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• We must pursue diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine

  
  The United States remains steadfast in its support of Ukraine amidst the Russian invasion. The U.S. government has consistently provided humanitarian, financial and military aid.

  
  Yet there are ways we can help to de-escalate this war while preserving a free and independent Ukraine and reducing the threat of nuclear war. It starts with engaging in diplomatic talks with Russia and Ukraine.
  
  Sign if you agree with Ro Khanna:

  To de-escalate the war in Ukraine, we must have diplomatic engagement with Russia.
• Stand Up for Ilhan Omar: Email Your Democratic Congress Member Now

  Incoming Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has threatened to kick Congresswoman Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
  
  Click below to ask your Democratic Congress Member to stand up to this.
  

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• NY State Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs has to go!

  New York lost FOUR winnable Democratic Congressional seats, thereby handing over the U.S. House of Representatives to the insurrectionist Republican Party.
  
  We need a leader who realizes the severity of our nation’s state and the urgency to hold onto every single seat we possibly can.

  Please add your name and comments to this petition to the New York State Democratic Party.
  
  

  New York should have turned out blue, but State Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs single-handedly allowed New York to be in a position to flip the House red — and he needs to take responsibility.
  
  That’s why Democratic Committee members are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to drop party chairman Jay Jacobs for his lack of effort in defending our democracy.
• Tell Washington DC to Help End Mass Incarceration

  The Washington D.C. City Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety has sent to the full City Council a Revised Criminal Code Act.

  Click below to email the City Council and Mayor.

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• Tell Congress and President Biden to make NATO cease its nuclear war rehearsals

  NATO is rehearsing for nuclear war: flying B-52 long-range bombers from North Dakota to Europe, flying pretend bombing flights over Belgium, the North Sea, and the United Kingdom, and engaging in what NATO calls "a range of realistic and simulated events which can be found in a conflict."
  
  The danger is of provoking an actual nuclear conflict.
  

  Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

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• Tell Congress: Stop Trading Stocks

  Over three-quarters of U.S. voters want to ban Congress Members from trading stocks.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.
  
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• Ban Slavery in Our State

  
  Eighteen U.S. states plus Washington D.C. allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  
  We've been making progress on this. Colorado amended its Constitution to outlaw slavery in 2018, as did Nebraska and Utah in 2020. In 2022, Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vermont did the same. Other states that need their laws changed to ban slavery are: Arkansas, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Washington DC.
  
  Click below to email your governor and state legislators:

• Tell the Anti-Defamation League to Stop Engaging in Defamation

  Please add your name and comments to this petition to the Anti-Defamation League.
  

  Background on this issue is here, and at the links below.
  

  We urge you to cease defaming Congresswoman Tlaib. You've falsely accused her of anti-Semitism and of wrongly calling Israel an apartheid state, even though Israel clearly is an apartheid state, as documented by Amnesty International, Israel's B'Tselem, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory. Please apologize.
• Tell your representative to stop Manchin’s Dirty Deal!

  We need to stop this dirty giveaway to climate destroyers!
  

  Click below to email your representative.
  

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• Tell Congress: Protect our communities from cancer-causing chemicals

  
  

  In 2010, under then-President Barack Obama, the President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) declared that environmentally caused cancers were “grossly underestimated” and that these cancers “needlessly devastate American lives.” Despite the alarming conclusions, little has changed and business has continued as usual.
  
  Click below to email your Senators, Representative, President, and the Administrator of the EPA.
  
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• Create Ranked Choice Voting in Your State

  Click below to email your state legislators and governor.
  

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• Tell Congress and White House: Stop Stealing Money from Starving Afghan Kids

  Tell Congress and the White House to release $7 billion in funds seized from Afghanistan, where people are selling everything, boiling grass to eat, and facing starvation in large numbers!
  

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  Email your Representative, two Senators, and President by clicking below.

• Tell President Biden to Conclude the Iran Nuclear Deal Now

  Click below to email the White House.
  
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• Tell Congress and the White House to End the War on Yemen

  The Biden Administration and Congress are keeping the weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. military participating in the war.
  
  If both houses of Congress could vote to end U.S. participation in the war when Trump had promised a veto, surely they can do so again now.

  Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

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• Say No to Nancy Pelosi's Dangerous Taiwan Trip

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan has boosted tensions and could spark a military conflict between the United States and China.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators, telling them to speak out for diplomacy instead of provocation.
  
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• Tell Congress and White House to Make the Federal Minimum Wage $15

  We are currently in the longest period without a minimum wage increase since Congress established the federal minimum wage in 1938.
  

  Click below to email Congress and the White House. Click here to learn more.
  

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• Tell Congress and White House Not to Start WWIII

  The White House says it is "exploring" sending fighter jets to Ukraine, even though President Biden in March expressed opposition, arguing that he was avoiding WWIII.

  Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

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• Tell Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn to Apologize and Resign from Leadership Posts

  Sign this petition below. Learn more here.

  To: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn
  
  We need progressive leaders who are willing to fight for our rights -- and refuse to support politicians who want to take them away.
  
  Your all-out support for anti-choice Congressman Henry Cuellar disqualifies you for congressional leadership. We urge you to apologize and resign, making way for new leaders who are willing and able to help our country move toward a progressive future.
• Sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act

  Pramila is teaming up with Senator Elizabeth Warren to introduce the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act to overhaul our country's judicial ethics laws and restore public faith in our court system. Can you help Pramila build critical support for this bill so it gets a vote in the House and Senate by adding your name as a citizen co-sponsor today?

• Make Your State a Safe Haven for Abortion Rights

  If you live in one of the states at right, you can click below to email your state legislators and governor to urge them to make your state as welcoming as possible to those from other states in need of abortion services.
  

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• Ask the rest of the world to lead by reining in Russia & the United States

  Sign this petition to the world's governments:
  

  Neither the United States nor Russia is a party to the International Criminal Court – and the United States punishes other governments for supporting the ICC.
  
  Both the United States and Russia defy the rulings of the International Court of Justice.
  
  Of 18 major human rights treaties, Russia is party to only 11, and the United States to only 5, as few as any nation on Earth: https://indicators.ohchr.org.
  
  Both nations violate treaties at will, including the United Nations Charter, Kellogg Briand Pact and other laws against war.
  
  While most of the world upholds disarmament and anti-weapons treaties, the United States and Russia refuse to support and openly defy major treaties.
  
  There is a problem in world leadership.
  
  Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine – as well as the previous years of U.S./Russian struggle over Ukraine, including U.S.-backed regime change in 2014, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the mutual arming of conflict in Donbas -- highlight this problem in global leadership.
  
  Russia and the United States stand as rogue regimes outside the Landmines Treaty, the Arms Trade Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (prohibiting their use, production and transfer), and many other treaties. Russia stands accused of using cluster bombs in Ukraine today, while U.S.-made cluster munitions have been used by Saudi Arabia near civilian areas in Yemen.
  
  The United States and Russia are the top two dealers of weaponry to the rest of the world, together accounting for a majority of weapons sold and shipped. Meanwhile most places experiencing wars manufacture no weapons at all. Weapons are imported to most of the world from a very few places.
  
  Neither the United States nor Russia supports the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Neither complies with the disarmament requirement of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the United States actually keeps nuclear weapons in five other nations and considers putting them into more, while Russia has talked of putting nuclear weapons in Belarus and recently seemed to threaten their use over the war in Ukraine.
  
  The United States and Russia are the top two users of the veto power at the UN Security Council, each frequently shutting down democracy with a single vote.
  
  There are about 200 other governments on Earth, and they shouldn't stand for this.
  
  We appeal to the world's non-imperial governments to democratize the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court -- and to impose the rule of law by super-majority consensus on the planet's rogue states.
  
• Create Ranked Choice Voting in Hawaii

  You can ask your Hawaii state legislators and governor to create ranked choice voting -- at least, as a first step, for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats.
  
  Click below to send an email asking your Hawaii legislators to pass SB 2162 / HB 1882.

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• If you’ve ever opposed U.S. militarism or wars, please sign this petition in solidarity with antiwar activists in Russia.

  The horrific invasion of Ukraine has sparked brave antiwar activism from Russian citizens -- including artists, academics, journalists and human rights defenders -- who’ve spoken out at great risk to themselves. Russia’s government has responded with harsh repression and jailings -- while slandering antiwar protesters as "hooligans" and “traitors.”
  
  Please sign this petition to the Russian government protesting the persecution of antiwar advocates and activists. (And feel free to add your own comments to the petition.)
  
  We'll deliver the petition to Russia's embassy in Washington And we’ll use every channel we can to make the Russian public aware of our solidarity message with those inside Russia who are opposing their country’s war in Ukraine.

  To the Government of the Russian Federation:
  
         We write to strongly protest the jailing and prosecution of brave Russian citizens who oppose their government’s invasion and war in Ukraine. These Russian citizens are nonviolently speaking out – something that is legal in any society with a legitimate claim to be democratic.
  
         We who are signing this petition have opposed our own government here in the United States when it has engaged in military aggression.  
  
         We call on you to empty your jails of those who have spoken out or demonstrated against your military actions in Ukraine, drop all charges against these nonviolent protesters, cease the detentions, and allow the kind of open debate that free societies permit.

  Background:
  >> Amnesty International: Russia: Authorities launch witch-hunt to catch anyone sharing anti-war views
  >> Guardian: ‘Our voices are louder if we stay’: Russian anti-war activists refuse to flee

• Email Congress and the White House: Threatening Regime Change Is Endangering Human Survival on This Planet

  President Biden's declaration in a speech on March 26 that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" sent shock waves around the world.
  
  People instantly recognized that Biden had boosted the chances of a U.S.-Russia nuclear war that would quickly end most human life on Earth.
  
  Click below to email your Representative, two Senators, and the President that we do not want this.
  
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• Tell Biden to Act

  Many popular demands, advanced for years by activist groups, included in the 2020 Democratic Party Platform, and promised by the Biden for President campaign are still achievable by executive order.

  Click below to email the White House to tell Biden to act!
  

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• Email Congress: No to a No-Fly Zone!

  A no-fly zone would amount to a direct war between nuclear-armed militaries.

  Click below to email your Representative, two Senators, and the President that we do not want this.

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• Email Congress and White House: We Demand Restraint, Diplomacy, and Negotiations

  Russia has put nuclear weapons on high alert. At long last it is time for the U.S. government to engage in serious negotiations that involve some compromise. There's only all life on Earth to consider.

  Click below to email your Representative, two Senators, and the White House.

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• Clemency for Bobby Bostic

  When he was 16, Bobby Bostic was sentenced to 241 years in prison for two armed robberies he committed in Missouri on the same day. Bobby has been in prison since 1995 and is serving the longest sentence ever given to a child in Missouri for non-homicidal actions. The judge who sentenced him, Evelyn Baker, has publicly stated Bobby’s sentence is the only one she regrets after 25 years as a judge.
   
  While in prison, Bobby has written over a dozen books. He has also used the time to complete his highschool equivalency, over 30 short courses and an associate degree. When released, he has hopes of launching a charity aimed at reaching out to disadvantaged youth.
   
  When the U.S. Supreme Court denied his case, the ACLU worked with the Missouri Legislature to pass a law based on Bobby's case that allows teens imprisoned for life for crimes other than murder to get a parole board review after 15 years. Last year Bobby was granted parole and is set to be released on November 9, 2022.
   
  However, being granted parole isn’t a guaranteed ticket to freedom or the rights that should be afforded to all human beings. People on parole face many barriers to accessing services and discrimination for things as essential as housing. Additionally, they contend with high levels of surveillance and scrutiny so that even a technical error can send them back to prison.
   
  Bobby deserves a fair shot at full re-entry into his community and a true second chance at life. Clemency would grant him that. Send an email to Governor Parson to urge immediate clemency.
  
  Please take action now.
  
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• Messages of solidarity from antiwar activists in the United States to the antiwar people of Russia

  Please sign the following statement, and add your own comment:

  While governments make propaganda, pursuing their own horrific wars while denouncing the wars of governments they don’t like, people all over the world want peace and oppose the cruelty of war. Seeing news of antiwar demonstrations by courageous people in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere in Russia, we here in the United States express our warm solidarity with those protests. The terrible destruction being inflicted in Ukraine by Russia’s armed forces is as abhorrent as the terrible destruction inflicted in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries in the deceptive name of the “war on terror” by the armed forces of the United States. We denounce all such killing, no matter what the nationality of the military forces -- and we pledge to rededicate ourselves to nonviolently resisting the militarism of the U.S. government.
• Urgent! Tell Your Representative to Sign onto the War Powers Letter to Biden

  It’s urgent that your representative in the House hear from you as a constituent – urging an immediate sign-on to the War Powers letter to President Biden that has been initiated by Congressmen Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Warren Davidson (R-OH).
  
  The letter says that “the American people, through their representatives in Congress, deserve to have a say before U.S. troops are placed in harm’s way or the U.S. becomes involved in yet another foreign conflict.”
  
  Please take action now.
  
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• Email Congress and the White House. No War in Ukraine!

  
  Two governments possessing 90 percent of the nuclear weapons on Earth are on a collision course toward war.
  
  Click below to email your Representative, two Senators, and the President.
  
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• Vote Yes on CalCare AB1400

  Californians, click below to quickly email your Assemblymember and ask them to vote yes on AB 1400.
  

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• Tell Your Senators and Representative to Advocate for the Elimination of ICBMs

  More than 60 organizations have issued a joint statement calling for elimination of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
  
  “Rather than being any kind of deterrent, ICBMs are the opposite -- a foreseeable catalyst for nuclear attack,” the statement points out. “ICBMs certainly waste billions of dollars, but what makes them unique is the threat that they pose to all of humanity.”
  
  As a constituent, you can exert vital pressure by clicking below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you change the subject line and add your own words to the letter.)

• Tell Congressman Evans that you expect much better from him

  
  A recent RootsAction report identifies members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Rep. Dwight Evans scored a full 65 percent wrong.
  
  Click below to quickly communicate with him, as one of his constituents.
   
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• Tell Congresswoman Scanlon that you expect much better from her

  
  A recent RootsAction report identifies members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon scored a full 60 percent wrong.
  
  Click below to quickly communicate with her, as one of her constituents.
   
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• Tell Congresswoman Garcia that you expect much better from her

  
  A recent RootsAction report identifies members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Rep. Sylvia Garcia scored a full 70 percent wrong.
  
  Click below to quickly communicate with her, as one of her constituents.
   
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• Tell Congresswoman Lawrence that you expect much better from her

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Brenda Lawrence as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Lawrence scored a full 75 percent wrong.
   
  Click below to quickly communicate with her, as one of her constituents.
   
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• Tell Congresswoman Blunt Rochester that you expect much better from her

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Lisa Blunt Rochester as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Blunt Rochester scored a full 80 percent wrong.
   
  Click below to quickly communicate with her, as one of her constituents.
   
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• Tell Congressman Morelle that you expect much better from him

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Joe Morelle as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Morelle scored a full 80 percent wrong.
   
  Click below to quickly communicate with him, as one of his constituents.
   
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• Tell Congressman Panetta that you expect much better from him

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Jimmy Panetta as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Panetta scored a full 80 percent wrong.
   
  Click below to quickly communicate with him, as one of his constituents.
   
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• Tell Congressman Norcross that you expect much better from him

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Donald Norcross as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Norcross scored a full 90 percent wrong.
   
  Click below to quickly communicate with him, as one of his constituents.
   
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• Tell Congresswoman Dean that you expect much better from her

  A new report from RootsAction.org identifies Madeleine Dean as one of the “top six” members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who are “Progressive In Name Only” -- or, PINOs.  In fact, Congresswoman Dean ranked as the #1 PINO of them all. In our review of all members of the Caucus on 10 key progressive issues, Dean was the only one to score “a full 100 percent wrong.”
  
  Click below to quickly communicate with her, as one of her constituents.
  
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• Senate Democrats Have Started Rejecting Rahm Emanuel -- Now We Need More of Them

  Senate Democrats have begun announcing that they will vote against confirming Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador to Japan.
  

  We need more of them. Click below to email yours.
  

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• Tell the DNC - Remove Byron Brown from his position at the Democratic National Committee

  No one who ran against a democratic candidate in the general election should be allowed to hold a position at the DNC. Allowing Brown to continue in his position sets a bad precedent for the party.

• Tell your Senators to Co-Sponsor the Fossil Free Finance Act

  The Fossil Free Finance Act would require the Federal Reserve to hold big banks accountable for financing fossil fuels.
  
  Under this legislation, big banks would be required to align their financing with science-based emission targets and our obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement.
  
  There are 21 co-sponsors on the bill so far in the House, but we need more in the Senate order to get this bill up for a vote. Will you send a message to your senators right now urging them to co-sponsor the Fossil Free Finance Act?

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• Tell Congress: No More Weapons to Saudi Arabia

  President Biden is stepping into President Trump's shoes as weapons dealer to Saudi Arabia, even as the horrific war on Yemen continues.

  Let's Say No to this. Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and the White House.

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• The Senate Must Act Quickly and Pass the Build Back Better Act

  

  From Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
  

  The House just passed the Build Back Better Act — meaning we are one step closer to making transformational investments in our communities, families, and environment.

  Working families can't wait any longer. Will you join me by adding your name to our urgent petition?

  To the U.S. Senate:
  
  I'm calling on the Senate to immediately pass the Build Back Better Act.
• Senate Democrats Have Started Rejecting Rahm Emanuel -- Now We Need More of Them

  Senate Democrats have begun announcing that they will vote against confirming Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador to Japan.
  

  We need more of them. Click below to email yours.
  

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• Tell the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to Take Back a Humanitarian Award Given to Hillary Clinton

  

  Hillary Clinton should not be receiving a humanitarian award. Allowing that to stand would suggest to future officials that they can be rewarded as humanitarians, and specifically for "contributions to the field of children’s mental health," even if their actual record is dramatically opposed to that agenda.

  Clinton has been a leading opponent of universal health coverage, a reliable advocate for corporate trade and Wall Street, a board member of Walmart, a major player in the elimination of welfare as we knew it, a supporter of increased incarceration, and one of the most reliably hawkish supporters of sanctions, wars, coups, and military spending.

  Please add your name below to this petition:

  To the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:
  
  Rescind the Catchers in the Rye Humanitarian Award given to Hillary Clinton.
  
• Email Mayor and City Council: Protect DC Residents from PFAS Contaminants

  The EPA does not regulate PFAS (per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances), which are highly toxic and many are known to bioaccumulate in fish. Unlike most states, Washington, D.C. has not established regulations for PFAS.
  
  As a resident of the District of Columbia you can click below to send an email to Mayor Bowser and all of the DC city councilmembers demanding they take steps to protect district residents from PFAS contaminants.

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• Tell Your Senators and Representative to Read -- and Heed -- the Vital New Article About ICBMs Published by The Nation Magazine

  The new article by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and RootsAction national director Norman Solomon explains that experts are calling for an “act of sanity that could save humanity: Shutting down all of the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
  
  As the article points out, “discarding all ICBMs could be accomplished unilaterally by the United States with no downside. Even if Russia chose not to follow suit, dismantling the potentially cataclysmic land-based missiles would make the world safer for everyone on the planet.”
  
  Now, as a constituent, you can exert vital pressure by clicking below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you change the subject line and add your own words to the letter.)

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• Tell Your Senators and Representative to Insist on U.S. Military Restraint in Taiwan Crisis

  
  

  A co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S.-China Policy, Joseph Gerson, warned that “Taiwan has become the most dangerous flashpoint for great power and potentially nuclear war.” He pointed out: “Preventing accidents or miscalculations (political as well as military) that could trigger armed conflict that could easily escalate to nuclear war is now an urgent priority.”
  
  Now, in October 2021, those dangerous tensions have continued to escalate. Click below to email your Senators and Representative. It works best if you edit the subject line and message with your own words.

• Urge Governor Gavin Newsom to Sign The California Commission on Human Rights into Law

  Californians, click below to quickly email Governor Gavin Newsom.
  

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• Kräv skydd för visselblåsare om klimatet

  
  

  Skicka detta viktiga budskap till parlamentets ledamöter idag! Lägg gärna till dina egna ord!

• Exija protección para los denunciantes del clima

  
  

  Por favor, envíe hoy mismo este mensaje crucial a los miembros del Parlamento. ¡Siéntase libre de añadir sus propias palabras!

• Zahtevajte zaščito podnebnih žvižgačev

  
  

  Še danes pošljite to ključno sporočilo poslancem parlamenta! Dodajte svoje besede!/b>

• Żądanie ochrony dla informatorów klimatycznych

  
  

  Proszę wysłać tę ważną wiadomość do członków Parlamentu już dziś! Zachęcamy do dodania własnych słów!

• Žiadajte ochranu pre informátorov o klimatických zmenách

  
  

  Pošlite tento zásadný odkaz poslancom Parlamentu ešte dnes! Neváhajte pridať vlastné slová!

• Cereți protecție pentru cei care denunță schimbările climatice

  
  

  Vă rugăm să trimiteți astăzi acest mesaj crucial membrilor Parlamentului! Simțiți-vă liberi să adăugați propriile cuvinte!

• Demand Protection for Climate Whistleblowers

  
  

  Please send this crucial message to Parliament members today! Feel free to add your own words!

• Eis bescherming voor klimaatklokkenluiders

  
  

  Stuur deze cruciale boodschap vandaag nog naar de parlementsleden! Voel je vrij om je eigen woorden toe te voegen!

• Exigez la protection des dénonciateurs du changement climatique

  
  

  Veuillez envoyer ce message crucial aux membres du Parlement aujourd'hui ! N'hésitez pas à ajouter vos propres mots !

• Reikalaukite klimato kaitos pranešėjų apsaugos

  
  

  Šiandien nusiųskite šią svarbią žinią Parlamento nariams! Nedvejodami pridėkite savo žodžius!

• Chiedete protezione per gli informatori sul clima

  
  

  Per favore mandate questo messaggio cruciale ai membri del Parlamento oggi stesso! Sentitevi liberi di aggiungere le vostre parole!

• Pieprasiet klimata trauksmes cēlēju aizsardzību

  
  

  Lūdzu, nosūtiet šo svarīgo vēstījumu Parlamenta deputātiem jau šodien! Nevilcinieties pievienot arī savus vārdus!

• Védelmet követelünk a klímavédelmi bejelentők számára

  
  

  Kérjük, küldje el ezt a fontos üzenetet a parlamenti képviselőknek még ma! Nyugodtan írja meg a saját szavait!

• Demand Protection for Climate Whistleblowers

  
  

  Please send this crucial message to Parliament members today! Feel free to add your own words!

• Απαιτήστε προστασία για τους πληροφοριοδότες του κλίματος

  
  

  Παρακαλούμε στείλτε αυτό το κρίσιμο μήνυμα στα μέλη του Κοινοβουλίου σήμερα! Μη διστάσετε να προσθέσετε τα δικά σας λόγια!

• Fordern Sie Schutz für Klima-Whistleblower

  
  

  Bitte senden Sie diese wichtige Botschaft noch heute an die Mitglieder des Parlaments! Fühlen Sie sich frei, Ihre eigenen Worte hinzuzufügen!

• Exigez la protection des dénonciateurs du changement climatique

  
  

  Veuillez envoyer ce message crucial aux membres du Parlement aujourd'hui ! N'hésitez pas à ajouter vos propres mots !

• Vaadi suojelua ilmaston ilmiantajille

  
  

  Lähetä tämä tärkeä viesti parlamentin jäsenille tänään! Voit vapaasti lisätä omia sanojasi!

• Nõuda kaitset kliimaalaste teavitajate jaoks

  
  

  Palun saatke see oluline sõnum parlamendiliikmetele juba täna! Võite vabalt lisada oma sõnu!

• Kræv beskyttelse af klima-whistleblowere

  
  

  Send venligst dette vigtige budskab til Parlamentets medlemmer i dag! Du er velkommen til at tilføje dine egne ord!

• Požadavek na ochranu informátorů o klimatických změnách

  
  

  Pošlete prosím tuto zásadní zprávu poslancům Parlamentu ještě dnes! Neváhejte přidat vlastní slova!

• Zaštita zahtjeva od klimatskih uzbunjivača

  
  

  Molimo vas da danas pošaljete ovu ključnu poruku članovima Parlamenta! Slobodno dodajte vlastite riječi!

• Sign Now to Defend Reproductive Freedom

  The ultra-conservative Supreme Court just gave abortion access a death sentence in Texas by allowing a 6-week ban to go into place. This radical, cruel, and dangerous law cuts off access to almost ALL abortions for millions of people in Texas, and it has implications for the future of abortion access for millions of people across the country. 
  
  To be clear, this is not about health care. This is about punishing women for seeking autonomy over their bodies.
  
  We have the numbers and the power. Will you sign today to fuel our urgent fight to protect abortion?

  To the U.S. Congress:
  
  Congress must act quickly to protect every person's right to their own reproductive health care decisions and pass the Women's Health Protection Act to create a safeguard against abortion bans like these.
• Tell These Democratic Representatives and Senators to Stop Blocking Progress

  These people are blocking progress on the most consequential proposal in Congress since the New Deal: Representatives Josh Gottheimer, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Filemon Vela, Jared Golden, Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, Ed Case, Jim Costa, Kurt Schrader, and Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.

  If you live in one of their districts or states, click below to email your representative or senator. It helps to add your own words and change the subject line. Be polite. Be passionate.

• Tell Congressman Garamendi to Push Back Against ICBMs

  Rep. John Garamendi should be encouraged to keep raising major concerns about ICBMs. His voice is especially important because he chairs the readiness subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. And your voice is especially important because you're a constituent.
  
  Please encourage Congressman Garamendi to continue questioning the wisdom of sinking billions of taxpayer dollars into a new version of the ICBMs known as the "Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent."
  
  Click below to send an email to Rep. Garamendi. It helps to use your own words to revise the subject line and the body of the email.

• SalsaStaff 421482: Bulgarian BTA

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• Climate change in Bulgarian

  Изменението на климата представлява огромна заплаха за общественото здраве, околната среда, икономиката, глобалната сигурност и качеството на живот на всички хора по света. За да предоставим на нашето общество най-добрата възможност за разрешаване на климатичната криза, е от съществено значение гражданите да станат част от решението.

  Хората имат най-голяма власт да разкриват престъпленията срещу околната среда. Но те се нуждаят от силни гаранции, че могат да докладват за нарушения, без да загубят работата и кариерата си. Ако някой от лицата, подаващи сигнали за нередности, се нуждае и заслужава първокласна защита, то това са лицата, подаващи сигнали за нередности, свързани с климата.

  За съжаление повечето служители мълчат поради реалния страх от уволнение, тормоз, заплахи или дори физическо нападение. Не е приемливо хората да бъдат наранявани заради опитите си да спасят нашата планета от вреда. Гарантирането, че хората ще бъдат защитени от силен закон за сигнализиране на нередности, е първата стъпка, която ще ги окуражи да разкриват незаконни дейности, които застрашават самото съществуване на нашия обитаем свят.

