Day After Mother’s Day Cluster Bomb Call-in

Make a phone call, save a life!

Join the national Day After Mother’s Day Cluster Bomb Call-in on Monday, May 12. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) joins the Friends Committee on National Legislation in its campaign to ban cluster bombs.

No mother should lose her child to a cluster bomb. Unfortunately, children are drawn to unexploded cluster submunitions thinking that they are toys. Children between the ages of 5-15 have accounted for almost half of the world's cluster bomb casualties.

More than 100 governments, including all major NATO allies, will gather in Dublin, Ireland to negotiate a global treaty banning cluster bombs on May 19. The U.S. government won't be there, and it is actively working to undermine the treaty.

We need you to help send a message to the rest of the world that millions of Americans stand with the goal of preventing harm to children and others from cluster bombs. All you need to do is make one or two phone calls between now and Monday, May 12 to help generate cosponsors for the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S.594/H.R.1755). With your help, one-quarter of the Senate will cosponsor the bill by the time negotiations begin. We need to generate six new cosponsors in the next two weeks-a difficult, but possible, task.

Be part of the national "Day After Mother's Day Cluster Bomb Call-in" on Monday, May 12 and ask your Senators to co-sponsor this legislation.