URGENT, STOP JAPAN WHALING NOW ! (PART 1 )

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URGENT, STOP WHALING NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE !

 

PART ONE

 

Dear Caring friend ,

 

This is a very important campaign to stop Japanese whaling.

In the next couple of series of actions , we will campaign from

different angles to fight Japanese and Norway's killing thousands

of great whales. PLEASE, let's work hard together before the

possible commercial whaling become large scale,open and clear .

Every contact in this email is very important to write to !

 

Japan just killed 440 whales in the Sanctuary area and just returned

on April 6, 2001. Now, in just a few days, the whale meat has

not even finished digesting in Japanese mouth, Japan is going out

again on May 11, 2001, to kill more and bigger whales !

 

As you can see, time after time it proves that the IWC

(International Whaling Commission) has lost its function to control

and restrain the killing whales countries. This is a wanton world of

killing the unlimited number of giant, innocent, sentient whales

as well as numerous of other sentient animals too.

 

" Do you know whales eat a great deal of saury and cuttlefish? "

" The research from the 2000 expedition found minke whales use

not only saury and sardines, but cuttlefish and Alaskan pollack as their

main food, and reconfirmed that they are in competition with fishery

industries, " said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

in an annual report in April, 2001.

 

There are some intelligent insiders suggested that if the USA does NOT

impose the sanctions soon against Japan, then the only approach to

save the whales is to " catch " the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,

Forestry and Fisheries. Because they said he is the person to give the

permission to Japanese whalers to kill unlimited number of whales and

dolphins and he is the one to support Japanese Whalers with all of the

modern killing equipment of whaling fleet to kill ! He and Norway are

the one pushing the RMS behind to pave the road to the world

commercial whaling again. Well, it sounds a good idea to exchange

fishery ministry for whales safety. But who has the guts to execute

such great mission to save the whales ? It is said the current new

Agriculture and Fishery Ministry is Tsutomu Takebe

( 3-1, Nagatacho 2-chome,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100).

Well, we pray for the whales safety as well as ministry's safety though.

 

According to some sources , every Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,

and Fisheries is very corrupted with the Japanese Whaling industry.

 

Now, we must write again before it is too late to the United States

Congress, the President Bush and all of his cabinet members in the

hope to impose the real Trade Sanctions. We also want to ask you

to write to Japan, and IWC, and several member nations who

promotes killing of whales. (in the next action ).

 

We provide the KEY POINTS for your letter (you may put the

following Key Points into your letter and sign your name and address

at the end of the letter or in the begining of the letter) and all of the

CONTACT information followed for your convenience as much as

we can. Thanks for your kindness, compassion and efforts to

save world's great whales. h.

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KEY POINTS IN YOUR LETTER :

 

When you write a letter , please include the following Key Points

in your letter :

 

 

1: Please impose TRADE SANCTIONS against Japan and

Norway killing of thousands of whales each year. Please impose

the Trade Sanctions with real materialized sanctions on the

Japanese imported goods to U.S. including Japanese automobiles

and foods (especially the entire Japanese fishery products must be

sanctioned on .) And sanctions on all of the Norwegian's imports.

 

Japan just killed 440 whales in the Southern ocean Sanctuary and

just returned on April 6, 2001. Now, in just a few days, with busy

killing schedule , Japan is going out again on May 11, 2001, to kill

more and bigger whales ! (see Reference # 1 and # 2 ).

 

Each year, thousands of whales worldwide were killed in the hands

of Japan, Norway, Denmark, .... with the IWC loophole for excuses

of " scientific research " . All whale meat were ended up in the

commercial meat market and high priced Japanese restaurants.

(see Reference # 8 )

 

 

2: JAPANESE KILLING WHALES AND DOLPHINS :

 

Japan went out again on May 11, 2001 to Northern Pacific to

kill more and bigger whales(including endangered Byrde and Sperm

Whales) despite the international repeated protest and warning !

They will kill 160 whales up to July including killing 50 of the

Bryde's whales, and 10 endangered sperm whales.(see Reference # 2)

 

From mid Nov. 2000 to April 6, 2001, Japan just killed 440 whales

in Southern Ocean " Sanctuary Area " in addition to 43 Bryde's, 40

minke, and five sperm whales, which it took in the first leg of this

season's hunt (August and September 2000) - making for a total of

seasonal hunt take of nearly 700 whales a year. This is the first

whaling season in which the Japanese government has included the

endangered Bryde's and sperm whales.

 

Japan is also the world biggest killer on Dolphins. Each year from

Oct. to end of April is Japanese killing dolphin season.

Japan is steadily hunting its coastal cetacean populations to extinction.

