To Do: Fight World Hunger

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/ten_things
From the Nation:
1 Write letters to the editor and op-ed articles in your local paper calling on the government to cut or end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains and dump their surpluses on the developing world at sub-market prices. This ultimately places poor communities at the mercy of volatile global commodity prices. Learn [...]

Peace Corps threatened

You may have already heard that the Continuing Resolution for 2009 budgets just $340 million for the Peace Corps- just a $9 million increase over the 2008 budget.  This increase will result in hundreds of fewer spots in the Peace Corps due to costly new security procedures worldwide.  I am emailing you to contact President Obama today to increase this number to [...]

FREE THE SHMINISTIM – ISRAEL’S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

http://december18th.org/
The Shministim – all about ages 16, 17, 18 and in the 12th grade – are a new breed of conscientious objectors in Israel and right now they are taking a stand. They believe in a better, more peaceful future for themselves and for Israelis and Palestinians, and they are refusing to join the [...]

A personal Kenyan note regarding Obama

This was sent to me from my friend Beryl. She is a 20-something young Kenyan woman. Just a different perspective…
For a couple of months now America was taken to a test and while the rest of world knew the answer they wanted, they still put America to test anyway.
I am amazed, at how highly America [...]

AJWS action for DARFUR now!

Just yesterday, Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced a resolution (S. Res. 660) calling for an expansion of the U.N. arms embargo on Sudan. This legislation is a critical step toward stopping the arms flow fueling the genocide in Darfur. We need your help to make sure it passes.
According to a 2005 U.N. Security [...]

NBC, the olympics and Darfur

http://action.ajws.org/campaign/didyouknow_nbc
Did you know that NBC owns the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
Did you know that NBC paid almost $900 million for this privilege?
Did you know that NBC will broadcast more than 1,000 hours of the Olympics on its various stations and hopes to sell $1.1 billion in Olympic ad sales?
Did [...]

G8 action call on Darfur

PHR is working together with Human Rights First and other
advocacy groups to ask the G8 countries – US, Canada, Japan, the
UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia – to act on Darfur.
In two weeks, the G8 leaders meet in Japan for their annual
Summit to debate action on issues of global concern. If the
violence in Darfur – [...]

Have HIV, will (not) travel

 
Call on governments to lift HIV travel restrictions
Introduction
In advance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York from June 10- 11, the World AIDS Campaign and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance urge organizations to sign onto a letter from civil society to the UN missions and Heads of State of countries that [...]

Things are getting uglier for the African refugees here…

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985061.html

Do something!

Bring Life Saving Global AIDS Legislation to a Vote Now

The greatly improved and expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is stalled in the Senate’s legislative process. The bill authorizes $50 billion in funding and largely focuses on evidence- and human rights-based treatment, prevention and care programs. It must be passed [...]