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Tell Congress: End Unauthorized Strikes on Venezuela

Urge your Senators to support a new War Powers Resolution

Calls and emails are needed ASAP to Senate offices to urge them to support a new War Powers Resolution to halt the Trump Administration's unlawful military strikes against Venezuela and elsewhere in South America.

The new bipartisan resolution, S.J. 90, introduced by Senators Kaine (D-VA), Schiff (D-CA) and Paul (R-KY) "directs the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress” and could come up for a vote any day.

Since early September, Trump administration officials have bragged about carrying out repeated strikes on boats in the Caribbean - and now in the Pacific - and killing at least 50 people whom they claim - without providing any evidence - were trafficking drugs.

International legal and human rights experts have widely denounced the extrajudicial killings as violations of international law. Trump has also signaled that the U.S. is considering a land invasion and acknowledged that his has authorized covert CIA operations against Venezuela.

The threat goes far beyond Venezuela. U.S. armed forces opening fire on civilians based on an allegation that they are drug traffickers poses a dangerous risk to peoples across Latin America, around the world and here in the United States.

Latin America experts warn that the Trump administration is trying to provoke an armed conflict with Venezuela as part of an attempt to topple the government there.

Organizations in the U.S. are also sounding the alarm that the Trump administration could use this manufactured conflict to further criminalize Venezuelan immigrants or designate them “alien enemies” in order to deport them without due process, just they did in April when they invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to send over 250 people to the notorious CECOT megaprison in El Salvador.

Regardless of the Trump administration’s end goals, Congress should act immediately to halt the unauthorized use of military force which poses a risk throughout our hemisphere.

But they need to hear from you NOW!

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senators' offices. (Most Senate offices have the option to leave a comment on their voicemail so if you are shy or if you see this after offices have closed for the day, don't let that be a barrier!)

Sample script: I urge you to support the new War Powers Resolution introduced by Senators Kaine, Schiff and Paul to halt unauthorized military strikes against Venezuela. I am deeply alarmed to hear members of the Trump administration bragging about killing dozens of civilians, scoffing at international law, and now threatening a land invasion. Congress - not the president - has the power to declare war. I urge you to reclaim your power, stop these murders and stop administration from trying to provoke an armed conflict.

If you can’t make a call, you can also send an email to your Senators by filling in your information at right. The same form can send an email to your Representative as well, urging them to support a parallel House resolution introduced by Rep. Omar (D-MN) and other leaders of the Progressive Caucus.

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I urge you to cosponsor the new bipartisan War Powers Resolution put forward by Senators Schiff, Kaine, and Paul to put an end to hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress. I’m very alarmed by the U.S. military’s repeated attacks on boats in the Caribbean and now the Pacific, which international legal experts have described as unlawful "extrajudicial executions," and reports that 10,000 troops are being deployed in the region. According to the administration, their attacks have killed at least 37 civilians. I would hope you agree that drug trafficking should be dealt with through the legal system, not through premeditated killing, whether on the high seas or anywhere else. If Congress allows the administration to continue shooting people on sight, simply based on an allegation that the person is trafficking drugs or any other crime, what's next? As you well know, it is Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war. I urge you to co-sponsor the resolution not only to end these illegal attacks but to uphold your constitutional obligations.

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I urge you to cosponsor a new bipartisan War Powers Resolution to put an end to hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress. I’m very alarmed by the U.S. military’s repeated attacks on boats in the Caribbean and now the Pacific, which international legal experts have described as illegal and as "extrajudicial executions," as well as by reports that 10,000 troops are being deployed in the region. According to the administration, their attacks have killed at least thirty civilians. I would hope you agree that drug trafficking should be dealt with through the legal system, not through premeditated killing, whether on the high seas or anywhere else. If Congress allows the administration to continue shooting people on sight, simply based on an allegation that the person is trafficking drugs, what's next? As you well know, it is Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war. I urge you to co-sponsor the resolution not only to end these illegal attacks but to uphold your constitutional obligations.

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