Request from the Merton Center

[Jibran Mushtaq]

Hello,

Instead of sending out a mass email to the TMC membership, we thought it might be best if we solicit support from projects/committees of the TMC. Please read email below and see if this is something we wish to endorse/support.

Indefinite detention is about to become the law, and we're teaming up with Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg and others to try to reverse it.

Will you show your support as we seek a restraining order to block the implementation of the NDAA?

http://www.stopndaa.org

On January 1, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA).

The National Defense Authorization Act is a bill passed into law each year. It allows the government to continue funding national security interests and the military for the next fiscal year. This year's bill, however, was different.

The 2012 NDAA greatly expands the power and scope of the federal government to fight the so-called "War on Terror". The law authorizes the US military, for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing.

You can support our lawsuit to block its implementation.  The indefinite detention provisions are set to take effect THIS WEEK.  (You'll also be generating emails to your lawmakers asking them to overturn this law.)

http://www.stopndaa.org

The language of this law is dangerously vague. It grants dictatorial powers to the federal government to arrest any American citizen without warrant and indefinitely detain them for life anywhere in the world without any charge.

Suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore prisons and kept there until "the end of hostilities." It is a catastrophic blow to civil liberties.

In a nation where the definition of "terrorist" seems to be ever-expanding, and where a series of laws passed since 9/11 have severely undermined Constitutional protections, the NDAA has gone too far.
It is time to unite and stand up to this assault on our fundamental rights and freedoms.

Help stop the NDAA: Sign up to email your lawmakers to let them know that you support this lawsuit against the United States government.

http://www.stopndaa.org

[Edith Bell]

absolutely!!!!!!

speaking first and foremost for myself, but also for WILPF and the Raging Grannies.

Edith Bell

[michael pastorkovich]

Yes, definitely we should support it.  I signed the online petition the other day.   Have you sent this to the anti-war committee also?

[Katherine Cunningham]

Defnitely!!!!!!!

From: Edith Bell <edith...@verizon.net>
To: economic-just...@googlegroups.com

[Tayfun Gol]

In case not everyone is aware, we had already issued a statement in OccupyPittsburgh denouncing the NDAA 2012 right after it was approved... http://www.occupypittsburgh.org/content/occupy-pittsburgh-statement-2012-ndaa  --- On Thu, 3/1/12, Katherine Cunningham <capp...@verizon.net> wrote: