International AIDS Day: On World AIDS Day, a new film highlighting the abuse of women and the fight against AIDS in Africa will premiere nationally on Showtime starting tonight. Check the schedule here.
Act by December 2: Urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stand for the people of Sudan and start applying strong sanctions against Bashir. (Look on left side - click on send your postcard)
Promoting Peace: Urge Representatives and Senators to live up to the demands of the Budget Control Act and to oppose reducing or eliminating spending cuts to the military. There is danger that an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act will be voted on this week that will eliminate cuts to defense as outlined in sequestration.
Care of Earth: Journey of the Universe film will be broadcast on PBS in December and continue over the next two years at various stations. Check local listings as well as the list of showings on the Journey of the Universe website.
Empowering Women: Two women housekeepers whose faces were edited onto a “sexy” body of a bikini-clad woman holding a surfboard were posted on the wall inside the Hyatt hotel. Urge Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian to reinstate two women with back pay.
Opposing the Iraq War: Urge federal legislators to support amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act that end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cut the Pentagon budget redirecting the money to human needs.
Urge the Environmental Protection Agency to update the Clean Air Act and to stop toxic air pollution from oil and gas drilling.
Call or write U.S. Senators (202.224.3121; not toll free) to vote for the Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011 (S. 1917). This legislation is an extension of the Payroll Tax cut set to expire on December 31, 2011.
Rumor has it that a Secret Farm Bill is being written behind closed doors. Individuals are invited to contact federal legislators telling them that an open and transparent Farm Bill process is important to you.
A new documentary, The Thick Dark Fog,” shines a light on the traumatic boarding school experience through the telling of personal stories. The film focuses on Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota who was forced to attend a federal government boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the 1950s. Littlemoon says his culture, language and spirituality were brutally suppressed. More information is located here.
The LCWR Global Concerns Committee has issued a resolution focusing on the critical need for economic justice.
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