Watch videos of 12/12 rally at White House for inspiration.
Tell your representative to announce immediately that they will vote No unless the war funding is taken out and the unemployment insurance left in. Tell them to commit now to voting No on any future bills that fund the wars, and to demand that the funding vote for the Afghan escalation be held prior to the escalation. Ask them to cosponsor Kucinich’s resolutions to end the wars when introduced in January. (These will be privileged and come to a vote on the floor within 15 days.) Ask them to cosponsor Lee’s bill to bock escalation funding, and McGovern’s bill to demand an exit plan.
The U.S. Constitution leaves the decision to wage war to Congress, and Congress can enforce its decision not to wage war by refusing to fund it. Blocking a funding bill for wars requires the House of Representatives alone, and both Democrats and Republicans in the House are rapidly joining us in saying No to war funding.
It’s time to finally get serious, to lobby, to protest, to sit in, to nonviolently disrupt and resist in local district offices until enough Representatives commit to voting No on any bill to fund more war.
Here’s a link to a rapidly-changing whip list in the form of a google document that you can embed on your own website:
You’ll find your congress member’s phone number there. Please call them and post a report on what they tell you.
