Nuclear Weapons: Urge Senators to ratify the new START Treaty (make world safer of nuclear weapons).
Women: Urge U.S. federal legislators to pass the International Violence Against Women Act and take action to end abuse.
Care of Earth: Urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help set up a Global Climate Fund (one that is fair and equitably governed) at the upcoming UN conference in Cancun (The send button is on right so bring horizontal bar at bottom way over to right).
Immigration: U.S. citizens are invited to contact federal legislators urging them to support the DREAM Act as a first step toward comprehensive immigration reform.
Other Potential Actions
Urge U.S. Representatives to extend unemployment benefits that expire on November 30.
Thank President Obama for his support of a peaceful and stable Sudan and to continue to press for peace.
Urge Congressional representatives to do what she/he can to support genocide-free investing .
The Story of Electronics by Annie Leonard is available.
Louisville, KY: Archbishop Joseph Kurtz is hosting at the Cathedral of the Assumption (433 S. Fifth Street) an evening prayer for life on November 27 at 7 p.m. This event springs from an unprecedented request by Pope Benedict XVI for a worldwide vigil for all newly developing human life.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Weekly Justice Highlights
Empowering Women: Urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call on the Security Council to protect civilians in armed conflict, especially women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Empowering Women: Urge Senators to ask Senator Kerry for a vote to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Descrimination Against Women
Trafficking of Persons: Call U.S. Representatives (1.202.224.3121)urging them to pass the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and Victims Support Act (H.R. 5575) that seeks to combat sex trafficking of children in America.
Nuclear Weapons: Urge Senators to ratify the new START Treaty (make world safer of nuclear weapons)
Immigration: Tell U.S. Senators to support the DREAM Act
Other Potential Actions:
Urge Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to put Indian lives over foreign profit of foreign nuclear companies (international action available)
Urge David Axelrod to persuade President Obama in promoting fair trade
Fr. Mario Bartolini, a Passionist priest is facing legal action in Peru for his human rights activity on behalf of indigenous people and people living in poverty there. Urge the courts of Peru to recognize the position of social and legal justice for the peasents of Barranquita and to recognize their rights to possess their own traditional land over the economic desires of powerful multinational businesses interests (international action available)
Urge President Obama to recommit to the Middle East Peace Process (Scroll down)
Urge the Obama Administration to stop the delivery of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers to the Israeli military, and to investigate Israel’s violations of U.S. laws committed with Caterpillar equipment at
Join Bread for the World in ending hunger by taking the pledge. Bread for the World will donate $1 to our work to end hunger. You may need to wait a few moments for the "sign the pledge" button to show up on the top of the screen.
Urge U.S. Representatives to extend unemployment benefits that expire on November 30
Tell Kroger to promote the social responsibility they believe in by treating their workers with human dignity at
Louisville, November 24 from 7 to 8 p.m.: Bring a donation of non-perishable food for Dare to Care Food Bank to the 2nd Annual Bobby Ellis Candlelight March Against Hunger. March will be ½ mile beginning at 1701 Muhammad Ali Blvd (KY Center for African American Heritage) and end where Bobby Ellis died from hunger.
Empowering Women: Urge Senators to ask Senator Kerry for a vote to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Descrimination Against Women
Trafficking of Persons: Call U.S. Representatives (1.202.224.3121)urging them to pass the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and Victims Support Act (H.R. 5575) that seeks to combat sex trafficking of children in America.
Nuclear Weapons: Urge Senators to ratify the new START Treaty (make world safer of nuclear weapons)
Immigration: Tell U.S. Senators to support the DREAM Act
Other Potential Actions:
Urge Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to put Indian lives over foreign profit of foreign nuclear companies (international action available)
Urge David Axelrod to persuade President Obama in promoting fair trade
Fr. Mario Bartolini, a Passionist priest is facing legal action in Peru for his human rights activity on behalf of indigenous people and people living in poverty there. Urge the courts of Peru to recognize the position of social and legal justice for the peasents of Barranquita and to recognize their rights to possess their own traditional land over the economic desires of powerful multinational businesses interests (international action available)
Urge President Obama to recommit to the Middle East Peace Process (Scroll down)
Urge the Obama Administration to stop the delivery of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers to the Israeli military, and to investigate Israel’s violations of U.S. laws committed with Caterpillar equipment at
Join Bread for the World in ending hunger by taking the pledge. Bread for the World will donate $1 to our work to end hunger. You may need to wait a few moments for the "sign the pledge" button to show up on the top of the screen.
Urge U.S. Representatives to extend unemployment benefits that expire on November 30
Tell Kroger to promote the social responsibility they believe in by treating their workers with human dignity at
Louisville, November 24 from 7 to 8 p.m.: Bring a donation of non-perishable food for Dare to Care Food Bank to the 2nd Annual Bobby Ellis Candlelight March Against Hunger. March will be ½ mile beginning at 1701 Muhammad Ali Blvd (KY Center for African American Heritage) and end where Bobby Ellis died from hunger.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Election 2010 results for all Congressional races
Care of Earth: Phone Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (202.647.6575, touch 1 to leave message) urging her not to rush to judgment on the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Urge her to demand the best information from her staff and the pipeline company on the environmental and safety risks of the pipeline.
Millennium Development Goal of Building Partnerships for Development: Tell U.S. Representatives of the importance of the United Nations for effective global policy
Other Potential Actions:
Urge the U.S. State Department in Washington, San Jose and Tegucigalpa to grant visas to Gerardo Brenes and Alejandro Ramirez so that they can speak about human rights at the November School of Americas Vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 19-21. Visit www.soaw.org for more information and to take action (scroll down and it is the first story).
Call U.S. Senators and urge them to co-sponsor the Sudan Peace and Stability Act of 2010 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 71.
Urge U.S. Representatives to support House Resolution 1355, which seeks to release prisoners of conscience in Indonesia
Kentucky: An update on Greg Wilson’s execution delay is available
Care of Earth: Phone Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (202.647.6575, touch 1 to leave message) urging her not to rush to judgment on the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Urge her to demand the best information from her staff and the pipeline company on the environmental and safety risks of the pipeline.
Millennium Development Goal of Building Partnerships for Development: Tell U.S. Representatives of the importance of the United Nations for effective global policy
Other Potential Actions:
Urge the U.S. State Department in Washington, San Jose and Tegucigalpa to grant visas to Gerardo Brenes and Alejandro Ramirez so that they can speak about human rights at the November School of Americas Vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 19-21. Visit www.soaw.org for more information and to take action (scroll down and it is the first story).
Call U.S. Senators and urge them to co-sponsor the Sudan Peace and Stability Act of 2010 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 71.
Urge U.S. Representatives to support House Resolution 1355, which seeks to release prisoners of conscience in Indonesia
Kentucky: An update on Greg Wilson’s execution delay is available
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