Countdown to Zero A review by Nancy Eng MacNeill I have always loved the phrase, “time goes by so fast.” Countdown to Zero, has reminded me that I have lived my whole life under the threat that all living things…
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August 14, 2010
Posts Tagged: senate
August 9, 2010
START in Danger as Senate Delays
(Based on an alert from the Friends Committee on National Legislation and used with permission.) Please contact your Senators and urge them to support START. Recent events have increased concerns that the Senate may fail to ratify this important treaty…
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August 9, 2010
Ask your Senators to START
Contact your Senators and urge them to give bipartisan support to the new START – the treaty that would reduce the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia. The Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Sample Email I urge you…
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June 9, 2010
Stop violence against women – worldwide!
From our colleagues in the Presbyterian Washington Office Support the International Violence Against Women Act The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) has been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bill, which was also introduced in…
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May 21, 2010
Protect the Clean Air Act
From the Presbyterian Washington Office: Tell the Senate to let the EPA do its job. Send a note to your Senator today. In the coming days, Senator Murkowski (AK-R) will bring a bill to the floor of the Senate that,…
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May 16, 2010
Time for New START
Last Thursday, the Obama administration sent the new START Treaty to the Senate for ratification. Now we can ask our Senators to vote in favor of this important first step to reduce the global nuclear threat, prevent the further spread…
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May 13, 2010
Not just on Mother’s Day
Ann Ferguson of Presbyterian Women commented on a recent post with the good word that it is always the right time to give mothers and all women of the world the gift of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of…
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May 9, 2010
A Gift to Mothers around the World: the CEDAW Treaty
From the Presbyterian Washington Office: Women and girls around the world face violence and discrimination daily. We also know that CEDAW, the Women’s Treaty, helps women and girls to go to school, to own and inherit property, to take part…
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April 12, 2010
Next steps after START
Urge your Senators to declare publicly their support for speedy action on the new START treaty. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has long supported securing nuclear materials from terrorists and reducing the number of nuclear armaments. For decades the General Assembly…
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April 8, 2010
It’s a START
President Obama of the United States and President Medvedev of Russia will meet in Prague, Czech Republic, today to sign a new strategic arms control agreement. In the United States, the treaty will go to the Senate which must ratify…
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