<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><STRONG style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">Please edit this if you think it needs it and then send it everywhere:</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></DIV><DIV align="center"><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#800000" size="5"><STRONG style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">Emergency Action to Stop Torture</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#800000" size="5"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-center; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#ff0000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 5:30 PM: PRESS CONFERENCE DENOUNCING TORTURE AND SECRECY ON STEPS OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING, MAIN STREET, SPRINGFIELD</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#ff0000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 6 PM: VIGIL IN FRONT OF FIRST CHURCHES, 129 MAIN STREET, NORTHAMPTON</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua" size="3"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-center; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">This week the Republicans plan on ramming through the Senate and the House bills that will fundamentally change our democracy:</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><UL><LI><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">legalizing the torture the administration is committing now illegally;</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV></LI><LI><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">shielding the torturers and their supervisors in cluding the President from prosecution under the War Crimes Act; </SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV></LI><LI><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">preventing those deemed "enemy combatants" from filing habeus corpus suits in federal court to challenge their detention. They will become the disappeared.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV></LI><LI><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">and allowing evidence extracted through torture to be used in military tribunals at the judge's discretion.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV></LI></UL><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">The Senate legislation is not a "compromise". These are violations of some of the most basic tenets of our democracy and threaten all of us.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">We have a very limited time to take action.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">We ask you to:</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#ff0000"><FONT color="#800000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">1. IMMEDIATELY CALL OUR SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO OPPOSE AND TO</SPAN><EM style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN><U style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">FILIBUSTER</SPAN></U></EM><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "> SENATE BILL 3901</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">SENATOR KERRY'S OFFICE NUMBER IS (202) 224-2742 AND FAX IS 202-224-8525.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">SENATOR KENNEDY'S OFFICE NUMBER IS (202) 224-4543 AND FAX IS 202-224-2417.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><FONT color="#800000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">2. IMMEDIATELY CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND ASK HIM TO OPPOSE THIS LEGISLATION IN THE HOUSE, TO URGE ALL THEIR HOUSE COLLEAGUES TO OPPOSE IT AND TO SUPPORT THEIR SENATE COLLEAGUES IN A </SPAN><EM style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><U style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">FILIBUSTER.</SPAN></U></EM></FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">CONGRESSMAN OLVER'S OFFICE NUMBER IS 202-225-5335.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">CONGRESSMAN NEAL'S OFFICE NUMBER IS 202-225-5601.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><EM style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><U style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></U></EM></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><FONT color="#800000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">3. JOIN US ON THE STEPS OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING, MAIN STREET, SPRINGFIELD ON 5:30 TUESDAY EVENING.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "> WE WILL BE INFORMING THE PRESS THAT WE HAVE VISITED THE OFFICES OF OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS AND ARE ASKING THEM TO DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER, INCLUDING FILIBUSTER IN THE SENATE, TO BLOCK THIS HEINOUS LEGISLATION.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#800000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; ">4. VIGIL WITH US ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 6 PM IN FRONT OF FIRST CHURCHES, 129 MAIN STREET, NORTHAMPTON, TO DEMAND AN END TO TORTURE, INDEFINITE DETENTION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS AND THE RULE OF LAW.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#ff0000"></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua" color="#800000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Perpetua; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL YOUR LISTS! WE MUST ACT NOW TO SAVE LIVES, SAVE DIGNITY, SAVE THE BASIC RIGHTS OF OUR DEMOCRACY.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV align="left"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="center"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; "><FONT face="Perpetua"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-center; ">THE PIONEER VALLEY COALITION AGAINST SECRECY AND TORTURE. </SPAN></FONT></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-center; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><EM style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><U style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></U></EM></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><EM style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "><U style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT face="Perpetua"></FONT></U></EM></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><STRONG style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -khtml-left; "></STRONG></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -khtml-left; "> </SPAN></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>