 Congregations : Action Alerts | View All Action Alerts |
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| Action Alert: Health Care | 3/16/2010 | by Susan Mark Landis |
- Friends, This week the House of Representatives will vote on legislation that would extend health care access to 30 million additional Americans, half of whom are individuals and families earning less than 133 percent of the poverty level. The vote is expected to be very close.
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| Action alert: Afghanistan | 9/15/2009 | by Staff |
- Congress, the Obama Administration and the military are considering significantly increasing U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan. But we believe that troops do not bring security or peace.
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| Action alert: ACT for access | 9/15/2009 | by Susan Mark Landis |
- We provide suggestions for prayer, reflection and action on health care.
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| Action alert: ACT for peace | 8/18/2009 | by Staff |
- Health care access, town hall meetings, misunderstandings and angry confrontations are the news this month. We've compiled information to help you sort it all out.
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| Healthcare Access | 7/23/2009 | by Susan Mark Landis |
- Wondering how to connect your faith, the healthcare resolution passed at Mennonite Church USA Convention 2009 and the current health care debate in our country?
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| MCC ACTION ALERT: Co-Sponsor Iran Resolution | 4/21/2009 | by Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach |
- A bipartisan resolution has been introduced in the House of Representatives, in support of an "incidents-at-sea agreement" between the United States and Iran. Please encourage your representative to co-sponsor this bill, H. Con. Res. 94.
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| United States and Iran relationships: Advocacy NOW! | 4/14/2008 | by Susan Mark Landis |
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| Exercising our voice: Speaking about just immigration policies and practices to 2008 candidates | 4/7/2008 | by Susan Mark Landis |
- Through June 30, anyone may sign the letter shown below. Your name and position will appear on the signature page of this campaign for justice for immigrants.
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| Call to Justice: A Response to New York Shootings | 12/14/2006 | by Leo Hartshorn |
- On Saturday, November 25 Saturday, November 25, 2006 NY Police shot Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman, and Trent Benefield. The New York City Council of Mennonite Churches, in cooperation with Mennonite Central Committee East Coast and Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA , is calling for a response from our people.
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| Handout and Action Ideas for the 4 missing CPTers | 12/1/2005 | by Susan Mark Landis |
- Tom Fox, Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were kidnapped Saturday evening in Baghdad. Please join us in prayer, including that no violence be used to free them. Find a handout and action ideas here.
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| Immigration Advocacy for Advent: Information and Action | 11/23/2005 | by MCC |
- Visits, phone calls, letters and faxes are needed now - as your legislators will be at home for Thanksgiving recess until December 5 - and throughout the immigration reform debate. The Senate will likely take up immigration reform in early 2006, but the House plans to vote on a harsh enforcement bill the week of December 12.
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| Bridges Not Walls | 9/24/2004 | by MCC |
- Can a 430-mile long separation wall, now under construction, bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians? The MCC Washington Office is inviting Anabaptist congregations to send 5,000 emails, letters, faxes or pictures to President Bush and members of Congress between September and December 2004, urging them to call upon Israeli and Palestinian leaders to build bridges for peace, not walls that divide.
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| Urgent Action on behalf of RICARDO ESQUIVIA! | 1/16/2004 | by Colombian Mennonites |
- RICARDO ESQUIVIA BALLESTAS is at risk of arrest and imprisonment on false charges by the Colombian government.
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| U.N. weapon inspections in Iraq: Path to peace or way to war? | 11/21/2002 | by J. Daryl Byler |
- U.N. weapons inspectors are headed back to Iraq, emboldened by a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution that grants broad inspections authority. Is the United States doing all it can to help the inspections process succeed? Or is it seeking a pretext for war?
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