From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:08 PST
Subject: Desktop famine-fighting aids
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmorse    Nov 11 17:08:00 1992


From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
Subject: Desktop famine-fighting aids

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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
Subject:      Desktop famine-fighting aids

Dear netters:

I hope I can persuade lots of you to take 5 minutes and spend 30 cents
writing a letter to one of the newly-elected senators, urging effective
famine relief for Africa.

Or take five minutes and spend $2.50 or so on a phone call.

Or similar time and money on a fax.

The people who here who have taken their time and lobbied public
officials, written news articles, sent letters, have made a tremendous
difference.

Senator Paul Simon of the African Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate said,
"when you write a letter about hunger, you are quite literally saving a life."

If you want to help, but are uncertain what to write, see Jeffrey
Cochrane's excellent post EAST AFRICA FAMINE CAMPAIGN.  Or you may wish to
join in the call for a public inquiry into why the UN has been so slow
in responding with peacekeeping forces and aid--this is not a mere
attempt to place blame--this is a serious plan to encourage the UN to
start acting more effectively right now, and to get set up efficiently
to aid in the other famines looming in Africa--in the Sudan, Mozambique,Rwanda,
Ethiopia.

The aid organizations Doctors Without Borders, the International Red Cross,
and other NGOs--such as Africa Watch and the US Committee for Refugees--
all agree that public pressure on newly elected officials  is crucial
to the relief effort.

Fortunately, some great new senators have been elected.  Their phone nos.
addresses, and faxes (when available) are listed below.

If you've phoned or written before, your acting again will be greatly
appreciated.  If you've haven't done anything for Somalia yet, but have
been thinking about it, now is the time.



Thanks very much to everybody who helps out.


Senator-Elect Byron Dorgan
PO Box 2579
Bismarck, ND 58502

phone 701-250-4618

(Newly electedfrom North Dakota--spoke out very strongly on behalf
of Somalian aid *before* the elections (!!!) at World Hunger Day
meeting.)

Washington address is 203 Cannon House Office Building
                      Wash., DC 20515

(He was a Representative before election to the Senate)

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Senator-Elect Ben "Nighthorse" Campbell
US House of Representatives
Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

(also formerly a Rep.; the first Native American ever elected to the
US Senate)

from Colorado

phone: 303-837-0565

fax:303-837-0675

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Senator-Elect Carol Mosely Braun
201 N. Wells, Suite
   900
Chicago, IL 60606

phones:  312-541-9292; 312-783-1334

fax: 312-541-3737

(the first African American woman ever elected to the US Senate)
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Senator-Elect Barbara Boxer
3301 Kearner Blvd., 3rd Fl.
San Rafael, CA 94910

phone:415-771-3700

(newly elected Senator from California)
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Senator-Elect Diane Feinstein
US Senate
Room 368
Dirksen Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510

California phone: 415-433-1333

(newly elected Senator from California)
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Patty Murray
PO Box 3662
Seattle, WA 98124

phone:206-786-7600

fax: 206-621-0611

(the "mom in tennis shoes" newly elected Senator from Washington State.
She got that name when as a private citizen she went to ask the legislature
for help on a problem and a legislator told her, "You can't do anything;
you're just a mom in tennis shoes.")
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