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Support the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009

House Resolution 2478, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, supports stabilization and lasting peace in northern Uganda and areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army. 

The bill calls for the development of a regional strategy to support multilateral efforts to successfully protect civilians and for the authorization of funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, reconciliation, and transitional justice.

The LRA Resolution has already passed the Senate with bi-partisan support and is now in the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Although many Representatives have voiced their support for the bill, they must co-sponsor the Resolution to ensure the bill makes it out of Committee and onto the floor of the House.

The Lord's Resistance Army continues to commit atrocities and abduct children across three countries in Central Africa.  Last year, in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, the LRA reportedly killed a total of 849 people, abducted 1486, and displaced an additional 365,000 people from their homes.  Based on the estimates of killings, the LRA's violence far outpaces other violent conflicts in the region, yet garners far less attention.

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Write to your local paper

Want to get the word out on the topic that matters most to you? With a letter to your local paper, you can help bring your message not only to your neighbors, but directly to the offices of your Members of Congress, where staffers and our lawmakers themselves follow opinions from home with an especially watchful eye.

The ACLU has a tool that helps write and send letters to local papers. You are given a list of media outlets in your state, tips on how to write a letter in your own words, plus, for their topics, talking points.

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Got a Solution? Find the Right Ears

Feel like you have a foreign policy alternative that should be heard in the halls of government? Citizens for Global Solutions provides an easy to use tool to find the foreign policy staffer for your Member of Congress. Click here to access the Foreign Policy Staffer Locator: http://globalsolutions.org/hill/fpstaff

Anyone who would be willing to put an EPS flyer up on a departmental bulletin board or similar venue, please contact Thea Harvey, Development Manager at theaharvey@epsusa.org.