Take action today to support GI resistance (from Courage to Resist)

Posted on: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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By Courage to Resist. September 4, 2009 (updated regularly)

Consolidated and up-to-date list of easy action items

We have a lot of information about GI resistance and how to help objectors spread out over hundreds of pages on couragetoresist.org. However, sometimes folks just want to know what needs to be done and how to do it, including:

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