Sign the petition re: guns at Walmart Matthew Hildreth

Sign the petition re: guns at Walmart

Matthew Hildreth<moveon-help@list.moveon.org>

8/8/2019 8:17 PM

To  Alfred F Johnson  

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Dear fellow MoveOn member,

After the recent tragic shootings in El Paso, it's absolutely unthinkable that Walmart would continue to profit from gun sales. They must stop the sale of guns in their stores now!

Walmart must prioritize community safety over profits made from gun sales. They must stop the sale of guns in their stores now!

Companies like Dick's Sporting Goods have already taken actions to use their economic leverage to curb gun violence.¹

Walmart is one of America's largest gun sellers and must be part of the movement to end gun violence. The company has taken some steps in recent years—but the stores are still selling weapons of destruction and selling bullet-proof backpacks at the same time. Walmart has the power to make a real difference, not just cosmetic changes.

Please join with us and ask Doug McMillon, the Chief Executive of Walmart, to stop the sale of guns in his stores now.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thank you.

—Matthew Hildreth, Rural Organizing

Source:

1. "In the wake of latest massacres, Walmart is pressured to stop selling guns," CNN, August 5, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/74022?t=9&akid=241286%2E38417624%2EtZmuSg

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Waging Peace in Vietnam at UMB U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War September 3 - 20, 2019

Waging Peace in Vietnam at UMB  U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War September 3 - 20, 2019 The new academic year is just around the corner and the Joiner Institute is busy on new projects for this year including an upcoming exhibition, Waging Peace, about the U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the Vietnam War. Join us on Sept. 12 for the opening reception and on Sept. 18 for an Intergenerational Veterans Panel on campus hosted by Fred Marchant. Waging Peace flyer  We are  honored to host the traveling exhibition (and soon-to-be book from NYU Press)  Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War  from September 3 - September 20 in the Grossman Gallery of the Healey Library at UMass Boston in collaboration with UMass Boston Archives and Special Collections and o rganized by Ron Carver, of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. The show was been exhibited in Vietnam and at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at Notre Dame. Join us on September 12 from 4-6 pm for an opening reception for "Waging Peace". Vietnamese food from the local Dorchester neighborhood will be served.  O n Wednesday, September 18 join us for a intergenerational veterans panelhosted by Fred Marchant and a discussion with  student veterans  and Vietnam era veterans about war, peace, patriotism, dissent and service. Light refreshments will be served.  View the exhibition panels online at the   Waging Peace website. Read two articles about the Waging Peace exhibit in  The Guardian UK and  USA Today  Click here for a press release for the exhibit. If you have further questions, or would like to be a part of the intergenerational veterans panel, please email mitch.manning@umb.edu. Click for book info About the Waging Peace exhibition: Opposition and Resistance from within all branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America's engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, large numbers of active-duty military personnel were marching in protest in US cities and hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations. Yet this history is largely unknown. The Waging Peace exhibit and  book tell this story through essays, oral histories, photographs, documents, and the pages of the underground press, written by and for active-duty GIs.  Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous antiwar coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Click for Facebook event page. William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences www.umb.edu/joinerinstitute STAY CONNECTED with the JOINER INSTITUTE:

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The Connection between Mass Shootings and Militarism Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey

The Connection between Mass Shootings and Militarism

Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey<info@masspeaceaction.org>

8/9/2019 8:50 AM

To  Al Johnson  

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Violence Abroad Doen't make us Safe, it comes Home

Sandy Hook, Orlando, Charleston, Las Vegas, Wakefield, Sutherland Springs, Pittsburgh, Parkland, Aurora, Virginia Tech, San Bernadino, Columbine. There were already too many mass shootings to name. Now we add Gilroy, Dayton, and El Paso to the list. In the wake three more mass shootings in the last week, people across the United States are once again having the same debate we've now been having for decades. Is this about guns or mental health? Political extremism or white supremacy? Terrorism or crime? We feel the same emotions: sorrow, fear, outrage, guilty fascination, and worst of all a feeling of powerlessness.

As peace activists we are committed to challenge and confront acts of violence all over the world. It is critical for us to connect these horrific incidents of violence in the United States, especially those perpetrated with military weapons, to the violence we've exported around the world for so long. A mainstream belief among opponents to gun control is that more weapons actually make us safer. Its corollary is the belief that thousands of heavily armed American soldiers occupying countries all over the world makes us safe. It just isn't true.

There is a common root of these tragedies, the endless wars abroad and the mass killings at home. It is the glorification of violence that pervades our culture. We see it at our sports games, parades, and even in our schools. We heap our greatest honors on men with guns, police and soldiers. We have become accustomed and addicted to violence.

It's not a coincidence that this nation, the greatest purveyor of military violence in the world, suffers from so much senseless violence at home. If you see the link between militarism and gun violence, help us make the connection.

