Kucinich weekly update
Kucinich sent the following email from his website on August 11, 2005:
"I have traveled across America. And I have seen the effects of agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA: padlocked gates of abandoned factories, grass growing in parking lots of places where workers used to make steel, used to make washing machines, used to make textiles, used to make machine parts.
"Free trade has meant freedom for the American worker to stand in the unemployment line while their jobs were traded away. So-called free trade has brought broken dreams, broken homes, broken hearts to the American manufacturing worker. Trade without equity is tyranny. Trade without economic justice is theft. Trade without integrity, without workers' rights, without human rights, without environmental principles is not worthy of a free people."
--Kucinich in the final House CAFTA debate, July 27, 2005
Homeward Bound Act Now Has 45 Cosponsors
The bi-partisan Bill to begin the process of withdrawal from Iraq, H.J. Res. 55, introduced on June 16 by Reps. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Walter Jones (R-NC) and Ron Paul (R-TX), now bears the names of 46 Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle. Every few days Congress is in session more members sign on - we maintain the current list on our forum. Please call, write or visit your Member of Congress if he or she has not already signed on - regardless of party! - and explain why, regardless of the reasons we went in, we must bring the occupation of Iraq to a close and bring our troops home.
Turning Up the Heat on Social Security
Educate and Organize: House Meetings, Letter Writing
Congress will be taking up Social Security in earnest when it reconvenes in September. We must protect this vital program. Now is the time to educate each other on the true issues surrounding Social Security and to let our Members of Congress know how we feel about the Administration's privatization proposals. The facts are spelled out very clearly in Dennis's Social Security Town Hall video - read the transcript here and order the video today.
Host a house meeting or town hall meeting during August or September. At your meeting watch the video, work on letters to the editor and Members of Congress, and practice talking points. Write 30-second elevator speeches about Social Security.
Write to info@kucinich.us with your meeting details, and we'll see if we can schedule Dennis to call in and answer questions. We may be able to send targeted emails to people on our mailing list in your community to let them know about your meeting if you wish.
Department of Peace Bill to be Re-Introduced in September
Organizing and Advocacy Training Conference to be Followed by Intense Lobby Day
Kucinich, Walter Cronkite, Marianne Williamson, Patch Adams among participants
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
Dennis will re-introduce his Bill to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The Peace Alliance, one of the advocacy groups working to support this legislation, will hold a training and organizing conference the prior weekend in Washington, D.C., Sept. 10-12. The training will include half a day of contact between conference participants and legislative staff representing their districts - converting their training into action at once - and the events will conclude the evening of the 12th in a conversation with Dennis Kucinich and Walter Cronkite. Be a part of the re-introduction of this historic legislation and learn how to effectively guide a Bill to passage. There will be few better opportunities for first-class training on building and supporting local advocacy groups and developing relationships with Members of Congress than these three days in September.
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