TX-Burma Bill Appeal

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BURMA-TEX:						MAY 8, 1997
SUPPORTING BURMA'S DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT 
FROM THE HEART OF TEXAS

Texas' Burma Democracy Movement Needs You!
A couple minutes of your time CAN save an important bill to bar the State
of Texas from doing business with corporations that do business with
Burma's brutal military dictatorship. 

Burma's State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) has:
 	*Smashed Burma's democratically elected government;
 	*Put  Nobel laureate leader Aung San Suu Aung Kyi under house
arrest; 
 	*Brutally repressed Burma's democracy movement and ethnic
minorities.
To raise money to buy Chinese arms, the regime has:
 	*Sold off Burma's rain forests to loggers; and
 	*Laundered money from Burmese heroin traffickers, who feed 60
percent 	of the U.S. heroin supply.

This is why the U.S. government imposed sanctions April 23 that ban all
new U.S. investments in Burma. Fort Worth Rep. Lon Burnam has introduced
a bill, H.B. 2960, to bar the State of Texas from doing business with
companies that do business with the cash-strapped SLORC regime. Burma
activists believe enough votes are in reach to move the bill out of the
House State Affairs Committee, but time is running out in this
legislative session.  Please immediately call and/or  fax State Affairs
Committee Chair Steve Wolens AND the committee member nearest you. Urge
them to:
 	* Support the bill; and 
 	* Call for an immediate committee vote. 

TEXAS HOUSE STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Member, Dist		Austin (512)	Austin	Dist. Phone
			Fax		Phone
CHAIRMAN:
Steve Wolens, 103, D-Dallas	463-5826		463-0746	
(214) 528-5566

NEEDS EXTRA PERSUASION:

Kim Brimer, 96, R-Arlington	463-5896		463-0632  
(817) 483-9793
Bill Carter, 91, R-Fort Worth	463-1283		463-0482  
(817) 834-1144 
Tom Craddick, 82, R-Midland	463-772		        463-0500  
(915) 682-3000
Tom Ramsay, 2, D-Mt. Vernon	463-8328		463-0680  
(903) 537-4711 
Mark Stiles,21, D-Beaumont	463-5896		463-0706	
 (409) 835-7390

BELIEVED TO BE SUPPORTIVE (BUT DON"T BET THE RANCH ON IT):

Sylvester Turner,139, D-Hous.	 463-8380    	463-0554	
 (713) 683-6363
Leo Alvarado,116, D-Sn Ant.	463-5826		463-0746  
(214) 528-5566
David Counts,70,D-Knox City	482-9210		463-0480   
(817) 658-5012
Debra Danburg,137,D-Hous.	463-0024		463-0504   (713)
520-8068
Jesse Jones,110,D-Dallas	463-0296		463-0664   (214)
375-3773
John Longoria,117,	D-Sn. Ant.	 479-9522	463-0618  
(210) 921-0839
Brian McCall,66, R-Plano	463-5896		463-0594   (214)
881-0890
Paul Hilbert,150,R-Spring	 463-1908	 463-0572   (281)
537-5252 
Bob Hunter,71, R-Abilene	463-6244		463-0718   (915)
677-0211

Please share this with friends, especially those in key districts.

Contacts: 
Dallas Peace Center President Robert Dennis, 214/522-8905,
rdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx
Andrew Wheat, 512/447-7899, trigo@xxxxxxxx