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Inside/Outside Update
PDA Staff Report
January 24th, 2006
The Inside/Outside Update is a PDA staff report to our supporters. We will send this every Tuesday. We want to make sure our grassroots supporters know what we, at the staff level, are doing each week. If you find this information useful, please consider making a small donation.
Progressive Democrats of America has worked to support HR 4232 since Rep. Jim McGovern introduced the bill in November.
Rep. McGovern spoke at the PDA "Get out of Iraq" Town Hall meeting the day after he introduced HR 4232. We urge you to continue organizing support for HR 4232 and ask your Congressional member to co-sponsor. Please sign the online petition here and send it to your friends. Take action here by asking your Congressmember to support HR 4232:
H.R. 4232 would end all funding for the deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq.
HR 4232 would in no way prohibit nor interrupt U.S. non-defense funding in support of Iraq's social and economic reconstruction, including support for democratic institution-building, elections, and the restoration of Iraq's infrastructure.
HR 4232 provides for the safe, orderly, and honorable withdrawal of the United States from military operations in Iraq. By continuing U.S. support for the economic and social reconstruction of Iraqi society and the financial and material needs of Iraqi security, it maintains our moral and political obligations to the Iraqi people, while concretely promoting, supporting, and providing for greater multilateral engagement in these serious tasks.
While many peace and justice organizations are working to support Congressman John Murtha’s HJRes. 73, we feel a key role PDA can play is to continue to call for the removal of all funding for the war in Iraq. Please join us and spread the word...support HR 4232: the End the War in Iraq Act.
Each week Sherry Bohlen, our National Field Director, communicates to our grassroots leadership regarding activities in the field. She distributes a weekly PDA Field Update. We have begun putting these reports online. This is a valuable resource for activists to plug into the chapter work in PDA. For this week's update, including an online chart to illustrate the important Congressional District Point Person project, go to: http://pdamerica.org/about/dir/f-2006-01-21.php
Many supporters have written to us asking how they can help. We have responded with several options. PDA exists to service the grassroots! Your invovlement is needed. Consider joining a local chapter.
Or volunteer as a Congressional Point Person.
We have also recently updated the PDA Volunteer Job Board. Please visit to see if there is a national position that fits your skills. It will be updated regulary.
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