Dear Friends,
Upcoming Events
From Nov. 18-21, FOR will mobilize at the Convergence of Hope & Resistance convened by School of Americas Watch.
FOR Program Director Susana Pimiento will lead advocacy workshops on demilitarizing the U.S. presence in Colombia and throughout Latin America.
Please join FOR in Ft. Benning, Georgia, later this month.
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More than six months ago, on April 8, 2010, the United States and Russia agreed to further reduce their nuclear arsenals with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). The U.S. Senate has so far failed to ratify this treaty negotiated by President Obama. Opponents believe the treaty gives away U.S. nuclear power and want to stonewall until the new Congress.
Such objections are meaningless. START is only an incremental step; it still leaves both the United States and other nuclear powers each with enough of a nuclear arsenal to blow up our planet many times over. Further it provides -- wrongly we believe -- first-strike options for the United States against certain nations (North Korea and Iran) while foreclosing such "rights" against other Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty partners.
The original START agreement expired last year. ACT NOW to get the U.S. Senate to ratify this treaty before their winter recess. The time is NOW.
Call your senators today
Please let your senators know you wish the New START treaty to be ratified. Please telephone each of them. Call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your senator, or consult the list below.
Thank you for your work for peace,
Bill Winston
Director of Advancement & Communications
Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
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