Tell Your Members of Congress: No More Military Bases Named for Confederate Leaders

To: U.S. Congress

Please support the current National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 that has passed through the Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Armed Services in its current form. The renaming of military bases that are currently named for figures that willingly served in the Confederate military should be a core priority of our nation's ongoing racial justice work. Monuments to Confederate generals show a lack of reckoning with our nation's white supremacist history and present. I'm calling on you to investigate and dismantle these monuments on military bases by supporting the existing Defense Authorization.

Vote YES on the National Defense Authorization Act, inclusive of the clause that removes the names of Confederate forces from military bases!

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Confederate monuments, including the naming of military bases after those who willingly served in the Confederate military, rewrites the history of the Civil War – the Confederacy tried to divide and dissolve the nation over support for slavery. It was an insurrection and the Confederates LOST. Keeping the name of confederate leaders on military bases celebrates white supremacy and fails to address the shameful legacy of the Confederacy.

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