Support the UN "Disability Treaty." (CRPD) : TODAY, Fight to WIN! Critical Message from Marca Bristo

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                      @SenatorMenendez Bob Corker                           202-224-3344                      @SenBobCorker John Barasso                       202-224-6441                      @SenJohnBarasso Barbara Boxer                       202-224-3553                      @SenatorBoxer Ben Cardin                            202-224-4524                    @SenatorCardin Christopher Coons               202-224-5042                      @SenCoonsOffice Richard Durbin                       202-224-2152                      @SenatorDurbin Jeff Flake                                202-224-4521                      @JeffFlake Ron Johnson                         202-224-5323                      @SenRonJohnson Tim Kaine                               202-224-4024                      @TimKaine Edward Markey                     202-224-2742                      @MarkeyMemo John McCain                         202-224-2235                      @SenJohnMcCain Chris Murphy                         202-224-404                       @ChrisMurphyCT Rand Paul                              202-224-4343                      @SenRandPaul James Risch                          202-224-2752                      @SenatorRisch Marco Rubio                          202-224-3041                      @MarcoRubio Jeanne Shaheen                   202-224-4049                      @SenatorShaheen Tom Udall                              202-224-6621                      @SenatorTomUdall   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.org, to CALL these target Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee!  If you can’t call, the Action Center also has tools to let you send emails.   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/disabilitytreaty/app/register?0&m=10906 (you can also show up without an RSVP) Find a map of the buildings of Capitol Hill, Washington DC, including the Dirksen building athttp://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill-map.   (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.)