*Dear Brooklyn Peace & Justice Network list member,*

*This is a forward from UFPJ and requires your urgent attention.*
*- Matt*
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*Please forward widely.*

In an unprecedented development last month, the House of Representatives
voted down the funding for the war, but now the Senate has sent the bill
back.

*As early as tomorrow, June 19th*, the House could be voting on the Senate
version, which contains a record-shattering $165 billion for the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as some domestic spending on expanded GI
benefits and extended unemployment insurance. The bill does NOT specify any
conditions on the war funding itself -- no timelines or goals for troop
withdrawals, no troop readiness provisions -- nothing to alter or challenge
Bush's Iraq war policy in the slightest!

*When the funding bill came before the House of Representatives last month,
the peace movement lit up the phones and it made a difference. House members
need to hear from us again.* If this bill passes, it will give President
Bush and his successor the unconstrained ability to pursue the war into next
summer.

Time is short, so we urge you to act now:
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*Email your congressional representative
now<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/302/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24983>
*: *Tell your rep to vote against this funding bill, because it's time to
bring all the troops home.* *Tell him or her you support GI benefits and
extended unemployment insurance, but it is outrageous to attach them to
another year of war.* *Click here to send an email to your
representative*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eg8DvUtnbeg2Se...>
*.* Calls and faxes are also effective -- click here to find your
representative's phone and fax numbers.

*Copy this message and distribute it widely.
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Yours, for peace and justice,
UFPJ Legislative Working Group