  Точно сега, моля, кажете на членовете на Парламента, че законът за подаване на сигнали за нередности във вашата страна трябва да включва силна правна защита за лицата, подаващи сигнали за нередности, свързани с климата. Кажете им, че без защита срещу отмъщение и обезщетение за виктимизация служителите на компаниите за изкопаеми горива могат да бъдат уволнявани по свое усмотрение - без никакви правни средства за защита.

  Моля, изпратете това важно послание на членовете на Парламента днес! Не се колебайте да добавите свои собствени думи!

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• Απαιτήστε προστασία για τους πληροφοριοδότες του κλίματος

  Παρακαλούμε στείλτε αυτό το κρίσιμο μήνυμα στα μέλη του Κοινοβουλίου σήμερα! Μη διστάσετε να προσθέσετε τα δικά σας λόγια!

• Искане за защита на лицата, сигнализиращи за климатичните промени

  Моля, изпратете това важно послание на членовете на Парламента днес! Не се колебайте да добавите свои собствени думи!

• Exigez la protection des dénonciateurs du changement climatique

  Veuillez envoyer ce message crucial aux membres du Parlement aujourd'hui ! N'hésitez pas à ajouter vos propres mots !

• Fordern Sie Schutz für Klima-Whistleblower

  
  

  Bitte senden Sie diese wichtige Botschaft noch heute an die Mitglieder des Parlaments! Fühlen Sie sich frei, Ihre eigenen Worte hinzuzufügen!

• Ask Rep. Lee to stop pre-compromising

  Congress Member Barbara Lee has circulated a "dear colleague" letter to House Armed Services Committee chair Adam Smith asking him to support and not increase the outrageous, bigger-than-Trump military spending level proposed by President Joe Biden.
  
  Rep. Lee should not be suggesting acceptance of anything short of LOWERING military spending and MOVING funding to human and environmental crises.
  
  As a resident of California's 13th district, you can click below to send an email to Congresswoman Lee, asking her to do better. If you live in some other part of the United States, go here.

• Tell Senators to Reject Rahm Emanuel for Ambassador to Japan

  Thirty-four U.S. senators who co-sponsored the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act last year are now being asked to confirm the nomination of Rahm Emanual to be the U.S. Ambassador to Japan -- despite his record of responsibility as Chicago’s mayor for the notorious coverup of the police killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
  
  Now it’s crucial that you be heard as a constituent. You can help the Senate make the right decision as the vote nears on Emanuel’s nomination.
  
  Click below to email. It helps to use your own words to revise the subject line and the body of the email.

• Ask Rep. Pocan to stop pre-compromising

  Congress Member Mark Pocan has circulated a "dear colleague" letter to House Armed Services Committee chair Adam Smith asking him to support and not increase the outrageous, bigger-than-Trump military spending level proposed by President Joe Biden.
  
  Rep. Pocan should not be suggesting acceptance of anything short of LOWERING military spending and MOVING funding to human and environmental crises.
  
  As a resident of Wisconsin's 2nd district, you can click below to send an email to Congressman Pocan, asking him to do better. If you live in some other part of the United States, go here.

• Tell Your Senators, Representative and President Biden: Grant Asylum to Afghan Refugees

  As the humanitarian crisis escalates in Afghanistan, urge the U.S. government to grant asylum to Afghan refugees.
  
  While supporting President Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, we must warn against engaging in an air war that would continue 20 years of destructive warfare on that country.
  
  With one click below, send an email to your senators and representative as well as President Biden.
  
  It helps to use your own words to edit the subject line and the body of the email.

• Thank Your Representative for Helping to Ban Israel from Abusing Human Rights with U.S. Dollars

  H.R.2590 would prohibit Israel from using U.S. taxpayer dollars in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem for:

  • the military detention, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention;
  • the seizure and destruction of Palestinian property and homes in violation of international humanitarian law; or,
  • Israel’s unilateral annexation of Palestinian territory in violation of international humanitarian law. More information here.
    

  Click below to THANK your Representative if they are in the list of cosponsors helping advance this just cause: Betty McCollum MN-4, Bobby Rush IL-1, Danny Davis IL-7, Andre Carson IN-7, Marie Newman IL-3, Ilhan Omar MN-5, Mark Pocan WI-2, Raul Grijalva AZ-3, Rashida Tlaib MI-13, Ayanna Pressley MA-7, Cori Bush MO-1, Jamaal Bowman NY-16, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez NY-14, Jesus Garcia IL-4, Eddie Bernice Johnson TX-30, Pramila Jayapal WA-7, Earl Blumenauer OR-3, Eleanor Holmes Norton DC, Dwight Evans PA-3, Jared Huffman CA-2, Bonnie Watson Coleman NJ-12, Chellie Pingree ME-1, Peter Welch VT, Judy Chu CA-27, Donald Payne NJ-10, Lisa Blunt Rochester DE, Mark DeSaulnier CA-11, Jackie Speier CA-14, Jerry McNerney CA-9, Donald Beyer VA-8, Stephen Lynch MA-8.

• Tell Congress: Extend Eviction Moratorium and Cancel Rent/Mortgage Until Pandemic Over

  A pandemic should not be an opportunity to further increase the number of people without houses and houses without people.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

  It helps to add your own words and to change the subject line.

  Be polite. Be passionate.

• Tell Ohio Prison Officials "Hands Off Rashid"

  Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, an incarcerated advocate for prisoners’ rights, has been abruptly transferred to another prison without any of his property, and guards are reportedly threatening Rashid’s life. We must show prison officials that he has support on the outside and we are watching their every move.

  Click below to email
  Ronald Erdos, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Warden (Lucasville);
  Joseph Walters, Dep. Director VADOC;
  James Park, Interstate Compact Administrator;
  Annette Chambers-Smith, Director of Ohio Depart of Rehabilitation and Corrections; and
  Charlene Burkett, Director DOC Ombudsman Bureau (Indiana).

  It helps to add your own words and to change the subject line.

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• Tell Congress: Tax billionaires to fund the Green New Deal.

  

  Click below to sign this petition to Congress.

  It helps to add your own comments.

  Be polite. Be passionate.

  Tax billionaires to fund the Green New Deal. If they can afford to fund personal space flights, then they can afford to be taxed to help create new high-paying jobs to transform our economy and society toward sustainability.
  
• Tell Congress: End the Cuba Embargo

  Tight restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba are bad for peace, bad for business, bad for U.S. patients deprived of Cuban medicine, unpopular even among Cuban Americans, recklessly deadly in a time of pandemic, and terrible for U.S. relations with the world -- almost every nation of which votes annually to end the blockade.

  Click below to email Congress.

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  Be polite. Be passionate.

• Prevent War on Iran Yet Again

  For decades now, the U.S. government has repeatedly come close to launching a war on Iran but been dissuaded in large part by the opposition of the U.S. public. RootsAction has pressured Congresses and presidents over the years here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for peace with Iran (to cite just a sampling of our online actions).
  
  The successes in preventing this war each time are important to recognize, but we can't continue having this struggle year after year. Enough is enough!

  Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and the White House to end all war threats, drop all sanctions, and normalize cooperative, diplomatic relations with Iran.

  It helps to add your own words and to change the subject line.

  Be polite. Be passionate.

  
  
  

• Tell Congress to Deal With Monopolies

  Click below to email Congress.

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• Tell Congress: Equal Pay for Women and Paid Family Leave for All

  Click below to email Congress.

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  Be polite. Be passionate.

• Restore and Protect Net Neutrality

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators and the White House.

  It helps to add your own words and to change the subject line.

  Be polite. Be passionate.

• Tell Congress to End Deportations and Allow Citizenship.

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

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• Ban the Manufacture, Sale, or Possession of Tools for Spying on Phones

  Click below to email Congress and the White House.

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• Tell Your Representative and Senators to Act on Gun Violence

  Click below to email Congress.

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• Tell Congress to Pass the Green New Deal for Public Schools

  A bill in the House of Representatives would create a Green New Deal for Public Schools.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

  It helps to change the subject line and to add your own words.

• Urge Van Jones to Give $10 Million from Bezos to Group Resisting Abuses by Amazon

  Click below to sign this petition to Van Jones, who was just given $100 million by Jeff Bezos.

  Please give $10 million of your award to Athena, a group working to resist the damage from Amazon's concentration of power.
  
• Tell President Joe Biden: Stop Line 3

  Click below to sign this petition to President Joe Biden:

  We urge you to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to immediately reevaluate and suspend or revoke Enbridge’s Line 3 Clean Water Act Section 404 permit. The Army Corps failed to consider significant information on Line 3’s impacts in reaching its original determination, including the risks of oil spills, climate change effects, and consequences to Indigenous peoples. The Army Corps also refused to prepare a federal Environmental Impact Statement for Line 3, despite overwhelming evidence that the project would have significant impacts. As you indicated in your Day One Executive Order, “the United States must [...] exercise vigorous climate leadership in order to achieve a significant increase in global climate action and put the world on a sustainable climate pathway. Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.” The same logic applies to Line 3, and all federal fossil fuel infrastructure permits, which would undermine your objectives by locking in fossil fuel dependence for decades to come.
• Tell Congress: No Military Spending in Infrastructure Bill

  It's bad enough that President Biden is proposing to increase military spending above Trump's obscene levels (in military spending bills)¹, and create a new gimmick for adding military spending off the books², but now Senate "leadership" and members of the Senate Armed "Services" Committee are proposing to add tens of billions of dollars in more military spending to an infrastructure bill.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators. It helps to add your own words.
  

• CONGRATULATIONS TO INDIA WALTON: “WE HAVE YOUR BACK!”

  Sign your name and add your comments below.

  Dear India Walton,
  
  Solidarity greetings and heartfelt congratulations on your election victory in Buffalo. We consider it to be our victory too. Your grassroots campaign on behalf of working people is an inspiration across our country and beyond. We wish you well. We have your back!
• Email Key Congressional Staffers Not to Exclude Sanctions from New Legislation on Congressional Powers

  As a result of broad U.S. economic sanctions countries such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Sudan, and Zimbabwe struggle without adequate food, electricity, and medical supplies. Those who suffer most under sanctions include pregnant women, children, and the chronically ill. Richard Nephew, the Biden administration's deputy Iran envoy, while taking credit for helping to cause shortages of medicine in Iran, has admitted that even targeted sanctions destroy economies and harm civilian populations.
  

  Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Congressman Jim McGovern of the 2nd District of Massachusetts, are among those drafting new legislation to restore some foreign policy powers to Congress, but they are reportedly excluding sanctions, leaving sanctions to be determined by the White House.

  If you are a constituent of one of these three legislators, please click below to send an email to a key staffer. It helps to add your own words.

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• Tell Your Senators and Representative to read: “A call for a new era of diplomacy and engagement between the U.S. and Russia”

  An open letter just released by the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord makes crucial points that are rarely encountered on Capitol Hill. Members of the Senate and House don’t often address the very real dangers of nuclear war. You can help change that.
  
  Please click below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you add your own words.)

• Stop Slander of Those Who Tell Difficult Truths About Israel

  Please add your name to this petition, which we will deliver to both Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. More information here.
  
  Add your own comments if you have something to say.

  Asking where war victims can find justice when the United States opposes the International Criminal Court is a legitimate question. Pointing out the need for accountability for the crimes of the United States, Israel, and Afghanistan should not result in false accusations and villification, but rather in a serious discussion of how to support the rule of law.
  
• As a Georgian, I urge you to speak out and say No to Rahm!

  The Senate gets to decide if President Biden's expected nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan is fit for that post. If even a couple Democratic Senators spoke out now against Rahm Emanuel on ethical and racial justice grounds, he could be blocked. 
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Warnock.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Vermonter, I urge you to speak out and say No to Rahm!

  The Senate gets to decide if President Biden's expected nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan is fit for that post. If even a couple progressive Senators spoke out now against Rahm Emanuel on ethical and racial justice grounds, he could be blocked. 
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Sanders.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Delaware Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Christopher Coons is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Coons.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a New Jersey Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Cory Booker and Bob Menendez are on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senators Booker and Menendez.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Maryland Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen are on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senators Cardin and Van Hollen.
  

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Virginia Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Tim Kaine is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Kaine.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As an Oregon Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Jeff Merkley is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Merkley.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a New Hampshire Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Jeanne Shaheen is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Shaheen.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Massachusetts Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Ed Markey is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Markey.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Hawaii Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Brian Schatz is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Schatz.

  It helps to add your own words.

• As a Connecticut Constituent, Insist that the Senate Say: No to Rahm!

  Chris Murphy is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will vote on President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan. As a constituent, you can help prevent the committee from approving Rahm Emanuel to be that ambassador.
  
  For three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassador nominations require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email Senator Murphy.

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• SalsaStaff 406161: Middle name question

  The death penalty's slow death is accelerating. At least 140 nations no longer use it. No nation in Europe uses the death penalty. No nation in the Western Hemisphere uses it, except the United States.
  
  RootsAction activists were part of a campaign that just succeeded in ending the death penalty in Virginia. Now 23 U.S. states, plus Washington, D.C., have abolished the death penalty, and 3 more have imposed moratoriums. That leaves 24 states yet to go, most of which have effectively stopped using capital punishment, but just not abolished it.

  If you are from one of these states, please click below to email your legislators and governor (this includes three with moratoriums that should legislate abolition): Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming.

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• Tell the Senate to Eliminate the Filibuster

  Numerous critical pieces of legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives are going NOWHERE until the Senate repeals the Jim Crow filibuster — and stops allowing Mitch McConnell to have the power to block any and every piece of the people’s agenda.
  
  Add your name to this petition below.
  

  Eliminate the Filibuster.
• Tell Congress and the President We Need a Green New Deal Now

  It's long since time.
  

  We need to impress upon elected officials the urgency of the need for serious action.
  

  Click below to email your Representative, Senators, and President.

• Tell your Senators and Representative: Read Daniel Ellsberg’s New Revelations About Current Dangers of Nuclear War

  Vital reporting from the New York Times, based on new revelations by Daniel Ellsberg, lays out clear and present dangers that a confrontation with China could spin out of control into nuclear war.
  
  Members of Congress might not absorb the importance of this reporting unless you, as a constituent, emphatically call it to their attention.
  
  Now, please click below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you add your own words.)

• Sign on to support ending the filibuster

  From universal health care to gun violence prevention, Mitch McConnell and his GOP lackeys have used the filibuster to block any and everything that could make this country a little bit better for working families and communities of color.

  Sign on today to show that you support Ro’s fight to end the filibuster so the Senate can finally pass progressive legislation.

  We must end the filibuster.
• Tell Congress to Stop Weapons to Israel

  The U.S. House has only until May 20th to pass a resolution blocking the latest weapons shipment to Israel.
  
  The U.S. Senate would be granted the time to hold a vote if a single Senator were to introduce a resolution by May 20th.
  

  Email your Representative and Senators below.

• Tell Congress to Ban Israel from Abusing Human Rights with U.S. Dollars

  H.R.2590 would prohibit Israel from using U.S. taxpayer dollars in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem for:

  • the military detention, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention;
  • the seizure and destruction of Palestinian property and homes in violation of international humanitarian law; or,
  • Israel’s unilateral annexation of Palestinian territory in violation of international humanitarian law. More information here.
    

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators. It helps to add your own words.

• Urgent: End Mass Evictions in Jerusalem

  The Israeli government is threatening mass evictions of non-Jews and brutalizing protesters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jersusalem. More information.
  

  Ask your Senators to speak out!

  It helps to use your own words.

• Ask Your Senators to Sign Letter on Yemen Blockade

  For nearly six years, the Saudi-led coalition has imposed a crippling blockade on Yemen.

  This blockade has been a leading driver of starvation and the broader humanitarian disaster in Yemen.

  Please click below to email your U.S. senators.

  It helps to edit and use your own words.

• Tell Congress to Pass the College for All Act

  Let's make higher education a right, not a privilege.

  Please click below to email your two Senators and one Representative.
  

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  Join Justice Democrats today to support these progressive primary candidates (Nina Turner, Odessa Kelly, and Rana Abdelhamid). You’ll be a part of our movement to upend the status quo and the first to know about the next Justice Democrats-endorsed challengers ready to take on the political establishment.
  

  Will you sign up to be a part of Justice Democrats?

• Help elect progressives to Congress

  Join Justice Democrats today to support these progressive primary candidates (Nina Turner, Odessa Kelly, and Rana Abdelhamid). You’ll be a part of our movement to upend the status quo and the first to know about the next Justice Democrats-endorsed challengers ready to take on the political establishment.
  

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• Tell your Reps and Senators to Urge Biden to support Rejoining the JCPOA

  

  During his campaign, Joe Biden promised to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal — and we intend to hold him to that promise!

• Tell Biden to lift sanctions on Venezuela during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  Venezuela has been suffering for years under harsh US sanctions. These sanctions exacerbate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it even more difficult for Venezuelans to access lifesaving medicine, medical supplies, and vaccines.
  
  Contact your representative and senators now to urge them to lift sanctions on Venezuela and other countries suffering extreme hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Email Your Rep. and Senators to Pass Medicare For All

  
  

  Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.
  
  U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) have introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2021, and Senator Bernie Sanders the Medicare for All Act of 2022 (S 4204). These bills provide comprehensive benefits to all with no copays, private insurance premiums, deductibles, or other cost-sharing.
  

  Click below to email your Senators and Representative. It helps to edit to use your own words!

• Ask your Representative to commit to voting No on any bills that fund military spending at over 90% of the current level

  The U.S. public, according to polling, would reduce military spending if democracy prevailed.
  
  Dozens of Congress Members say they favor moving funding from militarism to human and environmental needs.
  
  It's time that we urge people in positions of power to exercise power. A relatively small number of House Members can potentially block passage of a bill, and any bill not passed by the House cannot be made law by the Senate.

  Click below to email your Representative. It works best if you edit to add your own words.

• Tell your Senators and Representative to Co-Sponsor the New “ICBM Act” That Curtails ICBM Development and Funds a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine

  Your senators and representative now have the opportunity to co-sponsor a vital new bill that has been introduced by Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ro Khanna. Please urge them to do so.
  
  Members of Congress will be voting on whether to appropriate billions of dollars more for ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), which are on hair-trigger alert and increase the likelihood of nuclear annihilation. Instead, the Markey-Khanna bill curtails further development of ICBMs and devotes resources to developing a universal coronavirus vaccine.
  
  Now, please click below to email your two senators and representative. (It helps if you add your own words.)

• Tell the Senate to End the Filibuster

  Senate Democrats are in the unique position to be able to wield progressive power for the betterment of our government systems and our communities – but we need to push them to act.

  Tell the Senate:

  End the filibuster.

• Tell your Senators and Representative to Read the Vital New Report “Inside the ICBM Lobby” -- and Take Action to Prevent Nuclear War

  The new report “Inside the ICBM Lobby” lays out huge dangers and some real solutions in order to reduce the chances of nuclear war.
  
  But the report won’t do much good unless it reaches members of Congress -- who’ll be voting on whether to appropriate billions of dollars more for intercontinental ballistic missiles, which increase the likelihood of nuclear annihilation.
  
  Now, please click below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you add your own words.)
  

• Tell your Senators and Representative to Read the Vital New Report “Inside the ICBM Lobby” -- and Take Action to Prevent Nuclear War

  The new report “Inside the ICBM Lobby” lays out huge dangers and some real solutions in order to reduce the chances of nuclear war.
  
  But the report won’t do much good unless it reaches members of Congress -- who’ll be voting on whether to appropriate billions of dollars more for intercontinental ballistic missiles, which increase the likelihood of nuclear annihilation.
  
  Now, please click below to email your two Senators and Representative. (It helps if you add your own words.)
  

• Support the Care For All Agenda

  The Care For All Agenda calls on our federal government to finally center our care workers in our economy, and to place care and care work front and center as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  If adopted, the resolution would start the process of building the care work infrastructure that can help us all thrive and face the challenges of the 21st century — creating millions of good, green care jobs in the process.
  
  Add your name in support today.

  I support the Care for All Agenda.
• Email Congress to Put a Tax on What the Top Fraction of 1% Inherit

  Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Jimmy Gomez have introduced the 99.5 Percent Act, which would raise hundreds of billions of dollars that could be directed toward human and environmental emergencies, while simultaneously preventing plutocracy.

  Click below to email your Senators and Representative.

  It helps to edit the text and the subject line to use your own words.

• Tell Congress Members to Stop Impeding Peace with Iran

  70 Members of the U.S. Congress have sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken (linked in Background below) insisting that Iran must meet preconditions before the United States will rejoin the agreement that Iran complied with and the United States withdrew from.

  This is a reckless approach that looks like intentional failure, assuming the goal to be peace rather than war.

  Click below to email your Representative who signed the letter.

  It helps to edit the subject line and text with your own words.

• Email President Biden and Your Members of Congress: We Need Diplomacy!

  
  Contrary to his pledge that “diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy,” President Biden has publicly labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer” without “a soul.”
  
  With the United States and Russia brandishing thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other, such rhetoric is extremely dangerous. We must not let it become normalized.
  
  Click below to send an email to President Biden as well as your Senators and Representative.
  
  It helps to add your own words.

• Email Your Senators and the President: No to Rahm!

  News outlets are reporting that President Biden is likely to name Rahm Emanuel to a top diplomatic post, probably U.S. ambassador to Japan or China. But for three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassadors are nominated by the president and require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email your two Senators and President Biden.
  
  It helps to add your own words.

• Email Your Senators: No to Rahm!

  President Biden has announced that he is nominating Rahm Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan. But for three decades, Emanuel has been one of the Democratic Party’s most undiplomatic power brokers -- arrogant, elitist, abrasive and contemptuous of progressive values.
  
  Everything in his record indicates that Emanuel would be the wrong choice to represent the U.S. government overseas.
  
  Ambassadors require approval by the Senate. Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
  
  Click below to email your two Senators.
  
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• Tell Your State Legislators to Abolish the Death Penalty

  The death penalty's slow death is accelerating. At least 140 nations no longer use it. No nation in Europe uses the death penalty. No nation in the Western Hemisphere uses it, except the United States.
  
  RootsAction activists were part of a campaign that just succeeded in ending the death penalty in Virginia. Now 23 U.S. states, plus Washington, D.C., have abolished the death penalty, and 3 more have imposed moratoriums. That leaves 24 states yet to go, most of which have effectively stopped using capital punishment, but just not abolished it.

  If you are from one of these states, please click below to email your legislators and governor (this includes three with moratoriums that should legislate abolition): Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming.

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• Vermonters: Let's ask Bernie to end the logjam at OMB

  We want the Biden White House to nominate someone other than Neera Tanden to direct the Office of Management and Budget, someone who would put the public interest ahead of elite corporate interests.   
   
  Click below to ask Senator Bernie Sanders to urge the Biden White House to promptly nominate someone new for this important post. 
  
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• Tell Congress to Cancel All Student Debt

  Forty-five million Americans are burdened with a collective $1.7 trillion in student loan debt.
  
  Democrats have the power to cancel all student debt right now without the support of a single Republican, through budget reconciliation. Canceling student debt would provide much-needed relief, boost the economy, and would help close the racial wealth gap.
  
  They have the power to do this, but they won’t without pressure from us.

  Click below to email your representative and senators, whether Democrats or Republicans.
  

  It helps to add your own words to the subject line and the text of the email.

• Email Congress and the President: No More War Weapons to Police

  The evidence is overwhelming. Militarizing police does not reduce crime or save lives. In fact, the main difference that militarizing police makes is that the police kill more people.
  
  Cities and states have had enough. Several have now banned some or all military weaponry and/or the military-style training of police departments.

  But we need Congress to act, to ban the transfer to any police department of weaponry from the U.S. military.

  Click below to email your Representative, your two Senators, and the President.

  It helps to add your own words.

• Tell Governor Parson You Support Clemency For Bobby Bostic

  As a teenager, in 1997, Bobby Bostic was sentenced to 241 years. He did not kill anyone yet he will not be eligible for parole until he is 112 years old.

  If you are from Missouri, click below to email Governor Parson.
  

  It will have more impact if you edit the subject line and email text to use your own unique words.

• Tell Key U.S. Senators to Support Rejoining the Iran Deal

  If you live in Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, or New York, one or more of your U.S. senators is critical to avoiding war. Senators Kelly, Sinema, Coons, Carden, Menendez, and Schumer urgently need to be told to support the United States rejoining the Iran nuclear agreement.

  Click below to send an email.

  It has the biggest impact if you edit the subject line and text to use your own words.

• Tell Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to abolish the filibuster

  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema should not be siding with Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans who want to obstruct progress and continue wielding their power on behalf of corporate interests while working-class people go hungry. Krysten Sinema shouldn’t be making concessions to a party that is eager to thwart democracy. 

  Click below to email Sinema.

  It has a bigger impact if you edit the subject line and text to use your own words.

• Tell Joe Manchin to abolish the filibuster

  Senator Manchin should not be siding with Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans who want to obstruct progress and continue wielding their power on behalf of corporate interests while working-class people go hungry. Joe Manchin shouldn’t be making concessions to a party that is eager to thwart democracy. 

  Click below to email Manchin.

  It has a bigger impact if you edit the subject line and text to use your own words.

• Tell Congress to Tax Wall Street Trades

  Resources are desperately needed.
  

  The wealthy are just getting wealthier.
  

  Here's a solution that has long worked in many countries.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.
  

  It helps to edit the subject and text of the email to add your own words -- perhaps appealing to what you think your Congress Members might most like to do with $80 billion.

• Email Congress to End the War on Yemen

  
  

  Congress tried to put a stop to the U.S.'s role in the war in Yemen by passing a War Powers Resolution. But Trump vetoed it.
  
  Congress needs to re-introduce the War Powers Resolution under the Biden administration.
  
  Congress needs to permanently end weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

  The U.S. government needs to pressure Saudi Arabia to end the blockade of Yemen that threatens mass starvation.
  
  Click below to urge your Congress members to immediately end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen!
  
  You can send email as is, or even better, you can personalize it by editing the subject line and the body of the email and adding your own message.

• Tell Your Senators to Vote No on Tom Vilsack

  In light of new information on the past record of Agriculture Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack, it is more urgent than ever that we all contact our Senators using the email below.
  

  It helps to edit the subject line and body of the email using your own words.

• Tell Your Senators to Reject Samantha Power

  Samantha Power has supported war after war after war.
  

  Read more here.
  

  Email your Senators below.

  It helps to use your own words to edit the subject line and the body of the email.

• Urge Congress to pass the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act

  Background:  Full text of HR 2850

  

  The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act in the U.S. House of Representatives would "provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion ... while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion." 

  Let your representative know you want them to support it:

• Tell Your Senators to Vote No on Tom Vilsack

  Tom Vilsack served corporate interests for eight years as Secretary of Agriculture under Obama.

