MISTREATED BY THEJUSTICE SYSTEM IN THESE SMALL TOWNS. I AM PLEADING FOR HELP
THE JAIL CELLS LOOK WORSE THAN THE SLAVE SHIPS .
I NEVER TRAFFICK NOTHNG IN THE FORM OF DRUGS EXCEPT MY OWN PRESCRIPTION FROM THE
PHARMACY TO MY HOUSE. I HAVE CHRONIC PAIN AND LUPUS AND FIBROMYLGIA/RA. I CAN HARDLY
MAKE IT FROM ONE ROOM TO THE OTHER PLEASE ANSWER ME ASAP AT E-MAILstarrje72@yahoo.com
ASAP OR 757-826-2656 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FO LISTENING. MARTIN COUNTY COURTS IS IN
WILLIAMSTON,N.C.

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