Voters Used Old-Fashioned Phone Booth for 'Call-In' to Congress to End War

California's Calling Congress: End the War; Members of Congress to Hear from Voters All Week, Sacramento makes call from old-style red phone booth

While voters are calling Congress this week to "end the war," those in Sacramento are using a near-antique red phone booth strategically placed at the Farmers Market TUESDAY, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 16th & P Sts, according to Peace Action.

Through most of this week, (July 23-26) voters in all of California's Congressional districts will be picking up their phones, dialing 202-224-3121 and asking their Congressional representatives to end the war on Iraq and bring all the troops home.

The statewide call-in is being organized through a coordinated effort of dozens of peace organizations across the entire state of California, including Chico, Sacramento, Modesto, San Francisco, Orange County and other areas, where volunteers will be taking cells phones and even phone booths into the streets to get the public to call.

"Congress is still paying lip service to ending the war," said Maggie Coulter, a Sacramento organizer, "The House just passed HR 2956 that would leave thousands of troops and all the private military contractors in Iraq and do nothing about ending the war on Afghanistan. Congress is still clinging to our dismally failed Middle East foreign policy which won't end either of these wars."

California's Calling was initiated at the United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) national meeting in Chicago in June 2007. UFPJ is a nationwide coalition of peace organizations in 49 states. California's Calling will continue with actions in August when Congress members return home to their districts and in September as Congress votes to continue or to end the very unpopular war in Iraq.

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