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This may be the most important advice we’ve recommended about our rights and elections.

You have been present for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act and for every civil rights action we have recommended, but in this election we face a grave challenge, unfortunately from our fellow citizens.

“True the Vote” is, under the guise of “protecting” our election system from a fraud that has proven not to exist, sending thousands of people across the country to train on how to challenge voters on election day and intimidate them into not voting.

We cannot let this happen!

Until recently many states thought this was regional, that this could not happen in their state. We have recently learned that states such as California are a much a target as the others about which we have read.

PLEASE make note of this web site: www.866ourvote.org  You my click on your state to see what is happening. The web site is also a phone number: 1-866-OUR-VOTE or
1-866-687-8683

THE TARGETED POPULATIONS ARE COMMUNITIES WITH IMMIGRANTS, STUDENTS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. BUT ANY OF US CAN BECOME THEIR TARGETS AS WELL.

It is critical that we not let anyone – especially not those once victims of massive discrimination —be frightened or intimidated into NOT voting!

Please volunteer via www.866ourvote.org for training to be involved in watching for and stopping voter intimidation. If you see ANYTHING during early voting or election day that smacks of intimidation or coercion, PLEASE call 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-866-687-8683 and report what you have seen.

Across the nation FBI and other officials are standing by at polling places that have had previous difficulties. But they cannot be everywhere. YOU are the person who can protect your own vote and that of others.

Please do NOT ignore this peril. We have nothing to protect our voting rights other than you and your actions.

Thank you.

The only nuclear weapons that got any attention during the final presidential debate were the not-yet-existent weapons that Iran may someday build.

Preventing additional countries from gaining these weapons is crucial. But we thoroughly undermine the moral standing we need to stop other countries from building their first nuclear weapon when we are still deploying 8,000 of our own.

Fifty years ago this week, as the Cuban Missile Crisis drew to a close, the world uttered a collective sigh of relief after narrowly averting nuclear annihilation.

Fifty years later, failing to learn from the lessons of history could doom us to a fate far worse than simply repeating history. Thousands of nuclear warheads still stand by, threatening our communities.

“Where there is no vision the people perish,” teaches Scripture. Now, humanity and much of life on Earth could perish if we lack the vision to change course.

Whoever wins the presidential election has an opportunity to be a leader of vision who can end the Cold War nightmare of nuclear disaster and create a nuclear weapons policy that fits the realities of the 21st century.

President Barack Obama will complete his review of nuclear weapons policy before the end of the year. Should Mitt Romney be elected, he will almost certainly do his own review.

The next time the world hangs at the precipice of nuclear annihilation, the cause is far more likely to be a bomber’scomputer glitch or a terrorist cell smuggling a warhead into an American harbor than the geopolitical brinkmanship of presidents.

No one marks the anniversaries of the many near misses caused by human and technical errors. And it’s that history we should be working double-time to avoid repeating.

The very existence of large stockpiles of nuclear weapons is an urgent moral issue. These weapons are ethically unlike any other weapons. Pacifists and supporters of Just War doctrine can come together and agree that the potential for massive indiscriminate killing caused by nuclear weapons has no place in a civilized world.

At this moment, there are nuclear warheads standing by on high-alert status targeting innocent civilians in Russia and the United States. Just one of those weapons can kill millions. An exchange of nuclear weapons could cause catastrophic damage to the global environment.

The planet of which we are called to be stewards would be virtually uninhabitable for centuries.

That’s why 116 political and faith leaders have delivered a letter to the president urging him to create a saner nuclear weapons policy. The people — driven by conscience and common sense — must push U.S. policymakers to lead the world away from nuclear weapons making the world safer and saving billions of dollars.

In doing so, we place human history on a path to a nuclear weapons-free world.

As Gen. Colin Powell, who oversaw 28,000 nuclear weapons as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said: these weapons “are useless … this is the moment when we have to move forward and all of us come together to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and eliminate them from the face of the Earth.”

Jon Rainwater, a resident of Oakland, is executive director of Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund, headquartered in Oakland. The Rev. Rick Schlosser is executive director of the Sacramento-based California Council of Churches, which includes 21 denominations in California, with 5,000 congregations and more than 1.5 million members.

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