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Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead!
President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. The Congressional Budget Office says cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits in this way would save the government $163 billion over ten years. But there are much better ways for the government to save $163 billion. Email President Obama and Congress >Support Justice for LGBT People in Honduras
Erick Martinez, Honduran journalist and LGBT leader, was killed on May 5, 2012. Share this action on Twitter ShareSince June 2009, when a military coup ousted democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya, there has seen a marked rise in human rights abuses in Honduras. The LGBT community has been especially affected. Honduran human rights organizations have reported 70 LGBT murders since the coup, many of which have received only nominal attention and remain unresolved.
Rep. Jared Polis is circulating a letter in the House calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge the Honduran government to take immediate steps toward investigating and resolving these crimes.
Will you ask your Representative to sign the Polis letter urging the US to push for investigations into LGBT murders in Honduras?