  Now he is the nominee for the same position under Biden. Learn more here.

  Email your Senators below.

  It helps to add your own words.

• Tell your Senators to reject the nomination of Avril Haines

  
  

  Avril Haines should not be confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.
  

  Click below to email your Senators.
  

  It helps to add your own words.
  

  On the next page you can phone them and share this alert with others.

• Tell your Senators to reject the nomination of Victoria Nuland

  Victoria Nuland has been nominated for Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.

  Click below to email your two Senators.

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• Email your Senators what to ask Antony Blinken

  Before Antony Blinken can become Secretary of State, senators must approve.
  

  And before that, they must ask questions.

  Email your Senators what you'd like them to ask.

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• Ask your Rep. and Senators to join the "Defense" Spending Reduction Caucus

  Military spending is more out of control than ever.
  

  Funding is needed for human and environmental needs more than ever.
  
  More info here.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.
  

  It helps to add your own words.

• Tell Congress to Convict Trump Now

  Donald Trump has sought to overturn an election through fraudulent actions, dishonest demagoguery, and the instigation of violence. 

  He has rightfully been impeached. Now he must be tried and convicted by the U.S. Senate. Criminal prosecutions can follow later.
  

  Click below to email your Senators.

  It helps to add your own words.

• Tell Joe Manchin not to block your $2,000 checks

  Joe Biden promised “immediate” $2,000 coronavirus relief checks if Democrats regained control of the Senate – and they did.

  But now West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is threatening to be the only person standing between millions of struggling Americans and long-awaited assistance.

  Email him below.

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• Tell Congress to Impeach Trump Now

  Donald Trump has sought to overturn an election through fraudulent actions, dishonest demagoguery, and the instigation of violence. More here.

  He must be impeached and removed from office.

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

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• Tell Your Senators to Vote No on Neera Tanden

  Neera Tanden -- President Biden’s nominee to be director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget -- spent the last decade raising huge amounts of money for her think tank from wealthy donors representing corporate interests and from foreign governments, including the anti-democratic United Arab Emirates.
  
  In recent years, Tanden has become known as one of the loudest voices of the neoliberal establishment; she has expressed support for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
  
  As OMB Director, Tanden would be overseeing what the Washington Post described as “the nerve center of the federal government . . . setting fiscal and personnel policy for agencies, and overseeing the regulatory process across the executive branch.”
  
  Her coziness with corporate elites raises questions about her potential role in the regulatory process. As the Washington Post recently reported, she has “mingled with deep-pocketed donors who made their fortunes on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in other powerful sectors of corporate America.” And, “at formal pitches and swanky fundraisers, Tanden personally cultivated the bevy of benefactors fueling the $45 million to $50 million annual budget” of her think tank, the Center for American Progress.
  
  In 2011, after the U.S. and NATO militarily overthrew Libya’s government (leading to years of chaos and violence), Tanden sent an email that later became public and infamous. Tanden wrote: "We have a giant deficit. They have a lot of oil. Most Americans would choose not to engage in the world because of that deficit. If we want to continue to engage in the world, gestures like having oil rich countries pay us back doesn't seem crazy to me." The email's subject line: “Should Libya pay us back?” 
  
  For more information, see the Background link at the bottom of this page.
  
  Email your Senators below.
  
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• Tell Your Senators to Vote No on Tom Vilsack

  Tom Vilsack served corporate interests for eight years as Secretary of Agriculture under Obama.

  Now he is the nominee for the same position under Biden. Learn more here.

  Email your Senators below.

  It helps to add your own words.

• Petition to President Biden: Take Executive Action on Student Debt!

  Add your name below to this petition:

  To President Joe Biden:
  
  We need you to move the United States forward by cancelling student debt. An order to cancel student debt would not only be morally just, but also would serve as a crucial economic stimulus. We agree with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer: take executive action on student debt!
  
  

• Email Your Senators: Keep Torture Apologists Out of the Biden Administration

  Mike Morell and Avril Haines should not be treated as qualified for high office in the U.S. government.
  
  For more on the case against them, please read this open letter signed by torture victims and human rights advocates.

  Click below to email your two U.S. senators. Add your own words. And on the next page, find a phone number to call them as well.

• Call on Joe Biden to appoint a Climate Cabinet

  There is no time to waste — we need Joe Biden to appoint a Climate Cabinet. That means appointing cabinet secretaries to his administration who will center the fight to stop climate change and save our planet.

  Sign on to call on Joe Biden to appoint a Climate Cabinet.

  To President-Elect Biden:
  
  We demand that you only nominate people to your Cabinet who:
  1. Take no corporate lobbying or fossil fuel money.
  2. Represent our multi-racial, cross-class coalition.
  3. Have the intuition and courage to take bold action on climate across sectors.
  
  
• Let's fix the Electoral College problem now.

  What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?
  

  Adding your state to the National Popular Vote plan would put us very close to accomplishing this goal.
  

  Please email your state legislators and governor below.
  

  Feel free to add your own words.

• Ask your Representative to take prominent public positions on key questions of foreign policy

  Most Congressional candidates in the most recent election said little or nothing on their websites about foreign policy.
  

  For a detailed review of campaign websites, see the report linked at the bottom of this page.

  Click below to ask them to do better:

• Tell Gov. Newsom: Make Big Oil Clean Up Its Mess

  California’s biggest oil producers have set aside only a tiny fraction of the money that will be required to properly plug their thousands of oil and gas wells when they stop producing -- leaving taxpayers at risk to pick up the bill, and leaving our land and water at risk of massive pollution.

  Click below to email Governor Gavin Newsom:

• Tell Congress to end U.S. war in Afghanistan

  We've heard "We don't want to leave too quickly" for nearly 20 years.
  

  Enough is enough.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

• Promoting Medical and Scientific Collaboration Between Sacramento and Cuba

  Ask the Sacramento City Council to support the following resolution that was originally written by the Sacramento Central Labor Council on August 20, 2020.

  Click below to email the Sacramento City Council:

  Resolution to support medical and scientific collaboration between the Counties of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, the State of California and Cuba to address the COVID-19 pandemic and urging the United States Congress to remove restrictions on collaboration by suspending economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.
  
  WHEREAS, The United States has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world—5.65 million infected, with deaths exceeding 175,000; and
  
  WHEREAS, California now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US—640,000 infected, with deaths exceeding 11,500; and
  
  WHEREAS, U.S. deaths fall disproportionately on Black and Latinx communities, retirees and workers, especially those deemed essential, and their families; and
  
  WHEREAS, In the face of this worldwide menace, now is the time for international cooperation and solidarity; and
  
  WHEREAS, the Sacramento Central Labor Council’s jurisdiction is home to many prestigious medical institutions, organizations, and businesses, and is in a position to provide leadership to the rest of the country in medical research, treatment, and cooperation; and
  
  WHEREAS, The country of Cuba has a long history of providing international medical aid to other countries with many of its medical personnel directly involved in the fight against COVID-19 as members of the specially trained Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade against Disasters and Serious Epidemics; and
  
  WHEREAS, The Medical Brigade distinguished itself in the fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and stepped forward to assist in many epidemics around the world, including dengue fever, HIV, swine flu, and hepatitis; and
  
  WHEREAS, Fifty countries have requested aid from the brigade, with over 2000 Cuban health workers currently serving in the battle against COVID-19 in more than 28 countries; and
  
  WHEREAS, Cuba offers treatment regimens for patients and prevention protocols for health workers including its drug Interferon Alpha 2B Recombinant, now in standard use in China and Cuba; and
  
  WHEREAS, More than 42 countries have expressed an interest in acquiring this pharmaceutical, the medication is not available in the United States due to increased restrictions against collaboration with Cuba; and
  
  WHEREAS, Worldwide, some 80% of COVID-19 patients in critical condition are dying, by contrast, in Cuba, 80% in critical and serious condition are now being saved; and
  
  WHEREAS, The recent reduction in deaths of severely ill COVID-19 patients in Cuba is largely attributed to two treatments, beginning in April, 2020, that appear to help calm the “cytokine storm,” a dangerous overresponse by the
  immune system; and
  
  WHEREAS, There is precedent for collaborative initiatives between Cuba and other U.S. cities and states, as demonstrated by the City and County of San Francisco, the City of Richmond, California and the City of Berkeley,
  which all unanimously passed a resolution supporting medical collaboration, and the Minnesota Legislature which has introduced a similar measure; and
  
  WHEREAS, There have also been multi-year joint ventures between Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology and Buffalo's Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in developing CIMAvax, the Cuban lung cancer vaccine, as well as a collaboration between medical personnel from Cuba and the University of Illinois on infant mortality in Chicago;
  and
  
  WHEREAS, In 2015 the World Health Organization recognized Cuba's medical system as a worldwide leader in biotechnology, and Cuba has made significant contributions to the international medical field, including a drug that
  prevents 77% of diabetic amputations; and
  
  WHEREAS, The U.S. blockade of Cuba has severely restricted collaboration on scientific and medical research; and
  
  WHEREAS, People in the Sacramento Central Labor Council’s jurisdiction, California and the world would benefit from Cuban biotechnical, medical, and public health expertise in combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; now,
  therefore, be it
  
  RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact and urge the State Department of Public Health and Departments of Public Health in its jurisdiction to explore collaborations with Cuba to jointly face the COVID-19
  pandemic, including initiating knowledge transfer about Cuba’s highly successful public health prevention methods, methods for preventing infection of health workers, and innovative treatments now being used in China and
  elsewhere;
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact the City Councils and Boards of Supervisors within its jurisdiction to support this resolution and pass similar resolutions; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council supports the lifting of restrictions on the Cuban COVID-19 treatment Interferon Alfa 2b, opening a path for it to enter clinical trials; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council urges the U.S. Congress and the President to lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise in order to more effectively combat the COVID-19 pandemic by
  suspending U.S. economic and travel sanctions against Cuba; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact each federal representative in its jurisdiction to call on the federal government to cease ongoing measures that deter Cuba from importing medical equipment and medicines to confront COVID-19, and cease attempts to stop other countries from accepting Cuban medical brigades and assistance; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council issue press releases regarding the details of this resolution to its media contacts within its jurisdiction.

• Promoting Medical and Scientific Collaboration Between Sacramento and Cuba

  Ask the Sacramento City Council to support the following resolution that was originally written by the Sacramento Central Labor Council on August 20, 2020.

  Click below to email the Sacramento City Council:

  Resolution to support medical and scientific collaboration between the Counties of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, the State of California and Cuba to address the COVID-19 pandemic and urging the United States Congress to remove restrictions on collaboration by suspending economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.
  
  WHEREAS, The United States has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world—5.65 million infected, with deaths exceeding 175,000; and
  
  WHEREAS, California now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US—640,000 infected, with deaths exceeding 11,500; and
  
  WHEREAS, U.S. deaths fall disproportionately on Black and Latinx communities, retirees and workers, especially those deemed essential, and their families; and
  
  WHEREAS, In the face of this worldwide menace, now is the time for international cooperation and solidarity; and
  
  WHEREAS, the Sacramento Central Labor Council’s jurisdiction is home to many prestigious medical institutions, organizations, and businesses, and is in a position to provide leadership to the rest of the country in medical research, treatment, and cooperation; and
  
  WHEREAS, The country of Cuba has a long history of providing international medical aid to other countries with many of its medical personnel directly involved in the fight against COVID-19 as members of the specially trained Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade against Disasters and Serious Epidemics; and
  
  WHEREAS, The Medical Brigade distinguished itself in the fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and stepped forward to assist in many epidemics around the world, including dengue fever, HIV, swine flu, and hepatitis; and
  
  WHEREAS, Fifty countries have requested aid from the brigade, with over 2000 Cuban health workers currently serving in the battle against COVID-19 in more than 28 countries; and
  
  WHEREAS, Cuba offers treatment regimens for patients and prevention protocols for health workers including its drug Interferon Alpha 2B Recombinant, now in standard use in China and Cuba; and
  
  WHEREAS, More than 42 countries have expressed an interest in acquiring this pharmaceutical, the medication is not available in the United States due to increased restrictions against collaboration with Cuba; and
  
  WHEREAS, Worldwide, some 80% of COVID-19 patients in critical condition are dying, by contrast, in Cuba, 80% in critical and serious condition are now being saved; and
  
  WHEREAS, The recent reduction in deaths of severely ill COVID-19 patients in Cuba is largely attributed to two treatments, beginning in April, 2020, that appear to help calm the “cytokine storm,” a dangerous overresponse by the
  immune system; and
  
  WHEREAS, There is precedent for collaborative initiatives between Cuba and other U.S. cities and states, as demonstrated by the City and County of San Francisco, the City of Richmond, California and the City of Berkeley,
  which all unanimously passed a resolution supporting medical collaboration, and the Minnesota Legislature which has introduced a similar measure; and
  
  WHEREAS, There have also been multi-year joint ventures between Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology and Buffalo's Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in developing CIMAvax, the Cuban lung cancer vaccine, as well as a collaboration between medical personnel from Cuba and the University of Illinois on infant mortality in Chicago;
  and
  
  WHEREAS, In 2015 the World Health Organization recognized Cuba's medical system as a worldwide leader in biotechnology, and Cuba has made significant contributions to the international medical field, including a drug that
  prevents 77% of diabetic amputations; and
  
  WHEREAS, The U.S. blockade of Cuba has severely restricted collaboration on scientific and medical research; and
  
  WHEREAS, People in the Sacramento Central Labor Council’s jurisdiction, California and the world would benefit from Cuban biotechnical, medical, and public health expertise in combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; now,
  therefore, be it
  
  RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact and urge the State Department of Public Health and Departments of Public Health in its jurisdiction to explore collaborations with Cuba to jointly face the COVID-19
  pandemic, including initiating knowledge transfer about Cuba’s highly successful public health prevention methods, methods for preventing infection of health workers, and innovative treatments now being used in China and
  elsewhere;
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact the City Councils and Boards of Supervisors within its jurisdiction to support this resolution and pass similar resolutions; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council supports the lifting of restrictions on the Cuban COVID-19 treatment Interferon Alfa 2b, opening a path for it to enter clinical trials; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council urges the U.S. Congress and the President to lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise in order to more effectively combat the COVID-19 pandemic by
  suspending U.S. economic and travel sanctions against Cuba; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council contact each federal representative in its jurisdiction to call on the federal government to cease ongoing measures that deter Cuba from importing medical equipment and medicines to confront COVID-19, and cease attempts to stop other countries from accepting Cuban medical brigades and assistance; and be it
  
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Sacramento Central Labor Council issue press releases regarding the details of this resolution to its media contacts within its jurisdiction.

• Ro Khanna for Next California U.S. Senator

  Add your name to the petition below in support of Ro Khanna for Senator.

  There are very strong reasons for Ro Khanna to become the next U.S. Senator from California. Congressman Khanna has been a national champion for vital programs and goals supported by Californians — such as health care for all, national budget priorities based on human needs, a Green New Deal, opposing bloated military spending and endless wars, criminal justice reform, and a path to citizenship for immigrants. He has also been an exemplary advocate of reforms such as ending the Senate filibuster and making the Democratic Party more democratic. With our nation facing a wide range of severe problems and great opportunities, we believe that Ro Khanna would make a fantastic choice to be the next U.S. Senator from our state.

  Endorsed by Amar Shergill, Chair of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party

• Abolish ICE

  Add your name: Abolish ICE

  Since its creation, ICE has been used to terrorize immigrant communities in our country and regularly violate human rights. It cannot be reformed; ICE must be abolished.
  
  We’re demanding that ICE be abolished. Will you sign on right now to join us in calling for ICE to be abolished?
• Kamala Harris: Help Reduce Tension with China -- and Bigotry Toward Asian-Americans.

  A coalition of groups will deliver this letter along with lists of signers. Please add your name below!

  Dear Senator Kamala Harris:
  
  In late September of this year, a Japanese American jazz pianist and recent first-time father, Tadataka Unno, was brutally attacked by a group of eight young people at a New York City subway station. The 40-year-old suffered serious injuries, including a broken collarbone, and it is still unclear whether he will ever be able to perform again. His safety, livelihood, and sense of belonging in his own neighborhood were taken away from him. During this grotesque attack, Unno heard the group repeatedly calling him “Chinese.”
  
  We are deeply concerned about the rising trends of racism, xenophobia, and sinophobia in our country. The brutal attack suffered by Unno is just one example. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, members of the Asian American community have been increasingly subjected to horrifying acts of violence and hatred. This anti-Asian sentiment has been egged on by President Trump’s insistence on calling COVID19 the “China virus” or worse yet, the “Kung Flu,” and other attacks on China. It is also fed by the disparaging remarks towards China coming from the Biden campaign, such as referring to China’s President Xi Jinping as a “thug.”
  
  We are concerned about the wellbeing of the Asian community at home, and we are also concerned about the new Cold War with China that stokes growing militarism and could lead to a catastrophic “hot war” between two nuclear-armed states.
  
  We are calling on you, Senator Harris, to urge the Biden team to stop fomenting a conflict with China that feeds the Cold War abroad and anti-Asian attacks at home.
  
  Senator Harris, you are making history as the first Black Asian American on a major party ticket. You were the first district attorney in San Francisco to adopt a Chinese name in order to make your community feel more included. You are loved and admired by many members of the Asian-American community, particularly by marginalized groups that have experienced the harsh realities of racism. Now, we ask you to stand with the Asian communities throughout the nation by pushing the Biden team to recognize that China is Not Our Enemy.
  
  As peace activists, we see an unfortunate repetition of the racism that has plagued the Muslim community since the time of the 9/11 attack and the Iraq invasion. Racism and war reinforce each other and create a spiral of violence that gains a life of its own.
  
  Racism against the Asian American community in this country is not new. We have only to look at “Yellow Peril” attacks against Chinese workers that led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act barring Chinese immigration and naturalization. The imprisonment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World World II remains an unhealed wound for that community. Given that the seeds of anti-Asian sentiment are embedded in our history, this new round of racism is particularly alarming and must stop immediately.
  
  Our hope is that with your help, a Biden-Harris administration would put an end to this new cold war and instead usher in a period of true peace with China and all our Pacific neighbors. That, in turn, would help bring security and justice to our Asian American community.
• Tell the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff: Refuse Any Order by Trump to Interfere with the Election

  President Trump has made it clear that he will not accept losing the election.
  
  As commander in chief at the top of the chain of command, he could attack democracy by ordering some form of interference.

  Please scroll down to sign this petition:

  To: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  
  You have a legal, constitutional, and moral responsibility to refuse to comply with any and all attempts by President Trump to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.
• Tell Your Senators: No Vote on Supreme Court Nominee This Year

  The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg “has forced a reexamination of Republicans' 11-month blockade of Merrick Garland in 2016,” CNN reported.

  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to hold a vote on a replacement for Ginsburg this year “would be a complete reversal of his position in 2016, when the GOP-led Senate refused to hold a hearing or vote on then-President Barack Obama's nominee, saying it was too close to the election.”
  

  Click below to email your Senators:

• Petition to Presidential Debate Moderators About the Climate Crisis: Don't Be Silent Yet Again

  Petition to presidential (and vice-presidential) debate moderators Chris Wallace/Fox News, Susan Page/USA Today, Steve Scully/C-SPAN and Kristen Welker/NBC News:

  In 2016, not a single question about global warming and the climate crisis was asked by mainstream media moderators in the four general election debates (three presidential and one vice-presidential). The term "climate change" was only uttered a few times, in passing, because Hillary Clinton brought it up.
  
  In 2012, in the four general election debates, moderators asked no questions about climate change – and neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney (nor VP candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan) ever mentioned the issue.
  
  In hours of debates in 2012 and 2016, there were zero questions on the climate crisis from moderators hand-picked by the two major parties.
  
  IN 2020, END YOUR SILENCE ON THIS CRUCIAL ISSUE.

  Add your name below before we deliver this to each debate moderator.

• Tell Trump: Pardon Edward Snowden

  RootsAction has been advocating for protecting, pardoning, thanking, and honoring Edward Snowden since practically the moment we learned about him.
  
  The European Parliament voted in favor of protecting Snowden from prosecution in 2015. Now 26 Members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to President Trump, asking him to pardon Snowden.

  Please add your name to this petition:

  I support an immediate and full pardon for Edward Snowden.
  
• Volunteer for the #VoteTrumpOut Digital Canvass

  Put your time on social media to use helping bury Trump in a key swing state. Facebook deep canvassing is a cutting edge, COVID-friendly tactic that you can do entirely on your own schedule. You’ll be trained to recruit volunteers and persuade voters by engaging them in the digital spaces where they’re already interacting. Volunteers can expect to contribute 1-5 hours in a given week engaging with swing state progressive voters one-on-one through comments, messenger, and on Facebook group pages. Join our deep canvassing team today and help #VoteTrumpOut to empower an ascendant left!

• Lee Resolution -- 2020-06-16 (SalsaStaff 346505)

  Lee Resolution -- 2020-06-16 (SalsaStaff 346505) Address question

  This is long overdue. It's time we got our priorities straight.

  There's now a stronger resolution in Congress than we've seen in many years. Learn more here.
  

  Let's generate overwhelming support for it and begin moving federal spending in the right direction.

  Please click below to send an email to your Representative and Senators.

• Thank and Spank -- 2020-07-22 (SalsaStaff 347384)

  The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 21, voted 324 to 93 (with 13 not voting) to defeat a proposal to move a mere 10% of military spending to human, environmental, and health needs. Learn more here.
  

  When you enter your street address, this page will allow you to send an appropriate email based on how your Representative voted. If you have time, please add your own words too.
  

  
  

• How Did Your Rep Vote on Military Budget? Thank or Spank Accordingly.

  The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 21, voted 324 to 93 (with 13 not voting) to defeat a proposal to move a mere 10% of military spending to human, environmental, and health needs. Learn more here.
  

  When you enter your street address, this page will allow you to send an appropriate email based on how your Representative voted. If you have time, please add your own words too.
  

  
  

• Keep Water Public: Email Your Representative and Senators

  Privatization of water in the United States and around the world has proven disastrous for public health and public wealth.

  Yet, Senator and potential vice-presidential nominee Tammy Duckworth and Representatives Bill Pascrell and Richie Neal (Democrats all) are leading efforts to create incentives to privatize water. Learn more here.
  

  Let's stop them!

• No more free weapons to Israel for annexing Palestine

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced major new annexation to Israel of large sections of what remains of Palestinian land. (Learn more here.)
  

  There was a tradition of U.S. governments -- from Eisenhower to Bush the First -- of conditioning Israeli "aid" on better behavior. Now, finally, after years of public pressure, it is being revived by members of Congress.

  Thirteen members of Congress have sent an important letter of protest to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

• SalsaStaff 342845: Extra fields for CA governor

  This is a live form.  Using BlackHole does not replicate the issue.

  
  
  
  Please click below to send an email to Gov. Newsom.
  
  You can revise the existing message or replace it with your own.

• Tell Gavin Newson That You Want a Democratic Process and the Prospect of Ro Khanna as Chair of California’s Delegation to the Democratic National Convention

  
  
  
  
  Please click below to send an email to Gov. Newsom.
  
  You can revise the existing message or replace it with your own.

• Move $350 billion from militarism to human needs

  This is long overdue. It's time we got our priorities straight.

  There's now a stronger resolution in Congress than we've seen in many years. Learn more here.
  

  Let's generate overwhelming support for it and begin moving federal spending in the right direction.

  Please click below to send an email to your Representative and Senators.

• 55% of Discretionary Spending for Militarism Is Too Much

  Too much of our U.S. taxes goes to fund wars and preparations for more wars.

  Take a moment to email your Senators and Representative to ask them to spend our money more wisely.

  And, if you have time, please edit the subjectline and email to use your own words -- which is always most effective.

• Tell YOUR senators and representative: No war weapons to police

  The time has finally come to get weapons of war out of the hands of police.
  

  Please click below to email your Representative and Senators.

  If you have time, please edit the subject line and text of the email to add your own words.

  Photo credit: Richard Grant, @richardgrant88

• Email your Representative and Senators to Block U.S. War on Venezuela

  Threats of direct U.S. military intervention in Venezuela are intensifying.
  
  Congressional action is urgently needed to prevent war and end horrific deadly sanctions.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators:

• Be a Citizen Cosponsor of the Essential Workers Bill of Rights

  From Congressman Ro Khanna:

  Nearly 60 million Americans are still working to keep our internet running, to deliver our groceries, to make sure we have electricity, and to care for the sick.
  
  Without these people, our nation would not function. Yet, millions are being paid pittances, and aren’t being provided the protective equipment they need to keep their families safe.
  
  That’s why I’m proud to announce, alongside Senator Elizabeth Warren, a new Essential Workers Bill of Rights that would provide hazard pay, ensure health and safety protections, provide paid leave, and more. Will you sign on as a citizen co-sponsor?

  Essential Workers Bill of Rights
  
  1. Health and safety protections including PPE.
  2. Robust premium compensation retroactive to the beginning of this crisis.
  3. Provide protections for collective bargaining agreements.
  4. Institute truly universal paid sick leave and family and medical leave.
  5. Protect whistleblowers who call attention to unsafe conditions.
  6. End to worker misclassification.
  7. Full health insurance for all frontline workers.
  8. Support child care.
  9. Give workers a seat at the table when coordinating government response.
  10. Hold corporations accountable for meeting their responsibilities.
  

• Tell Congress: Protect Seniors!

  Read more about this topic here.
  
  Please click below to sign this petition, which RootsAction and allies will deliver to Congress:

  Approximately 2.3 million Americans live in nursing homes. These facilities have become hotspots in the midst of a pandemic with a lack of aid and resources. Protecting these seniors and those who care for them must be a top priority of Congress and the White House.
• Tell the Chair of the California Democratic Party: You Must Be Fair to Bernie Sanders and His Supporters

  Please send an email to Rusty Hicks, the chair of the California Democratic Party, letting him know that the statewide delegates elected for Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary should not be taken away from him. You can send the message below or write your own.

• Don't Let NY Kick Bernie Off the Primary Ballot

  Some in New York’s Democratic establishment are trying to cancel presidential primary voting and remove Bernie Sanders from the ballot, along with his 184 certified potential delegates.

  Let's not let that happen.

  Click below tell Gov. Cuomo and Election Commissioners not to cancel the presidential primary.

• $2,000/month until employment returns to pre-COVID-19 levels

  Taxpayers just gave COVID-19 bailouts to giant corporations, why not people?

  Click below to email your Representative and your two Senators.

• Save the Post Office!

  The U.S. Postal Service provides universal service to all Americans — rich or poor, urban or rural.

  The work of its heroic employees is critical to our needs during the coronavirus pandemic, including the need for voting by mail.

  But the Postal Service may be eliminated in the coming months without Congressional action. Learn more here.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.

