EMAIL
from Jill Stein campaign
Date: June 26, 2012
Subject: NEWS: Urgent letter from seven leading peace advocates
URGENT! PLEASE FORWARD
WIDELY!
FROM: David Swanson,
Medea Benjamin, Leah Bolger, Bruce Gagnon, Chris Hedges, George
Martin and Kevin Zeese
Dear Friends in the Peace
Movement,
We can't afford to let this opportunity slip by. By taking action
over the next five days the peace community has a chance to inject
a compelling and courageous peace advocate into the 2012
presidential campaign, to have a voice in the national debate over
war, militarism, and military spending.
You know what is going to happen if we leave this election up to
the two major party candidates. President Obama will defend his
troop surges, his excessive Pentagon budgets, his preparations for
war with Iran, his escalation of the drone wars, his
crackdowns on whistleblowers, his indefinite detention policy, and
his new role as manager of the White House assassination list.
Mitt Romney will not question these policies, but will promise to
pursue them with even more enthusiasm. In debates and interviews,
the American people will have the
Big Lie drilled into their consciousness: that our nation
must accept escalating military engagement and must visit
worldwide violence against all who defy the U.S. government.
Jill Stein stands ready to challenge the Big Lie. Jill Stein, a
physician from Massachusetts, who has been a national board member
of Physicians for Social Responsibility, has just won 29 state
primaries to secure the presidential nomination of the Green
Party.
She is putting some badly
needed fundamentals for peace on the table:
Cut the Pentagon budget by 50%. Halt the drone wars. Pardon the
whistleblowers. Restore our civil liberties. Make the Middle East
a nuclear-free zone. She is driving home the point that the
Obama/Romney fascination with war and violence is dangerous for
our nation and the world. We need to make sure she is heard.
Jill Stein is closing in on federal matching funds that would
double the value of donations to her campaign. Because she doesn't
receive big checks from Pentagon contractors and their lobbyists,
public funding is essential to her campaign. She needs to raise
about $24,000 by midnight on June 30th so that she can apply for
matching funds.
That's not much money to ask of a national peace movement. We can
do it.
And the payoff for peace
will be tremendous.
So we urge you do two things. First,
go to Jill Stein's website: http://www.jillstein.org/donate,
and make a generous donation to her campaign. Second, please
forward this email to your friends and networks. Forwarding this
message is critically important.
Thank you for helping us open up a dialogue for peace.
Sincerely,
David Swanson, author of War is a Crime and also of
Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial President and Forming a More
Perfect Union
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and senior
fellow at the Nation Institute
Leah Bolger, retired naval commander and current president
of Veterans for Peace
George Martin, three term national co-chair of United for
Peace & Justice
Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
Kevin Zeese, executive director of Voters for Peace
* organizational affiliations
listed for identification purposes only
PS. While all donations are valuable, Jill Stein especially needs
donations from the following key states to help her reach the
required $5000 per state threshold. If you know anyone in
these states, please ask them to make a donation of up to
$250: AZ, CO, CT, DC, FL, ME, MI, MO, NC, NM, OH, OR,
SC, TN and VA. Read all the nitty gritty details and updates
here: http://www.jillstein.org/funding
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Former Presidential Candidate Gary Bauer congratulated
Governor Scott Walker for his
win in Wisconsin's
recall
election,
calling
it
"another sign that taxpayers will award office holders ready
to do the hard work of reigning in out-of-control government
spending."
Bauer, the chairman of the Campaign for Working
Families, made the following statement:
"I congratulate Governor Scott
Walker for his hard-fought victory tonight, and most
especially for having the courage of his convictions to fight
the good fight. But the victory in Wisconsin
is not Scott Walker's
alone. It is a victory for the hard-working taxpayers of
Wisconsin, who foot the bill
year after year. It is a victory for common sense over
powerful special interests. It is a victory that
taxpayers in every state can celebrate. It is a victory,
yes, even for some union members.
"Since Gov. Walker's reforms were enacted, tens of thousands
of state employees have opted to keep more of the money they
earn rather than let the public employees union siphon off
their hard-earned dollars. In other words, once given
the choice, more than half of the public employees union's
members decided that they didn't need the union. These
reforms will pay real dividends for the taxpayers of
Wisconsin. They are the real winners tonight.
"The recall election is a sign of good things to come.
The power of the Big Labor bosses has finally been checked,
not just in Wisconsin, but
also in scores of other states across the country. More
governors, legislators and taxpayers will be inspired to stand
up against the liberal labor unions and do what is truly in
the best interests of their communities. Wisconsin's
10
Electoral College votes are now in play, and the anti-tax,
small government movement that swept the country in 2010 is
about to sweep Barack Obama
out of office in 154 days!"
Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1drYR)