- 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."Sign this petition to President Obama.
Tell Congress to Say No to Nuclear Madness
Several steps are urgently needed to reduce the risk of nuclear war.Please sign this petition to the U.S. Congress.
Tell U.S. to Join Syrian Ceasefire
Missing is a commitment by the United States to itself cease fighting and cease arming fighters.Email President Obama, your Congress Member, and your two Senators with one quick email.
Cancel the F-35
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.
This is a new global/local effort to cancel it now.
News Conference About CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling -- with speakers Holly Sterling, Cornel West, John Kiriakou, Jesselyn Radack, Delphine Halgand, Timothy Karr -- February 17, 2016
Sign the petition to grant Jeffrey Sterling a Pardon by clicking here.
Ban Weaponized Drones from the World
Meticulous researchers have documented that U.S. drones are killing many innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Drones are making the world less stable and creating new enemies. We're going to ban weaponized drones from the world.
Please add your name today, and urge everyone you know to do the same.
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- Coalition to Present Demands for Release of Torture ReportSpeakers to include CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou
more - Democrats are playing with fire on Russia
Two months after the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the most cohesive message from congressional Democrats is: blame Russia.
more - Emails were leaked, not hacked
It has been several weeks since the New York Times reported that "overwhelming circumstantial evidence" led the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin "deployed computer hackers" to help Donald Trump win the election. But the evidence released so far has been far from overwhelming.
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"If we do not organize the great grassroots, we are doomed to be under the total control of corporate America. We have regressed to the days of the robber barons in the early last century -- but this time, these corporate thieves own and control the mass media. We need to organize to prevent an invasion of Iran and to extract ourselves from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we must begin to take care of our citizens." - Former U.S. Senator Jim Abourezk, early endorser of RootsAction.org
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