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Join Pax Christi Florida’s Prayer-Study-Action E-Network

All are welcome to join this free service! Pax Christi Florida’s Prayer-Study-Action (PSA) E- Network offers monthly prayer and study resources along with a menu of opportunities to put one’s faith into action.  To become a PSA E-Network participant, send your name and email address to phyllisjepson@earthlink.net.   Be sure to put “Join PSA Network” in the “Subject” line of your email.   Immediately below you will find the lasted e-newsletter.

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(Posted July 30, 2010)

Our Nation’s Checkbook

Sign-on letter to Senator Bill Nelson

 

Pax Christi Florida working with the Tampa Friends Meeting and the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), invites fellow citizens of Florida to join us in petitioning our state Senator Bill Nelson.  Floridians will pay $38.6 billion for defense spending this year.  By signing-on to this letter you will be adding your voice to ours in seeking to shift federal spending priorities away from the Pentagon and towards meeting the needs of people in the United States, preventing wars and protecting the environment. Senator Bill Nelson serves on the Senate Budget Committee, which sets a broad blueprint for budget levels.  We are asking him for hearings to lay groundwork for moving funds from the Pentagon to other security priorities. Read and sign-on to the letter to Senator Nelson at www.tampafriends.org/contact/checkbook.php and ask your Florida friends and relatives to the same.  Thank you!

   

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(Posted July 30, 2010)

Your Calls are Needed!

Lend your voice to a nationwide “Call-in to Congress and the White House”.  Call toll-free, 1-866-277-7617, to connect to your Representative and Senators. You can also use this number to call the White House.

Urge your Members of Congress and President Obama to pass a robust Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill before the end of the 111th Congress.  Members of Congress need to press House and Senate leadership to make CNR a “must pass” priority for this year.  (Thanks to Voices for America’s Children for use of their toll-free number).

For more background and talking points, go to http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1862/t/9399/content.jsp?content_KEY=5907.

Or, go to our home page www.floridaimpact.org and click on the TAKE ACTION! tab.

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Stand Against Florida’s Death Penalty!

 

Contact Governor Crist to halt all Florida executions

Gov. Charlie Crist
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399

PHONE: 850-488-7146
FAX: 850-487-0801

EMAIL: Charlie.Crist@myflorida.com

For Talking Points, click here.

 

Why should Floridians Support Alternatives to the Death Penalty?

Source: Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Many Floridians who now oppose the death penalty used to be supporters of the idea that execution is the necessary community response to the crime of murder. What changed their minds? Everyone has their own reason, but for most former supporters of the death penalty, it comes down to a simple issue of fairness.

Everyone should be concerned at the fact that what determines who gets sentenced to death, and eventually exterminated, has more to do with race, politics, geography and money, but NOT the severity of the crime. The following examines some of the issues which have led people to believe that, even if they still like the concept of the death penalty, they can no longer support it in practice. When you boil it all down, the sad fact is that the death penalty is a bad public policy on moral, economic, and social grounds.

Issues of Concern

The High Cost of the Death Penalty

According to the Miami Herald, it costs 2 to 6 times as much to kill one person than to incarcerate for life. (3.2 million versus $750,000 in Florida). This cost is weighted UP FRONT – in the initial trial, not in the appeals process as so many believe. Since Florida’s death penalty law was re-written in 1972, our state has spent more than $1 billion on its death penalty system, for a return of only 58 executions. That’s more than $18,000,000 per execution, and for what return? Is this a good use of your tax dollars? Don’t take our word for it. Click here to read a recent in-depth report by the Lakeland Ledger. Click here and also here to see more about FADP’s concerns on the cost issue.

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