By 1995, a single species -- Dall's porpoise -- was being taken at a rate

of 17,000 per year. Hundreds of boats are licensed to kill, and they

have severely depleted, in sequence, populations of striped dolphins,

pilot whales, beaked whales, and Dall's porpoise.(see Reference # 4)

 

 

3: NORWEGIAN WHALING ACTIVITY :

 

Norway, too, will begin a whale hunt in May, 2001. They aim to

kill 549 minke whales in the North Atlantic, in a season that will run

from mid May to the end of August. And now Norway is trying to

catch more whales. In January 2001 Norway announced a lifting on

the export ban on whale products.

 

 

4: In the past, the Clinton/Gore tolerance on the Japanese killing the

whales has led to Japan's increasingly large scale of killing whales in

the bigger size and more number of whales in the open sea. Japan even

kill large number of whales in the " SANCTUARY Area " without any

concerns. Japan even uses its financial bait to get those tiny Caribbean

nations to vote for killing and against whale sanctuary in the last 52nd

IWC Meeting in Australia. Clinton/Gore " tolerance " , empty gesture of

NO real actual materialized trade sanctions and high level official

contacts proved a complete failure. Japan is hurriedly killing more

and bigger whales in nearly every month in the entire year , right now !

 

 

5: Here, it is important to point out that former Vice President

Al Gore himself is an " environmentalist " . We do respect Former

Vice President Al Gore. However, Gore " brokered " the 1993 of

$ 261 million worth of missiles to Norway. Since then, Gore had

been giving OK for countries to kill whales everywhere, especially

Norway ! He also gave OK to Makah Whaling, Inuit tribal bands

killing highly endangered Bowhead whales, Alaska killing beluga

whales which made Beluga number fell from 1000 to 150.

(see Reference # 5 )

Gore is also the master designer behind the RMS.

(The Revised Management Scheme.) , a plan to openly resume the

Commercial whaling . It will be soon discussed in July , 2001 IWC

meeting. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) is still very much under Gore's influences. Gore refused to

sanction Japan and Norway even under the certification of

" Pelly Amendment " by the then Secretary of Commerce

Norman Mineta . We suggest to replace all of the key people in

NOAA and in all of the Whales related departments, urgently.

Those people had damaged the United States long standing on

whales protection. Some senior people said there are Japanese and

Norwegian influence had long secretly involved in there. With the

corruption everywhere, we suspect they are not the exception either.

 

Some sources said , the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry

and Fisheries is also corrupted with the Japanese Whaling industry.

 

 

6: After a 15 year moratorium, commercial whaling could resume under

a scheme called " RMS " . IWC (International Whaling Commission) has

lost its control on member countries killing whales uncontrollably.

IWC is an empty shell and it does not have high sea policing power.

Japan uses financial bait to buy more votes from small island countries

and manipulate the IWC voting results.

 

7: According to whale experts, the " TRADE SANCTION " is the only

way, the most decisive, effective and most peaceful way to stop

Japanese and Norway to kill thousands of whales each year and

to halt potential world commercial whaling .

 

8: The United States has been so weak against Japan's killing on whales

under Gore's influences. Now, the US must be the leader to take the

decisive action against Japanese and Norwegian killing on whales before

it is too late or the open and even larger scale of commercial whaling

coming soon under the disguise of RMS.

Thousands of giant , peaceful whales are suffering excruciating pain

with twisting, rolling , struggling body in the sea to slow death when

the explosive shoot into his/her head and stomach.

 

9: Therefore, I am strongly demanding the US government to lead the

world to impose the real materialized Trade Sanctions on the entire

imports from Japan which at least including all of the Automobile and

Foods from Japan and sanctions on Norwegian's entire imports to U.S.

urgently. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

@@@ At the end of your letter , do not forget to sign your name,

address, city, state, country and " US Constituent " (if you live in USA ):

for example : do not forget at end to write :

 

Sincerely ,

your name(s),

Address,

City, State, Zip.

U.S. Constituent(s). (if you live in USA )

Country. (if you don't live in USA )

 

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IMPORTANT REFERENCES:

 

1:

http://www.enn.com/enn-subsciber-news-archive/2001/04/04112001/reu_whale_42981

..asp

2: http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=4331

http://dailynews./h/ap/20010510/wl/japan_whaling__1.html

3: http://www.greenpeace.org.au/affiliates/spws/excerpts.html

4: http://www.seashepherd.org/issues/dolphins/japanslaughter1000.html

5: " Animal People " October 2000 issue.

