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Joseph Raglione
December 07, 2010
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, your human rights are at stake. You will miss them when they are gone and so the idea is not to lose them in the first place!...>

Dear ACLU Supporter,

Call your U.S. senators right now. Tell them you strongly oppose stripping crucial civil liberties advances from the Defense Authorization bill.

We're on the verge of two historic breakthroughs in the Senate—the end of the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and the securing of full reproductive rights for the women who bravely serve this country in the military.

But, we need you to help make it happen.

Right now, the Senate is debating the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes critical provisions that have the potential to significantly advance civil liberties in this country—the repeal of the military's indefensible "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and the repeal of a ban that prevents a servicewoman or a military wife or daughter from using her own private dollars to access abortion care on military bases overseas.

But, in the Senate's "lame duck" session, emboldened extremists are fighting to remove these key provisions from the bill and block progress on these critical civil liberties issues.

It's important that your U.S. senators hear from you right now. Tell them you strongly oppose stripping these crucial civil liberties advances from the Defense Authorization bill.


Make no mistake about it, victory on these important issues is within reach. But, we must act now. If these two provisions are stripped from the bill now, it is unlikely that they will come up for a vote during the next Congress—meaning that these discriminatory policies will continue for at least another two years.

The Senate could vote on this at any minute. Make your voice heard. Call your senators immediately.

Together, we will show the Senate that we refuse to stand by and watch them destroy our fundamental freedoms. At a time when service members are willing to put their lives at risk to preserve our rights and freedom, it is simply unacceptable that lesbian, gay and bisexual service members are forced to hide their very selves, and that servicewomen are denied access to safe, legal abortion care when they serve abroad.

Please act today.

Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero

Executive Director

ACLU

P.S. If you're reading this email outside of business hours and can't reach your senators' offices, please take a moment to write your senators online. Be sure to personalize your letter so your senators know how important these issues are to you.

ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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