Mother's Day & the week forward: Action Alert - No mother should lose her child to a cluster bomb

by: los anjalis

Sun May 11, 2008 at 22:26:00 PM PDT

And this letter from Physicians for Human Rights and several other major human rights organizations in the US and abroad.

Time for action?  CIVIC (The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) is making an urgent appeal to us to call our Senators and ask them to cosponsor the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S.594/H.R. 1755).  They've supplied us with the tools we need, and with a list of the Senators who have cosponsored the Senate bill and have made a goal of generating six new co-sponsors in the Senate in the next two weeks.

They say on this Mother's Day:

No mother should lose her child to a cluster bomblet. Unfortunately, you - as a CIVIC supporter - know that children are drawn to unexploded cluster submunitions thinking they are toys. Kids between the ages of 5-15 account for almost half of the world's cluster bomb deaths and injuries.

And here's a short video with their Executive Director in Lebanon, talking about cluster bombs:

Alright let's get to it.  One or two phone calls.  Common sense legislation.

Lastly -- the author of the hit comic series Get Your War On, David Rees, wrote about the presidential candidates and cluster bombs (and about how they were the initial impetus for him to start his GYWO comic strip).  He's a huge activist in this area, and shared that Senator Clinton rejected a proposed ban on cluster bombs back in 2006 (a different proposed ban) because she didn't want to seem soft on terror.  On the other hand, Senator Obama strongly supported this ban.  (on the Republican side, McCain rejected the ban).

Let's give this gift of action to our mothers and to mothers around the world.  And pass on this CIVIC action alert (remember, the goal is to get more cosponsors in the next two weeks!).