6: http://dailynews./h/ap/20010510/wl/japan_whaling__1.html

7: http://www.stopwhalingnow.com/home2.html

8: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010131b4.htm

9: http://www.greenpeace.org/ , then click Japan Whaling.

10: http://www.stopwhalingnow.com/home2.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/issues/whales/index.html

http://www.usagainstwhaling.org/whales.htm

 

 

 

NOTE: Your letter should also include all of the above References.

Make sure the references number and the sentence in your letter

are consistent . thanks .)

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

PLEASE CALL, FAX AND EMAIL AS MUCH AS YOU CAN !

 

(In this Part One, we ask you to send to US President and his cabinet

and US Congress, Senate and House. ) : Note: At the end of each

letter, you must sign your Name, Address, City, State, Zip and Country

 

 

1: Contact : Please Call/Fax/Email to President Bush as much as you can.

 

The President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

U.S.A.

Tel: 202-456-1414 ( 9am-5pm, stay on line talk to Operator. )

Fax: 202-456-2461 (in U.S.A.) (FAX is very important !)

E-mail :

president (@whitehouse.gov )

 

(Note: Please address to : Dear Mr. President, )

 

 

Please also CC to First Lady Laura Bush and

Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney :

(copy the following address and paste to CC field. ) :

Note: it must have comma between addresses.

The following three addresses has @whitehouse.gov

 

first.lady ,

vice.president ,

mrs.cheney ,

 

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2 : White House Council on Environmental Quality :

 

Council on Environmental Quality

722 Jackson Place, N.W.

Washington, DC 20503

USA

Tel. (202) 395-5750 (in USA )

fax: (202) 456-6546 (in USA )

 

(Please address to : Dear Council on Environmental Quality, )

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3: Contact :

 

The Honorable Secretary Colin Powell,

U.S. Secretary of State,

U.S. Department of State,

Washington, D.C. 20520

U.S.A.

Tel: (202) 647-4000 (in U.S.A. )

(202) 647-6575

Fax: 202-261-8577 (in U.S.A.)

Secretary of State Email : Secretary (@state.gov )

 

(Please address to : Dear Honorable Secretary Powell , )

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4: Contact :

 

The Honorable EPA Administrator

Christine T Whitman

EPA Administrator,

1101A

USEPA Headquarters

Ariel Rios Building

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.

Washington, DC 20460

U.S.A.

Tel: 202-564-4700 (in USA )

Fax: 202-501-1450 (in USA ).

EMAIL:

whitman.christine (@epamail.epa.gov )

 

(Please address to : Dear Honorable Administrator Whitman, )

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5 : Contact :

 

The Honorable Secretary Norman Mineta,

U.S. Department of Transportation

400 7th Street, S.W.

Washington D.C. 20590

USA

Tel: 202-366-4000 (in USA )

Email: dot.comments (@ost.dot.gov )

 

(Please address to : Dear Honorable Secretary Mineta, )

 

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5: Contact :

 

The Honorable Secretary Ann Veneman,

U.S. Department of Agriculture

14th & Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20250

U.S.A.

Fax: (202) 720-2166 (in USA )

Tel: 202-720-3631

email: ann.veneman (@usda.gov )

 

(Please address to: Dear Honorable Secretary Veneman, )

 

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6: Contact :

 

The Honorable Secretary Gale Norton

U.S. Department of the Interior

1849 C. Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20240

USA

(202) 208-3100 (in USA )

Email: Gale_Norton (@ios.doi.gov )

 

(Please address to: Dear Honorable Secretary Norton, )

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7: Contact :

The Honorable Secretary Donald Evans

Office of the Secretary

Room 5854

U.S. Department of Commerce

14th & Constitution Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20230

U.S.A.

 

Tel: 202-482-2112 (in U.S.A. )

Fax: 202-482-2741 (in U.S.A. )

Email : devans (@doc.gov )

 

(Please address to : Dear Honorable Secretary Evans, )

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9: Contact :

 

The Honorable Attorney General John Ashcroft ,

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001

USA

Email: AskDOJ (@usdoj.gov )

 

(Please address to: Dear Honorable Attorney General Ashcroft, )

 

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10: CONTACT :

 

The Honorable Secretary Tommy Thompson,

Health and Human Services,

200 Independence Ave., S.W.

Room 615-F

Washington, DC 20201

U.S.A.

