[Sustain] Fwd: IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, TAKE ACTION TODAY!

[Don Eichelberger]

All-

I made this call to Sen. Feinstein and hope you can, too. It is 
outrageous that the proposed budget includes billions for upgrading 
nuclear weapons while they consider cutting back on Social Security.

  I hope you can call this week, if not today.

Thanks,

Don


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Subject: 	IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, TAKE ACTION TODAY!
Date: 	Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:22:36 -0700
From: 	Jackie Cabasso <wslf at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: 	wslf at earthlink.net
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*CALIFORNIA SENATE ACTION ALERT: PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!**
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/*TODAY! April 9th: Call-in Day to Cut Nuclear Weapons Spending*/

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In the past few years there’s been a lot of nice sounding rhetoric about 
eliminating nuclear weapons uttered by President Obama and various 
senior statesmen. Unfortunately, the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality. 
The U.S. government is officially committed to modernizing its nuclear 
bombs and warheads; the submarines, missiles, and aircraft that carry 
them; and the laboratories and plants that design, maintain, and 
manufacture nuclear weapons. U.S. policy and budget documents all 
manifest an intent to keep thousands of nuclear weapons in service for 
the foreseeable future, together with the capability to bring stored 
weapons back into service and to design and manufacture new weapons 
should they be desired.

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At the time of the Fiscal Year 2012 President’s Budget Request submitted 
to Congress in early February 2011, the administration anticipated 
spending approximately $88 billion for bombs and warheads and supporting 
infrastructure and about $125 billion for delivery systems over a ten 
year period. Independent estimates of total U.S. spending for nuclear 
weapons and related programs place the number even higher, at $31 
billion or more annually. In FY 2013, the U.S. will spend more, in 
inflation-adjusted dollars, on nuclear warheads and bombs than it did 
during the average Cold War year!

*Californians have an important role to play in calling for the 
elimination of nuclear weapons and opposing austerity measures that will 
result in draconian cuts to social services. *Our Senator, Dianne 
Feinstein, is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Energy 
and Water, the committee that oversees the nuclear weapons budget, and 
is one of the most important leaders in the Senate on the issue.

*That is why an urgent Statewide Call-in campaign is starting today, 
Tuesday, April 9th, to show Sen. Feinstein that Californians want to cut 
spending on nuclear weapons! Please join people across California who 
are joining forces to call Sen. Feinstein starting today!*

*Call Senator Feinstein at (415) 393-0707.* Here is a suggested message: 



My name is ________ and I live in _________.I urge Senator Feinstein to 
honor the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Call on Congress: “to terminate 
funding for modernization of nuclear warheads, delivery systems, and 
production facilities, to slash spending on nuclear weapons well below 
Cold War levels, and to redirect those funds to meet the urgent needs of 
cities.”

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*Please call Sen. Feinstein ASAP and help us keep her phone ringing off 
the hook.**



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*More Information:* The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the 
nonpartisan national association of cities with populations over 30,000. 
At its June 2012 Annual meeting, the USCM unanimously adopted a 
resolution /Calling for U.S. Leadership in Global Elimination of Nuclear 
Weapons and Redirection of Nuclear Weapons Spending to Meet the Urgent 
Needs of Cities. 
/http://www.usmayors.org/resolutions/80th_Conference/international08.asp

-- 
Jacqueline Cabasso
Executive Director
Western States Legal Foundation
Working for Peace & Justice in a Nuclear Free World
www.wslfweb.org
www.disarmamentactivist.org
www.facebook.com/WesternStatesLegalFoundation
Twitter at JackieCabasso
510-839-5877



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