“Your Representative and Senators Need to See You Next Month”

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We are very happy to report that our joint delegation with Interfaith Peace-Builders arrived safely yesterday in Jerusalem. The 23-person delegation, co-led by US Campaign National Organizer Katherine Fuchs, will spend the next two weeks traveling throughout Israel/Palestine and learning about the U.S. role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For additional information about the delegation, please click here.

While these delegates will be gaining valuable first-hand experience exploring the question of whether the United States is truly an “honest broker,” it is up to all of us to take our knowledge of and concern about this issue and express it to the people we elect to represent us in Congress.

Next week, Congress will begin its annual summer recess during which Representatives and Senators will be in their home districts and states to meet with constituents. Join with more than 200 people from 37 states and 130 Congressional districts who are already working on setting up a delegation of constituents to meet with their Members of Congress next month. Sign up today by clicking here.

We’ve got some important issues to discuss with our Members of Congress, such as getting accountability for Israel’s misuse of U.S. weapons to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians, and Congressional resolutions to promote an end to the siege of the Gaza Strip and a freeze on settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. But we need YOU to address these issues with your Members of Congress. Sign up to do so today by clicking here.

Check out our cool Google Earth map showing the Congressional districts in which people are already organizing meetings by clicking here or on the icon below. (You’ll need the Google Earth plug-in to display this map properly. If you don’t have the plug-in, then you can get it by clicking on the link in the map. This map takes a minute to load.)

Don’t worry if you’ve never set up a meeting before with your Member of Congress. We will provide you with resources, talking points, and a how-to conference call so that you’ll be empowered to do it. It’s our responsibility as good citizens to communicate our views to our Members of Congress, so please sign up today to organize a meeting in August by clicking here.

On our website, you can find all the resources you’ll need to schedule and run an effective meeting with your Members of Congress, including:

* An audio file of a conference call on how to set up a meeting with your Member of Congress

* A template constituent meeting fax request
* Tips on how to run an effective meeting with your Members of Congress

* A memo to give to your Members of Congress with amendment language to condition military aid to Israel

* A Power Point presentation to show your Members of Congress detailing Israel’s human rights abuses committed with U.S. weapons

* A draft Congressional resolution calling on Israel to end its siege of the occupied Gaza Strip

* A draft Congressional resolution calling on Israel to freeze settlement construction

* The voting records of your Members of Congress in our 111th Congressional Report Card

Don’t forget to sign up today to schedule a meeting with your Members of Congress by clicking here.

And please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support the important work of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation by clicking here.

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