all I want for my birthday is…

For my birthday, help me press Pelosi to end the Famine in Yemen on August 14. 
Share my birthday greeting on Facebook
Sign my MoveOn petition

According to my “long form birth certificate,” I was born on August 8, 1965, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Go Razorbacks!
And so, “by a simple arithmetical process, you will easily discover” that I have lived 54 years, as of today. Go Razorbacks!
When I wore a younger man’s clothes, as the famous Mike Dolan used to say [for shouldn’t anyone known to you, me, and our friends justly be described as famous?] it was common for peace activists to greet each other thus: “What do you want for your birthday?” To which peace activists would respond: “World peace!” It was a “sincere joke.” It was a joke in the sense that we all knew that “world peace” was not something that we could give to each other. It was sincere in the sense that it was indeed what we all wanted for our birthdays.

We were adults who had all the stuff we needed. What would put a little more spring into our step on our birthdays? How about a little less unnecessary cruelty to human beings on this Earth? Wouldn’t that put a little more spring into your step on your birthday? It would put a little more spring into mine.

Today I’m not going to ask you for “world peace.” All I want for my birthday today is to end U.S. participation in the biblically catastrophic Saudi war in Yemen. That’s not too much to ask for, is it?

I know it’s not in your individual power to give me this by yourself. But it is in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s individual power to give me this, all by her little lonesome, in the August negotiations on the “veto proof” bill that “funds the troops.” And I’m meeting Pelosi next Wednesday, August 14, in Springfield, Illinois.

So here’s how you can help me, today, on my birthday:
1. Share my “message in a bottle” on Facebook.
2. Sign my MoveOn petition to Pelosi urging her to use her unique power to end the war in August. 
Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,
Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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