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CONGRESS MUST DO ITS DUTY: PROTECT US FROM WHITE SUPREMACY AND GUN VIOLENCE 

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ACTION ONE: GO TO #IndivisibleTuesday

Join us at #IndivisibleTuesday today, Tuesday, March 19th at 11:30AM in the courtyard of Senator Merkley’s office: 121 SW Salmon Street. We will ask Senator Merkley to protect us from white supremacy and gun violence by:

  • Rejecting Trump’s white supremacy by pushing for passage of the Muslim Ban and Asylum Ban Repeal (S246).
  • Rejecting Trump’s racism by overriding his veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding
  • Addressing gun violence by passing background checks and an assault weapons ban.

 

ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR SENATORS

SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…

Congress must protect us from white supremacy and gun violence.  I ask the Senator to:

  • Reject Trump’s white supremacy by pushing for passage of the Muslim Ban and Asylum Ban Repeal (S246)*.
  • Reject Trump’s racism by overriding his veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding
  • Addressing gun violence by passing background checks and an assault weapons ban.

*Senators Merkley and Wyden have co-sponsored this bill

CALL SENATOR MERKLEY

Portland: 503-326-3386
Washington DC: 202-224-3753
Salem: 503-362-8102
Eugene: 541-465-6750
Medford: 541-608-9102
Bend: 541-318-1298
Pendleton: 541-278-1129

CALL SENATOR WYDEN

Portland: 503-326-7525
Washington DC: 202-224-5244
Salem: 503-589-4555
Eugene: 541-431-0229
Medford: 541-858-5122
Bend: 541-330-9142
La Grande: 541-960-7691

ACTION THREE: CALL YOUR House reps

Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here. 

SAMPLE SCRIPTs FOR Representatives:

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…

For all Blumenauer, Bonamici and Defazio: Congress must protect us from white supremacy and gun violence.  I ask the Representative to:

  • Reject Trump’s white supremacy by pushing for passage of the Muslim Ban and Asylum Ban Repeal (HR810)*.
  • Reject Trump’s racism by overriding his veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding
  • Addressing gun violence by passing an assault weapons ban.  Thank you for passing background checks

*Reps Blumenauer, Bonamici, and Defazio have co-sponsored this bill

For Schrader: Congress must protect us from white supremacy and gun violence.  I ask the Representative to:

  • Reject Trump’s white supremacy by co-sponsoring and pushing for the passage of the Muslim Ban and Asylum Ban Repeal” (HR810).
  • Reject Trump’s racism by overriding his veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding
  • Addressing gun violence by passing an assault weapons ban.  Thank you for passing background checks

For Walden: Congress must protect us from white supremacy and gun violence.  I ask the Representative to look past his party, do his duty to help people and:

  • Reject Trump’s white supremacy by co-sponsoring and pushing for the passage of the Muslim Ban and Asylum Ban Repeal” (HR810).
  • Reject Trump’s racism by overriding his veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding
  • Addressing gun violence by passing an assault weapons ban.

CALL Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)

Oregon: 503-469-6010
Washington DC: 202-225-0855

Call Greg Walden (OR-02)

Medford: 541-776-4646
Washington DC: 202-225-6730
Bend: 541-389-4408
La Grande: 541-624-2400

CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)

Oregon: 503-231-2300
Washington DC: 202-225-4811

CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)

Eugene: 541-465-6732
Roseburg: 541-440-3523
Coos Bay: 541-269-2609
Washington DC: 202-225-6416

CALL Kurt Schrader (OR-05)

Salem: 503-588-9100
Oregon City: 503-557-1324
Washington DC: 202-225-5711

Background:

#NoBanNoWalls  #EndGunViolence  #NewZealandMosqueAttack

While praying, 50 people were gunned down by a white supremacist terrorist.  As we mourn and stand with our Muslim brothers and sisters, we must face white supremacy and gun violence in America.

White supremacy and racism are in the White House.  Trump leverages presidential power to inflict hate – starting with the Muslim ban and continuing with revoking Dreamers/TPS status, defunding programs to tackle white supremacy, speaking up for Nazis in Charlottesville, family separation, and declaring a national emergency to build the ultimate racist monument – his border wall. Congress must make a full-throated rebuke of white supremacy/racism starting with revoking the Muslim Ban and overriding Trump’s veto, thereby stopping emergency wall funding.

America is awash in gun violence.  In addition to mass shootings that terrorize the country and our children, gun violence robs communities daily.  Congress must break through their paralysis of inaction and work to save lives starting with passing background checks (in the Senate) and an assault weapons ban.

Members of Congress have the honor of serving their country to help people. They must look past partisanship and power, do their duty, and work to protect us from white supremacy and gun violence.

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Sources: 

Know the names of those who died in the New Zealand Mosque Terror Attack

New Zealand shooting is a warning for the US; get serious about white supremacy terrorist threat

Donald Trump’s long history of racism

Trump cuts funding to fight anti-right violence

Trump bans refuges and citizens of 7 Muslim countries

There is no border crisis

America’s unique gun violence problem  



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