Here's what you need to do:

1) Call your representative or senator's district office. Here are the phone numbers:

Katherine Clark   (617) 354-0292 Stephen Lynch   (617) 428-2000 Jim McGovern   (508)-831-7356 Lori Trahan   (978) 459-0101 Ayanna Pressley  (617) 850-0040

William Keating   (508)-771-6868 Joe Kennedy   (617) 332-3333 Seth Moulton   (978) 531-1669 Richard Neal   (413) 785-0325

Elizabeth Warren   (617) 565-3170 Ed Markey   (617)-565-8519

2) When connected say: My name is ___________ and I am a constituent living at (your address). I'm calling today because I'm concerned with the epidemic of gun violence in this country. We've been a nation at war for almost 20 years. It's not coincidence that we're seeing these massacres at home, often committed with the very same weapons of war.

3) Report back to us by calling (617) 354-2169 or write to us at info@masspeaceaction.org. We need to coordinate our efforts and know what members or their staff had to say.

Yours for peace and justice,

Brian Garvey
Organizer, Massachusetts Peace Action

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Urgent action required to save political prisoner Delbert Africa

  

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Forwarded message from the MOVE ORGANIZATION:


Stop a Modern Day Lynching –


Don’t let PA DOC Murder MOVE Member Delbert Africa


The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th at 9:00am At Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711. If traveling from Philadelphia meet at 6AM at JFK Blvd and 30th St. for rides.


We will be holding a demonstration exposing this out right PLANNED MURDER of DELBERT AFRICA by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.


Meanwhile call PA DOC Commissioner John Wetzel – 717-728-2573; SCI Dallas Superintendent Kevin Ranson – 570-675-1101 x 351; and Geisinger Hospital – 578-808-7300 to Demand that Delbert Orr Africa,#AM4895, be allowed to call his MOVE family and let them know what is going on.


The MOVE ORGANIZATION would like to update people on what is going on right now as it relates to Delbert Africa. We received word from an anonymous source that Delbert is in fact urinating blood, his bladder is impacted and compromised and colon is starting to show wear and tear from the pressure/over worked kidneys. Fluid is still being drained but not rapidly enough. He is awake, conscious, and talking but weak.


A week ago MOVE political prisoner Delbert Orr Africa was taken out of SCI Dallas and transported to an outside hospital where he has since been held incommunicado. Delbert has not been allowed to call his MOVE Family or blood daughter. Prison and Hospital officials will not release any information to any of us on Delbert or his condition.


When Delbert was taken from SCI Dallas he had swelling from a fluid buildup. We are now hearing from two different sources that Delbert has no more than 72 hours before he dies. Delbert’s daughter, MOVE family members and even his lawyers are being denied access for communication, visitation, contact, and access to documents from prison and hospital officials.


Delbert is scheduled to go before the PA Parole Board this September. MOVE members believe that the government wants to kill Delbert before he can be paroled, and there is evidence that clearly shows this. This government does not want to give ground and parole another innocent MOVE Member, that's why they are working in conjunction with Prison and hospital officials to murder Delbert.

It would be a feather in the cap for officials to see Delbert DIE. What's more of a slap in the face is that they are trying to kill him to celebrate on August 8, 1978 - 41 years to the day that Delbert and other MOVE people were kidnapped by this government being innocent and railroaded to prison .


We are highly suspicious of what's going on here. In 2015 our MOVE 9 Brother Phil Africa was taken to an outside hospital from SCI Dallas with a minor stomach virus. He was held incommunicado for a period of 5 days and upon returning to SCI Dallas he was placed in hospice care only to die a day later.


In March of 1998 after recovering from a stomach virus at SCI Cambridge Springs, MOVE 9 Sister Merle Africa was told by prison officials she was dying only to die a couple of hours later.


The same pattern is repeating itself here.


On Aug. 8, 1978 Delbert was arrested during the Philadelphia police assault on the MOVE house in Powelton Village. Police officer James Ramp died during the 1978 police assault, likely struck by one of the tens of thousands of rounds fired by his fellow officers that day. He was brutally beaten and assaulted by police following this attack.


Nine MOVE members were all found guilty of firing the same bullet and were convicted of murder, assault and conspiracy by the late Judge Edwin S. Malmed. The MOVE 9 were subsequently sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison.” (onamove.com) Despite serving over 40 years of a 30-to-100-year sentence, Delbert Africa remains unjustly imprisoned.


The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th 2019 at 9:00am At Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711.
If you are traveling from Philadelphia meet at JFK Blvd and 30th St. at 6AM for rides.


FOR more info call
Carlos Africa 215 385 2772
Sue Africa 215 387 4107
Janine Africa 610 724 4504
The MOVE ORGANIZATION
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