• Tell New York's Governor and State Legislators to Suspend Rent and Mortgages Now

  We New Yorkers must demand an immediate suspension of rents and mortgages.

  Click below to send an email to Governor Cuomo and your state legislators.

• Prevent Life-Threatening In-Person Election in Wisconsin

  There is no need for Wisconsinites to risk spreading coronavirus with an in-person election. Voting can be done by mail.

  Click below to email Department of Human Services Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm.

• Georgia Must Ensure That Everyone Can Vote By Mail

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Georgia to ensure that everyone can vote by mail.
  

  Click below to email Governor Kemp.
  

• Call on the Ohio legislature to fully fund vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Ohio legislature to fund a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email your Ohio legislators.
  

• Call on the Governor of Kentucky to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Kentucky to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Beshear.
  

• Call on the Governor of Louisiana to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Louisiana to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Edwards.
  

• Call on the Governor of Maryland to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Maryland to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Hogan.
  

• Call on the Governor of Connecticut to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Connecticut to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Lamont.
  

• Call on the Governor of New York to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of New York to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Cuomo.
  

• Call on the Governor of Puerto Rico to create a vote-by-mail system

  
  

  We’re calling on the Governor of Puerto Rico to create a vote-by-mail system.
  

  Click below to email Governor Vazquez Garced.

• Call on Congress to fully fund a vote-by-mail system for November

  
  

  We’re calling on Congress to fully fund a vote-by-mail system for the November presidential election.

  Click below to email your Representative and your two Senators.

• Stop Pandemic Profiteering

  
  

  Senators Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler were given a briefing by top Trump administration officials about the threat of coronavirus. Then, as President Trump was still downplaying the risks to the American public, they sold off their stocks before a catastrophic market crash.
  
  Sign this Petition from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
  

  Senators Burr and Loeffler had inside information, and it appears that they used it to profit off a global crisis. Now, they must resign from the Senate.

• Guarantee Healthcare as Human Right During COVID-19 Pandemic

  
  We must mobilize our communities.
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic is one of our generations' tests. Congress must step up now and pass massive investments to stop this disease.
  
  We must demand our leaders take bold actions we need to protect our families during this crisis. Add your name to send this message:

  To Congress:
  We need every single person provided healthcare as a right during this ordeal.
• Support the 21st Century Jobs Bill

  In 2016, Donald Trump exploited an environment of political, racial, and economic divisiveness to capture the White House. If Democrats aim to take it back, then we need to have a plan that unites rural, suburban, and urban communities.

  That’s why I was proud to introduce the 21st Century Jobs bill in Congress. A $900 billion jobs bill, it would fundamentally shape the face of economic opportunity in rural America by realigning companies' incentives towards the public good, not just profit.

  If you think it’s time to start winning back the American heartland for 2020, and providing economic opportunity to millions, sign your name to co-sponsor my jobs bill:

  I support the 21st Century Jobs Bill.
  
• Sign AOC's petition opposing Trump's new budget

  Donald Trump is robbing the working and middle class to give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.
  
  Sign this petition from
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress:
  

  I stand with AOC against a budget that cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, student loan relief, the CDC, the Department of Education, and affordable housing, while it funds militarism, ICE, and a border wall.
  
• Tell Senator Joni Ernst to stand up for women, not the NRA

  One woman is blocking the Violence Against Women Act. Sign this petition below:

  To Senator Joni Ernst,
  
  Stand up for women, NOT the NRA. The Violence Against Women Act is up for renewal in the Senate. It’s a simple, but powerful law: it protects women from domestic violence. You are a survivor of sexual assault. You should know that for many women this is life or death. But since the NRA came out against it, you have shamefully buried and abandoned the Violence Against Women Act. We need you to close the Boyfriend Loophole and pass the Violence Against Women Act.
• Ask Bernie to Skip AIPAC Again

  Four years ago, a DIY.RootsAction.org petition asked Senator Bernie Sanders to decline an invitation to speak at the Washington D.C. Policy Conference of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Sanders did decline to attend (and AIPAC declined to allow him to speak by video).
  
  We're asking Bernie to do the same again this year. Please add your name bellow.

  Senator Bernie Sanders,
  
  We urge you not to attend the AIPAC conference.
• Tell Bloomberg to fund racial justice groups instead of a presidential campaign

  Michael Bloomberg's defense of racially targeted policing in the audio recording below is disqualifying. He must not be elected president.
  
  Bloomberg's statement on the audio tape includes this:
  "One of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes. That’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. . . And the ways you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them."
  

  Please sign the petition below:
  

  Michael Bloomberg,
  
  We urge you to cease funding your presidential campaign, and to instead donate the same amount of money to racial justice groups such as the Innocence Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU Racial Justice Program, and Black Lives Matter.

• Tell Bloomberg to fund racial justice groups instead of a presidential campaign

  Michael Bloomberg's defense of racially targeted policing in the audio recording below is disqualifying. He must not be elected president.
  
  Bloomberg's statement on the audio tape includes this:
  "One of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes. That’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. . . And the ways you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them."
  

  Please sign the petition below:
  

  Michael Bloomberg,
  
  We urge you to cease funding your presidential campaign, and to instead donate the same amount of money to racial justice groups such as the Innocence Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU Racial Justice Program, and Black Lives Matter.

• Endorse AOC

  Will you sign your name to personally endorse AOC right now before election year begins?
  
  Sign this petition from
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress:
  

  I endorse AOC for reelection in 2020.
  
• Sign on right now to help pass Medicare for All.

  Health care must be a human right, not a privilege for the few.
  
  Sign this petition from Justice Democrats:
  

  I support Medicare For All.
  
  
• SalsaStaff 320569: Petition acts like a targeted action

  The DCCC is still blacklisting vendors who work on insurgent, primary campaigns.
  
  Sign this petition from Justice Democrats:
  

  To the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
  
  We urge you to immediately cease blacklisting vendors who work on primary election campaigns.
  
  
• Demand that the DCCC end its blacklist policy

  The DCCC is still blacklisting vendors who work on insurgent, primary campaigns.
  
  Sign this petition from Justice Democrats:
  

  To the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
  
  We urge you to immediately cease blacklisting vendors who work on primary election campaigns.
  
  
• Drop the charges against Glenn Greenwald

  By charging Glenn Greenwald with a cybercrime, the government of Brazil has essentially criminalized engaging in legitimate journalistic practices, which threatens to have a chilling effect on journalists and sources alike.
  
  Please add your name to this petition:

  We stand with Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept’s team in Brazil and demand that prosecutors respect press freedom and drop this blatant politically motivated charge.

• Tell Senator Harris Not to Endorse Joe Biden

  
  It’s important that California Sen. Kamala Harris quickly hear from constituents about indications that she’s likely to endorse Joe Biden for president in the near future.
  
  Please send her an email by clicking below.

  You might want to write her an individual message to let her know exactly how you feel.

• Demand that the DCCC end its blacklist policy

  The DCCC is still blacklisting vendors who work on insurgent, primary campaigns.
  
  Sign this petition from Justice Democrats:
  

  To the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
  
  We urge you to immediately cease blacklisting vendors who work on primary election campaigns.
  
  
• #CNNisTrash

  In its January 14th presidential primary debate, CNN displayed blatant bias so extreme that even viewers who knew little about the issues couldn't miss it, and focused on expressing hostility toward a single candidate, Bernie Sanders.

  Please sign this petition to be delivered to CNN.

  To CNN:
  
  We urge you to restore credibility by apologizing for your moderation of the debate on January 14th -- and we urge you to move away from your biased coverage of the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
  
  
• Urge Senator Chris Murphy to Consistently Oppose War

  Just days after Senator Murphy proclaimed that Trump “has rendered America impotent in the Middle East” because “no one fears us,” the same senator was decrying the “recklessness” of the same president.
  
  In effect, Murphy goaded Trump as a wimp and then bemoaned his aggressive actions.
  
  We need consistent advocacy for peaceful resolution of conflicts.
  
  Click below to email Senator Murphy.
  
  Feel free to add your own words.

• SalsaStaff 317497: Address question, black hole targets

  

  What the United States did to Iraq must not be done to Iran!

  Email your Representative and Senators:

• Not another $738 billion for wars

  Tell Congess to vote No on the National Defense Authorization Act that would give another $738 billion to the Pentagon. Learn more here.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and your two Senators.

• Buttigieg needs to say which clients he worked for during his three years at corporate consulting firm McKinsey and Company.

  Pete Buttigieg is trying to keep a secret, namely what he did and who he worked for while at the McKinsey corporate consulting firm. Buttigieg claims the company won't allow him to identify his clients. He has an obligation to do so if he wants to be a candidate for U.S. president.

  To Mayor Pete Buttigieg:
  
  We urge you to make public what clients you worked for and what work you did for them while employed by McKinsey and Company. If you want to campaign for public office, we need your record to be public.
  
  
  
• Tell Virginia: It's time to end the death penalty

  Twenty-nine U.S. states have banned capital punishment or imposed a moratorium, and most of the rest have effectively stopped using it.

  More information here.

  Click below to email your Virginia Delegate, Senator, and Governor:

• Urge Congressman Pocan to Act Against the Patriot Act

  Congressman Mark Pocan co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. They both recently voted for and watched most of their caucus members vote for a bill that included a three-month extension of the Patriot Act.

  Click below to email Congressman Pocan.

• Urge Congresswoman Jayapal to Act Against the Patriot Act

  Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus with Congressman Mark Pocan. They both recently voted for and watched most of their caucus members vote for a bill that included a three-month extension of the Patriot Act.

  Click below to email Congresswoman Jayapal.

• Tell the New York Times and Washington Post: 'Quit Being a Megaphone for the Corporate Elite'

  In their coverage of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the New York Times and Washington Post are largely serving as mouthpieces for corporate and establishment interests.
  
  Click below to sign this petition, which will be presented to the top editors of those two influential newspapers.

  To the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post:
  
  Quit being a megaphone for the corporate elite. As the media watch group FAIR has documented, your newspaper continues to skew coverage of the Democratic presidential race in ways that run counter to fairness and accuracy. While there are two contesting wings in the Democratic Party -- the progressive and corporate wings -- the Times and the Post routinely give voice to the claims of just one side. Articles are often, in effect, editorials (in support of corporate Democrats) masquerading as news stories.
• Free Julian Assange. Do not extradite him.

  Sign this petition:

  To the Government of the United Kingdom:
  
  We the undersigned respectfully call on the appropriate authorities of the United Kingdom to immediately release Julian Assange, citizen of Australia, from Belmarsh prison where he is being unjustly and cruelly incarcerated.
  
  Acting as a publisher through WikiLeaks, Mr. Assange has done the world a service in documenting the war crimes and other abuses of the United States and other governments, organizations, and corporations.
  
  He is not charged with any crime or even misdemeanor in the United Kingdom, and has fully served his sentence for his single offense: jumping bail to avoid extradition to the United States via Sweden. He was not and is not charged with any crime in Sweden.
  
  The sole charges against Mr. Assange originate in the United States, where he is charged with the publication of accurate information provided by informed sources, as well as with encouraging a source, and protecting a source. These are regular and necessary practices of journalism in a free and democratic society. The prosecution of a publisher for publishing accurate information that is clearly in the public interest is a threat to journalism and to democracy.
  
  The "espionage" prosecution by the United States of a non-U.S. citizen who has not been in and is not in the United States would be an additional dangerous precedent to set.
  
  It is quite clear that in its current treatment of Julian Assange, the United Kingdom is debasing itself as a mere instrument of political repression exercised by the United States. The current imprisonment of Mr. Assange is a blot on the United Kingdom’s judicial system, a disgrace to British decency.
  
  There is every reason to fear an unfair trial, or cruel imprisonment without trial, in the United States. We appeal to your sense of justice to uphold the best traditions of British democracy and respect for human rights by immediately freeing, rather than extraditing, Julian Assange.
• Tell your Congress member: IMPEACH TRUMP!

  

  Click below to email your Representative to move full-speed ahead with impeachment, including for Trump's willful violations of the Constitution's anti-corruption clauses.

  Feel free to add your own comments.
  

• Tell Your Senators and Representative: All Whistleblowers Deserve Protection

  NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden remains in exile, unable to get a fair trial in the United States. After seven years in prison, Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is now behind bars again for her principled stand against grand-jury abuses. NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake was subjected to years of harassment and bogus prosecution before a judge finally threw out the felony charges.
  
  You can quickly send an email to both your senators and your representative, urging them to end the use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers who provide information to journalists in the public interest. (Feel free to write your own message.)

• Tell Congress: Keep these things in the NDAA

  This year's National Defense Authorization Act is a disaster in terms of wasteful and destructive spending.
  

  But the House version contains many good things that we want kept in any bill that the House and Senate agree on.
  

  Click below to email your Representative who is a member of the Conference Committee.

  Feel free to add your own words:

• Tell Congress: Stop Poisoning the People of Vieques, Fund Closed Detonation Chambers

  
  

  The U.S. government is cleaning up the toxic mess left on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, after decades of bombing practice, by finding unexploded ordnance and blowing it up in the open air -- adding to, rather than diminishing health risks. 

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators, or your Delegate in the U.S. Congress:

• Tell Chairman Nadler: Impeachment hearings now

  House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler seems to believe that we require still more evidence before holding impeachment hearings. Learn more here.
  
  Click below to sign this petition to Chairman Nadler:

  Chairman Jerrold Nadler,
  
  RootsAction has drafted 23 articles of impeachment most of which do not require any new evidence that isn't already public. Impeachment hearings should be held on these articles for the purpose of educating the public, the media, and the Senate. But investigations of possible offenses that have not yet been established should not excuse any further delays. We need impeachment hearings immediately.
  
  
• Tell Your Representative: Keep these things in the NDAA

  This year's National Defense Authorization Act is a disaster in terms of wasteful and destructive spending.
  

  But the House version contains many good things that we want kept in any bill that the House and Senate agree on.
  

  Click below to email your Representative who is on the House Armed Services Committee.

  Feel free to add your own words:

• Tell Your Senator: Keep these things in the NDAA

  This year's National Defense Authorization Act is a disaster in terms of wasteful and destructive spending.
  

  But the House version contains many good things that we want kept in any bill that the House and Senate agree on.
  

  Click below to email your Senator who is on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

  Feel free to add your own words:

• Tell Congress to Impeach Trump for Illegally Withdrawing from the INF Treaty

  The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty includes means of handling alleged violations, but forbids withdrawal except following "extraordinary events" which have not occurred.
  

  Click below to email your Representative.
  

  It helps if you add your own words!

• Tell Your Senators and Representative That You Want Confirmation They’ve Read Daniel Ellsberg’s Crucial Letter

  Your senators and representative have had ample time to read the two-page letter from Daniel Ellsberg that was hand-delivered to their office on Capitol Hill in late July, outlining steps needed to reduce the threat of nuclear war.
  
  But did they actually read the letter? And do they intend to read Ellsberg’s vital book “The Doomsday Machine” that accompanied the letter?
  
  As a constituent, you can raise these key questions by clicking below to send an email to both your senators and your representative. (Feel free to write your own message.)

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• Tell the House Democrat who represents you: It's time for Speaker Pelosi to stop disparaging progressives

  As the most powerful Democrat in Congress, Nancy Pelosi should stop denigrating progressive lawmakers and the millions of Americans who share their political outlooks.
  
  To make that point loud and clear, please click below to email your representative. (Feel free to write your own message.)

• Tell Congress to Impeach Trump for Illegal Proliferation of Nuclear Technology

  If this isn't impeachable, exactly what is?
  

  Click below to email your Representative.
  

  It helps if you add your own words!

• Tell Congress: Keep these things in the NDAA

  This year's National Defense Authorization Act is a disaster in terms of wasteful and destructive spending.
  

  But the House version contains many good things that we want kept in any bill that the House and Senate agree on.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and two Senators.

  Feel free to add your own words:

• MSNBC: Stop your bias against Bernie Sanders. Include unabashed progressive voices.

  Many liberals and Democrats watch MSNBC, but the Comcast-owned channel seems to have a bias against the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. (More info in our email.)
  
  Click below to sign this petition:

  MSNBC Management:
  Please balance your coverage by adding unapologetic progressives to your panels – not just establishment Democrats.
• Tell Your Representative to Read Daniel Ellsberg’s Book "The Doomsday Machine" and to Take Action for Preventing Nuclear War

  Drawing on six decades of his quest “to understand nuclear-weapons dangers and how to reduce them,” Daniel Ellsberg wrote a book that a team from RootsAction.org and the Institute for Public Accuracy has just delivered to Representatives on Capitol Hill -- along with a letter from Ellsberg personally addressed to them.
  
  Now, please click below to email your representative. (Feel free to write your own message.)

• Tell Your Senators to Read Daniel Ellsberg’s Book "The Doomsday Machine" and to Take Action for Preventing Nuclear War

  Drawing on six decades of his quest “to understand nuclear-weapons dangers and how to reduce them,” Daniel Ellsberg wrote a book that a team from RootsAction.org and the Institute for Public Accuracy has just delivered to senators on Capitol Hill -- along with a letter from Ellsberg personally addressed to them.
  
  Now, please click below to email your two senators. (Feel free to write your own message.)

• CNN: Add a progressive journalist as a questioner for the Democratic debates

  At all four of CNN’s Republican debates in 2015-16, the network included conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on its panel to question GOP candidates. One CNN debate featured two CNN journalists and two right-wing journalists from conservative outlets. But at the upcoming Democratic debates on July 30-31, CNN is planning to include not a single progressive journalist among its panel of questioners. (More info in our email.)
  
  Add your name and comment below for us to deliver to CNN:

  To CNN,
  For the sake of fairness and balance, you should add to your panel an unapologetic progressive for the upcoming Democratic debates.
• Do Not Leave Prisoners in the Paths of Hurricanes

  When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana in 2017, prisoners were left locked-up in its path.
  

  Another hurricane or tropical storm is threatening the Gulf Coast.

  Please take a moment to sign the petition below. Then please call the facilities on the list of phone numbers on the next page and demand that they evacuate all prisoners in the storm’s path, immediately.

  We'll be able to deliver this petition to all relevant authorities now and during hurricanes and other disasters to come.

  Do not leave prisoners locked-up in the paths of hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, fires, or other life-threatening disasters.
  
• Ban Slavery in Our State

  
  Twenty U.S. states' constitutions, including the Constitution of our state, contain the same shortcoming found in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  They permit slavery, or in the case of Louisiana, "involuntary servitude," as punishment for a crime. More info here.
  
  Click below to email your governor and state legislators:

• Tell the DNC to Hold a Climate Debate

  Sign this petition to the Democratic National Committee:

  Climate collapse is not like other topics. It is a question of human survival.
  
  Hold a presidential primary debate on the topic of climate.

• Join Our Campaign to Take on Every Military Contractor

  Add your name below.

  For years, TransDigm dominated the market for basic parts that are integral for the operation of our military. Due to a lack of competition and a lack of transparency, TransDigm was able to buy up entire companies and gouge prices, increasing the cost of some products by over 4000%.
  
  But then, because of our pressure – my leadership in Congress and your support of our campaign – TransDigm announced that they will repay $16 million to our military that they stole from taxpayers. This is a victory for all of us, but the fight for responsible military spending is far from over.
  
  Will you add your name today to join our campaign and demand that Congress rein in reckless military spending and take a stand against the military industrial complex?
  
  —Congressman Ro Khanna
  
  

• Urge your state government to join those banning Styrofoam containers

  Washington, D.C., Maine, and Maryland have banned polystyrene containers (often called Styrofoam). Learn more about it here.

  To email your state legislators and governor asking them to do the same, just click below.

• Tell the Senate to Vote on the Dream Act

  This legislation would give young people living with second-class status and at risk of deportation and family-separation the chance to become U.S. citizens.

  It's been passed by the House of Representatives, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he won't allow a vote in the Senate.

  Click below to email your Senators:

• Pass the "Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act"

  

  Here's a first step toward justice. Ask Congress to pass legislation that would deny Israel the ability to use U.S. funds to commit the worst abuses against children. Learn more here.

  Click below to email your Representative and two Senators.

• Impeach Trump for Declaring a False Emergency to Violate the Will of Congress

  With Congress blocking the shipment of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration has declared an "emergency" in order to violate the will of Congress and provide the weapons anyway. Learn more here.
  
  Click below to email your Representative:
  

• Email Congress: Don't Iraq Iran!

  

  What the United States did to Iraq must not be done to Iran!

  Email your Representative and Senators:

• Petition to Trump: Don't Iraq Iran!

  (Anyone can sign the petition below. U.S. residents can also email Congress here.)
  
  What the United States did to Iraq must not be done to Iran!

  Sign this petition to President Trump:

  To President Donald Trump:
  
  I urge you not to launch, and to cease risking the initiation of, a war on Iran. You have accurately described the decision to attack Iraq as one of the worst in U.S. history. This one could be worse.
  
  I encourage you to meet peacefully with Iranian leaders, cease threatening war, dismiss your subordinates who are intent on war, end inhumane sanctions, and remove U.S. troops from the region.
  
  
• Free Chelsea Manning One Last Time

  
  Before she entered the courthouse where she would refuse yet again to testify about WikiLeaks to a grand jury, Cheslea Manning spoke about her reasons. Watch the video:
  

  Click below to send this email to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. You can add to the message or write your own.
  

• Free Chelsea Manning One Last Time

  
  Before she entered the courthouse where she would refuse yet again to testify about WikiLeaks to a grand jury, Cheslea Manning spoke about her reasons. Watch the video:
  

  Click below to sign this petition to the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Virginia.

  To the USAO EDVA:
  We urge you to rescind the subpoena against Chelsea Manning. She testified at length during her court martial and at least one target of the grand jury has been indicted. There is no need for her testimony. Given that Manning served an unprecedented prison sentence for disclosing information to the media -- at times under conditions criticized by international human rights experts -- further pursuit of her is excessive and cruel. Manning has made it clear she won't cooperate with secret proceedings. Since further confinement will serve no coercive purpose it has exceeded its lawful scope. Please do the right thing. Drop the subpoena against Manning.
• Email your Representative and Senators to Block U.S. War on Venezuela

  Threats of direct U.S. military intervention in Venezuela are intensifying.
  
  Congressional action is urgently needed to prevent war and end horrific deadly sanctions.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators:

• Tell Facebook to Check Its Fact Checkers

  Facebook has partnered with CheckYourFact.com which is part of The Daily Caller, a promoter of climate denial that was co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is funded by oil barons Charles and David Koch among other right-wing backers.
  
  Sign this petition:
  

  To Facebook:
  We demand that you drop your role as arbitrary fact-checker and guardian of good opinion -- and instead confine yourself to maintaining an open and safe platform free from violence and threats of violence.
  
• Add your name to make health care a right in America.

  We need to make health care a right. Learn more here.

  Click below to add your name to this petition to the United States Congress:

  I call on Congress to support Medicare for All now! Health care is a right. We must end the “pay or die” for-profit insurance nightmare once and for all.
• Impeach Trump for Refusing to Comply with Subpoenas

  The House Judiciary Committee passed three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. One of them was for refusal to comply with subpoenas. The same article applies to Trump with very few words altered.
  
  Click below to email your Representative:

• Impeach Trump for Instructing Border Patrol to Violate the Law

  
  

  Trump's lawless behavior continues, and will continue until Congress puts a stop to it.
  
  Click below to email your Representative.
  

• Stop Trump's Cruelty to Central America

  Donald Trump has announced an end to humanitarian aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

  Learn more here.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators not to allow this outrage:

• Tell the UK not to extradite Julian Assange

  Sign this petition to the U.K. government.
  

  Click here to learn more.

  Do not extradite Julian Assange to the United States. Set him free. He is a publisher. He has informed us about human rights abuses and crimes committed by the U.S. government overseas -- abuses that the U.S. government has tried to keep secret from us.
• Don't Let Congress Move Yet More Money into Militarism

  Trump wants to increase this year's already-bloated, record-breaking $716 billion Pentagon budget to $750 billion for next year, including $165 billion off-the-books. Learn more here.
  

  Email your Representative to block this disastrous proposal.

• Tell Your Senators to Speak Out -- and Vote Against -- Expansion of NATO

  
  NATO has confirmed that it intends to bring into military membership yet another country on Russia’s border -- Georgia. But before that dangerous change can take effect, the U.S. Senate must vote on it.
  
  The United States and Russia combined have more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. We must reduce the chances of unfathomable nuclear catastrophe by reversing the momentum of conflict between the two countries -- conflict that has been greatly increased by NATO expansion.
  
  Please take a minute to email your two senators with one click below. (Feel free to expand on the sample email message or replace it with your personal note.)
  
  Thank you!

• Tell Congress: Sponsor and Pass the Berta Caceres Act

  The United States should not be sending public money to the military and police of Honduras, especially when basic human rights conditions have not been met.
  

  Click below to email Congress:

• Free Chelsea Manning AGAIN!

  Chelsea Manning is again acting heroically in the name of press freedom, and it’s a travesty that she has been sent back to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
  
  An investigation into WikiLeaks for publishing is a grave threat to all journalists’ rights, and Chelsea is doing us all a service for fighting it.
  
  She has already been tortured, spent years in jail, and has suffered more than enough. She should be released immediately.
  
  —Daniel Ellsberg

  Chelsea Manning continues to defend freedom of speech and the press heroically. She should be freed immediately.
• Stop the Retaliatory Prosecution of Whistleblower Brigitte Fuzellier

  Brigitte Fuzellier, seen at center of photo with local farmers and indigenous tribe members in Paraguay, is being prosecuted in retaliation for whistle blowing. (Learn more here.)
  
  To help keep Brigitte Fuzellier free, click below to send this email to Paraguay Minister-President Eugenio Jiménez Rolón:

• Support Microsoft Employees Who Refuse War Work

  A global coalition of Microsoft employees is refusing to work on military weaponry.

  Sign your name in support of their moral stance.
  
  

  We support the Microsoft employees who are refusing to work on weapons contracts.
• Email your Representative and Senators to Block U.S. War on Venezuela

  The danger of a new disaster is real and imminent. 

  Nothing can justify the supreme international crime of launching a war against another country.

  Doing so always ends up hurting everyone involved.
  

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators with this lesson that ought to have been learned by now:

• Impeach Trump for Unconstitutional Declaration of Emergency

  Donald Trump once claimed he could get away with shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue.
  

  Can he get away with publicly announcing impeachable offenses?
  

  Let's make the answer be No. Learn more here.
  

  Click below to email your Representative in Congress:

• Tell Congressman Jared Huffman to Really Push for a Green New Deal

  Click below to send an email message to Rep. Huffman. (You can use the drafted note as it is, revise it, or entirely write your own message.)

• Will you take action to support the Green New Deal resolution? Become a citizen co-sponsor today!

  Add your name below.

