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An Open Letter to President Biden
Charlene M. Woodcock
Wednesday September 28, 2022 - 09:56:00 PM
It is all too clear to many of us that the human race is doomed to an increasingly hostile environment unless we find a leader who will convince the Congress to break the iron grip of the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry on our lives and our world.
The highly partisan Supreme Court has given corporations nearly unlimited power, and this is destroying American lives every day.
If the U.S. government continues to lavish funds on the Pentagon and facilitate depredations by the fossil fuel industry, the destruction of our unique habitat on this beautiful small planet will increase.
A strong majority of U.S. voters elected you to one of the most potentially effective positions in the world. U.S. citizens, with your support, are rediscovering the power of membership and action in unions. And adults and youth around the world are joining demonstrations to express their deep alarm at the fast-moving changes in our climate and consequent terribly costly extreme weather.
Members of a new generation in Congress, working with Senator Bernie Sanders, are showing the sane, responsible way forward. With your active leadership we can finally change policy from the longtime, increasingly dangerous, service to corporations and the wealthy to a federal government that serves the needs of the people.
Your deep history with the Congress provides a foundation from which you can convey the extreme urgency of ending government funding for military instead of diplomatic foreign policy and ending financial support and permissions for the mining, transport, and burning of fossil fuels.
Will you be the leader we urgently need at this crucial point in our history?
