''JULY 25: Senate Call-in Day!''

"Help PDA, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, James Cromwell, Winona LaDuke and more to oppose the energy bill and Private Fuel Storage waste dump!

On July 25, PDA will be on Captiol Hill with Ani DiFranco, The Indigo Girls, James Cromwell, Joan McIntosh, Winona LaDuke and Skull Valley Goshute tribal members Margene Bullcreek and Lena Knight who will be spearheading a national lobby day against the energy bill and the proposed Private Fuel Storage (PFS) high-level waste dump on Goshute land in Utah. They, along with members of DC-based environmental groups, will be holding a press and congressional briefing, and then meeting with individual Senate offices throughout the day in an effort to bring out the truth about the billions of dollars of nuclear funding contained in the energy bill and about the backroom maneuvering and dealmaking—and lack of congressional oversight—that has brought the unjust PFS project close to final approval.

You can support our efforts by making July 25, 2005 a National Senate Call-in Day. We ask each one of you, even if you’ve called your Senators before, to call them on July 25 with two messages:
1. Vote against the energy bill when it returns to the Senate. No taxpayer funding of the nuclear power industry.
2. Urge their colleagues on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to hold hearings and investigate wrongdoing by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs in its approval of the PFS/Skull Valley Goshutes lease agreement.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Toll-Free: 1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762

For more background on the energy bill and/or PFS, visit www.nirs.org." -from Progressive Democrats of America. Update: Thanks to Karen Backman for this: "Local numbers for Murray: (206)553-5545; Cantwell: (206)220-6400 or 1(888)648-7328."