Two Urgent Actions

by Danny Fisher

Please consider taking part in two urgent actions this week.

The first is from the Save Darfur Coalition. In an email today from the organization, Colleen Connors writes:

Please join me in calling the White House today and reminding President Bush to uphold his pledge [to provide funding and other assistance to the recently authorized peacekeeping mission] to Darfur when he attends the U.N. General Assembly.

Just follow the steps below:

Dial 1-800-290-2662 (toll-free).
Once you’ve been transferred to the White House comments line tell them that you’re calling to urge the president to uphold U.S. commitments to the peacekeeping force for Darfur when he goes to the UN General Assembly in New York.
Click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition (this step is crucial–please don’t skip it.)

The U.N. General Assembly will be a gathering of world leaders that will include special meetings on Darfur. It represents a pivotal opportunity to help bring an end to the genocide.

We need to make sure that when President Bush heads to New York, he takes his promises to the people of Darfur with him.

As mentioned above, please be sure to report your call to the Save Darfur Coalition here.

You can also join the organization’s Weekly Action Network by following this link.

The second action comes from Friends of the Earth. You can follow this link and write to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees telling them not to force the military to “be a crutch for a liquid coal industry.” Your message will include the following statements:

I urge you to reject efforts by the coal industry to create a market for “liquid coal” by coercing taxpayers to buy the product through our armed forces. Not only is liquid coal unnecessary for national security purposes, it is an industry that the taxpayers should not encourage for two reasons: 1) taxpayers should not subsidize a profitable coal industry to produce a product the free market will not support; and 2) liquid coal is a bad product at any price, contributing twice the carbon emissions to our atmosphere that petroleum does, consuming an inordinate amount of water per unit of fuel, and requiring the expansion of ecologically and socially disastrous mining practices.

For more on the trouble with liquid coal, check out Friends of the Earth’s fact sheet on the subject.

2 Responses to “Two Urgent Actions”

Katherine says:

September 14, 2007 at 10:12 pm

great post, danny. thanks for keeping us straight. i will be calling.

also, a third urgent action: the campaign to stop funding the US occupation of iraq (and potential attack on iran).

towards the end of september, congress will vote to fund a potential $145 billion to continue occupations of iraq and afghanistan through 2008. many of your posts have brought to light current military strategies–withdrawing few troops while leaving tens of thousands more, and making promise upon promise to withdraw, with seemingly little intention to actually do so. the bush administration’s intent to attack iran is daunting.

calling your congressional rep with these issues (troop withdrawal, occupation funding, potential iran attack) is also incredibly urgent. tell your senator to use minimal funding to bring our troops home, to stop funding the occupation of iraq, to pass legislation to prevent attack on iran.

you can call your senator (numbers are located at http://www.congress.org) and fax or email house of representative reps (http://www.house.gov/writerep/).

thanks again for your activism, danny.

shanti
katherine
Danny Fisher says:

September 16, 2007 at 3:47 am

Thanks for the additional urgent action, Katherine-ji!

Rev. Danny Fisher