  I'm proud to be one of the first cosponsors of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resolution for a Green New Deal — the first and only climate solution that actually matches the scale of the crisis.This landmark resolution was only possible because millions of people stood up and demanded that their representatives in Washington take bold climate action.
  
  We’ll need to harness that same people power to get this legislation passed before it’s too late. Help make history and add your name to help us pass a Green New Deal.
  
  —Congressman Ro Khanna
  
  
• Urge Congress to pass the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act

  Background:  Full text of 2017 bill

  

  The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act in the U.S. House of Representatives would "provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion ... while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion." 

  Let your representative know you want them to support it:

• DA Krasner: At long last, turn the page on Mumia Abu-Jamal case

  

  SUCCESS: Krasner has dropped his challenge. Mumia can appeal for his freedom!

  Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is challenging a judge's ruling that Mumia Abu Jamal has the right to re-appeal his case. Learn more here.

  Sign this petition to District Attorney Krasner:

  Dear District Attorney Krasner:
  
  As you know, respected human rights groups like Amnesty International have criticized the 1982 trial that convicted Mumia Abu-Jamal – as well as the corrupted appeals process that followed. Amnesty pointed to racial bias at the trial and “possible political influences that may have prevented him from receiving an impartial and fair hearing.” Since that tainted trial, Mr. Abu-Jamal has spent roughly 37 years in prison, much of it on death row in solitary confinement.
  
  After Judge Leon Tucker recently granted Mr. Abu-Jamal the right of appeal based on the appearance of bias in the appeals process, we were dismayed to hear you have decided to challenge Judge Tucker’s decision, apparently over concern that it might open the way for appeals by other less prominent convicted prisoners.
  
  We urge you to drop your appeal of Judge Tucker’s ruling – and we ask you: Given the racial, judicial and political biases that have tarnished Mr. Abu-Jamal’s case from day one, isn’t nearly four decades behind bars more than enough?

• Tell Congress to Save This Vital Nuclear Treaty

  President Trump has declared his intention to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a key nuclear disarmament pact with Russia signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and approved by the U.S. Senate.
  
  Now is the time for Congress to take action to keep the United States in the treaty. And either house of Congress alone has the power to refuse to fund any weapons prohibited by the treaty.

  Click below to email your Representative and your two Senators:

• Impeach Trump and Pence for Supporting a Coup in Venezuela

  Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence have actively supported a coup in Venezuela, damaging the rule of law, eroding respect for the United States, and risking disastrous results in Venezuela and internationally.
  
  Learn more here.
  
  

  Click below to email your member of the U.S. House of Representatives:

• Tell Congress to Get the U.S. Out of the War on Yemen

  On December 13th, 2018, the U.S. Senate voted to end U.S. participation in the war on Yemen by a vote of 56 to 41. But the House passed a bill, by a three-vote margin, that included a ban on taking such a vote in 2018.

  In the new Congress, the House passed a verison in February that included unrelated language that the Senate refused to vote on. But the Senate passed a new version on March 13th. Now, the House need to vote again to end U.S. participation in the mass killing in Yemen.
   
  Click below to email your Representative:

• Stop Spreading Cancer on Military Bases

  PFAS chemicals cause frequent miscarriages and other severe pregnancy complications. They contaminate human breast milk and sicken breast-feeding babies. PFAS contribute to liver damage, kidney cancer, high cholesterol, decreased response to vaccines, an increased risk of thyroid disease, along with testicular cancer, micro-penis, and low sperm count in males.
  
  A major source of this deadly contamination in hundreds of locations around the United States and around the world is U.S. military bases, which use PFAS for putting out fires, despite full knowledge of the effects, and despite the availability of alternatives. Learn more here.

  Click below to email your Representative and Senators:

• If Trump declares a national emergency, Impeach him

  Click below to tell your Congress Member that enough is enough.

  Trump has to be informed that he does not have immunity from impeachment.

  Learn more here.

• Trump Illegally Tried to Influence an Election: Impeach Him

  
  

  While campaigning for the office of President, Donald Trump acted to buy the silence of individuals.

  This is a quintessentially impeachable offense.

  The time for action on impeachment is right now.

  Click below to email your Representative.

• Email your Representative to Vote No on PayGo

  Despite opposition from progressives, Nancy Pelosi is trying to revive her pay-as-you-go rule, requiring that all new spending be paid for by budget cuts or revenue offsets.

  By and large, supporters of this move are not proposing cuts to the military or taxes on the wealthy. If they were to do so, then they wouldn't need PayGo.

  This rule will serve to block a New Green Deal and any other major useful investment.

  Email your Representative now:

• Free Cyntoia Brown

  Cyntoia Brown's "crime" was being a 16-year-old victim of rape, kidnapping, and sex-trafficking while black. Learn more here.
  
  Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has just days left in office.

  Click below to email him and ask that he grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown:
  

• Ask Amazon employees to refuse military work

  Nick Mottern reports that Amazon is likely to win a $10 billion contract “to build a global ‘brain’ for the Pentagon called JEDI, a weapon of unprecedented surveillance and killing power, a profoundly aggressive weapon that should not be allowed to be created.”
  
  Please sign this petition to Amazon employees:
  

  We urge you to refuse military work.
  
• Tell Congress to Save This Vital Nuclear Treaty

  President Trump has said that he plans to withdraw the United States from a key agreement with Russia that banned intermediate-range nuclear missiles. President Reagan signed the INF Treaty in 1987 and the U.S. Senate approved its ratification.
  
  Now, experts are alarmed that pulling out of the treaty will heighten the risks of nuclear war. Congress has the power to force adherence to the treaty if it chooses to act. Email your two Senators and your Representative with one click below.

• Tell Trump He's Not Welcome

  Add your name in solidarity with people of Pittsburgh:
  

  Trump will not be welcome in Pittsburgh and other communities that reject hatred and violence, unless he fully denounces white supremacy, stops targeting and endangering all minority groups, and ceases his assault on immigrants and refugees.

• Let's End the War on Yemen

  
  

  Saudi Arabia's murder of one journalist is horrific.

  Its murder, in collaboration with the U.S. military, of thousands of men, women, and children by the busload in Yemen is, according to the United Nations and the European Union, currently the greatest human catastrophe on earth.
   
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators to end war on Yemen.

• Impeach Trump for Tax Fraud

  Donald Trump campaigned for office on a series of lies.

  While he had no political accomplishments, he claimed great business success.

  This was fundamentally false.

  Click below to email your Representative:

• Remedy for "Justice Kavanaugh" is impeachment

  Disgusted and outraged at the Senate vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court?
  
  The constitutional remedy is impeachment.

  Email your Congress Member below:

• Restore Basic Rights to Pennsylvania Prisoners

  Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel has announced a number of new punitive policies that explicitly violate the rights of Pennsylvania prisoners and their families.

  These new policies include a ban on all physical copies of books, restrictions on taking photos and using vending machines during family visitation, and a strict ban on mail that requires family and friends to go through a 3rd party mailing service in Florida.

  Click below to send this email to your Pennsylvania state legislators and governor:
  

• Tell Christine Blasey Ford directly -- "I believe you Christine"

  
  

  This petition will be delivered to Christine Blasey Ford c/o her legal team.

  I believe you Christine.
• Tell the Senate to Reject Kavanaugh

  Click below to
  email your Senators.

  
  

• No More War Rehearsals -- Sign the Petition!

  Please add your name to this petition to the governments of all NATO Members – plus Sweden, Finland, and Russia:
  

  Nothing has done more to advance the possibility of peace in Korea than the United States ceasing what it calls "war games," but which might properly be called rehearsals for the bombing of North Korea. Yet the United States, NATO, and non-NATO-members Sweden and Finland are conducting the biggest rehearsal for a war on Russia that has been seen in decades, and Russia is engaged in a similarly enormous armed-rehearsal for a war on Europe. This is madness that must be ended.
  
  Planning for wars has been proven for many years to make wars more likely, and to drain resources away from planning for peace. Nations that plan less for war engage in less war and generate less hostility and terrorism.
  
  In May 2016, Politico reported on Pentagon testimony in the U.S. Congress to the effect that Russia had a superior and threatening military; the article included an admission from a "senior Pentagon officer" who said: "These guys want us to believe the Russians are 10 feet tall. There’s a simpler explanation: The Army is looking for a purpose, and a bigger chunk of the budget. And the best way to get that is to paint the Russians as being able to land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. What a crock."
  
  We demand an end to war rehearsals, and a public commitment by every national government never again to participate in rehearsals for war.
• Ask your Congress Member to impeach Trump for politicizing prosecutions

  President Trump has repeatedly politicized prosecutions.

  This is an offense requiring impeachment.
  

  Click below to email your Representative:
  

• Pardon Reality Winner

  Please add your name below to this petition which we will deliver to President Trump:
  

  “We the undersigned call on President Trump to pardon Reality Winner or to commute her sentence to time served.”
• Support Prisoners' Demands for Humane Treatment

  Prisoners in at least 17 states have coordinated a nationwide prison strike to end inhumane treatment behind bars.
  
  In recognition of the history of slave rebels and prison resistors, the nationwide prison strike was planned for August 21, the day Nat Turner led an uprising of slaves in 1831 and the 47th anniversary of the death of George Jackson, a prominent African-American prison advocate; until September 9, the 47th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion, the largest prison uprising of the 1970s prison movement, in which more than 40 people were killed.

  Click below to email your state and U.S. elected officials.
  
  

• Get the United States Out of the War on Yemen

  The United States has partnered with Saudi Arabia in a war in which U.S. bombs are blowing up large numbers of innocent children.

  The U.S. Constitution provides no presidential power to blow up busloads of kids.
  

  Click below to email your Senators and House Members.

  To learn more, view email sent to RootsAction's list.

• Urge more TV air time for Giuliani

  To advance the cause of getting President Donald Trump impeached and removed from office, please sign the following petition, which we will deliver to network TV and cable news producers:
  

  Please invite Rudy Giuliani on your programs more often, for longer periods of time, and with more freedom to express his views at length.
  
  You will be doing this country a service.
  
  Thank you.
  

  To learn more, view email sent to RootsAction's list.

• Tell Trump: 'Your Immigration Hypocrisy Is Clear'

  
  U.S. citizenship has been bestowed on Donald Trump’s in-laws, immigrants from Europe.
  

  No one, including the lawyer for Trump’s in-laws, has denied that they gained citizenship based on a family-unification process that Trump has repeatedly denounced as “chain migration” when it involved Mexicans or other immigrants of color. 
  

  Click below to send Trump the following message in a petition -- which we will transmit to Republican leaders in Congress for forwarding to Trump.

  Tell Trump:
  
  "Your hypocrisy and racism on 'chain migration' are obvious. We see through you. We will resist you."

• Pass the No Money Bail Act of 2018

  Almost one quarter of the people locked up in the United States -- which leads the world in locking people up -- have not been convicted of any crime.

  Undoing the injustice of incarceration as a penalty for lack of money bail is one of the easiest ways in which we could reduce mass incarceration.
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders has just introduced the No Money Bail Act of 2018. Among other provisions, it would end the use of secured bonds in federal criminal proceedings and provide grants to states that wish to implement alternate pretrial systems.
  

  Click below to quickly email your senators and representative:

• State Only Petition (SalsaStaff 249335)

  On August 23-25, hundreds of members of the Democratic National Committee will meet in Chicago and vote on a momentous reform that could decide the fate of our country. California’s DNC delegation, the largest in the nation, will have a major effect on the decision -- whether to limit the influence of “superdelegates” in the presidential nominating process. It’s a decision that could have a huge impact on the Democratic Party’s capacity to oust the extremist Republican Party from power.
   
  During the 2016 election campaign, more than half of the superdelegates (party officials and Democrats in Congress or state offices) committed themselves to Hillary Clinton nearly three months before a single voter had cast a ballot in a primary or caucus – thus sending a message that party elites had already put their thumbs on the scales.

  Looking ahead, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee has put forward a proposal to effectively eliminate the voting power of superdelegates for the first ballot at the national convention. If the reform proposal passes, superdelegates will not cast a vote on the first ballot at the 2020 Democratic National Convention – unless one of the candidates has already secured enough pledged delegates in primaries and caucuses to win the nomination outright.
  

  Petition text:
  
  To: California’s members of the Democratic National Committee
  
  We, California voters, urge all 32 members of our state’s DNC delegation to unite behind passage of much-needed superdelegate reform. This reform – backed by the California Democratic Party, DNC Chair Tom Perez and Vice Chair Keith Ellison – is vital for helping the party to emerge unified, strong and victorious in the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential campaign. Please vote for the superdelegate reform proposal from the Rules and Bylaws Committee.

  Background:
  > DNC members from California
  > The Hill: “DNC panel votes to move forward with superdelegate reform”
  > Co-Chairs of DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee: “Forged in Fire: What the Democratic Party is doing to prepare for 2020”
  
  
  

• Urge All of California’s DNC Members to Unite Behind “Superdelegate” Reform

  On August 23-25, hundreds of members of the Democratic National Committee will meet in Chicago and vote on a momentous reform that could decide the fate of our country. California’s DNC delegation, the largest in the nation, will have a major effect on the decision -- whether to limit the influence of “superdelegates” in the presidential nominating process. It’s a decision that could have a huge impact on the Democratic Party’s capacity to oust the extremist Republican Party from power.
   
  During the 2016 election campaign, more than half of the superdelegates (party officials and Democrats in Congress or state offices) committed themselves to Hillary Clinton nearly three months before a single voter had cast a ballot in a primary or caucus – thus sending a message that party elites had already put their thumbs on the scales.

  Looking ahead, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee has put forward a proposal to effectively eliminate the voting power of superdelegates for the first ballot at the national convention. If the reform proposal passes, superdelegates will not cast a vote on the first ballot at the 2020 Democratic National Convention – unless one of the candidates has already secured enough pledged delegates in primaries and caucuses to win the nomination outright.
  

  Petition text:
  
  To: California’s members of the Democratic National Committee
  
  We, California voters, urge all 32 members of our state’s DNC delegation to unite behind passage of much-needed superdelegate reform. This reform – backed by the California Democratic Party, DNC Chair Tom Perez and Vice Chair Keith Ellison – is vital for helping the party to emerge unified, strong and victorious in the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential campaign. Please vote for the superdelegate reform proposal from the Rules and Bylaws Committee.

  California DNC members: Steven Alari, Eric Bauman, Laphonza Butler, Becca Doten, Maria Elena Durazo, Jess Durfee, Mary Ellen Early, Maria Echaveste, Alex Rooker, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Alice Huffman, Aleita Huguenin, Hon. Lorna Johnson, Michael Kapp, Andrew Lachman, Rep. Barbara Lee, Otto Lee, Sandra Lowe, Kerman Maddox, Bob Mulholland, Hon. Alex Padilla, Christine Pelosi, Hon. Nancy Pelosi, John Perez, Hon. Greg Pettis, Melahat Rafiei, Susie Shannon, Garry Shay, Keith Umemoto, Amy Wakeland, Rep. Maxine Waters, Ros Wyman, Laurence Zakson

  Background:
  > DNC members from California
  > The Hill: “DNC panel votes to move forward with superdelegate reform”
  > Co-Chairs of DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee: “Forged in Fire: What the Democratic Party is doing to prepare for 2020”
  > California Democratic Party resolution

  
  

  This petition is only for residents of California. Other actions can be found here.
  

• Impeach Trump for Separating Children from Families

  Trump has overseen the work of his subordinates who have forcibly separated thousands of refugee children and infants from their families, imprisoned them in inhumane conditions including on military bases and in the private facilities of military contractors, denied access to these sites sought by members of Congress, and defended these policies with hate-inspiring rhetoric almost certainly resulting in additional violence and cruelty.
  
  In doing so he has violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which the United States is party, the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which every other nation on earth is party, the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  
  Click below to email your Representative:
  

• Add your name to support this historic Open Letter for secure elections and true national security

  Activists and writers including Noam Chomsky, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alice Walker, and Daniel Ellsberg have signed the Open Letter on this page -- to call for secure elections in the United States and steps to ease tensions between the United States and Russia in order to prevent a catastrophic conflict between the nuclear superpowers. If you agree, join them by signing below!
   
  Background:
  The Nation: “Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security”
  
  Open Letter
  

  Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security
  
  Many Americans remain deeply concerned about reports of Russian interference with the 2016 election. Meanwhile, relations between the United States and Russia are at their lowest and most dangerous point in several decades. For the sake of democracy at home and true national security, we must reach common ground to safeguard common interests -- taking steps to protect the nation’s elections and to prevent war between the world’s two nuclear superpowers.
  
  Whatever the truth of varied charges that Russia interfered with the election, there should be no doubt that America’s digital-age infrastructure for the electoral process is in urgent need of protection. The overarching fact remains that the system is vulnerable to would-be hackers based anywhere. Solutions will require a much higher level of security for everything from voter-registration records to tabulation of ballots with verifiable paper trails. As a nation, we must fortify our election system against unlawful intrusions as well as official policies of voter suppression.
  
  At the same time, the U.S. and Russian governments show numerous signs of being on a collision course. Diplomacy has given way to hostility and reciprocal consular expulsions, along with dozens of near-miss military encounters in Syria and in skies above Europe. Both sides are plunging ahead with major new weapons development programs. In contrast to prior eras, there is now an alarming lack of standard procedures to keep the armed forces of both countries in sufficient communication to prevent an escalation that could lead to conventional or even nuclear attack. These tensions are festering between two nations with large quantities of nuclear weapons on virtual hair-trigger alert; yet the current partisan fixations in Washington are ignoring the dangers to global stability and, ultimately, human survival.
  
  The United States should implement a pronounced shift in approach toward Russia. No political advantage, real or imagined, could possibly compensate for the consequences if even a fraction of U.S. and Russian arsenals were to be utilized in a thermonuclear exchange. The tacit pretense that the worsening of U.S.-Russian relations does not worsen the odds of survival for the next generations is profoundly false. Concrete steps can and must be taken to ease tensions between the nuclear superpowers.

  Signed by: Andrew Bacevich, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Phyllis Bennis, Noam Chomsky, Stephen F. Cohen, John Dean, Phil Donahue, Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr., Michael Moore, Walter Mosley, Viet Thanh Nguyen, John Nichols, Frances Fox Piven, Valerie Plame, Adolph Reed Jr., Governor Bill Richardson, Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, Norman Solomon, Gloria Steinem, Senator Adlai Stevenson III, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Alice Walker, Jody Williams, James Zogby 
  
  (Signers have endorsed this Open Letter as individuals and not on behalf of any organization.)

• A Message to the People of Mexico from People in the United States

  
  The people of Mexico have overwhelmingly elected progressive candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to be the next president of Mexico.
  
  Please click below to send the following message to the people of Mexico, a message that will be delivered to Mexican media and organizations in both English and Spanish.

  Unlike President Trump, we wish you well. Not ill. And we send good wishes to your incoming, progressive president, Mr. Lopez Obrador, whom you've elected in an historic landslide to carry out your will to reduce inequality, corruption and violence.
  
  Unlike President Trump, we do not scapegoat you for problems in our country. Unlike President Trump, we are proud to be a multiracial country and proud of the contributions made to our country by generations of Mexican immigrants. We are appalled by the separation of children from their parents at the border. And we do not support erecting a wall between our two countries.
  
  Unlike President Trump, who received only 46 percent of votes cast and three million votes less than a competing candidate, we recognize that your incoming president earned the support of a strong majority of Mexican voters.
  
  We vow to do our part to allow you, the people of Mexico, to determine your own political future. We know the dreadful history of our government’s bullying interventions in the internal affairs of Latin American countries – and that our government has used phrases like ‘human rights,’ ‘pro-democracy’ and ‘war on drugs’ to prettify interventions that have brought corporate exploitation, militarism, chaos, and even dictatorship to other countries.
  
  We send good wishes to the people of Mexico and to President-Elect Lopez Obrador.
• Impeach Trump for What He Did to Texas and Puerto Rico

  What Trump did to Texas and Puerto Rico must not be repeated.
  
  There's a lot of talk about "accountability," but there's one tool provided in the U.S. Constitution to achieve it.
  
  Please click below to email your member of Congress:
  
  

• Tell Senator Schumer to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Chuck Schumer:

• Tell Senator Brown to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Sherrod Brown, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Sherrod Brown:

• Tell Senator Leahy to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Patrick Leahy, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Patrick Leahy:

• Tell Senator Durbin to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Dick Durbin, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Dick Durbin:

• Tell Senator Feinstein to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Dianne Feinstein:

• Tell Senator Menendez to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Robert Menendez, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Robert Menendez:

• Tell Senator Warner to Support Serious Diplomacy in Korea

  
  

  Mike Pence, John Bolton, and gang don't seem to need any help in fending off the looming threat of peace in Korea, but that doesn't stop some Democrats, including Mark Warner, from offering.
  
  The following Democratic senators are now working in the long tradition of facilitating war by sabotaging diplomacy with impossible demands: Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner.
  
  Writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times: "They seem more concerned with undermining [Trump] than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace."
  
  There is virtually no chance that North Korea, threatened with the destruction visited upon Libya, is going to dismantle all of its weapons prior to any steps away from military threat.
  

  Click below to email Senator Mark Warner:

• Tell U.S. Media to Fix Its Palestine Coverage

  We have four simple demands for U.S. mainstream media outlets to help fix their broken coverage of Palestine. (Some outlets, of course, are less biased than others.) Add your name below before we deliver this petition to U.S. mainstream media:

  1. Include the voices of Palestinian rights activists and peace activists, both from Palestine and from the United States.
  
  2. Include the stories of Palestinian victims and their friends and loved ones.
  
  3. Use the active voice. If the Israeli military kills someone, say so. Don't say that Palestinians died, or "died in clashes," and leave the cause of death a mystery to be discovered through careful reading of later paragraphs.
  
  4. Provide appropriate context so that those you are informing of the latest violence know that Israel forcibly removed Palestinians from their homes in 1948 and through the 1967 war, that Israel today illegally occupies and blockades Palestinians, that Israel holds many Palestinian political prisoners, that Israel receives billions of dollars in free high-tech weaponry from the United States every year, and that none of these things is true for the other "side" of the "conflict."
• Media Coverage of Palestine -- 2018-05-31
• Drop the Charges Against Reality Winner

  On June 3, 2017, NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner was arrested and charged under the Espionage Act for allegedly providing a media organization with a top-secret document that analyzed information about alleged Russian online intrusions into a U.S. election. A year later, Reality Winner remains in a small jail without a trial.
  
  Several months before Winner's arrest, the FBI’s then-Director James Comey told President Trump that he was (in the words of a subsequent Comey memo) “eager to find leakers and would like to nail one to the door as a message.” Meanwhile, politically connected and high-level government officials continue to leak without consequence, or selectively declassify material to advance their own interests.
  
  

  To U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions:

  We urge you to immediately drop all charges against Reality Winner.
• Urge Ecuador to Protect WikiLeaks from Persecution by Team Trump

  Please let Ecuador’s leaders know that you support their courageous stand in protecting press freedom, as well as their right to grant political asylum and resist United States/United Kingdom intimidation.
  
  To President Lenin Moreno, Ecuador
  CC: Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa
  

  In 2012, the government of Ecuador bravely stood up for freedom of the press and against threats from the United States and United Kingdom by granting political asylum to WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. In response to his publishing activities that revealed U.S. war crimes and imperial misconduct, Assange was threatened with prosecution in the United State for espionage, while some U.S. political leaders called for his assassination. With an even more aggressively militaristic regime in power in Washington D.C. today, we encourage you to stand firm and not renege on Mr. Assange’s political asylum status.

• Urge Partners in Iran Deal to Uphold It Despite Trump

  Let's not allow Trump to destroy the world's relations with Iran and move us all closer to war.

  Please sign this petition:
  

  To: The governments of Germany, Russia, UK, France and China
  CC: Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

  We urge you to uphold the Iran nuclear deal and insist on full economic relations with Iran.
• Tell Congress to Stop Trump from Selling More Guns to Abusive Bahrain!

  The United Nations and the U.S. State Department have severely criticized the brutal human rights abuses of the Bahrain monarchy.
  
  But now the Trump Administration is rewarding the perpetrators of these abuses with brand new missiles and helicopter gunships.
  
  The U.S. Congress has 30 days to block the new weapons sale and show that the U.S. won’t support a growing military dictatorship in Bahrain.
  
  Add your name to this petition to Congress:
  

  We urge you to block the sale of any more weapons to the government of Bahrain. More U.S. weapons would only empower Bahrain to crack down harder on human rights defenders and political activists.
• Tell this Indiana Prison to Restore In-Person Visits

  On May 1, 2018, the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana, completely eliminated in-person visitation at the facility.

  This is cruel, as well as counterproductive for a prison euphemistically called a correctional facility. People deprived of contact tend to have a harder time re-integrating when freed.

  Add your name to this petition to the Miami Correctional Facility Staff and Administration:

  We urge you to restore in-person contact visits.
  
• No More U.S. Weapons to Israel

  Sign this petition to the U.S. government:

  End the provision of free weapons to the government of Israel.
• Salsa Staff - Copy of Create Ranked Choice Voting in Your State

  Click below to email your state legislators and governor.
  

  Please feel free to edit the message and add your own words.

• Create Ranked Choice Voting in Your State

  Click below to email your state legislators and governor.
  

  Please feel free to edit the message and add your own words.

• Tell Congress to Oppose Firing Missiles at Syria

  A Trump tweet said “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria” and added: “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'”
   
  The London-based Independent newspaper reported that “Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon has said any U.S. missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launch sites targeted, a step which could trigger a major escalation in the Syrian war.”
  

  Please modify and add to the message below in your own words and email your House Member and Senators:

• Tell Florida not to reduce prison visits

  The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has announced a planned Rule Change, 33-601.722, intended to significantly reduce prisoner visits, cutting visitation days by half and limiting visits to as little as two hours a day.
  

  Florida is already one of the worst states for prison visitation (as it is with other prison policies).

  Please add your own thoughts in your own words and email the Department of Corrections which is accepting comments through April 13, 2018:

• Pass the GRACE Act

  A bipartisan group of Senators has introduced legislation that would make it easier for the terminally ill to request a reduced sentence.

  Click below to ask your Senators to co-sponsor the GRACE Act.

  It helps to add your own comments in your own words.

• Government Policy for Profits of a Crime Family?

  
  

  President Donald Trump, his daughter, and his son-in-law are using public offices for personal profit, in violation of the Constitution's emolument clauses.
  

  Click below to email your Congress member:

• Salsa Staff - Copy of Tell Senate to Block Pompeo and Haspel

  Trump has nominated current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo.
  
  Pompeo has overseen drone killings, torture, and the whole array of unaccountable CIA activities. He has openly advocated for the bombing, and overthrowing the government, of Iran. Pompeo is clearly eager to head off the threat of peace in Korea.
  
