Campaign For a New American Foreign Policy
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Three Steps To A Safer World
1. Support Human Rights and Democracy
We should exhibit international leadership by opposing the policies
of human rights abusers, not rewarding them with weapons.
Democracy
and human rights are ideals that the American people hold dear. Our
elected
officials have not held true to these values. Sadly, our country leads
the world in providing arms sales and military training to human rights
abusing governments and dictatorships. When US weapons are used to prop
up governments hated by their own people, bitterness is the result.
When
we sell weapons worldwide, those arms end up being used against our own
troops.
2. Reduce the Threat from Weapons of
Mass Destruction
Our nation should lead a worldwide campaign to reduce and control the
threat from weapons of mass destruction - a policy we could be proud
of.
We face no greater threat than nuclear weapons and other weapons of
mass
destruction. Such weapons are only effective as a means of terror -
that
can be aimed at us as well as others. The only way to be safe from this
threat is to destroy the stockpiles and secure those facilities that
make
nuclear materials. Instead of leading efforts to secure and
dismantle
nuclear weapons, the Bush Administration wants to build new ones. In
addition,
spending billions on a missile defense that wonít work while
building
new nuclear weapons will only speed the pace of nuclear
proliferation.
3. Cooperate with the World Community
We should play a positive leadership role in the world community,
planning
strategies for a future we can all live with.
The Declaration of Independence urged ìa decent respect for
the opinions of mankind.î Our foreign policy isnít
reflecting
that core value. Our elected officials have abandoned or blocked a host
of
international agreements on arms control, human rights, the
environment,
and the International Criminal Court. Instead of promoting
ìpre-emptive
strikes,î the US needs to promote policies that address the
larger
needs of the world community and that minimize the potential for hate
and
anger. The US has the strength and ability to better the working and
living
conditions of human kind, and to increase our own security in the
process
- but only if we lead through cooperation.
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Please contact your Members of Congress and urge them to
contact the President.
Phone: (202) 456-1414
Fax: (202) 456-2461
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
E-mail:
president@whitehouse.gov
Washington Office:
Phone: (202) 224-2742
Fax: (202) 224-8525
304 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2102
Main
District Office:
Phone: (617) 565-8519
Fax: (617) 248-3870
One Bowdoin Sq.
Boston, MA 02114
E-mail:
john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Washington Office:
Phone: (202) 224-4543
Fax: (202) 224-2417
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2101
Main
District Office:
Phone: (617) 565-3170
Fax: (617) 565-3183
2400 John F. Kennedy Fed. Bldg.
Boston, MA 02203
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