The Huffington Post's Sam Stein has reported that Senator Dan Inouye might remove or significantly weaken Senator Al Franken's anti-rape amendment, which passed earlier this month by a bipartisan 68-30 vote in the Senate. Take action by calling or emailing his office at the number or address included in this post.

Inouye's office, sources say, has been lobbied by defense contractors adamant that the language of the Franken amendment would leave them overly exposed to lawsuits and at constant risk of having contracts dry up.

Jamie Leigh Jones, 19 years old at the time she signed up with Halliburton/KBR, was gang-raped by her fellow employees in  Baghdad. When she contacted her supervisors about it, she was imprisoned in a shipping container and "warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job." She was prevented from bringing court charges against her employer because her employment contract relegated sexual assault allegations to private arbitration. 

Al Franken's amendment prohibits the federal government from giving defense contracts to companies that  "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court."

We need to show Senator Inouye that he represents the women and people of this country first, before the big lobbyists and corporations. Asian Americans need to stand up for women's rights on this issue, because these rights are human rights. No one should be able to deny a rape victim her day in court. 

Call Senator Inouye's office and tell him not to remove OR water down Sen. Franken's anti-rape amendment! 

Take Action Now! Call 202-224-3934 or email Sen. Inouye on his web page at http://inouye.senate.gov/Contact/Email-Form.cfm