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To All: Peter Robbins visited the Bangor offices of Rep. Michaud and Senators Collins and Snowe this week to seek support for this legislation. <div>They should hear from many of us. Thank you. (We also both met in July with doctors of the Henry Reeve Brigade in Matanzas province, Cuba, which was very inspiring. Scroll down.) -- JR</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Rep. 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Olympia Snowe</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">202-224-5344</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">207-945-0432</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">snowe.senate.gov</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Sen. Susan Collins</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">202-224-2523</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">207-945-0417</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">collins.senate.gov</font></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Claire Mortimer <<a href="mailto:clairebearcfm@gmail.com">clairebearcfm@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 12, 2010 6:49:21 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:clairebearcfm@gmail.com">clairebearcfm@gmail.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Important Legislation on Cuba is Within Reach!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br> <div> <br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"> applewebdata://5FE46EA4-1DA9-4537-84DF-F6C4A548F34A#12a6802c72bf2a95_<tbody> <tr> <td><center><a href="#12a6802c72bf2a95_"><img src="" alt="DISARM education fund" border="0" width="600" height="74"></a></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" bgcolor="#bcbdc0" width="5"><img src="" alt="" width="5" height="1"></td> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="20"><img src="" alt="" width="20" height="1"></td> <td width="550"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">August 12, 2010</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear ,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 25px;"><font color="#7e702c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Important Legislation on Cuba is Within Reach!</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Momentum is gathering on H.R. 4645, the bill currently in Congress that would permit unrestricted travel and greater agricultural exports to Cuba. The bill has already passed the House Agricultural Committee. It's been endorsed by everyone from farmers' associations to human rights groups. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> But this is a crucial moment. Now is not the time to slow down! After the August recess, the bill will go to the Foreign Affairs Committee, where representatives who oppose any opening toward Cuba will attempt to remove the travel provisions. This bill needs your support now more than ever before!</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> If you haven't already done so, please send a message to your congressional representative. You can do so using our website, <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L%2BG9PnevvbSoNx73yGObxuLGDqY2tZ%2Fk" target="_blank"><i><font color="#85130c">(www.disarm.org)</font></i></a>, where we've set up an online action tool to make your voice heard. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><p><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> This bill represents a truly historic opportunity to finally overturn our absurd and damaging foreign policy toward Cuba. Don't let this opportunity pass us by! </font></p><p><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=smUdz57IFALnV7e2RgrBoOLGDqY2tZ%2Fk" target="_blank"><i><font color="#85130c">Contact your member of Congress today!</font></i></a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 25px;"><font color="#7e702c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Wikileaks Reveals the True Costs of War in Afghanistan</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We already knew the war in Afghanistan was brutal costly and immoral. But the recent release of nearly 100,000 internal military documents on the website Wikileaks only goes to show how disastrous this war really is. The documents reveal cover-ups of civilian deaths, special units of trained killers, and deeply complex regional politics.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The fallout from the release of these documents also highlights the widening gulf between the government and U.S. public opinion on the war. Despite growing public anger against the war, Congress recently approved another 37 billion dollars in war funding. We are entering a quagmire of deadly proportions.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Please take a moment to <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dPOG9aRKq6iJCBWaAsq0MeLGDqY2tZ%2Fk" target="_blank"><i><font color="#85130c">contact your congressional representative</font></i></a> to demand an end to the senseless war in Afghanistan!</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 25px;"><font color="#7e702c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Disarm Supports Cuban Doctors Undertaking Disaster Relief in Haiti</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">It's been seven months since Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The resulting humanitarian crisis has been the worst in the country's history, leaving an estimated 230,000 dead and up to a million homeless. Despite the immediate outpouring of international support, aid efforts on the ground have been hampered by poor coordination and a tendency to prioritize security over humanitarian relief. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> In these difficult circumstances, the Cuban medical teams working in Haiti have provided an important model of dedication and efficiency. I am proud to report that Disarm recently partnered with the Dominican organization OdoSalud to send a 40 foot container of urgently-needed medicines and medical supplies to the Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade working in Haiti. The shipment allowed us to form a new partnership in the Dominican Republic, continue our work supporting Cuban doctors, and provision one of the most important disaster relief teams now working in Haiti. Important initiatives like this one could not happen without your support!</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">All the best,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Bob Schwartz</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Executive Director</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr><td><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="325"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2" style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="145"><br></td><td rowspan="2" style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="20"><br></td><td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="10"><br></td><td width="75"><br></td><td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="10"><br></td><td width="75"> </td> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="10"><img src="" alt="" width="10" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; text-align: center;" align="center" width="180"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E702C" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" width="20"><img src="" alt="" width="20" height="1"></td> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;" bgcolor="#bcbdc0" width="5"><img src="" alt="" width="5" height="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#85291b"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="11"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;" align="center" width="600"><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Disarm Education Fund</b> • 113 University Place • New York, NY 10003 • Tel: 212.353.9800 <br> <a href="#12a6802c72bf2a95_"><font color="#ffffff">Contact us</font></a> | <a href="#12a6802c72bf2a95_"><font color="#ffffff">Forward this to a friend</font></a> | <font color="#ffffff"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=moyuMWW0Tfnd634zXsew4uLGDqY2tZ%2Fk" target="_blank">Click here to unsubscribe</a></font> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt;"><img src="" alt="" width="1" height="11"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <img src="" width="1" height="1"></div><br><div style="visibility: hidden; display: inline;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;}</style></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>