Fight Modern-Day Slavery!

From www.iabolish.com:

We need your help today to ensure that essential anti-slavery legislation will be signed into law. Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey, a longtime supporter of American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), is ready to reintroduce House Resolution 5911, the Eradication of Slavery in Sudan Act.

Click here to learn more about this bill and to contact your representative today.

The bill is struggling against opposition by the U.S. State Department, which argues that they can do the job without a commission. However, tens of thousands of Southern Sudanese slaves remain in bondage in Northern Sudan. Representative Smith needs co-sponsors in order to re-introduce his bill.

Please ask for your legislator's support.

The Resolution would:

1. Create an independent commission of experts;
2. Investigate the fate of slaves in Sudan; and
3. Make recommendations on U.S. policy to eliminate slavery in Sudan.

This legislation is crucial to the elimination of slavery in Sudan, which has victimized tens of thousands of people. But without significant co-sponsorship, it will not even come to a vote.

Let your representative know this is important to you, and then make sure you tell your friends to do the same.

Please also join AASG on Tuesday, July 3, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST as we call Congress to urge them to support this piece of legislation.

Click here for a list of legislators that we are targeting and a sample script of what to say.

We must tell Congress that we can no longer tolerate the complicity of the U.S. government on this deliberate abuse of human rights.

In Freedom,

the iAbolish team




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