From Marca Bristo
President and CEO, Access Living
President of U.S. International Council on Disability (USICD)
Friends:
Please take 10 minutes TODAY to make calls in support of 1 billion people with disabilities around the world. Last year the U.S. Senate fell 5 votes short of ratifying the UN CRPD due to a well-funded campaign of misinformation intended to frighten homeschool families into believing the treaty would infringe upon their rights to homeschool their children. While this is simply not true, they are back again this year and have mobilized over 100 calls a day to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We need your help to show that people with disabilities and our allies want this treaty ratified and that we are greater in number than the opposition. It's up to us!!! In the words of the late Justin Dart Jr., the grandfather of the ADA, "The eyes of the world are watching…failure is not an option!” Please call and tweet the Senators in the list below!!
Thank you so much.
Marca Bristo
Please call or tweet at these Senators as often as you can today! It is ok to contact them even if they are not from your state. Urge them to SUPPORT the CRPD and fight for disability rights!
Robert Menendez 202-224-4744 Bob Corker John Barasso 202-224-6441 Barbara Boxer 202-224-3553 Ben Cardin Christopher Coons 202-224-5042 Richard Durbin 202-224-2152 Jeff Flake Ron Johnson Tim Kaine Edward Markey 202-224-2742 John McCain 202-224-2235 Chris Murphy 202-224-404 Rand Paul James Risch 202-224-2752 Marco Rubio 202-224-3041 Jeanne Shaheen 202-224-4049 Tom Udall
NATIONAL CALL-IN FOR THE CRPD
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The opposition is flooding Senate offices with calls against the Disability Treaty!
Senators Menendez and Corker and our target senators on the Foreign Relations Committee need to hear from YOU and know that you support the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities!
We need YOU to call on November 4th and 11th so we can show the Foreign Relations Committee that the community is behind this treaty! (Or, if you are enthused, please proceed to call every day. Even on weekends and evenings you can leave messages via Senators’ voice mail.)
Visit our new citizen action portal,www.disabilitytreaty.
Click the “We Support CRPD” icon above! Share it everywhere! Post it on your website, Facebook, and Twitter! Link the icon to http://disabilitytreaty.org. Senators need to hear from our movement NOW or we will not succeed.
Forward this message onto your lists of friends and colleagues so they can join us in sending a message to the Foreign Relations Committee that we are watching them! Re-blog this and tweet it everywhere! Copy/paste it to your Facebook timeline and share to any Facebook or LinkedIn groups you think are relevant. Thank you for your help!
Remember: 1st CRPD Hearing in the United States Senate November 5th at 2:30 pm Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419. Plan to attend in person? RSVP at http://cqrcengage.com/
(A second hearing is scheduled for November 12, time and location TBA, sign up for USICD’s CRPD Action Alert mailing list at http://disabilitytreaty.org to be alerted when details become available.)
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Support the UN "Disability Treaty." (CRPD) : TODAY, Fight to WIN! Critical Message from Marca Bristo
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