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Repression: made in America

By Rebecca Griffin on Mon, 21 May 2012 23:31:10

It’s painfully obvious. If a government is imprisoning, torturing, and killing protesters, American weapons should never reach their hands. Then why is the administration doing a runaround on Congress and selling arms to the government of Bahrain  Tell your representative to cosponsor the Arms Sales Responsibility Act to prevent arms sales to human rights-abusing governments. Read More

Nuclear bombs are not political pawns

By Katie Heald on Sat, 19 May 2012 03:37:13

This is part three in our series on the National Defense Authorization Act vote that concluded Friday morning. Weve covered the Afghanistan vote, and some of the other issues addressed in the bill. Another topic of discussion in Congress this week was the status of our arsenal of nuclear warheads and related weapons systems. The Read More

NDAA grab bag: the highs and lows

By Rebecca Griffin on Fri, 18 May 2012 21:08:39

The National Defense Authorization Act covers a huge range of issues, authorizing all Pentagon spending for the year. As one of the few bills guaranteed to come up for a vote, anyone and everyone uses the opportunity to offer amendments to shape military policy. This means a lot of activity for us in encouraging amendments Read More

Republican hawks block vote to end war in Afghanistan

By Rebecca Griffin on Fri, 18 May 2012 20:14:05

With the vast majority of Americans, including people of all political persuasions, supporting a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, its high time for Congress to catch up. A bipartisan group of representatives joined forces to put together an amendment to the defense authorization bill voted on this week that would have put the House of Read More

Mike Coffmans birther moment

By Rebecca Griffin on Thu, 17 May 2012 22:52:19

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) joined the fringiest of the fringe this week with the comments he chose as a rousing closer to a fundraising speech (see the above video for the full local news report): I dont know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States or not. But I do know this. That Read More

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Tell Congress to say NO to 12 more years of war

President Obama announced a plan to keep troops in Afghanistan until 2024. Congress must tell the president that twelve more years is twelve too many.

The House will vote on amendments calling for a quicker end to the war in Afghanistan next week. These votes come right before NATO countries gather in Chicago to talk about commitments to Afghanistan’s future.

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