600 Baltimore Ave.
Suite 303
Towson, MD 21204
June 17, 2015
Dear
Representative Sarbanes:
Members of
the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore are voters and supporters of
Progressive Democrats of America. Some of us live in District 3. We call upon
you to join with us observing Juneteenth also known as Independence Day,
Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day. To honor this celebration of freedom,
justice, and participation in America, we call upon you to cosponsor the
following legislation to protect and promote voting and civil rights, (if you
haven't already):
Please direct
your staff to contact Rep. John Lewis' office at (202)-225-3801 to cosponsor
the Voter Empowerment Act (H.R. 12), to "modernize voter registration,
promote access to voting for individuals with disabilities, protect the ability
of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for Federal office,
and for other purposes."
Please direct
your staff to contact Rep. John Conyers' office at (202)-225-5126 to cosponsor
3 bills: the Democracy Restoration Act (H.R. 1459), to "secure the Federal
voting rights of persons when released from incarceration";
Also to
cosponsor the End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 1933), to "eliminate racial
profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes";
And to
cosponsor the Commission to Study Reparations for African Americans Act (H.R.
40), to "acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and
inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies,” and
“to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently
de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against
African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans,
to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other
purposes."
Please also
direct your staff to contact Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' office at (202)-225-5936 to
cosponsor the Formerly Incarcerated Voter Registration Act (H.R. 871), to
"amend title 18, United States Code, to direct the Bureau of Prisons to
provide certain voting information to Federal prisoners upon their release from
prison."
Please also
direct your staff to contact Del. Eleanor Norton's office at (202)-225-8050 to
cosponsor the New Columbia Admissions Act (H.R. 317), to "provide for the
admission of the State of New Columbia into the Union."
Finally, we
are seeking an end to the use of killer drone strikes, which we believe to be
illegal and unconstitutional. We ask you to speak out against this
assassination program, which ignores any veneer of due process. Consider
as well a request for the full, unclassified release of information surrounding
the administration’s drone policy.
We look
forward to your response. And when you are ready, we would like to meet with
you, preferably in Baltimore. But if necessary, we will travel to your D.C.
office. We thank you for your consideration regarding these critically
important issues, and look forward to ongoing discussion and engagement with
you in the coming months.
Peace,
Max Obuszewski, on behalf of Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore/Fund Our Communities -- Apt. 206, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Baltimore 21212
Senator Ben Cardin
100 S. Charles StreetTower 1, Suite 1710
Baltimore, MD, 21201
June 17, 2015
Dear Senator Cardin,
Members of the Pledge of
Resistance-Baltimore are voters and supporters of Progressive Democrats of
America. We call upon you to join with us in observing Juneteenth also known as
Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day. To honor this celebration
of freedom, justice, and participation in America, we call upon you to
cosponsor the following legislation, (if you haven't already): the New Columbia
Admissions Act (bill number pending), the End Racial Profiling Act (S. 1056)
and the Democracy Restoration Act (S. 772).
Please direct your staff to contact
Sen. Thomas Carper's office at (202)-224-2441 to cosponsor the New Columbia
Admissions Act (bill number pending), to "provide for the admission of the
State of New Columbia into the Union."
We want to congratulate you for
cosponsoring the Democracy Restoration Act (S. 772), which would secure Federal
voting rights of citizens who've paid their debt to society and want to
re-enter the mainstream. Currently, several states refuse to restore voting
rights in an arbitrary and capricious manner, disproportionately impacting racial
minorities.
Also we are extending our thanks to
you for cosponsoring the End Racial Profiling Act (S. 1056), legislation that
would prohibit "any law enforcement agent or agency from engaging in
racial profiling.” As you know, it grants the United States or an individual
injured by racial profiling the right to obtain declaratory or injunctive
relief and require federal law enforcement agencies, and other law enforcement
agencies that apply for grants under certain federal programs, to "maintain
adequate policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling and to cease
existing practices that permit racial profiling."
Finally, we are seeking an end to
the use of killer drone strikes, which we believe to be illegal and
unconstitutional. We ask you to speak out against this assassination
program, which ignores any veneer of due process. Consider as well a
request for the full, unclassified release of information surrounding the
administration’s drone policy.
We thank you for your consideration
regarding these critically important issues, and look forward to ongoing
discussion and engagement with you in the coming months.
And when you are ready, we would
like to meet with you, preferably in Baltimore. But if necessary, we will
travel to your D.C. office. We thank you for your consideration regarding
these critically important issues, and look forward to ongoing discussion and
engagement with you in the coming months.
Peace,
Max Obuszewski, on behalf of Pledge
of Resistance-Baltimore/Fund Our Communities -- Apt. 206, 431 Notre Dame Lane,
Baltimore 21212
"The master
class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the
battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the
subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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