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From: Patty Guerrero (pattypaxearthlink.net) | |
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:30:32 -0800 (PST) |
Begin forwarded message: > From: Mary Beaudoin <beaudmj [at] gmail.com> > Date: November 28, 2012 9:25:36 PM CST > To: rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net, pattypax [at] earthlink.net > Subject: Indefinite detention > > Friends, > > I just received this important action alert from Demand Progress: > > The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act allows the United States military > to detain civilians indefinitely and without charge or trial -- even American > citizens. Help us reverse this travesty of justice by clicking here to email > your senators: > > http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_2013/?referring_akid=.2210824.8t7Db1&source=mailto > > The Senate is taking up the 2013 NDAA TOMORROW (Thurs). Several senators are > poised to put forth amendments to revoke or narrow the indefinite detention > powers that we've been fighting so hard over the last year. > > Demand Progress members have sent hundreds of thousands of emails to Congress > and have helped fund the courageous lawsuit by Chris Hedges et al -- which > recently spurred a federal judge to rule that indefinite detention is > unconstitutional. > > Because there are several amendments in play, our ask is broad and simple: > Please urge your Senators to support any and all amendments to revoke or > narrow indefinite detention powers. > > Earlier this year we helped push an anti-indefinite detention amendment to > the House's version of the NDAA to the brink of passage. The Senate is > friendly turf for us: We have a real chance of winning this fight. > > Please email your senators right away: > > http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_2013/?referring_akid=.2210824.8t7Db1&source=mailto
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