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Voters used old-fashioned red phone booth for 'call-in' to Congress to end the War

by Dan Bacher
Voters in Sacramento today are using a near-antique red phone booth strategically placed at the Farmer's Market Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 16th & P Streets as part of a campaign to call Congress to the end the War.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Contacts: Maggie Coulter 916-448-7157

California's Calling Congress: End the War;
Members of Congress to Hear from Voters All Week,
Sacramento makes call from old-style red phone booth

SACRAMENTO – While voters are calling Congress this week to "end the war,"
those in Sacramento are using a near-antique red phone booth strategically
placed at the Farmers Market TUESDAY, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 16th & P Sts,
according to Peace Action.

Through most of this week (July 23-26) voters in all of California's
Congressional districts will be picking up their phones, dialing
202-224-3121 and asking their Congressional representatives to end the war
on Iraq and bring all the troops home.

The statewide call-in is being organized through a coordinated effort of
dozens of peace organizations across the entire state of California,
including Chico, Sacramento, Modesto, San Francisco, Orange County and
other areas, where volunteers will be taking cells phones and even phone
booths into the streets to get the public to call.

"Congress is still paying lip service to ending the war," said Maggie
Coulter, a Sacramento organizer, "The House just passed HR 2956 that would
leave thousands of troops and all the private military contractors in Iraq
and do nothing about ending the war on Afghanistan. Congress is still
clinging to our dismally failed Middle East foreign policy which won't end
either of these wars."

California's Calling was initiated at the United for Peace and Justice
(UFPJ) national meeting in Chicago in June, 2007. UFPJ is a nationwide
coalition of peace organizations in 49 states. California's Calling will
continue with actions in August when Congress members come home to their
districts and in September as Congress votes to either continue or the end
the very unpopular war on Iraq.
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