Tel: 202-690-7000 (in USA )

Fax: 202-690-7203 (in USA )

 

(Address to: Dear Honorable Secretary Thompson )

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THE FOLLOWING CONTACTS ARE FOR THE

US CONGRESS , SENATE AND HOUSE :

 

11: CONTACT INFO FOR U.S. SENATORS :

 

a: First, please Call/Fax/Email/Mail to ALL of the important

LEADERS below in U.S. Senate :

 

(Address to : Dear Honorable Senator ..... )

 

The Honorable Senator Trent Lott,

The Senate Majority Leader,

487 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

USA

Tel: (202) 224-6253

FAX: (202) 224-2262 (in USA )

Email: senatorlott (@lott.senate.gov )

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The Honorable Senator Don Nickles,

Assistant Majority Leader,

133 Senate Hart Building

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

Tel: (202) 224-5754

Fax: (202) 224-6008 (in USA )

Email: http://www.senate.gov/~nickles/contact/contact.cfm

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The Honorable Senator Rick Santorum,

Office Address

120 Russell Building

Washington, DC 20510

USA

Tel: (202) 224-6324

Fax: (202) 228-0604 (in USA )

Email : http://www.senate.gov/~santorum/emailrjs.html

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The Honorable Senator Tom Daschle,

509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

WASHINGTON DC 20510

USA

Tel: (202) 224-2321 (in USA )

Email: http://daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm

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The Honorable Senator Harry Reid,

528 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

USA

Phone 202-224-3542

Fax 202-224-7327

Email: senator_reid (@reid.senate.gov )

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The Honorable Senator Larry Craig

520 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

WASHINGTON DC 20510

USA

Tel: (202) 224-2752

Fax: (202)228-1067 (in USA )

Email: http://www.senate.gov/~craig/webform.html

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The Honorable Senator Byron Dorgan,

713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

WASHINGTON DC 20510

USA

Tel: (202) 224-2551

Fax (202) 224-1193 (in USA )

Email: senator (@dorgan.senate.gov )

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b: Please also contact your own two US Senators, Call/Fax them.

Always put your name and detail address in the letter !)

http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm

(Address to : Dear Honorable Senator ......., )

 

c: Please Copy the following entire list of US Senators :

Then Paste the entire list into BCC field in your Email.

Then put your own email address in the TO field before you

hit Send. BE CAREFUL before you hit SEND, please

check everything correctly !

 

Please address to : Dear Senator , or : Dear Honorable Senator,

Remember, put your name , address and " U.S. Constituent " at the

end of the letter. (if you live in USA ) This will reach to all of the

US Senators. (note: it must have a comma between addresses. ) :

 

(Note; The most important tools to communcate with the

US Congress is by Phone Calls , Faxes, Postal Mails!)

 

 

Senator,

senator,

senator.hutchinson,

blanche_lincoln,

info,

senator_mccain,

senator,

senator_allard,

administrator,

senator,

senator_lieberman,

senator,

comments,

bob_graham,

connie,

senator_max_cleland,

senator_coverdell,

senator,

senator,

chuck_grassley,

tom_harkin,

larry_craig,

dick,

senator_fitzgerald,

senator_lugar,

sam_brownback,

pat_roberts,

jim_bunning,

senator,

senator,

senator,

senator,

john_kerry,

senator,

john_kerry,

senator,

senator,

michigan,

senator,

michigan,

mail_grams,

senator,

john_ashcroft,

kit_bond,

senator,

senatorlott,

max,

conrad_burns,

senator,

jesse_helms,

senator,

senator,

chuck_hagel,

mailbox,

opinion,

frank_lautenberg,

senator_torricelli,

senator_bingaman,

senator_domenici,

senator,

senator_reid,

senator,

senator_dewine,

senator_voinovich,

jim_inhofe,

senator,

Oregon,

senator,

senator,

senator_specter,

senator_chafee,

jack,

senator,

senator,

tim_johnson,

senator_frist,

senator_thompson,

administrator,

senator,

senator,

senator_hatch,

senator_robb,

senator,

vermont,

senator_leahy,

senator_gorton,

senator_murray,

Russell_Feingold,

senator_kohl,

senator_byrd,

senator,

senator,

craig,

senator,

senator2,

comments,

senator,

tom_daschle,

senator_carnahan,

senator,

olympia,

phil_gramm,

senator,

senator,

senator,

tim,

tom_harkin,

webmaster,

historian,

curator,

info,

postmaster,

mailbox,

mailbox,

admin,

comments,

webmaster,

Year2000,

webmaster,

 

 

The following Senators are very IMPORTANT too and

you do need to send thru their websites :

 

(Address to : Dear Honorable Senator...., or Dear Senator, )

 

http://murkowski.senate.gov/webmail.html

http://cantwell.senate.gov/mailform.html

http://bayh.senate.gov/WebMail.html

http://miller.senate.gov/email.html

http://www.senate.gov/~crapo/webform.html

http://grassley.senate.gov/webform.htm

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12 : CONTACT INFO. FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

