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Contact Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar
Tell Her To Sign-on to the
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S 594)

A strong show of support for this legislation now is critical. It will help determine how seriously the next Congress and the next administration will work to ban these deadly, indiscriminate weapons. FCNL lobbyists have identified Senator Klobuchar as one of eight members of the Senate most likely to cosponsor this bill this year.

FCNL hopes to persuade at least 30 senators to cosponsor this legislation before the end of the year - that's another eight senators before the 110th Congress adjourns. If we get 30 cosponsors before the end of this year, Congress and the next administration will be much more likely to act in 2009.

You can help move U.S. policy in the right direction by urging your senators to cosponsor the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S.594). This bill states that, "Cluster munitions will not be used where civilians are known to be present or in areas normally inhabited by civilians."

Take Action - Call AMY
Minnesota office: 612-727-5220; DC office: 202-224-3244
When you contact her office, ask them where Amy stands on these indiscriminate weapons, many which were produced by ATK. Then ask her to do the right thing and sign-on!

More about the legislation - click here

Cluster Munition Coalition

The Pentagon released a new cluster bomb policy, announcing that they would continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade.

This decision came shortly after 111 countries, including major NATO allies, agreed to a global treaty banning cluster bombs.

The U.S. did not attend the treaty negotiation.

Learn more about the international campaign to ban cluster munitions - click here

Friends Committee on National Legislation

On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, finally ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. But the U.S. left millions of weapons behind that continue to kill.

Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped 90 million cluster bomblets on Vietnam's neighbor, Laos, in 580,000 bombing missions-equivalent to one planeload every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years.

Thirty-three years later, more than 10 million cluster submunitions still litter the land, waiting to explode in the hand of a curious child or at the foot of a subsistence farmer.

Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 (S. 594)
Find out where your rep stands on the issue - click here

from the documentary
BOMBIES

This 4.5 minute clip features Marv Davidov, the Honeywell Project and a nonviolent action in 1999 at Alliant Techsystems in Hopkins. Among the 65 arrested that day was Dave Dellinger, a prominent leader of the Anti-Vietnam War movement, along with his wife Elizabeth Peterson. Both had traveled from their home in Vermont.

Click play above