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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun lobby helps block US from signing UN arms treaty: Use these online tools to fight back!
Hours to stop the killing trade!
Every minute of every day, guns kill someone's father, mother, child, or dear friend. Right now our governments are in final talks to agree on a global treaty to ban selling weapons to those that commit genocide. But with just 24 hours to go, the US is blocking the deal.
We have trade treaties on everything from apples to iPods, but unbelievably there are no global regulations on arms deals. Most countries are pushing for a strong agreement right now to keep guns from despots, child soldiers and drug mafias. But behind closed doors the US is trying to slip crazy loopholes into the deal, putting arms dealers' profits before saving lives! If we flood the US with messages from around the world now, we will expose their deadly dealings and could convince President Obama to back down.
We only have 24 hours until the negotiations wrap up. Use the tools on the right (at the link) to flood the US with emails, facebook messages, tweets and phone calls now and tell them to stop the killing trade!
Go here for the online tools: http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_killing_trade_action_center/?pv=8
Every minute of every day, guns kill someone's father, mother, child, or dear friend. Right now our governments are in final talks to agree on a global treaty to ban selling weapons to those that commit genocide. But with just 24 hours to go, the US is blocking the deal.
We have trade treaties on everything from apples to iPods, but unbelievably there are no global regulations on arms deals. Most countries are pushing for a strong agreement right now to keep guns from despots, child soldiers and drug mafias. But behind closed doors the US is trying to slip crazy loopholes into the deal, putting arms dealers' profits before saving lives! If we flood the US with messages from around the world now, we will expose their deadly dealings and could convince President Obama to back down.
We only have 24 hours until the negotiations wrap up. Use the tools on the right (at the link) to flood the US with emails, facebook messages, tweets and phone calls now and tell them to stop the killing trade!
Go here for the online tools: http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_killing_trade_action_center/?pv=8
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Gun lobby helps block US from signing UN arms treaty: Use these online tools to fight back! (Original Post)
Turborama
Mar 2013
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Turborama
(22,109 posts)1. Fox Gives Credence To UN Arms Trade Treaty Conspiracies
March 26, 2013 3:25 PM EDT EMILY ARROWOO
Fox News gave credence to debunked conspiracy theories surrounding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, presenting outlandish fears about the treaty's potential effects on domestic gun policy as legitimate reason to oppose it.
Full article and video: http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/26/fox-gives-credence-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-cons/193270
Fox News gave credence to debunked conspiracy theories surrounding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, presenting outlandish fears about the treaty's potential effects on domestic gun policy as legitimate reason to oppose it.
Full article and video: http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/26/fox-gives-credence-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-cons/193270
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)2. The UN representative I voted for
lost, why should i support his opponent? I suspect we all in the same boat on that one.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)3. I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question. n/t
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)4. Is it necessary for the US to sign the treaty...
...in order for the treaty to work?