FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: PLEASE VOTE - request to co-sponsor 12/11 event

[Barbara Weatherhead (barbweather]

What is Jay asking us to do? Hold an event at FUS? Who is coordinating?

Barbara Weatherhead
barbweather [at] comcast.net  

-----Original Message-----
From: jojane [at] juno.com [mailto:jojane [at] juno.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 4:34 PM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Cc: mjshahidiusa [at] aol.com
Subject: [sa-talk] PLEASE VOTE - request to co-sponsor 12/11 event

Hi, SAC folks - Jay Shahidi is asking FUS Social Action to co-sponsor
this event.

WHAT IS YOUR VOTE?

I vote yes.   - Jo




Please Forward.
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11/19/08

TO: Human Rights and Social Justice Advocates

FROM: M. Jay Shahidi

SUBJECT: Family Planning in the Age of Economic Crisis

Dear Advocate:
 
Please join us in this imperative national campaign:
 
 At a time of economic down-turn, increasing poverty and global
pessimism
about the future, it is vital to pay serious attention to the problem of
rapid population growth which is, indeed, the core cause of scarcity of
resources and intensifying hardship for most inhabitants of this planet.

"Family Planning in the Age of Economic Crisis" is a conference being
organized by the Washington-DC based Population Connection (formerly
called Zero Population Growth) and the United Nations Association,
Minnesota Division. The purpose is to focus attention on the critical
need for all nations to multiply their efforts to promote voluntary
family planning in order to improve the quality of life for all the
inhabitants of our world. 

Our goal is to launch a national campaign to bring about public support
and governmental action that will ultimately produce an international
impact. 

We need your help to organize, co-sponsor and publicize this kick-off
event in Minneapolis on December 11, 2008, 6-9 p.m. 

The location of the event will be announced shortly.

The urgency lies in the fact that we must join forces to urge President
Obama and the new Congress to:

1. Remove the odious "Global Gag Rule" which was re-established by
President Bush by Executive Action (his first official act after he
became President on January 20, 2001) which has withheld U.S. funds from
the family planning non-governmental organization, NGOs, around the
world
resulting in drastically increased  numbers of unwanted pregnancies and
abortions.

2. Increase the U.S. contributions to the international family planning
efforts to $1,000,000,000.00 from the current approximately
$460,000,000.00, much of which has not been released by President Bush.

3. Explore ways to re-establish the leadership of the United States in
the collective movement to stabilize the world population and attempt to
bring about a sustainable international society.

Please try to organize local events in the U.S. to support this
campaign.

Please contact us to be a co-sponsor. 
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