Tag: Jack Reed

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Tell Sen. Jack Reed to Renounce Cluster Bombs

Just Foreign Policy’s Robert Naiman is in Providence with Rhode Islanders delivering a petition to Senator Jack Reed urging him to renounce his support for cluster bomb sales to Saudi Arabia. Here are 3 quick reasons Sen. Reed should do this: Cluster bombs often kill civilians, sometimes years after a conflict ends. Although the company…
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Sen. Reed: Renounce Your Support of Cluster Bombs

On June 16, the House of Representatives narrowly failed to approve an amendment sponsored by Rep. John Conyers [D-MI] that would have blocked the transfer of U.S. cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which has used U.S. cluster bombs in civilian areas in Yemen, in defiance of U.S. law. Textron, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is…