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These included Reps. [[Luis Gutierrez]] (D-IL), Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), and [[New York City]] councilman Jose Rivera, who gave Clinton "a packet on clemency" and requested that she "speak to the president and ask him to consider executive clemency" for the FALN. A couple of weeks later, clemency was granted to the terrorists and Clinton's Senate campaign expressed support for the move.
These included Reps. [[Luis Gutierrez]] (D-IL), Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), and [[New York City]] councilman Jose Rivera, who gave Clinton "a packet on clemency" and requested that she "speak to the president and ask him to consider executive clemency" for the FALN. A couple of weeks later, clemency was granted to the terrorists and Clinton's Senate campaign expressed support for the move.
===United for Peace and Justice===
Velázquez was listed as an endorser of the Jan. 27, 2007 "Act Now to End the War" event, organized by [[Institute for Policy Studies]] partner organization, [[United for Peace & Justice]].<ref>[http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3458 UFPJ website: ''January 27th Endorsers -- Individuals''] (accessed on Jan. 26, 2011)</ref> Also endorsing the event was [[Democratic Socialists of America]], Socialist Party USA, [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism]], [[National Lawyers Guild]], [[National Organization for Women]] and the [[Communist Party USA]].<ref name=jan27org>[http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3454 UFPJ website: ''January 27th Endorsers -- Organizations''] (accessed on Jan. 26, 2011)</ref> At the event, peace activists ''"converge[d] from all around the country in [[Washington, D.C.]] to send a strong, clear message to Congress and the Bush Administration: 'The people of this country want the war and occupation in Iraq to end and we want the troops brought home now!'"''.<ref>[http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=120 UFPJ website: ''Bring the Mandate for Peace to Washington DC on Jan. 27''], Nov. 13, 2006 (accessed on Jan. 26, 2011)</ref>
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