US- Ban Landmines NOW!
Dear ICBL Friends: We at the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines are grateful for the interest and help we have been receiving from many other national campaigns around the world who have been pressing the U.S. to join the Treaty. The UK Campaign, for example, has collected tens of thousands of postcards to send to the U.S. Presidential candidates, and the Belgian campaign has 25,000-plus postcards that will be delivered to the White House this month. Thank you for these and many other acts of support and solidarity.
If you are in the US, to support the efforts of the US campaigners undertaking 200 meetings with members of the Congress 10-11 July, write to or call your representative urging him or her to sign the landmines McGovern, Evans, Quinn sign-on letter to president Clinton. To find out who your representative is and how to contact him or her, go to www.vote-smart.org.
Also checkout the website (www.banminesusa.org) of the US campaign with press releases and schedule of events.
For those of you who from other countries that would like to join in efforts to press President Clinton to sign the Mine Ban Treaty before he leaves office, please see the message that follows. Feel free, of course, to modify it to suit your individual campaign’s expression and style. Letters can be sent to President Bill Clinton, the White House, Washington, DC 20506. They can be e-mailed to president-at-whitehouse-gov, or faxed to +1 202-456-2461. You can also send a copy to the US Ambassador in your country.
- Flyer of the US campaign - with space for collecting signatures. Print and collect signatures from your friends and family!
(In Adobe Acrobat format)
Dear President Clinton:
If you do not send the treaty to the Senate for ratification before leaving office, there are a number of valuable steps that you could take that would hasten the date when the U.S. might join. Those steps include hastening the timetable for the Pentagon to identify alternatives; banning the production of antipersonnel landmines; withdrawing U.S. stockpiles of antipersonnel mines from countries that have signed the Mine Ban Treaty; committing the U.S. to no use of antipersonnel landmines in joint operations with states that have signed the treaty (including NATO); committing the U.S. to no use of antipersonnel mines, including those in mixed systems, except in Korea; ensuring that any alternatives under consideration are compliant with the Mine Ban Treaty, and stopping production of the RADAM mixed mine system.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Sincerely,
- US Campaign website: http://www.banminesusa.org
- Read the USCBL Press Release of July 6
