Good morning.

Today is Wednesday, so we will be at Mast’s office. My sign today will be NO WAR. Sign the war powers act. Next week is our one year anniversary of protesting Mast without missing a single week! Thank you devoted protesters.

Tomorrow is our monthly meeting fat 5:30 at the Cummings Library in Palm City. There will be a speaker from the Young Democrats of the Treasure Coast. There will also be a Zoom link I will send tomorrow.

Also today, the Senate will vote on The War Powers Act. So please call or email our senators. As I said yesterday, they probably think war is great because it takes Epstein out of the headlines. But the young people who will die probably don’t agree. Nor do those who have lost health insurance so more money can go to the DoD.

Here’s a script from Heather Cox Richardson I plan to use:

“The Framers of the Constitution placed the power to declare war in the hands of Congress and not in the president above all because they did not trust that much power in the hands of one man. But they also wanted to make sure the American people would have robust debates about the value of the money and lives lost in combat. So determined were they for the American people to have those debates that they put into the Constitution that Congress had the power “[t]o declare War…and…[t]o raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years.””

Barbara & Ginger