  Haspel is best known for directly overseeing brutal torture, and making sadistic comments to her victims.

  Email your senators (adding your own comments as you choose):
  

• Tell Senate to Block Pompeo and Haspel

  Trump has nominated current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo.
  
  Pompeo has overseen drone killings, torture, and the whole array of unaccountable CIA activities. He has openly advocated for the bombing, and overthrowing the government, of Iran. Pompeo is clearly eager to head off the threat of peace in Korea.
  
  Haspel is best known for directly overseeing brutal torture, and making sadistic comments to her victims.

  Email your senators (adding your own comments as you choose):
  

• Tell Senate to Block Pompeo and Haspel

  Trump has nominated current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo.
  
  Pompeo has overseen drone killings, torture, and the whole array of unaccountable CIA activities. He has openly advocated for the bombing, and overthrowing the government, of Iran. Pompeo is clearly eager to head off the threat of peace in Korea.
  
  Haspel is best known for directly overseeing brutal torture, and making sadistic comments to her victims.

  Sign this petition to the U.S. Senate:

  We urge you to refuse confirmation of both Pompeo and Haspel.
• Ban Assault Weapons

  A new bill has been introduced in the House called the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018, H.R. 5087. It would prohibit the sale, transfer, production, and importation of:
  
  • Semi-automatic rifles and handguns with a military-style feature that can accept a detachable magazine;
  • Semi-automatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds;
  • Semi-automatic shotguns with a military-style feature;
  • Any ammunition feeding device that can hold more than 10 rounds;
  • And 205 specifically-named and listed firearms.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and your Senators:

• Stop 12 Senate Democrats from helping Trump attack Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform

  Right after backing down on the shutdown fight and leaving DREAMers in the lurch, Democrats are caving yet again to Trump!
  
  12 Senate Democrats – call them the #BailoutCaucus – are teaming up with the GOP on a bill to help Trump dismantle Dodd-Frank, Obama’s legacy-defining legislation reining in big banks.
  
  Sign the petition to be delivered to Senators Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Jon Tester (D-MT), Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Angus King (I-ME),  Gary Peters (D-MI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Tom Carper (D-DE):
  

  Sen. Mike Crapo’s bill attacking President Obama’s landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act puts consumers at risk of predatory lending and cuts away safeguards against another financial meltdown. The few minor “consumer protections” in this bill can’t hide the facts: it needlessly delivers more than two dozen deregulatory gifts to bank lobbyists, at a time when banks are earning record profits. Please do everything in your power to stop the Crapo bill (S.2155) from passing.
• Ask your Representative to stop protecting Trump from Impeachment

  A fast-growing group of 66 Congress Members wants to impeach President Donald Trump. But your Representative voted against them.
  
  Click below to send an email to try to bring your Congress Member around.
  
  You can send the email as-is, but it's more effective if you add your own words.

  After you click "submit" you'll see a phone number to call, a list of grounds for impeachment, and a full list of which members of Congress stand where.

• Thank and Encourage Your Congress Member on Impeachment

  Your member of Congress is one of a group of 66 and growing fast who want to impeach President Donald Trump.
  
  Click below to email them thanks and encouragement.
  
  You can send the email as-is, but it's more effective if you add your own words.

  After you click "submit" you'll see a phone number to call, a list of grounds for impeachment, and a full list of which members of Congress stand where.

• Stop Trump's militarism parade before it starts

  

  Trump wants a military parade with major war weaponry rolling down the streets of Washington, D.C.

  We will deliver this petition to the U.S. House Majority Leader, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader, and the Senate Minority Leader.

  Let's stop this bad idea before it happens:

  We demand that the United States hold no militarism-glorifying parade displaying weaponry of war. Should such a thing be staged, we will visibly support peace on that day.

• Allow Parents the Option to Protect Kids from Military Recruiters in High Schools

  

  Parents in our state should be given the means to exercise their right to opt out of sending their kids' names and contact information to military recruiters.
  

  Please click below to send this email to your state legislators and governor:

  
  

• Tell Congress: Not One Dime for Trump's Border Wall

  Trump is demanding millions in U.S. tax dollars for his border wall, having abandoned his oft-repeated campaign promise that Mexico would pay to wall itself off.

  Click below to Email your Representative and Senators:

• Tell state and local governments to save net neutrality

  There's a way that state and local governments can help save net neutrality -- and the FCC cannot stop them.

  The governor of Montana has already announced this policy.

  Click below to send an email to your state legislators and governor:

• Tell Facebook to Stop Deleting Accounts at the Direction of Governments

  
  

  Facebook has been deleting accounts at the direction of governments, including the Israeli, U.S., Chinese, and German governments.
  
  Facebook has used the rationale that the accounts it has deleted were inciting violence. Yet Facebook refrains from deleting many accounts that very openly encourage violence.

  Please sign this petition to Facebook, and then, on the next page, click to visit and like our new page on Facebook called Facebook Uncensored:
  

  Facebook should apply its policy consistently for deleting accounts that encourage violence, and not at the direction of any government. It should also apply the same policy to the many government accounts that encourage violence, including war and police violence.
  
• Salsa Staff Test Copy of MSNBC: Stop censoring U.S.-assisted carnage in Yemen

  
  An analysis by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has found that the purportedly liberal cable network MSNBC did not run a single segment devoted specifically to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen in the second half of 2017, even though – or perhaps because – the U.S. government has played a key role in creating the catastrophe. During this period MSNBC ran nearly 5,000 percent more segments that mentioned Russia than segments that mentioned Yemen.
  
  In all of 2017, MSNBC only aired one broadcast on the U.S.-assisted Saudi airstrikes that have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. And it never mentioned Yemen’s cholera epidemic, which infected more than 1 million Yemenis in the largest outbreak in recorded history, a direct result of the U.S.-assisted Saudi/UAE war and blockade.[1]
  
  The Pentagon has been refueling Saudi and UAE warplanes bombing purported Houthi targets in Yemen, even though Congress has never authorized such military action in Yemen, as required by the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. Section 8c of the War Powers Resolution defines U.S. participation in hostilities as including participation in the movement of foreign forces on their way to combat[2]; clearly, refueling Saudi/UAE warplanes during their bomb runs meets this definition.
  
  The Pentagon has been able to get away with this unconstitutional military action, in significant measure, because major U.S. media have refused to consistently report on the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and especially because they have rarely reported on the direct U.S. military role in causing the humanitarian catastrophe.
  
  Urge Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and MSNBC to correct their failure to report on the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and the direct U.S. military role in causing the catastrophe by signing our petition:
  

  MSNBC: Stop censoring the U.S.-assisted carnage in Yemen.
  

• MSNBC: Stop censoring U.S.-assisted carnage in Yemen

  
  An analysis by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has found that the purportedly liberal cable network MSNBC did not run a single segment devoted specifically to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen in the second half of 2017, even though – or perhaps because – the U.S. government has played a key role in creating the catastrophe. During this period MSNBC ran nearly 5,000 percent more segments that mentioned Russia than segments that mentioned Yemen.
  
  In all of 2017, MSNBC only aired one broadcast on the U.S.-assisted Saudi airstrikes that have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. And it never mentioned Yemen’s cholera epidemic, which infected more than 1 million Yemenis in the largest outbreak in recorded history, a direct result of the U.S.-assisted Saudi/UAE war and blockade.[1]
  
  The Pentagon has been refueling Saudi and UAE warplanes bombing purported Houthi targets in Yemen, even though Congress has never authorized such military action in Yemen, as required by the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. Section 8c of the War Powers Resolution defines U.S. participation in hostilities as including participation in the movement of foreign forces on their way to combat[2]; clearly, refueling Saudi/UAE warplanes during their bomb runs meets this definition.
  
  The Pentagon has been able to get away with this unconstitutional military action, in significant measure, because major U.S. media have refused to consistently report on the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and especially because they have rarely reported on the direct U.S. military role in causing the humanitarian catastrophe.
  
  Urge Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and MSNBC to correct their failure to report on the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and the direct U.S. military role in causing the catastrophe by signing our petition:
  

  MSNBC: Stop censoring the U.S.-assisted carnage in Yemen.
  

• The Democratic Party Should Live Up to Its First Name

  The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, must show that he’s serious about moving the party in a democratic direction. It’s time for him to go all-out to push for complete adoption of recommendations from the Unity Reform Commission to make the Democratic Party more democratic.
  
  Click below to email Chairman Perez (feel free to add your own comments):

• Don't let Congress put Attorney General Jeff Sessions in charge of mass surveillance

  Congress is gearing up to reauthorize sweeping surveillance powers that will grant President Trump and Attorney General Sessions the unconstitutional power to continue to spy on Americans without a warrant.
  
  Click below to email your Representative and Senators.
  

  It helps to add your own comments.

• Hey, Nancy Pelosi, Stop Blocking Impeachment

  Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says, "Now is not the time to consider articles of impeachment." Impeaching Donald Trump, she says, would be a waste of time because "he's just not that important." Pelosi claims that impeaching Trump would "divide us, not bring us together."
  
   Please sign this petition to Nancy Pelosi:
  

  Now is indeed the time to move forward on numerous documented and indisputable impeachable offenses.
  
  Those offenses include violation of the Constitution on domestic and foreign emoluments, incitement of violence, interference with voting rights, discrimination based on religion, illegal wars, illegal threats of nuclear war, abuse of the pardon power, obstruction of justice, politicization of prosecutions, and collusion against the United States with Russia and Egypt on behalf of Israel. Draft articles of impeachment and documentation on each of these topics are here:
  http://rootsaction.org/trump-articles-of-impeachment
  
  We urge you not to limit impeachment to the topic of an investigation by a special counsel and then to use that investigation as a rationale for stalling. Impeachment need not and cannot wait.
  

• Tell Virginia to Allow Localities to Ban Guns from Events

  Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds, both representing Charlottesville, are introducing bills into the Virginia state legislature to change state law to allow localities to decide whether or not to ban guns from permitted events on public property. 

  The state should not be dictating to cities, counties, and towns that they must allow armed rallies.

  Click below to email your delegate and senator:

• End Abusive Use of Tasers in U.S. Jails

  Video footage obtained by Reuters reveals disturbing incidents of officers and prison guards abusing their authority by using tasers, unnecessarily, on incarcerated people.
  
  One case involves the 2009 tasing of 20-year-old pregnant and handcuffed Martini Smith, who experienced a miscarriage just five days later.

  Another is the 2016 repeated tasing of a 19-year-old man despite his being strapped in a restraint chair.
  
  United Nations experts have called for an investigation, classifying this widespread abuse of tasers in U.S. jails as torture.

  To the Office of the Attorney General:

  We demand a federal investigation into the abusive use of tasers in jails across the United States.
  
• Urge World to Support the Olympic Truce

  
  The United Nations has asked its member states to observe an Olympic truce from one week before the upcoming February 9-25 Winter Olympics until one week after the March 9-18 Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea.

  South Korea has asked the United States to delay its war rehearsal flights over South Korea until after the truce.
  
  Please click below to sign a petition that can be printed out and delivered to the government of every nation on earth.
  

  Please add your own comments.

• SalsaStaff 206995: show legislators

  The Declaration of Independence charged King George III with obstruction of justice. Impeachment articles charged Richard Nixon with obstruction of justice. President Bill Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice.

  Why should Donald Trump be above the rule of law?
  

  Click below to email your Representative.

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Impeach Trump Because He Is Not Above the Law

  The Declaration of Independence charged King George III with obstruction of justice. Impeachment articles charged Richard Nixon with obstruction of justice. President Bill Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice.

  Why should Donald Trump be above the rule of law?
  

  Click below to email your Representative.

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Impeach Trump for Collusion with Israel

  "Russiagate" has dragged on without turning up much of any evidence that Team Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election.

  Russiagate has, however, bumped up against "Israelgate."
  

  Click below to email your Representative.

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Demand Reasonable Limits on "Russiagate" Investigations

  The House Intelligence Committee has invited and, when he declined, sent a subpoena to a progressive journalist. The committee wants New York radio host Randy Credico to appear and be questioned on matters related to the committee's investigation into "Russian active measures directed at the 2016 U.S. election." And the committee is telling Credico to produce any records of anything related to the topic.

  Please click below to sign this petition to Congress:

  The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects all journalists, including ones the government doesn’t like. Credico says that the only materials he has are his journalistic notes.
  
  Any investigation should have limits.
  
  Congress appears to be targeting people for political purposes, including to needlessly worsen U.S.-Russia hostility. Journalism and legal interactions with people who are Russian simply are not crimes.
  
  We believe that the “Russiagate” investigations should be conducted within reasonable limits and not become a tool for political theater and harassment of journalists or dissidents.
  
• Tell Congress: Adopt Policy of No First Use of Nuclear Weapons

  Using nuclear weapons ever would be absolute lunacy. A step toward abolition, disarmament, easing of international tensions, and peace negotations would be for the United States to join those nuclear nations that foreswear first use.
  
  Add your name and comments to this petition to the U.S. Congress:
  

  Pass HR 4415 and accompanying legislation in the Senate to make it U.S. policy to not use nuclear weapons first.
  
• Tell Your Maine Legislators to Reject General Dynamics' Request for $60 Million

  General Dynamics is rolling in federal taxpayers' dollars and buying back its own stocks for billions of dollars.

  But it's asking Maine taxpayers for an extra $60 million.

  Click below to easily email your Maine state legislators and Governor LePage.
  
  Please edit the email to add your own comments.

• Tell Your Democratic Governor: Reform the Party!

  Let’s face it. While vicious Republicans rule in Washington, the Democratic Party is in crisis -- and must be fixed quickly.
  
  Please take a minute to send the email below, or write your own message, to your Democratic governor. This is urgent for such goals as ending the Republican reign in Congress and ridding the country of Donald Trump.

• Tell Your Democratic Governor: Reform the Party!

  Let’s face it. While vicious Republicans rule in Washington, the Democratic Party is in crisis -- and must be fixed quickly.
  
  Please take a minute to send the email below, or write your own message, to your Democratic governor. This is urgent for such goals as ending the Republican reign in Congress and ridding the country of Donald Trump.

• Use the Impeachment Lock on the Nuclear Button

  Congressional hearings have been discussing the U.S. Constitution and possible means of restraining a lawless U.S. President.

  But they fail to mention the tool that the Constitution provides for just that.

  If the risk of nuclear apocalypse, coolly referred to in a Senate hearing as "civilization threatening outcomes," doesn't justify using a tool that some of the nation's founders expected would be put to frequent use, then what does?

  Click below to email your Representative and your two Senators.

• Tell the Democrat(s) Representing You in the Senate: Reform the Party!

  Let’s face it. While vicious Republicans rule in Washington, the Democratic Party is in crisis -- and must be fixed quickly.
  
  Please take a minute to send the email below, or write your own message, to the Democrat(s) representing you in the U.S. Senate. This is urgent for such goals as ending the Republican reign in Congress and ridding the country of Donald Trump.

• Tell the Democrat Who Represents You in the House: Reform the Party!

  
  Let’s face it. While vicious Republicans rule in Washington, the Democratic Party is in crisis -- and must be fixed quickly.
  

  Please take a minute to send the email below, or write your own message, to the Democrat who represents your congressional district. This is urgent for such goals as ending the Republican reign in Congress and ridding the country of Donald Trump.
  
  
  
  

• Tell the Democrat Who Represents You in the House: Reform the Party!

  Let’s face it. While vicious Republicans rule in Washington, the Democratic Party is in crisis -- and must be fixed quickly.
  
  Please take a minute to send the email below, or write your own message, to the Democrat who represents your congressional district. This is urgent for such goals as ending the Republican reign in Congress and ridding the country of Donald Trump.

• Tell Congress: Don't Build a New Federal Prison on a Toxic Former Coal-Mining Site

  RootsAction.org joins with the Prison Ecology Project, the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, and allies to oppose the construction of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, to be built on top of a toxic former coal-mining site.
  
  Coal waste, which contains carcinogens like arsenic, lead, and mercury, is a byproduct of coal-mining that can be extremely dangerous to humans. Reports from prisoners at other facilities located near and on top of coal-processing sites reveal a host of health and medical problems associated with coal waste exposure, including respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal problems, dermatological conditions and thyroid disorders.

  Click below to email your U.S. Representative and Senators:

• Free Bahrain's Leading Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab

  Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is in prison in Bahrain for 2 years as punishment for speaking to the media about restrictions on press freedom in Bahrain. He's threatened with another 15 years in a separate case stemming solely from Tweets in which he criticized the war in Yemen and the use of torture in Bahraini prisons.
  

  Please click below to sign this petition to the Bahraini authorities:

  Immediately and unconditionally release Nabeel Rajab and all other prisoners of conscience held solely for exercising their right to free expression.
  
  
• Sign the People's Peace Treaty with North Korea

  Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open message to Washington and Pyongyang that we are strongly opposed to any resumption of the horrific Korean War. What we want is a peace treaty to finally end the lingering Korean War!
  
  Inspired by the Vietnam-era People’s Peace Treaty, we have initiated a People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea, to raise awareness about the past U.S. policy toward North Korea, and to send a clear message that we, the people of the U.S., do not want another war with North Korea. This is not an actual treaty, but rather a declaration of peace from the people of the United States. 
  
  Our goal is to collect many thousands of signatures, and to publicize the People's Peace Treaty to the people in the U.S. as well as in the rest of the world. Please add your voice for peace by signing the People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea.
  
  Click below to add your name, and scroll down to find the names of prominent signers.

  People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea
  A Message of Peace from the People of the United States
  
  Deeply concerned with the increasing danger of the current military tensions and threats between the Governments of the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the DPRK, North Korea), which may re-ignite the horrendous fighting in the Korean War by design, mistake or accident;
  
  Recalling that the United States currently possesses about 6,800 nuclear weapons, and has threatened the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea in the past, including the most recent threat made by the U.S. President in his terrifying speech to the United Nations (“totally destroy North Korea”);
  
  Regretting that the U.S. Government has so far refused to negotiate a peace treaty to replace the temporary Korean War Armistice Agreement of 1953, although such a peace treaty has been proposed by the DPRK many times from 1974 on; 
  
  Convinced that ending the Korean War officially is an urgent, essential step for the establishment of enduring peace and mutual respect between the U.S. and the DPRK, as well as for the North Korean people’s full enjoyment of their basic human rights to life, peace and development – ending their long sufferings from the harsh economic sanctions imposed on them by the U.S. Government since 1950.
  
  NOW, THEREFORE, as a Concerned Person of the United States of America (or on behalf of a civil society organization), I hereby sign this People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea, dated November 11, 2017, Armistice Day (also Veterans Day in the U.S.), and
  
  1)  Declare to the world that the Korean War is over as far as I am concerned, and that I will live in “permanent peace and friendship” with the North Korean people (as promised in the 1882 U.S.-Korea Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation that opened the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Korea for the first time);
  
  2)  Express my deep apology to the North Korean people for the U.S. Government’s long, cruel and unjust hostility against them, including the near total destruction of North Korea due to the heavy U.S. bombings during the Korean War;
  
  3)  Urge Washington and Pyongyang to immediately stop their preemptive (or preventive) conventional/nuclear attack threats against each other and to sign the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons;
  
  4)  Call upon the U.S. Government to stop its large-scale, joint war drills with the armed forces of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan, and commence a gradual withdrawal of the U.S. troops and weapons from South Korea;
  
  5)  Call upon the U.S. Government to officially end the lingering and costly Korean War by concluding a peace treaty with the DPRK without further delay, to lift all sanctions against the country, and to join the 164 nations that have normal diplomatic relations with the DPRK;
  
  6)  Pledge that I will do my best to end the Korean War, and to reach out to the North Korean people – in order to foster greater understanding, reconciliation and friendship.
• End Felon Disenfranchisement in Florida

  Florida is one of only four states that takes away someone's ability to vote for the rest of their lives if they are convicted of a felony.

  To fix this, please click below to sign the petition, and then fill out the form on the next page to put this reform on the ballot for Florida voters.

  Florida should restore voting rights to felons who have served their time.
• Take These Steps to Move Away from Nuclear War

  Here's a plan that your Representative and Senators might take seriously, especially if they hear about it from enough of us.
  

  This is urgent.
  

  Please click below to send emails to your Representative and Senators.
  

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Join Mikhail Gorbachev's plea to the presidents of Russia and the United States

  Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, has issued an urgent plea to Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, proposing a tried and tested means of improving relations between Russia and the United States.

  Add your name below:

  We join with Mikhail Gorbachev in urging top-level meetings between the U.S. and Russian governments. We urge Russia and the United States to prepare and hold a full-scale summit on the entire range of issues, including reducing nuclear weapons and upholding the treaty on the elimination of intermediate- and short-range missiles.
• Impeach Trump Before He Starts WWIII

  Email Senator Corker's comments to your Representative.
  

  Ask them to move forward immediately on impeachment of Donald Trump:

• Tell Congress: Keep the Iran Deal

  
  

  Congress is not entirely on board with Trump's effort to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by ending the successful Iran nuclear agreement.
  

  Negotiated agreements and adherence to them remain highly preferable to war.

  Click below to send an email to your Representative and two Senators.

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Impeach Trump before he starts a nuclear war

  President Trump has declared any dialogue with North Korea to be a waste of time. He doesn't want his Secretary of State engaged in what happens to be the Secretary of State's job: diplomacy.
  
  Trump has threatened war.
  
  We must compel Congress to impeach Trump immediately and remove him from office before he does any more damage.

  Click below to email your member of Congress.

  Feel free to add your own comments.

• Tell U.S. to Pay Reparations It Promised Vietnam

  
  

  From the early 1960s until 1973, the United States waged a war on Vietnam that left approximately 3.8 million people dead, 5.3 million civilians wounded, 11 million civilians made refugees (most by design), and 4.8 million civilians sprayed with toxic defoliants like Agent Orange -- which still causes birth defects and deaths today in a land whose natural environment has not recovered.
  
  U.S. President Richard Nixon promised reparations that have never come.
  
  Email your Representative, Senators, and President:
  
  Add your own comments:
  

• Veterans Day's Hidden History

  Originally called “Armistice Day,” the holiday began in 1918, celebrating the end of World War I and the idea of ending all war. A 10-year campaign launched that year resulted in the ratification of the the Kellogg-Briand Pact which legally banned all war making.
  
  We've Forgotten That War Is Illegal
  
  The Kellogg-Briand Pact reads:
  "The High Contracting Parties solemly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
  
  "The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means."
  
  Ask your elected officials to read the Kellogg-Briand Pact:

• Stop the coerced sterilization of people in prison

  

  A Tennessee jail has offered inmates time off their sentences in exchange for forfeiting their reproductive rights.
  
  California is the first to have explicitly banned the coercive sterilization of inmates after investigative reports revealed 39 women in the state had been illegally sterilized in prison without proper consent.
  
  Send this email to your state legislators and governor:
  
  Feel free to add your own comments:
  
  

• Thank Athletes for Taking a Knee and Resisting Trump

  Donald Trump has been very understanding of violent racists, but has the ugliest words for African American athletes who nonviolently protest a racist criminal justice system.
  
  Trump's bombast has spurred even more athletes to speak out against racial injustice and against Trump.

  We will deliver the petition with your signatures to the players union.
  
  Click below to thank those athletes who have taken a knee in protest -- or have joined in their defense:
  
  

  We thank those athletes who have taken a knee to protest racism and injustice, and in defense of freedom of speech and freedom of thought. We thank those who have come to their defense. You have our gratitude.
• Tell Congress: Stop refueling famine in Yemen

  Saudi Arabia's war and blockade have pushed Yemen to the brink of famine. Every 10 minutes a child in Yemen dies of preventable causes. When UNICEF's director was asked how to end Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe, he said: "Stop the war." In addition to arming the war, the U.S. refuels Saudi and UAE warplanes bombing Yemen; Saudi-UAE warplanes can't conduct their bombing of Yemen without U.S. refueling.

  Email your Representative:

• Tell the Harvard Kennedy School: Revoking Chelsea Manning's Fellowship Is Disgraceful

  Please click below to sign this petition to Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School:

  By revoking Chelsea Manning's fellowship, you have disgraced the Harvard Kennedy School. By caving in to pressure from present and former top officials of the CIA, you have jettisoned academic freedom. By deciding that it is appropriate for Sean Spicer but not Chelsea Manning to retain a fellowship, you have failed to fulfill Harvard's responsibility to be independent of government power and coercion. During his stint at the Trump White House, Mr. Spicer earned a reputation for lying. As a whistleblower, Ms. Manning earned a reputation for truth-telling. It is a sad day when a record of facile mendacity is more revered at Harvard than a record of revealing difficult truths.
• Trump threatens nuclear war. Impeach him now.

  Trump is threatening nuclear war on North Korea.
  

  Click below to send an urgent email to your member of the U.S. House of Representatives:

• Tell your Congress member: IMPEACH TRUMP!

  The gap between the public interest to impeach Trump and the refusal to budge on Capitol Hill has become a chasm.

  We must change this.

  Click below to email your member of the House of Representatives (feel free to add your own comments):
  

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• Hold Mike Pence Accountable

  While President Trump is being denounced for his vile efforts to whitewash bigotry, threaten nuclear war, remove environmental protections, pardon a racist sheriff, and suppress voting, Vice President Mike Pence is trying to skitter under the radar.

  Sign this petition to Pence:

  You have an obligation to speak on the actions of the administration you are part of, and to resign in protest if you do not approve.
  
• De-Militarize the Police

  Donald Trump has just undone limitations on a program that unloads old war weaponry on domestic police departments.
  

  Please sign this petition to the U.S. Congress:

  It's time to stop allowing presidents to make and unmake the law on police weaponry. Congress must ban the provision of any weapons of war or war training to police.
  

• Tell Congress to reconvene NOW for hurricane victims

  Click below to send this urgent message to your representative and two senators.

  Feel free to add in your own comments.

• Demand Huge Federal Action on Hurricane Harvey Now

  Shoddy planning by the Trump administration has badly failed to mitigate the harm from this forecasted monster hurricane.

  Click below to sign this petition to the U.S. government:

  We demand that the U.S. government urgently put enormous resources into rescue and recovery operations to aid people who are in danger, injured and made homeless due to Hurricane Harvey.
  
• Tell Virginia to Take Robert E. Lee Out of the U.S. Capitol

  100 statues represent 50 states in the U.S. Capitol, two provided by each state. One of Virginia's is Robert E. Lee.
  

  Please sign this petition to the Virginia legislature and governor:

  We implore you to immediately remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol, and to permit local governments in Virginia to take down statues as they see fit.
  
• Push back against Trump's threats of nuclear war

  The United States has pressured the new president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, into allowing more missile and radar weaponry into the country and more war games into the skies near the border of North Korea. But Moon has drawn the line at actual war.
  
  "The government, putting everything on the line, will block war by all means," he said.
  

  Click below to send him this message:

  We agree with you that war must be avoided, diplomacy pursued, and peace allowed to prevail.
  
