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Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Your action needed for the Franken resolution

4:54 PM

Cole Harrisonviamapa-nuclear-disarmament

To MAPA Nuclear Disarmament

Note this alert and note that both Mass senators have already signed on. Nice!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Rainwater, Peace Action <peaceact@reply.salsalabs.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:35 PM
Subject: Your action needed for the Franken resolution
To: cole@masspeaceaction.org

Dear Cole,

Contact Your Senators Today to Support the Franken Resolution

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I’ve just learned that Senator Al Franken (D-MN) will be introducing a resolution expressing concern over the $1 trillion nuclear arsenal escalation plan. Please, contact your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor this important step in the fight against another nuclear arms race.

The time to eliminate our reliance on nuclear weapons is long overdue. At the same time, the need to make real investments in our nation’s infrastructure, education, healthcare and more is urgent. Spending $1 trillion over the next 30 years is roughly the equivalent of spending $100 million PER DAY for weapons we’re supposed to be getting rid of.

Please write your Senators today and ask them to support the Franken resolution expressing deep concern over the $1 trillion nuclear escalation plan.

Proponents of this plan try to spin it using terms like the need to “modernize” our nuclear weapons arsenal. This plan is not that. Instead, this is a plan for the development of an even more powerful nuclear arsenal. It’s an all you can eat buffet plan building new nuclear submarines, new stealth long-range bombers, new cruise and intercontinental ballistic missiles and the nuclear warheads that go with them.

These efforts to build up the nuclear arsenal lack any sufficient cost analysis, especially in light of the destabilizing effect they will surely have on other budget priorities. Please, email your Senators today and ask them to join Senator Franken in voicing concern over spending $1 trillion over the next 3 decades for nuclear weapons escalation.

Humbly for peace,

Jon Rainwater
Executive Director
Peace Action

P.S. As of now, the Franken Resolution has 9 co-sponsors: Baldwin (WI), Boxer (CA), Markey (MA), Merkley (OR), Sanders (VT), Schatz (HI), Warren (MA), Whitehouse (RI), and Wyden (OR) in addition to Franken (MN). If one of your Senators is not on this list, be sure to email them today!

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