[Engaged] Engaged Practice: I agree....Whats Next?

[Shinshi]

If you would like to sign a public petition accompanying this Letter, please do so here:

https://chn.ge/2JP3XHy

Thank you.

Gassho, Jundo

Also signed.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Meian]

Thank you for these posts and "call to action" -- taking action on these things tonight in my neighborhood circles.

gassho
kim

If you would like to sign a public petition accompanying this Letter, please do so here:

https://chn.ge/2JP3XHy

Thank you.

Gassho, Jundo

Thank you Jundo, I have signed it.

Gassho
Shingen

[Jundo]

If you would like to sign a public petition accompanying this Letter, please do so here:

https://chn.ge/2JP3XHy

Thank you.

Gassho, Jundo

[Shinshi]

Thank you Shoka.

For those of us in the United States: please PLEASE call, fax, or email your senators and tell them to encourage the President to stop this policy of separating children from their families. If you can go in person and talk to someone in your Senator's office, that would be even better!

If you do not currently know who your senator is, here is how to find out:

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

If your senator is on the Judiciary Committee - consider encouraging them to vote for the "Keep Families Together Act" (which is currently stuck in the Judiciary Committee):

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/6/feinstein-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-halt-separation-of-immigrant-families

For a list of Republican Senators on Judiciary Committee see:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

- Chuck Grassley - IA
- Orrin Hatch - UT
- Lindsey Graham - SC
- John Cornyn - TX
- Michael Lee - UT
- Ted Cruz - TX
- Ben Sasse - NE
- Jeff Flake - AZ
- Mike Crapo - ID
- Thom Tillis - NC
- John Kennedy - LA

For a long list of resources and groups attempting to help, please see this post:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html

Finally, keep an eye on "Families Belong Together" who organized marches last week (and hopefully will again in the near future):

https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

I agree with all of the above. I was emailing today and was really surprised that, as far as I can tell, every legislator uses forms for email. You can't just get their email address. The best site I found for contacting legislators was this one. Provides both your representative in the House and Senate.

https://www.contactingcongress.org/

the nice thing is that it also automatically provides links to their twitter and facebook feeds.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Sekishi]

Thank you Shoka.

For those of us in the United States: please PLEASE call, fax, or email your senators and tell them to encourage the President to stop this policy of separating children from their families. If you can go in person and talk to someone in your Senator's office, that would be even better!

If you do not currently know who your senator is, here is how to find out:

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

If your senator is on the Judiciary Committee - consider encouraging them to vote for the "Keep Families Together Act" (which is currently stuck in the Judiciary Committee):

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/6/feinstein-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-halt-separation-of-immigrant-families

For a list of Republican Senators on Judiciary Committee see:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

- Chuck Grassley - IA
- Orrin Hatch - UT
- Lindsey Graham - SC
- John Cornyn - TX
- Michael Lee - UT
- Ted Cruz - TX
- Ben Sasse - NE
- Jeff Flake - AZ
- Mike Crapo - ID
- Thom Tillis - NC
- John Kennedy - LA

For a long list of resources and groups attempting to help, please see this post:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html

Finally, keep an eye on "Families Belong Together" who organized marches last week (and hopefully will again in the near future):

https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Shoka]

Please see this post from Jundo, as a preface to this conversation and action.

From the letter:

As people of faith and conscience, we feel that it is important that we speak out clearly in defense of basic human rights at this time, calling for an immediate end to this heartless practice. In doing so, we join the voices of many religious leaders and congregations that have unreservedly condemned this policy of separation. This policy is a serious violation of the rights of the child and must be stopped today.

I have a love hate relationship with open letters calling for action. I love the fact that they often open our eyes to something, they allow us to take a stand with many others and add our name to the list. Hopefully the letter and list will go somewhere and someone will believe that if 200 or more people have signed it then it must be important and we should take note.

But what I hate is they get circulated around the internet but there often isn’t a clear path of what will happen next or steps people who agree with the letter should take.

So I’m opening the discussion… if you agree with the letter; then what’s next? What steps will you take?

Gassho,

Shoka
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