 

 

a: Please CALL/Fax/Email to all of the leaders in U.S. House

in both parties :

 

US Congressman Denny Hastert

Speaker of the House,

Tel: (202) 225-2976 (in USA )

Fax: : (202) 225-0697

Email: speaker (@mail.house.gov )

(Address to : Dear Mr. Speaker, )

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US Congressman Dick Armey,

U.S. House Majority Leader

Tel: (202) 225-7772 (in U.S.A. )

 

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U.S. Congressman Richard Gephardt,

US House Democratic Leader

Tel: (202) 225-0100 (in USA )

Tel: (202) 225-2671

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Congressman David E. Bonior

Tel: (202) 225-3130 (in USA )

Email: david.bonior (@mail.house.gov )

(address to: Dear Honorable Congressman Bonior )

 

US Congressman J.C. Watts.

House Leadership office,

Tel: (202) 225-6165 (in USA )

Tel: (202) 225-5107

 

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US Congressman Martin Frost,

Chairman of Democratic Caucus,

Tel: (202) 225-3605 (in USA )

Email:

democratic.caucus (@mail.house.gov )

(address to: Dear Honorable Congressman Frost, )

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US Congressman Christopher Cox,

Chairman of Republican Policy Committee,

Tel: (202) 225-5611 (in USA )

Email:

christopher.cox (@mail.house.gov )

(Address to: Dear Honorable Congressman Cox, )

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b: Write to your own US Representative : Please

click the following to get contact info of your Representatives :

Please click following :

 

(Please address to: Dear Honorable Congressman........, )

Don't forget your name and detail address and sign as

" CONSTITUENT(S) " .

 

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html

 

 

c : Write to the following partial list of U.S. Representatives :

(You may refer: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html )

 

Please Copy and Paste following list into BCC field in your new Email.

Then put your own email address in the TO field before you hit Send.

 

Please address to : Dear Honorable Congressman or Dear Congressman,

(note: it must have comma between addresses.

 

All of the Addresses below have @mail.house.gov )

 

 

jim.demint,

jim.kolbe,

jim.mccrery,

jim.mcgovern ,

jim.moran,

jjduncan,

jmoakley,

joann.emerson,

joe.moakley,

joe.skeen,

john.boehner,

John.Conyers,

John.Hostettler,

john.lewis,

john.linder,

john.mica,

john.olver,

john.tanner,

jserrano,

jthune,

judiciary,

ken.bentsen,

kuykendall,

lane.evans,

lazio,

leach.ia01,

lloyd.doggett,

lobiondo,

lois.capps,

loretta,

louiseny,

luis.gutierrez,

Lynn.Rivers,

lynn.woolsey,

m.thompson,

mac.collins,

mail.gibbons,

major.owens,

mark.foley,

mark.green,

mark.udall,

martin.frost,

martin.sabo,

matt.salmon,

max.sandlin,

mcintosh,

menendez,

mhinchey,

mike.forbes,

mike.mcnulty,

mike.oxley,

millender-mcdonald,

miller13,

mn03,

mtmeehan,

murtha,

myrick,

nc12.public,

neil.abercrombie,

nick.lampson,

ninthnet,

nita.lowey,

njohnson,

nrahall,

nussleia,

ok01.largent ,

owen.pickett,

patrick.kennedy,

paul.kanjorski,

pawizard ,

pdeutsch.pub,

pease,

petemail ,

peter.defazio,

peter.king,

petes,

pitts.pa16,

porter.goss,

portmail,

pryce.oh15,

public.dingell,

rangel,

rborski,

rep.barton,

rep.boehlert,

rep.boswell.ia03,

rep.boyd,

rep.brady,

rep.cardin,

rep.carolyn.maloney,

rep.carson,

rep.charles.canady,

rep.coburn,

Rep.Cummings ,

rep.doyle,

rep.e.b.johnson,

rep.earl.pomeroy,

rep.ehlers,

Rep.Ganske

rep.ganske,

rep.gonzalez,

rep.goode,

rep.harold.ford.jr,

rep.hinojosa,

rep.hulshof,

rep.james.walsh,

rep.jcwatts,

rep.jenkins,

rep.kaptur,

 

 

 

*** End of the Contacts ***

 

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Note: if you need more info on particular Senator or congressman

please refer to the following sites:

 

http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm

http://www.house.gov/house/orgs_pub_hse_ldr_www.html

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html

 

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The final note in this email :

 

ON the eve of Mother's Day ,

Please click the following to listen to the desperate Plea

from Whale mother and her baby...... :

http://www.usagainstwhaling.org/whales.htm