[Announce-DAN] FWD: ACTION ALERT: CALL LEGISLATORS TODAY FEB 14

[Doc Rosen <drdrdoc@dr.com>]

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From: DREYFALEX@aol.com

Sent: February 14, 2001 10:09:19 AM GMT
Subject: ACTION ALERT: CALL LEGISLATORS TODAY FEB 14


HAVE A HEART! TAKE ACTION FEBRUARY 14th

NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR INTERNATIONAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW


PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, WORKERS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS:

SHINE A LIGHT ON CORPORATE ACTIONS AROUND THE WORLD


A GLOBAL PROBLEM:

Every day globalization and a new generation of
international trade

agreements make it easier for U.S. corporations to move
freely around

the globe. However, there are no laws that inform
citizens in the U.S.

and around the world about the impacts these companies
are having on the

environment, workers and human rights.



FOR EXAMPLE:

*BHOPAL, India. In the middle of the night on December
3, 1984, Union

Carbide's pesticide factory leaked more than 40 tons of
lethal gasses.

According to the Bhopal Peoples Health and
Documentation Clinic, 8,000

people were killed in its immediate aftermath and more
than 500,000

people suffered from injuries. Hundreds of thousands of
survivors are

sick or dying.


*NIGERIA. In May 1998, in response to a takeover by
Nigerian protesters

of one of its oil drilling platforms, Chevron
reportedly allowed

Nigerian security forces and its own private security
forces to use

their helicopters to attack the unarmed protesters. The
attack resulted

in 2 dead and 30 wounded among the protesters, who had
been demanding

clean drinking water, electricity, and environmental
reparations from

Chevron for toxic contamination of their water and
farmland.


SOLUTION: AN INTERNATIONAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW LAW

To ensure that U.S. corporations are accountable
wherever they operate,

a new coalition of more than 170 environmental, labor,
social justice,

faith-based and human rights organizations have joined
together on a

campaign to enact an INTERNATIONAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW law.


These groups include Friends of the Earth, Amnesty
International, Global

Exchange, Sierra Club, Earth Rights International,
Rainforest Action

Network, American Lands Alliance, AFL-CIO, Project
Underground, Earth

Rights International, United Students Against
Sweatshops, Student

Environmental Action Coalition, People of Faith
Network, the

International Labor Rights Fund and many more.


The coalition has developed a legislative proposal that
would require

U.S. corporations to report on their operations in
foreign countries.

This proposal would extend key domestic right-to-know
laws to the

overseas operations of U.S.-owned companies, requiring
disclosure on

environmental, labor and human rights practices.


TAKE ACTION

You can help to make the INTERNATIONAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW
Proposal a reality.

The coalition is urging members of Congress to
introduce legislation

this spring, but we need original co-sponsors.


WHO: Thousands of citizens across the country


WHAT: National call-in day for International
Right-to-Know legislation


WHEN: February 14, 2001ØValentine's Day


HOW: Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and
ask to speak to

your Senators and Representative.  Ask them to
Co-Sponsor International

Right-to-Know Legislation requiring U.S. corporations
to report on their

environmental, human rights and labor practices abroad.


For talking points, more information, and to find out
who your members

of Congress are, go to www.irtk.org


Please email larcher@foe.org if you have called in so
we can keep track

of how many calls people have made to their members of
Congress.


THANK YOU for taking action on this important new
effort to shine a

light on the operations of U.S. corporations around the
world!


PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE!


Lisa Archer

International Program, National Grassroots Field
Organizer

Friends of the Earth-United States

1025 Vermont Ave, NW

Washington, DC  20005-6303

202-783-7400 ext. 111

202-783-0444 (fax)

larcher@foe.org
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PS While you're calling, urge your legislators to
support Kuttner's Tax Cut
Plan.--Sharon:

The whole country knows that our current President's
ideology lacks the
support of half the voters.  Therefore in light of his
promise to unify the
country, why not support a tax cut plan which clearly
addresses the expressed
desires of the majority--better schools, more
healthcare, affordable housing,
and more expendable income.  I urge you to support the
Kuttner Plan:

Point One: A one-time tax rebate this year of $500 for

every man, woman, and child (an idea that was first

proposed by the Economic Policy Institute). This would

be strong antirecession medicine, and it wouldn't blow
a

permanent hole in the tax code. Cost: $170 billion. No

other tax cuts.


Point Two: Infuse $50 billion a year into failing

schools, mainly to reduce class size, and $20 billion

more each year into early-childhood development. Cost:

$350 billion over five years.


Point Three: Expand Medicare to restore some hospital

payments and add prescription drug coverage. Cost: $350

billion over five years.


Point Four: Give every child a Medicare card and get
rid

of the patchwork of private insurance, Medicaid, Chip,

and other child health programs that miss millions of

kids. Net cost: $100 billion over five years if we fold

in other programs.


Point Five: Restore $6 billion a year of federal money

for affordable housing. Cost: $30 billion.


That's it: a clear, coherent alternative to the Bush

program. It doesn't pretend to predict economic

circumstances beyond the next five years. It offers a

quick anti-recession jolt. And the five-year cost is $1

trillion, or well under half of the projected 10-year

surplus.

Somos la misma familia,
Doc
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