Contact Information for NE Representatives and Senators

With so many important issues needing our attention and dedication these days, we decided to try and make it easier for all of us to contact our Repesentatives on the important issues by compiling a comprehensive list of all of the people we may need to contact. Below is a list of the contact information for Nebraska's two U.S. Senators, three U.S. Representatives, and a way to find and contact your local State Senator. We hope you find this informative and useful! We recommend writing to the Senators at their local address, as it takes weeks for the mail to be forwarded.

This contact information for our federal and state elected officials is regularly located under the "Get Involved" feature on the NFP website.

You can visit the Project Vote Smart website to quickly identify your state wide and national elected officials. Here is the contact information for Nebraska's Governor and Congressional Delegates:

Governor Dave Heineman
P.O. Box 94848, Lincoln, NE 68509-4848
4500 Avenue I, P.O. Box 1500, Scottsbluff, NE 69363-1500
Lincoln: 402-471-2244
Scottsbluff: 308-632-1370
www.governor.nebraska.gov

Sen. Ben Nelson
11819 Miracle Hills Drive, Suite 205, Omaha, NE 68154
440 North 8th Street, Suite 120, Lincoln, NE 68508
202-224-6551 (Washington, D.C.)
402-391-3411 (Omaha)
402-441-4600 (Lincoln)
308-631-7614 (Scottsbluff)
308-293-5818 (Kearney)
402-209-3595 (South Sioux City)
www.bennelson.senate.gov

Sen. Mike Johanns
294 Federal Building, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, NE 68508
9900 Nicholas Street, Suite 325, Omaha, NE 68114
4111 Fourth Avenue, Suite 26, Kearney, NE 68845
115 Railway Street, Suite C102, Scottsbluff, NE 69361
202-224-4224 (Washington, D.C.)
402-476-1400 (Lincoln)
402-758-8981 (Omaha)
308-632-6295 (Scottsbluff)
www.johanns.senate.gov

Representative Jeff Fortenberry - 01
301 South 13th Street, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68508
125 S. 4th Street, Suite 101, Norfolk, NE 68701
P.O. Box377629 Broad Street, Fremont, NE 68026
Lincoln: (402) 438-1598
Norfolk: (402) 379-2064
Fremont: (402) 727-0888
Washington D.C. :(202) 225-4806
www.fortenberry.house.gov

Representative Lee Terry - 02
11717 Burt Street, Suite 106, Omaha, NE 68154
Washington DC: (202) 225-4155
Omaha: (402) 397-9944
www.leeterryforms.house.gov

Representative Adrian Smith - 03
416 Valley View Drive Suite 600, Scottsbluff, NE 69361
1811 West Second Street Suite 105, Grand Island, NE 68803
Washington DC: (202) 225-6435
Scottsbluff: (308) 633-6333
Grand island: (308) 384-3900
www.adriansmith.house.gov

Also, if you are not sure who your State Senator is there is a great new function on the Nebraska Unicameral website that will tell you what district you are in! Visit the Nebraska Legislature site where you will find a map of the state. In the lower right corner of the map you will find a "search the map" box where you can enter your street address and city. Hit the search button and then click on the arrow that appears on the map and your Senator and District number will pop up on the map.

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Play to Recall Hiroshima-Nagasaki

The Lincoln chapter of NFP is sponsoring the reading/performance of Foie Gras and the Public Servant on August 6 at 7 PM at the Unitarian Church in Lincoln located at 6300 A Street:

The play, by Hayashi Kyoko, a victim of the bombing of Nagasaki who lived with radiation sickness for over forty years after the Nagasaki bombing, tells of Japanese and American mass killings. Born in Nagasaki, Kyoko went to Shanghai in the 1930s but returned to Nagasaki in 1945 to go to school. Instead she was required to work in a munitions factory where she was laboring when the Nagasaki bomb fell and afflicted her with her fragile health for the rest of her life. She began writing in 1962, mainly short stories and novels but also two plays. For her work she received the Akutagawa Prize, the Kawabata Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize, three of Japan's highest literary honors.

Foie Gras and the Public Servant was written in the 1980s, broadcast on Japanese radio, and subsequently produced in Japan. The action takes place on the green fields of the dead in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C. at a time when a tourist Japanese medical doctor named Okita visits the place. There he remembers how he, in 1945, then a medical student, entered the atomic wasteland of Nagasaki. As he wanders in this cemetery, he meets the Japanese widow of an American war veteran, Bob, buried as a vet but capable of appearing from the the other side. As Okita meets Bob’s ghost emerging from his grave, Bob recalls his romance with his wife, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan death march. Meanwhile Bob's two grandchildren play in Arlington to the tunes of a military funeral while Okita recalls Nagasaki. Ironically both men receive a reward for their service in war, the one man an appointment as a public servant, the other fois gras and champagne.

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NFP Scholarships to High School Seniors

Carol Windrum

Nebraskans for Peace is offering scholarships to graduating high school seniors. Three $500 scholarships and six $100 scholarships will be awarded to seniors who wish to pursue a college education. The awards, based upon written essays, will be evenly divided among the three congressional districts. The recipients will be students who wish to further their education in an area consistent with the mission of Nebraskans for Peace: peace with justice through community building, education and political action.

Applications should go within the body of an email (not as an attachment) to NFPscholarships@gmail.com on or before April 15, 2010. Winners will be notified no later than April 22, 2010.

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Nebraskans for Peace {dot} ORG

Welcome to our newly redesigned Web site.

This new version of NebraskansforPeace.org is meant to enhance our efforts at community-building, education and political action in 2010. We will continue to focus on turning off the violence in our schools, working for peace and international law, exposing the threats of StratCom's offensive missions, organizing for civil rights and economic justice, and defending our environment. Our bi-monthly media publication, the Nebraska Report, will continue to be offered as a PDF to download and all of its content will be posted as Articles to share online.

As a statewide organization, we have also built into the site structure a place for local Chapters to thrive -- to work together and share what works. With 11 Chapters currently across the state, we feel providing a online resource will help them grow and be more successful in their own communities while working for the goals of Nebraskans for Peace.

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