Make April a Month of Action

April 4 is International Day for Mine Awareness and Mine Action. The UN created this anniversary to raise awareness that more than 70 countries are still plagued by landmines and unexploded submunitions!  

April 19 is a Global Day of Action on Cluster Munitions. Activists will organize events in Washington and in capitols around the world a month in advance of global treaty talks that will ban cluster bombs!

April 22, or thereabouts, is Earth Day. Cluster submunitions and landmines are deadly litter!

And April 30 is the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam; the U.S. left behind millions of cluster submunitions in Laos that continue to kill and maim!  

What can YOU do?

Pick a day in April that works best for you and plan an activity to educate your community about the need to ban cluster bombs.

Organize a community event:  Bring members of your community together for a house party, film screening or public speaker around the April anniversary.  Use the event to raise funds for programs in Laos to teach children about the risks posed by unexploded bomblets or for demining in Laos, and raise peoples’ voices in support of current efforts in Congress to ensure that the U.S. never again pollutes communities with cluster munitions!
 
Invite your friends to dinner:   Plan a dinner party to raise awareness and raise funds for Adopt-A-Minefield’s work to demine clusterbomb fields. Dinners will be held across the country in conjunction with the UN Association-USA’s “Night of a Thousand Dinners” campaign. For desert, write a letter to your Senators, urging them to support the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act!
 
Get Your Church Involved:  Work with your congregation and/or a neighboring one to insert a church bulletin on the legacy of cluster bombs in Laos. (April 27 is the Sunday nearest the anniversary, but any Sunday will do.)  Encourage fundraising for your denomination’s aid and relief work in Laos and also educate and activate parishioners about opportunities to ban further U.S. use and export of cluster bombs by supporting current legislation.  
 
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