Weekly Justice Highlights

Empowering Women: Urge governments to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1324 that ensures women’s participation in peace-building and issues a strong call to end sexual violence in conflict located here (International action available; Act before Oct. 21)

World Food Day October 16: Individuals are invited to send a postcard to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her leadership on global food security at (Act as soon as possible)

Care of Earth: Urge Jairam Ramesh not to bow to corporate pressure and to stand by the report of his own Regional Ofice in the case of the Dhamra port in Orissa (International action available)

Other Potential Actions:
Urge USAID to buy local in Sudan to support women farmers – not giant agribusinesses

Urge President Obama to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – that would give communities what they need to make decisions about how their resources are used at

Recent American Poverty Statistics state that 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty and 1 in 5 children do. Simultaneously, some legislators in Congress desire to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans. Urge legislators to cut taxes for working families not millionaires

Urge automakers to reduce their vehicles’ smog-forming and global warming emissions at

A prayer service for the International Day for Eradication of Poverty (October 17)

U.S. Election resources can be found at www.networklobby.org Resources include: Guide to state/local races, information about current Congressional members, a short video “Health Reform Explained”

Louisville: The annual trip to the School of Americas is being organized by KITLAC. The bus(es) will leave Louisville at 5 a.m. on November 20 from the Crowne Plaza Hotel (830 Phillips Lane) in Louisville and return late Sunday evening (hopefully by 11p.m. or midnight). Cost for bus is $75.00. Hotel accommodations can also be made at an additional cost by KITLAC. For more information and registration, contact Mary Ann Lambert at 502.425.3844 or malambert22@bellsouth.net Deadline for registration is October 29, 2010

Louisville: The 4th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture featuring a presentation by Bernice Johnson Reagon will speak on The Civil Rights Movement and Students: Creating a Vital, Transformative Change in the Struggle for American Freedom on November 5 at 6 p.m. at Comstock Hall (U of L School of Music)