• Tell Your Representative in Congress: Impeach President Trump

  Ever since the start of the Trump presidency, his violations of the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses have been impeachable offenses.

  By mid-spring 2017 he had engaged in flagrant obstruction of justice.

  His repeated incitement of violence must be included in the case against him.

  Click below to email your congressional representative:

• Diplomacy, Not Threats, Toward North Korea

  U.S. threats toward North Korea are threats to all of us.

  Please help ease tensions.

  Click below to email your Representative and two Senators, with a "cc" to the White House.

  Feel free to edit and personalize the message.

• Tell Congress and White House: Diplomacy Not Belligerency

  "All war represents a failure of diplomacy," said the British leader Tony Benn. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have lost sight of this truth.
  
  Even if you accept the labeling of nations as "enemies," Desmond Tutu had this right: "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
  
  Please click below to sign this petition to Congress and the White House:
  

  Diplomacy is vastly preferable to threats, sanctions, cyber-attacks, drone strikes, bombings, proxy wars, occupations, or nuclear holocaust. We want productive, peaceful dialogue between the U.S. government and Russia, North Korea, Iran, and every other nation.
  
• Abolish Slavery as Criminal Punishment

  Please click below to sign this petition to the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate:

  We call upon you to propose a constitutional amendment to abrogate the "exception clause" which, since the 1865 passage of the 13th Amendment, has watered down the abolition of slavery, allowing that practice to continue being applied to individuals convicted of a crime. From the beginning, that clause was shamelessly used as a device to re-impose conditions of slavery on persons who had supposedly been released from bondage. In the present-day system of mass incarceration, it continues to legitimize the exploitation of prison labor under the most draconian conditions and, more generally, to perpetuate a culture in which incarcerated people are deprived of basic human rights and in which economic opportunities and political rights are withheld from them even after their release.
• Email your senators to stop Trumpcare

  Trumpcare legislation keeps coming back from the dead.
  
  The people whose deaths it causes if passed will not have that ability.
  
  Click below to email your senators:

• Trump Owes Chuck Jones an Apology

  Trump falsely claimed to have saved 1,100 jobs from elimination at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indiana. Chuck Jones, the head of the labor union at Carrier, called Trump a liar, because 370 of those jobs were in fact being eliminated. Jones had the difficult task of telling people who believed Trump's claim that in fact they were losing their jobs.
  
  Trump then insulted Jones on Twitter. But the jobs are now being eliminated. Jones was right. Trump was wrong.
  
  Please sign this petition to Donald Trump:

  We demand that you apologize to Chuck Jones and everyone you lied to about the Carrier jobs, as well as that you end NAFTA, negotiate a continent-wide living wage, and enforce the right to card-check organizing in every U.S. workplace.
• Help Stop the Epidemic of Guard Violence in Prisons

  We're experiencing an epidemic of prison guard violence.

  Email your state legislators and governor below:

• Urge Congresswoman Barbara Lee to Firmly Support Top-Level Diplomacy Between the World’s Two Nuclear-Weapons Superpowers

  
  Just a few months ago, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- citing heightened tensions between the United States and Russia -- moved its symbolic “Doomsday Clock” even closer to catastrophic midnight.
  
  Those two countries possess 94 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. Top-level diplomacy is essential to reduce rather than boost the risks of nuclear war.
  
  You can send the suggested email message below, or revise it, or simply delete it and write your own.

• Urge Congresswoman Barbara Lee to Firmly Support Top-Level Diplomacy Between the World’s Two Nuclear-Weapons Superpowers

  
  Just a few months ago, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- citing heightened tensions between the United States and Russia -- moved its symbolic “Doomsday Clock” even closer to catastrophic midnight.
  
  Those two countries possess 94 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. Top-level diplomacy is essential to reduce rather than boost the risks of nuclear war.
  
  You can send the suggested email message below, or revise it, or simply delete it and write your own.

• Tell Trump and Putin: Negotiate, Don’t Escalate

  What happens during the announced meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit could determine the fate of the Earth.
  
  Please sign this urgent petition:

  To: President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump
  We vehemently urge you to take a constructive approach to your planned meeting at the G-20 summit. Whatever our differences, we must reduce rather than increase the risks of nuclear war. The future of humanity is at stake.
• Urge Your State to Follow the Lead of U.S. Mayors in Rejecting Trump Budget

  

  Please click below to send this email to your state representatives and governor:

• No U.S. war planes over Syria

  There is no legal or moral basis for the United States to be waging war in Syria, risking conflict with Russia and nuclear apocalypse for us all.

  Sign this petition to the U.S. Congress and Secretary of Defense James Mattis:

  We urge you to immediately remove all U.S. military planes from Syrian skies and keep them out of that country's airspace.
• Don't Let Trump Persecute Accused Leaker

  A vengeful federal government – cheered on by Fox News and other media – seems intent on making an example of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner, now behind bars without bail.

  Whatever you think of the document she's been accused of leaking or the action taken by whoever leaked it, we ought to agree that Reality Leigh Winner should not be subjected to a witch hunt or persecution.

  We insist that the U.S. government afford Ms. Winner all her legal rights, including the right to bail.
  

  More background on Reality Leigh Winner here.

• Trump vs. Grand Canyon. Which side are you on?

  Trump may do something far worse to the Grand Canyon than build a Trump Tower in it.
  
  According to The Guardian, powerful mining interests and allied officials in Arizona and Utah are urging a receptive Trump administration to lift the Obama-era ban on mining uranium in the area around the Grand Canyon -- a serious threat to the groundwater and anyone who drinks it.
  
  Please sign this petition to Trump and Congress:
  
  

  Leave the ban on uranium mining in place in the areas around the Grand Canyon, and protect them by designating them a national monument.
  
• Tell Trump and Congress: End Cuba Embargo

  Tightening restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba is bad for peace, bad for business, bad for U.S. patients deprived of Cuban medicine, and unpopular even among Cuban Americans.
  
  Trump may be catering to two other concerns: an extreme rightwing ideology that worships militarism and romanticizes even the worst episodes of the past, and Trump's own business dealings. Trump dances with Saudi beheaders, not Cuban socialists. Trump has business dealings in Saudi Arabia, not Cuba.
  
  Sign this petition to Trump and Congress:
  

  We urge you to open up relations with Cuba, including travel and trade, end the embargo, and return all land at Guantanamo to Cuban control and ownership.
• Defend Ranked Choice Voting in Maine

  Last fall, RootsAction.org was part of a remarkable coalition that worked together to pass Ranked Choice Voting in Maine.

  But we need you to click below to email your state representatives to keep RCV on track for elections for Congress and primaries.

• Brad Pitt and Walter Jones: Right on Afghanistan

  Brad Pitt stars in a new movie called War Machine that presents the ongoing U.S. war in Afghanistan as something only a fool would ever imagine could be won. This new Hollywood film presents the U.S. military as hopelessly unconcerned with reality and destined never to choose to end a war that creates enemies in the name of "freedom."
  
  There is, however, another institution capable of ending the war: Congress. Congressman Walter Jones (Rep., N.C.) has just proposed a not-completely novel idea: Congress should cut off the funding for any more U.S. war-making in Afghanistan.
  
  Click below to add your name and comments to this petition to the U.S. Congress:

  We urge you to cut off the funding, not just for any escalation, but also for any continuation of U.S. war-making in Afghanistan. The time has come to say enough is enough. In fact, spending $800 billion largely on killing people in Afghanistan, generating enemies and causing environmental destruction while eroding our civil liberties and rationalizing government secrecy is more than enough. It is time to cut off the flow of cash.
• Ask California Assembly to pass single-payer healthcare

  The California Senate has passed a single-payer healthcare bill that now goes to the Assembly.

  Click below to email your Assembly member:

• Tell Barbara Lee to: Stop spreading Russophobia and supporting a new Cold War

  Barbara Lee represents Berkeley and Oakland and nearby areas in Congress (13th CD). She has built a reputation as an advocate for peace and civil liberties. She was the lone vote in Congress against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that has been used to justify US wars/bombing/drone killing since 9/11. Most recently she opposed and spoke out against Trump's cruise missile attack on Syria in April.

  But lately Representative Lee may be taking a dangerous turn.

  At a recent town hall Barbara hosted Malcolm Nance, MSNBC analyst and “former” US intelligence agent who is one of the premier Neo-McCarthyists and Russia bashers in the country.
  Nance not only pushed the dubious narrative that Russia “stole the election”. He went into a rant about the Russian people saying “Russia is an intensely conservative nation. They have a serf-slave mentality. They are passionately and intensely insincere…” AND "There is nothing we should do that's friendly to the Russians. They've gone from Communists to Autocrats."

  This is nothing more than xenophobia and war-mongering, It is part of a campaign by establishment democrats and the mass media that seeks to:
  • Deflect blame for Clinton’s defeat from the discredited politics of the corporate Democrats to the Russians
  • Push an aggressive stance toward Russia that could lead to a direct military confrontation and possible nuclear war,
  We are constituents of Barbara Lee and many of us have voted for her in past elections.

  We urge her to:
  • Cease and desist from spreading/enabling this warmongering
  • Condemn xenophobia whether it is directed against Muslims or Russians
  • Reaffirm her support for peace and opposition to all wars of aggression.

• Tell Media: Stop Ignoring Pence's Culpability

  Click below to sign:
  

  To major U.S. media:
  
  Vice President Mike Pence has established a pattern of false statements, misdirection, and blind obedience to Donald Trump. It is time to aggressively scrutinize his statements and actions.
  
  

  More background on Pence/media here.

• Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State Too

  Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered. Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia  have made voter registration automatic. Your state is 100% capable of taking the same step.

  Background: Oregonian: Arrival of Automatic Voter Registration Sacramento Bee: Automatic Voter Registration Sought in California The Nation: Oregon's Radical Innovation: Make Democracy Easy Thirty-Nine States Do Automatic Registration . . . for a Draft Connecticut to Automatically Register 400,000 Voters MSNBC: Automatic voter registration expands its reach even further Brennan Center for Justice: Automatic Voter Registration

  
  Thirty-nine states have automatic registration for a military draft.

  With automatic registration for voting -- an opt-out option instead of "jump through hoops to register," as required in many states -- nobody is required to vote or even be registered. Rather, a government that already knows who we are through motor vehicle and other departments simply allows us to vote. (And the DMV in many states requires stricter proof of identity and citizenship than does traditional registration; and traditional registration remains available.)
  
  As a result, more people vote and candidates have to win the votes of more people. Quite possibly more candidates gain traction.

  It becomes easier to place initiatives on the ballot by gathering the signatures of registered voters.

  Volunteers can set aside the endless work of voter registration and instead promote the policy positions they care about.
  
  Click to send an email to your state legislators and governor letting them know you want voter registration to be automatic:
  

• Email Your Senators: Trumpcare No, Single-Payer Yes

  The House has passed a deadly healthcare-denial bill.

  Now it's up to the Senate.
  
  Your Senators urgently need to hear from you.

  Click below to email both of them.
  

• Messages of friendship from the people of the United States to the people of Russia

  Please sign the following petition, and add your own comment:
  

  To the people of Russia:
  
  We residents of the United States wish you, our brothers and sisters in Russia, nothing but well. We oppose the hostility and militarism of our government. We favor disarmament and peaceful cooperation. We desire greater friendship and cultural exchange between us. You should not believe everything you hear from the American corporate media. It is not a true representation of Americans. While we do not control any major media outlets, we are numerous. We oppose wars, sanctions, threats, and insults. We send you greetings of solidarity, trust, love, and hope for collaboration on building a better world safe from the dangers of nuclear, military, and environmental destruction.
• Help make a $15/hour minimum wage happen

  

  No full-time worker deserves to live in poverty, but many do. The federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised from $7.25 in over a decade.

  Please click below to email your Representative and two Senators. 

  Feel free to add your own comments and change the subject line. 

• Tell Trump to Stop Threatening North Korea

  Donald Trump claims he has no choice but to threaten North Korea with war.
  
  Sign below to help educate him -- or at least the U.S. media and some of those around him.

  Threatening to attack a nuclear-armed country is extremely reckless, as well as illegal, quite regardless of any flaws the country possesses.
  
  North Korea has repeatedly offered to abandon its nuclear weapons program if the United States and South Korea would stop flying near North Korea practicing to bomb it.
  
  North Korea has shown interest in developing a peace treaty with the South to finally end the Korean War.
  
  North Korea adhered to an agreement to halt its nuclear weapons program right up until George W. Bush labeled it a member of an axis of evil and viciously attacked one of the other designated members, Iraq.
  
  Peace is possible. We demand that the U.S. government stop pushing for war and work toward a peaceful solution.
  
• Thank Cian Westmoreland for Being a Whistleblower on Drones

  Please sign below and add your comments to thank Cian for his dedication to blowing the whistle on U.S. killer drones.

  Let's show our appreciation!

  Thank you for speaking out against weaponized drones!
• Block War Funding

  Please sign this petition to the Congress of the United States:
  

  We call on you to help our country turn away from what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” As a vital step, we urge you to enact legislation to block the use of any U.S. taxpayer funds for continuing warfare, directly or by proxy, in Syria. We further implore you to strive for better relations with Russia instead of fueling the current conflicts that could lead to nuclear annihilation of us all. While defunding endless and disastrous wars as well as cutting wasteful military expenditures, you can provide funds for urgent human and environmental needs.
• Tell Congress to End U.S. Warfare in Syria and Hostility Toward Russia

  Click below to send this urgent message to your representative and senators.
  
  Edit it to add your own words.

• Mass Starvation in Yemen: Ending It Requires Admitting Who's Causing It

  Please click below to sign this petition, which we will deliver to the U.S. government, the Saudi government, and the United Nations.

  The mass starvation underway in Yemen must be immediately addressed by ending the bombings, missile strikes, and raids; holding those responsible to account; restoring the Central Bank of Yemen to Yemeni control; opening Yemeni ports; and providing food and medical aid on the scale required.
  
• Tell Members of Congress: No More Tax Dollars for War in Syria

  President Trump’s actions on Syria could lead to an even deadlier war in that country -- and could result in a U.S.-Russia military clash, gravely risking escalation into a nuclear conflagration.
  
  When the people lead, the leaders can be compelled to follow. But that means we’ve got to assert ourselves.
  
  It’s urgent that your senators and representative in Congress hear directly from you about this extremely dangerous crisis. You can quickly send an email message to all three of them by clicking below. Just send the message that’s already in place, or add to it, or delete it and write your own note.

• Congress, Instruct the Department of Justice Not to Let Police Departments Off the Hook

  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is apparently working to undo federal oversight of systemically criminal, abusive, and racist local police departments.
  

  Sign this petition to Congress:

  The U.S. Attorney General is re-negotiating an agreement with Baltimore that in its current form includes a community oversight task force, an independent federal monitor, and the requirement that officers receive instruction about implicit bias.
  
  He has asked his subordinates to review agreements with other police departments to be sure that they accomplish such goals as boosting morale and the recruitment of police. A memo from Sessions states flatly, "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.”
  
  Yes it is. Congress must make clear to the Department of Justice its responsibility to enforce U.S. law, including by bringing under control lawless police departments.
  
  
• Tell Your Senators and Representative: Escalating Rhetoric Against Russia Could Lead to Nuclear Catastrophe

  In 1963, the same year as his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King pointedly said: “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Later -- speaking of “a world torn between the tensions of East and West” -- he warned that “we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation.”
  
  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its “Doomsday Clock” even closer to midnight, declaring: “The United States and Russia -- which together possess more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons -- remained at odds in a variety of theaters, from Syria to Ukraine to the borders of NATO; both countries continued wide-ranging modernizations of their nuclear forces, and serious arms control negotiations were nowhere to be seen.”
  
  In the next minute you can send a vital message to your senators and representative in Congress:

• Tell Your Senators and Representative: Escalating Rhetoric Against Russia Could Lead to Nuclear Catastrophe

  In 1963, the same year as his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King pointedly said: “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Later -- speaking of “a world torn between the tensions of East and West” -- he warned that “we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation.”
  
  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just moved its “Doomsday Clock” even closer to midnight, declaring: “The United States and Russia -- which together possess more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons -- remained at odds in a variety of theaters, from Syria to Ukraine to the borders of NATO; both countries continued wide-ranging modernizations of their nuclear forces, and serious arms control negotiations were nowhere to be seen.”
  
  In the next minute you can send a vital message to your senators and representative in Congress:

• Implement an anonymity clause for civilians who report crimes

  A dramatic increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids has provoked a wave of fear through immigrant communities.
  
  Since Trump’s executive order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement—signed in late January—an increasing number of immigrant women are choosing not to prosecute violent crimes committed against them out of fear of being detained and deported

  Click below to send this email to your Representative and Senators:
  

• Implement an anonymity clause for civilians who report crimes

  A dramatic increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids has provoked a wave of fear through immigrant communities.
  
  Since Trump’s executive order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement—signed in late January—an increasing number of immigrant women are choosing not to prosecute violent crimes committed against them out of fear of being detained and deported.
  
  Victims of crimes should have no fear of seeking justice in our court systems. The implementation of an anonymity clause that protects the identity of civilians who report crimes, regardless of criminal/immigrant/legal status, would increase the likelihood of immigrant victims or witnesses reporting crimes.
  

  Sign this petition to the U.S. Congress:
  

  Implement an anonymity clause for civilians who report crimes.
• Share Masha Gessen's Article "Russia: The Conspiracy Trap" with Your Senators and Representative

  
  Journalist Masha Gessen is renowned as a courageous activist for LGBT rights in Russia and a longtime opponent of President Putin. Her recent article “Russia: The Conspiracy Trap”, published by the New York Review of Books, should be widely read.
  
  Please email this vital article to your senators and representative now. You can do that below.
  

• End U.S. Warmaking in Syria

  
  Four years ago, public pressure was critical to preventing a massive U.S. bombing campaign in Syria. But the U.S. government continued arming fighters, bombing on a smaller scale, and resisting opportunities for peace. Now Popular-Vote Loser Trump has sent more troops into Syria and yet more into a position of readiness in Kuwait.
  
  Please sign and share this urgent petition, which we will use in pushing back, step by step, to finally end this madness.
  
  To the U.S. Congress:

  We urge you to immediately pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act (HR 608 / S 532) to prohibit giving U.S. public funds to Al Qaeda, ISIS, other terrorist groups, or any governments engaged in funding those groups.
  
  We urge you to immediately pass the Prohibit Expansion of U.S. Combat Troops into Syria Act (HR 1473 / Senate bill needed) to prohibit the deployment of U.S. troops or U.S.-funded mercenaries to Syria.
  
  And, because bombs and missiles are the deadliest of U.S. weapons, the greatest creators of refugee crises, and a predictable prelude to escalated ground wars, we urge you to exercise your responsibility under the U.S. Constitution and forbid, under threat of impeachment, the spending of an additional dime on any participation in this undeclared war.
  
  Instead, we urge you to immediately pass legislation funding aid to refugees who have fled and who remain in Syria, banning the export of U.S.-made weapons to the Middle East, supporting a Middle Eastern WMD-free zone, and endorsing and committing to sharing the cost of an independent truth and reconciliation commission for Syria.
• Abolish the CIA

  Former President Harry Truman said he'd wanted to create the Central Intelligence Agency for the same reason that George W. Bush said he'd wanted to create the director of national intelligence, in order to have a single agency reconcile conflicting information from various other agencies. "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations," wrote Truman, who wanted the CIA restricted to "intelligence."

  Background: > Harry Truman: Limit CIA Role To Intelligence > McClatchy: WikiLeaks shows CIA cracked smart phones, hid flaws from Apple > David Talbot: The Devil's Chessboard > Douglas Valentine: The Phoenix Program > CNN: Karzai: CIA Promises to Continue Cash Payments > The Atlantic: Drone War Has More Victims Than Bush-Era CIA Scandals > Washington Post: An Alternative Explanation for Benghazi > The New York Times: C.I.A. Is Collecting in Bulk Certain Data Affecting Americans, Senators Warn

  
  We've now had 70 years of government overthrows, election interference, arming of terrorists, kidnapping, murder, torture, lies to justify wars, bribery of foreign officials, cyber-attacks, and other sorts of "peacetime cloak and dagger," plus open warfare waged by this unaccountable agency including through the use of drones.
  
  With vast sums of unaccounted-for money, much of it generated by off-the-books proprietary companies and illegal activities like drug smuggling, the CIA spreads corruption around the world. This corruption undermines the U.S. government and the rule of law. CIA attacks on foreign governments and peoples backfire against the United States time and time again.
  
  We've learned that the CIA has been illegally keeping secret and exploiting weaknesses in U.S. companies' technology, hiding flaws from Apple, Google, and all of their customers.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to Congress:

  We urge you to abolish the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Tell NPR to Call a Lie a Lie

  

  National Public Radio has announced that it will never refer to a lie by a U.S. president as a lie.
  

  Sign this petition to NPR News:

  Straightforward honesty is called for at this time. It's time to call a lie a lie. Change your policy.
  
• Allow Parents the Option to Protect Kids from Military Recruiters in High Schools

  

  Parents in our state should be given the means to exercise their right to opt out of sending their kids' names and contact information to military recruiters.
  

  Please click below to send this email to your state legislators and governor:

  
  

• He's draining the wetlands, not the swamp

  Popular-Vote Loser Trump is draining the actual wetlands, not the metaphorical "swamp."
  
  Sign this petition to Congress:
  

  Our natural environment is under assault by the White House. We urge you in the strongest terms not to defund the EPA, which has already been cut in recent years, is currently funded at about 1% of military spending, and needs to be increased dramatically.
  
  You, the legislature, must reject with actual legislation the president's executive order on waters of the United States.
  
  Around the country, waterways partially cleaned up by the EPA since its creation under President Richard Nixon are threatened. The top two polluters are big corporations. The third is the United States military. This pollution must be halted, not given a free pass to expand.
  
• Say No to Trump Troops Against Immigrants

  On January 25th, five days after he became Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly had his name on a draft memo addressed to the acting heads of federal agencies handling immigration. Some unnamed DHS officials have claimed the draft was never seriously considered, while others have said it was still being considered as recently as February 10th.
   
  The memo sketched out plans for many more immigrants to be kept in prison; for 5,000 more border patrol agents to be hired; for any aid to the government of Mexico to be identified (presumably in order to end it); for construction to begin on a wall along the border; for immigrants to be deported without hearings or reviews; and for negotiations to be opened with the governors of 11 states to turn State Guard troops into immigration law enforcers -- investigating, apprehending and imprisoning immigrants.

  Sign this petition:
  

  We reject as absolutely intolerable the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the consideration of using major military force as immigration law enforcement against peaceful men, women, and children.
  
• Yes to Carbon Tax, But Do It Right

  
  

  We're thrilled to see a group of prominent Republicans propose what many on the left have been demanding for many years: a serious tax on carbon emissions.

  Background: Climate Leadership Council: The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends

  This should be done, and is in everyone's interest to support. But it should be done right. Please sign the petition below:
  

  We support a strictly and fairly enforced carbon tax. Emissions must be honestly monitored by the government, and the tax imposed equally on all, without loopholes for cronies, and at a rate that is adjusted each year as needed to maximize the chances of the earth's climate remaining habitable, as determined by nonpartisan scientific consensus.
• Tell NPR to Call a Lie a Lie

  

  National Public Radio has announced that it will never refer to a lie by a U.S. president as a lie.
  

  Sign this petition to NPR News:

  Straightforward honesty is called for at this time. It's time to call a lie a lie. Change your policy.
  
• Make San Francisco a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. San Francisco should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the San Francisco City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in San Francisco, CA, call upon all San Francisco governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Fort Worth a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Fort Worth should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Fort Worth City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Fort Worth, TX, call upon all Fort Worth governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Austin a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Austin should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Austin City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Austin, TX, call upon all Austin governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Jacksonville a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Jacksonville should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Jacksonville City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Jacksonville, FL, call upon all Jacksonville governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Columbus a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Columbus should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Columbus City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Columbus, OH, call upon all Columbus governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Indianapolis a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Indianapolis should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Indianapolis City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Indianapolis, IN, call upon all Indianapolis governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Charlotte a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Charlotte should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Charlotte City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Charlotte, NC, call upon all Charlotte governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make El Paso a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. El Paso should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the El Paso City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in El Paso, TX, call upon all El Paso governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Detroit a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Detroit should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Detroit City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Detroit, MI, call upon all Detroit governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Memphis a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Memphis should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Memphis City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Memphis, TN, call upon all Memphis governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Albemarle a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Small cities have begun this trend. Albemarle should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Albemarle Board of Supervisors to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Albemarle County, VA, call upon all Albemarle governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS COUNTY.

• Torture: Which Side Are You On?

  President Trump says he'll torture.
  

  Will your senators and representative stop him?
  

  Ask them now:
  

  
  

• Make Charlottesville a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Small cities have begun this trend. Charlottesville should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Charlottesville City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Charlottesville, VA, call upon all Charlottesville governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Impeach Trump FAQ -- 2017-01-20
• Make San Jose a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. San Jose should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the San Jose City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in San Jose, CA, call upon all San Jose governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make San Antonio a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. San Antonio should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the San Antonio City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in San Antonio, TX, call upon all San Antonio governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Los Angeles a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Los Angeles should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Los Angeles City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Los Angeles, CA, call upon all Los Angeles governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Phoenix a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Phoenix should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Phoenix City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Phoenix, AZ, call upon all Phoenix governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Dallas a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Dallas should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Dallas City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Dallas, TX, call upon all Dallas governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make San Diego a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. San Diego should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the San Diego City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in San Diego, CA, call upon all San Diego governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Philadelphia a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Philadelphia should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Philadelphia City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Philadelphia, PA, call upon all Philadelphia governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Houston a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Houston should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Houston City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Houston, TX, call upon all Houston governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make Chicago a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. Chicago should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the Chicago City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in Chicago, IL, call upon all Chicago governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Make New York City a Zone Safe from Official Bigotry

  Smaller cities have begun this trend. New York City should be helping to lead it.
  
  Please add your name to this petition to urge the New York City Council to act:

  WHEREAS, safeguarding the equal and inalienable rights and inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of the relationship between a representative government and its people;
  
  AND whereas, we recognize that this relationship is under threat;
  
  THEREFORE we, the undersigned individuals residing in New York, NY, call upon all New York City governing authorities and law enforcement agencies to pledge in writing to protect all of our city's community members;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we call upon these authorities and agencies to proclaim publicly that they will refuse to cooperate with any demands from the federal government to institute detentions, deportations, registries, conversion therapies, imprisonment, torture, assassination or any other acts that target or discriminate based on immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, ability, political affiliation, economic status, age, gender-identity, or sexual orientation;
  
  FURTHERMORE, we the undersigned individuals pledge to protect, to the best of our ability, all community members and will support our local governments as they move to resist these undemocratic practices in order to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity, respect, and dignity.

  IT WORKS BEST IF YOU ONLY SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY.

• Local Resistance --2017-12-16
• Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg

  

  From Robert and Michael Meeropol:
  
  Our parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953 during the anti-communist hysteria of the Cold War Era. They had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, in what was called “the crime of the century.” We were six and 10 years old when they were killed.
  
  Our mother was not a spy, and her execution was wrongful. Her conviction was based on perjured testimony and prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The charges against our mother and the threat of the death penalty were meant to intimidate her and our father into cooperating. The U.S. government wanted Julius to falsely confess to passing “the secret of the atomic bomb” to the Soviet Union, and name others involved.
  
  Their trial took place during a time of widespread panic about communism. The sentencing judge went so far as to blame our parents for the Korean War.[1] In denying clemency, President Eisenhower accused them of causing future nuclear wars.[2] These outrageous statements and our parents’ execution helped fuel a dangerous climate of fear and intolerance in our country which permitted political opportunists like Senator Joseph McCarthy to poison our society. Today, we face a similar climate of hatred which targets immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQI individuals and others.
  
  A formal acknowledgement of the wrong done to our mother and our family will help prevent similar injustices in the future. A healthy democracy requires that the government acknowledge and correct its transgressions. The government cannot return our mother to her loving family. But it can admit this miscarriage of justice.
  
  Please, join us in calling on Attorney General Lynch and President Obama:
  

  We call on you to formally exonerate Ethel Rosenberg before you leave office. More than 60 years after her unjust conviction and execution, now is the time to clear her good name.

• SUCCESS: Tell President Obama to Free Chelsea Manning Now

  UPDATE: In January 2017, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, as RootsAction, among many others, had requested.

  NBC News is reporting:
  
  "President Obama has put Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified material, on his short list for a possible commutation, a Justice Department source told NBC News. A decision could come as soon as Wednesday for Manning, who has tried to commit suicide twice this year."
  

  Click below to email President Obama to request a commutation now:
  

• Tell Congress to Say No to Nuclear Madness

  Please click below to sign this petition to the U.S. Congress:

  We urge the following steps to reduce the risk of nuclear war:
  --Publicly denounce Donald Trump's support for more nuclear weapons.
  --De-fund the existing program developing new nuclear weapons.
  --Begin dismantling existing weapons as required by the Nonproliferation Treaty.
  --Take all nuclear weapons off high-alert and separate the warheads from their delivery systems.
  --Reinstate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  --Remove U.S. missiles from Poland, Romania, and Turkey.
  --Remove U.S. nuclear weapons from Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.
  --Shut down land-based inter-continental ballistic missiles immediately.
  --Cosponsor the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act.
  --Support the treaty being proposed by 127 non-nuclear nations to ban all nuclear bombs.

• Tell U.S. to Join Syrian Ceasefire

  Russia and Turkey have announced a ceasefire, with Russia guaranteeing the side of the Syrian government, and Turkey guaranteeing much of the opposition -- including several opposition groups that have signed on.
  
  Missing is a commitment by the United States to itself cease fighting and cease arming fighters.
  
  Click below to email President Obama, your Congress Member, and your two Senators with one quick email:

• Email your governor and state legislators to oppose Muslim registry, mass deportations

  
  

  Popular-Vote Loser Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated interest in creating a registry of Muslims in the United States.
  

  Please click below to email your state legislators and governor urging them to make a public statement opposing any such registry and any mass deportations.
  

• State Legislators and Governors Oppose Muslim Registry and Mass Deportations

  U.S. state legislators and governors please sign this statement and encourage your colleagues to do the same:

  I will oppose any registry of Muslims or mass deportations.

  [If you are not a state legislator or governor please click here.]

• Impeach Donald Trump Now

  
  Add your name calling for the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for violating the U.S. Constitution.

  We are calling upon Congress to pass a resolution calling for the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of Donald John Trump, President of the United States.
  
  As of January 20, 2017, President Trump’s refusal to divest from his business interests has placed him in direct violation of the United States Constitution.
  
  The nation is now witnessing a massive corruption of the presidency, far worse than Watergate. Indeed, Nixon White House Counsel John Dean told reporters: “I don’t think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.”[1] Given the opportunity of ten full weeks between the election and the inauguration to divest his business interests, Mr. Trump chose instead to announce, just nine days before inauguration, a wholly inadequate plan to step away from operations, but not ownership or income streams, of the Trump Organization. Instead, he has chosen to profit from the presidency at public expense, in violation of the United States Constitution. The violations, the corruption, and the threat to our republic are here now.
  
  Background:
  [1] McKay Coppins, “He Is Going to Test Our Democracy as It Has Never Been Tested,” The Atlantic, Jan. 17, 2017, http://theatln.tc/2iMNxjO.

• Tell Gov. McAuliffe not to kill Ricky Gray

  The Commonwealth of Virginia plans to kill Ricky Gray on January 18, 2017. Gray was convicted of the horendous crime of murdering four people. Ray Dandridge, who was also convicted, was given life in prison.
  
  Until Gray was 11 years old he was raped on a daily basis by his older brother and beaten by his father, who used metal weather stripping, a horsewhip, PVC pipe, and a belt. Gray was using PCP several times a week by the time he was 12. The jury that sentenced Gray was told there was absolutely no explanation for what he did.

  Click below to send this letter to Governor Terry McAuliffe:

• Protect Texas' Eastham Unit Prisoners from Lead and Copper in Water

  The water at the Texas Eastham Unit has been confirmed to contain high levels of copper and lead.
  
  Activist Keith “Malik” Washington, a prisoner at the Eastham Unit, has reported that the water at Eastham has “a strong sulfur-like smell and a very bad offensive taste which leaves behind a gritty residue in your mouth.”

  Washington also says that prison guards have confirmed that the water is contaminated and that they themselves do not drink it. The prison administrators at the Eastham Unit have provided an alternative water source for their prison guards, yet continue to force their prisoners to drink water contaminated with lead and copper.
  
  Sign this petition to the U.S. Department of Justice:
  

  We request an immediate investigation into what appears to be gross negligence and deliberate indifference on the part of Eastham Unit prison administration. We also call for the Centers for Disease Control to test and investigate the water supply at the Eastham Unit.
• Block Government Policy of Climate Denial

  Please add your name to this urgent petition to:
  

  (1) Halt steps aimed at possible purge of fact-based employees at Energy Department.
  (2) Block nomination of climate change denier Scott Pruitt to head EPA.
  (3) Block expected nomination of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.

• Tell Norway to Arrest Henry Kissinger when he speaks at Nobel Peace Prize forum

  The Nobel Committee has arranged for well-known war mastermind Henry Kissinger to speak as an honored guest at a forum that is part of the Nobel Peace Prize events.
  
  Several of Kissinger's crimes come under treaties that make it mandatory for Norway to prosecute. Kissinger is complicit or a main actor in many violations of the Genocide Convention and of the Geneva Conventions.

  Nobel Peace Prize Watch has asked the Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions to arrest Kissinger. Add your name to the request:
  

  Arrest and prosecute Henry Kissinger.
• Block Creation of Neo-McCarthyite Committee

  The Intelligence Authorization Act includes a provision that creates a Committee to counter supposed Russian “media manipulation,” “disinformation,” "assassinations," and other covert measures in the United States. The Committee’s mandate is so broad -- in short, anything the President tells them to do -- that any current or future president could easily (and, if desired, secretly) use the Committee to target political enemies, journalists, and activists.
  
  Tell your Senators to vote no:
  

• Tell Obama to Release the Senate Torture Report

  Four years ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee produced a 7,000-page report that the committee chair at the time, Dianne Feinstein, calls "a total exposé of the ineffectiveness of torture."
  
  Only a 500-page censored summary was released two years ago.

  Click below to sign this petition to President Obama and Senator Feinstein:

  We urge you to declassify and make public the full Senate torture report.
• Tell the Washington Post: “Smearing is not reporting.”

  Please sign this petition:
  
  To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post

  Smearing is not reporting. The Washington Post’s recent descent into McCarthyism -- promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government -- violates basic journalistic standards and does real harm to democratic discourse in our country. We urge The Washington Post to prominently retract the article and apologize for publishing it.

  Background:
  >>  The Washington Post: Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread “Fake News” During Election, Experts Say
  >>  The New Yorker: The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda
  >>  The Intercept: Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
  >>  AlterNet: Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
  >>  Common Dreams: Journalists Denounce WaPo Fake News as Red Scare Redux
  >>  Rolling Stone: The Washington Post “Blacklist” Story Is Shameful and Disgusting
  >>  Consortium News: The Orwellian War on Skepticism
  >>  The Nation: The Washington Post Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist
  >>  FAIR.org: Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited “Fake News” Blacklist?

• Tell Obama: Block Forced Removal of Water Protectors

  The Governor of North Dakota has just ordered the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans and their allies who are nonviolently protecting their water and our climate from the Dakota Access Pipeline.

  Background: Reuters: North Dakota Governor Orders Pipeline Protesters Expelled

  Please sign this petition to President Barack Obama:

  We urge you to take all necessary action to prevent further state violence and to block the removal of the water protectors.
• Urgent Petition to the U.S. Attorney General -- calling for an emergency investigation into the vote counts in the 2016 presidential election in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania

  

  Many experts in computer science have raised serious concerns about the integrity of the announced vote counts in the 2016 presidential election.
  
  Please sign this urgent petition to the nation’s chief law enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Justice:
  

  
  

  To: Attorney General Loretta Lynch

  
  Accurate counting of votes in a presidential election is not just a state concern -- it is a federal matter that goes to the heart of election integrity and democracy in the United States. We urge you to immediately launch an emergency investigation into the vote counts in the 2016 presidential election in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- and to take appropriate action based on the findings. The citizens of our country have a right to know that the election results are accurate.

  Background:
  > New York Magazine: Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States
  > Medium: Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots
  > iMediaEthics: Why the Exit Polls Sow Doubt About the Vote Count

• Tell your senators directly -- NO racists, misogynists or religious bigots in the Cabinet

  Jeff Sessions' clear record of racism makes him unfit to be Attorney General.

  Background: > Salon: Jeff Sessions’ Alarming History of Opposing Civil Rights > Huffington Post: Too Racist To Be a Judge. He’ll Now Be Attorney General.

  It's up to the Senate whether to confirm each of the president's Cabinet nominees. Tell both your senators to reject Sessions and all other nominees with records of racism, misogyny or religious bigotry.
  
  Petitions are good, but even better -- by clicking below you can send a clear message to your senators as a constituent:

• A solution: What to call Trump

  Trump and his allies are eager for the public to forget that he lost the popular vote -- at last count, by more than 1.4 million votes.
  
  News media and Republican boosters are routinely saying that Trump won the most support from voters. He did not. Please sign below to make this resolution:
  

  Instead of “President-elect Trump” or “President Trump,” we will call him “Popular-Vote Loser Trump.”

• STOP The War Supplemental Bill

  President Obama waited until after the election to ask Congress for $11.6 billion extra -- outside the huge existing military budget -- for wars.

  Background: 1. President's Request to Congress 2. David Swanson: Public vs. Media on War

  These funds would go to war efforts that the next U.S. president has sometimes said he wants to end (the arming of fighters in Syria) or not commented on at all. It would also give the Afghan military U.S.-made helicopters so that it no longer uses Russian ones.
   
  Also requested:

  • miniature killer drones that can be launched by U.S. troops in Iraq -- troops whose boots are, despite White House rhetoric, on the ground.
    
  • secret operations that Congress is expected to fund with our money despite not knowing what they are.
  • secret research and testing.
    
  • a war on drugs in Libya and West Africa.
    
  • USAID operations of the sort that have facilitated violent coups in places like Ukraine.
    

  We say no to more war funding.
  
• Call for DNC chair Donna Brazile to resign -- now!

  Join with the Bernie Sanders delegates from around the country who voted 337 to 13 in favor of calling for the immediate resignation of Donna Brazile as chair of the Democratic National Committee.

  Background: The Washington Post: Donna Brazile is totally not sorry for leaking CNN debate questions to Hillary Clinton

  The lopsided response to a Bernie Delegates Network straw poll was sparked by the revelation that -- as a political analyst for CNN -- Brazile gave the Hillary Clinton campaign advance notice of questions that would be asked during a CNN debate between Sanders and Clinton.
  
  “Donna Brazile is not apologizing for leaking CNN debate questions and topics to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the Democratic primary,” the Washington Post reported. “Her only regret, it seems, is that she got caught.”
  
  If you’re sick of the Democratic Party establishment putting its thumbs on the scales of primary elections, please sign this petition:

  "We call for the immediate resignation of Donna Brazile as chair of the Democratic National Committee."

• Un-Trump The World

  The United States has just sent a message to the world, and it is not simply that our people are fed up with our government. (That has long been true and well deserved.) The message is that many of us are OK with racism, sexism, religious bigotry, xenophobia, mockery of the disabled, and viciously blaming the unfortunate for their misfortunes and ours.
  
  Sign below to help un-Trump this with a different message to the world:

  We will not stand by as hatred and violence are promoted by our president-elect. Racism and bigotry at home have been fueled by U.S. wars abroad, but also make more such wars easier. We commit to nonviolently resisting hateful attacks on our fellow human beings wherever they live.
• President Obama, Pardon Exiled Civil Rights Leader Pete O'Neal

  Former Black Panther Party leader Pete O’Neal was unjustly convicted in 1969 and has been in exile in Tanzania for almost 50 years. He is now requesting a presidential pardon to re-enter the United States.

  Background: New York Times: A Black Panther's Mellow Exile: Farming in Africa KCTV: Former Leader of KC Black Panther Party Hoping for Pardon

  O'Neal was arrested in 1969 for allegedly transporting a shotgun from Kansas City, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri. Although no physical evidence connected him to the firearm, O'Neal was convicted based on a photo.

  Pete O'Neal feared that he might be killed in custody, after fellow Panther Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago Police. Instead of requesting an appeal, O'Neal and his wife Charlotte fled the country. They have been living in northern Tanzania since 1972.
  
  O'Neal wants to return home to his family. Particularly to be with his mother, who is now 96 years old.  
  
  Sign this petition to President Barack Obama:
  

  We request the immediate pardon of exiled civil rights leader Pete O'Neal.
  
• Tell prison administrations: lift ban on SF Bay View newspaper

  Prison administrations in several states have banned prisoners from receiving the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, a grassroots paper that has published articles by and about prisoners for decades.

  Background: Un-Ban the Bay View! 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Voice of Detroit: Prisoners Teargassed, Zip-Tied, Left Out in Rain

  The bans began in July 2016 in an attempt to silence those preparing for the nationwide prison strike that began on September 9.
   
  Since the strike began, dozens of prisoners have reportedly been placed in solitary confinement, transferred to distant facilities, or attacked with weapons and tear gas. In Texas prisons, there has been a spate of suicides.
   
  Articles sent from prisons to the SF Bay View reporting these conditions have been continuously intercepted.
   
  Denying access to the SF Bay View violates prisoners' rights to freedom of speech and press.
  
  Please sign this petition to prison administrators:
  

  Lift the ban on the San Francisco Bay View newspaper.

• Standing Rock attacked, needs our voices right now

  Native Americans and their allies have been attacked and injured by police using rubber bullets, tear gas, mace canisters and water cannons in freezing temperature.

  Background: > TYT Politics: Barbaric Dakota Access Oil Police Cause Mass Hypothermia > Democracy Now: 100+ Injured by Police Attack with Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets > Associated Press: Police, Protesters Face off at Dakota Access Pipeline

  The courageous water protectors at Standing Rock are protecting the climate of the earth we all need to live on.
  
  This is an emergency. Please sign the petition below that is helping us bring attention to these outrages.
  
  Then call the phone numbers on the next page to demand a halt to this injustice.
  
  Please sign this petition to President Barack Obama, North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple, the Morton County Sheriff's Department, and the Army Corps of Engineers:
  

  Regarding Standing Rock, we urge you to remove the National Guard. Halt the provision of war weapons and war training to police departments. Demilitarize police actions at Standing Rock. Send Department of Justice observers. Deny the Army Corps of Engineers' permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• Call for the Federal Government to Protect Voting Rights

  A variety of factors unique to this election cycle contribute to a voting environment where voters have reason to believe they will be met with intimidation at the polls, accompanied by a very real fear of violence due to the color of their skin or their age.
  
  Click below to sign this petition to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Voting Section:

  We urge you to investigate possible violations of federal voting rights laws and intervene where necessary to protect voter rights. A major party candidate is calling for voter intimidation at the polls based on race and age. The threat of voters being met with possible violence from white supremacists and law enforcement at the polls could lead to substantial voter suppression on Election Day. Due to the far-reaching nature of the call for voter intimidation of people of color and young voters, it is necessary for the federal government to take action in order to protect voters. 
  
• Cancel the F-35 -- ORGANIZATION SIGN ON PAGE

  PLEASE USE THIS PAGE ONLY TO ENDORSE AS AN ORGANIZATION (AN ORGANIZATION YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO ENDORSE FOR). TO SIGN AS AN INDIVIDUAL CLICK HERE INSTEAD.

  A petition to the United States Congress and the governments of Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, and Canada from the world and from the people of Burlington, Vermont, and Fairbanks, Alaska, where the F-35 is to be based. Initiated by Vermont Stop the F35 Coalition, Save Our Skies Vermont, Western Maine Matters, Alaska Peace Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks Peace Club, North Star Chapter 146 Veterans For Peace, World Beyond War, RootsAction.org, Code Pink, Ben Cohen. Supported by: Centro Documentazione Manifesto Pacifista Internazionale, International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Nej tak til nye kampfly (in Denmark), Peaceful Skies Coalition (in Santa Fe, NM), Straits Area Concerned Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment (in Michigan).

  Please add your name below:

  The F-35 is a weapon of offensive war, serving no defensive purpose. It is planned to cost the U.S. $1.4 trillion over 50 years. Because starvation on earth could be ended for $30 billion and the lack of clean drinking water for $11 billion per year, it is first and foremost through the wasting of resources that this airplane will kill. Military spending, contrary to popular misconception, also hurts the U.S. economy (see below) and other economies. The F-35 causes negative health impacts and cognitive impairment in children living near its bases. It renders housing near airports unsuitable for residential use. It has a high crash rate and horrible consequences to those living in the area of its crashes. Its emissions are a major environmental polluter.
  
  Wars are endangering the United States and other participating nations rather than protecting them. Nonviolent tools of law, diplomacy, aid, crisis prevention, and verifiable nuclear disarmament should be substituted for continuing counterproductive wars. Therefore, we, the undersigned, call for the immediate cancellation of the F-35 program as a whole, and the immediate cancellation of plans to base any such dangerous and noisy jets near populated areas. We oppose replacing the F-35 with any other weapon or basing the F-35 in any other locations. We further demand redirection of the money for the F-35 back into taxpayers' pockets, and into environmental and human needs in the U.S., other F-35 customer nations, and around the world, including to fight climate change, pay off student debt, rebuild crumbling infrastructure, and improve education, healthcare, and housing.
  

  PLEASE USE THIS PAGE ONLY TO ENDORSE AS AN ORGANIZATION (AN ORGANIZATION YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO ENDORSE FOR). TO SIGN AS AN INDIVIDUAL CLICK HERE INSTEAD.

• Cancel the F-35

  A petition to the United States Congress and the governments of Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, and Canada from the world and from the people of Burlington, Vermont, and Fairbanks, Alaska, where the F-35 is to be based. Initiated by Vermont Stop the F35 Coalition, Save Our Skies Vermont, Western Maine Matters, Alaska Peace Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks Peace Club, North Star Chapter 146 Veterans For Peace, World Beyond War, RootsAction.org, Code Pink, Ben Cohen. Supported by: Centro Documentazione Manifesto Pacifista Internazionale, International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Nej tak til nye kampfly (in Denmark), Peaceful Skies Coalition (in Santa Fe, NM), Straits Area Concerned Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment (in Michigan).

  Please add your name below:

  The F-35 is a weapon of offensive war, serving no defensive purpose. It is planned to cost the U.S. $1.4 trillion over 50 years. Because starvation on earth could be ended for $30 billion and the lack of clean drinking water for $11 billion per year, it is first and foremost through the wasting of resources that this airplane will kill. Military spending, contrary to popular misconception, also hurts the U.S. economy (see below) and other economies. The F-35 causes negative health impacts and cognitive impairment in children living near its bases. It renders housing near airports unsuitable for residential use. It has a high crash rate and horrible consequences to those living in the area of its crashes. Its emissions are a major environmental polluter.
  
  Wars are endangering the United States and other participating nations rather than protecting them. Nonviolent tools of law, diplomacy, aid, crisis prevention, and verifiable nuclear disarmament should be substituted for continuing counterproductive wars. Therefore, we, the undersigned, call for the immediate cancellation of the F-35 program as a whole, and the immediate cancellation of plans to base any such dangerous and noisy jets near populated areas. We oppose replacing the F-35 with any other weapon or basing the F-35 in any other locations. We further demand redirection of the money for the F-35 back into taxpayers' pockets, and into environmental and human needs in the U.S., other F-35 customer nations, and around the world, including to fight climate change, pay off student debt, rebuild crumbling infrastructure, and improve education, healthcare, and housing.
  
• ORGANIZATION ENDORSEMENT PAGE: Tell the next president: No more war!

  USE THIS PAGE ONLY TO ENDORSE AS AN ORGANIZATION. To sign as an individual please click here instead.

  Please sign this petition to the 45th President of the United States:

  We call on you to end perpetual war by the United States Government. As signers of this petition, we commit ourselves to building nonviolent pressure to end continual U.S. warfare. We also reject our country's bloated military spending and massive arms sales that make the USA the world’s leading arms trafficker by a huge margin.
• Tell the next president: No more war!

  Please sign this petition to the 45th President of the United States:

  We call on you to end perpetual war by the United States Government. As signers of this petition, we commit ourselves to building nonviolent pressure to end continual U.S. warfare. We also reject our country's bloated military spending and massive arms sales that make the USA the world’s leading arms trafficker by a huge margin.
• Congress: Don't keep Wells Fargo's dirty money

  Members of both political parties in both houses of Congress have had harsh words for Wells Fargo following exposure of its latest scam -- bank employees had created 2 million phony checking and credit card accounts that cost customers headaches and higher fees. No member of Congress, however, has returned Wells Fargo's campaign money. Under the U.S. system of legalized bribery, Wells Fargo's "contributions" have made it a top-20 "donor" to 154 members of Congress in 2016. Its top two recipients are the Republican National Committee and Hillary Clinton (who was nominated for president in Philadelphia's  Wells Fargo Center). Wells Fargo, in recent years, has funded all but two members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and all but two members of the House Committee on Financial Services. No wonder actions never seem to measure up to rhetoric! Click below to demand that recipients of Wells Fargo funding return it or, better yet, donate it to worthy charities.

  Presidential Candidates: Wells Fargo fundees Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson No Wells Fargo funds Jill Stein Senate Banking Committee: Wells Fargo fundees Richard Shelby, Mike Crapo, Bob Corker, Patrick J. Toomey, Mark Kirk, Dean Heller, Tim Scott, Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton, Mike Rounds, Jerry Moran, Sherrod Brown, Jack Reed, Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Jon Tester, Mark R. Warner, Jeff Merkley, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly. No Wells Fargo funds Elizabeth Warren, David Vitter. House Financial Services Committee: Wells Fargo fundees Jeb Hensarling, Peter T. King, Edward R. Royce, Frank D. Lucas, Scott Garrett, Randy Neugebauer, Patrick T. McHenry, Stevan Pearce, Bill Posey, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Lynn A. Westmoreland, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Bill Huizenga, Sean P. Duffy, Robert Hurt, Steve Stivers, Stephen Lee Fincher, Marlin A. Stutzman, Mick Mulvaney, Randy Hultgren, Dennis A. Ross, Robert Pittenger, Ann Wagner, Andy Barr, Keith J. Rothfus, Luke Messer, David Schweikert, Frank Guinta, Scott Tipton, Roger Williams, Bruce Poliquin, Mia Love, French Hill, Tom Emmer, Maxine Waters, Carolyn B. Maloney, Nydia M. Velázquez, Brad Sherman, Gregory W. Meeks, Rubén Hinojosa, Wm. Lacy Clay, Stephen F. Lynch, David Scott, Al Green, Emanuel Cleaver, Gwen Moore, Keith Ellison, Ed Perlmutter, James A. Himes, John C. Carney, Jr., Terri A. Sewell, Bill Foster, Patrick Murphy, John K. Delaney, Kyrsten Sinema, Joyce Beatty, Denny Heck, Juan Vargas. No Wells Fargo funds Michael E. Capuano, Daniel T. Kildee.

  

  Don't keep Wells Fargo's dirty money.

• Suspend the Weapons Transfer Program that authorizes local U.S. police departments to get military equipment

  The use of war weapons and tactics in local police departments fuels the widespread mentality that police in black and brown communities are at war against the people they are meant to serve.

  > In These Times: If You Thought Obama Was Giving Less Military Gear, You Were Wrong > Knoxville News Sentinel: Tenn. Police Armed With $126 Million in Military Gear > RT: “Military-Style” Armed Police Arrest 20+ Dakota Access Protesters

  Click below to sign and add a comment to this petition to U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter:

  The reactions of law enforcement officers to the Black Lives Matter protests have proven that local police departments are both irresponsible and discriminatory when utilizing military weapons. I sign this petition urging that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter suspend the 1033 Weapons Transfer Program that authorizes the transfer of military equipment to local U.S. police departments.
• Prosecute Banksters Now

  Congress members keep telling the CEO of Wells Fargo over and over again that he should be "held accountable." If only the U.S. government had an actual Justice Department!

  Background: LA Times: 'Y'all were rotten,' lawmaker tells CEO John Stumpf The Nation: Wells Fargo Crooks Stole From Customers, Reaped Rewards IBT: Senator Elizabeth Warren Requests Formal Investigation

  Click below to sign the petition we will deliver to the U.S. Justice Department.
  

  End the policy of immunity for big bankers now.
  

• Override the Veto: Let 9/11 Victims' Families Sue Saudi Arabia

  The U.S. Senate is about to vote on whether to override a veto of a bill to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

  Background: Reuters: Senate sets Wednesday vote on Obama veto of Saudi September 11 bill David Swanson: Suing Saudi: Congress Is Right, Stephen Kinzer Is Wrong

  President Obama said the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act would put United States assets at risk of seizure by private litigants overseas and “create complications” in diplomatic relations with other countries.

  In fact, blocking nonviolent redress of grievances through courts puts us at risk of more terrorism. Imagine if Saudis could have sued for the removal of U.S. bases. Courts are better than wars.

  Click below to email both of your U.S. senators: