Discontinue all torture

A group of threatened indigenous people in Ecuador are trying to just live peaceful lives. They live off the land, and cherish the land and we are allowing them to be destroyed along with their homeland .

Removing the automatic pay increase Congress receives

The Warmongers in the beltway and Congress are trying to push President Obama into yet another war in the Middle East. Its time to leave this region to fight its own wars.

WE NEED HELP IN ORDER TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACI ,LIBERTY IN VENEZUELA, ALL THESE BECAUSE LAST ELLECTION WAS A COMPLETE FRAUD.....

I watched VICE on HBO. They did a short story on radiation sickness and birth defects in areas that saw heavy fighting. Fields were strewn with bombed out vehicles. People have been coming down with radiation sickness and there is a rise in birth defects.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taught us that military might is insufficient to win; that we must expand our capacity to build civil society structures (e.g., rule of law, jobs, responsible and accountable government, police and fire, basic services, etc.); and that our government is still mostly structured to deal with a post-Cold War world rather than a post-9/11 world.

Tell President Obama and Congress that you support closing the Guantanamo detention facility. On April 30th, 2013, as over 100 detainees are on hunger strike, President Obama rightly reaffirmed his commitment to close Guantanamo. He must now take action to get the job done and Congress must support the effort. Each detainee must either be charged and fairly tried in federal court, or be released to countries that will respect their human rights. Under current law, cleared detainees can be transferred out. There is no excuse for human rights violations to continue.

There are tons of materials that need to be removed from Afganistan and have been slated to be shipped back to the USA. Rather than ship them so far, we can fulfill pledges to our Middle East allies and save us money at the same time.

Where is the progressive voice on the illegal detentions in Guantanamo? People are still being detained without trial for over 10 years--and some who have been cleared of wrong-doing are still in detention. I am personally ashamed that my country is perpetrating this injustice.

Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are demanding that the Obama Administration get the U.S. involved militarily in Syria's sectarian civil war. But after the experience of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, President Obama and U.S. military leaders are right to be wary of these calls. If we don't have enough money for Social Security, veterans' benefits, Head Start, and cancer clinics, we don't have enough money for another war. Urge Congress and the President to resist calls for another rush to war in the Middle East, and support a political solution instead.

The aim of this petition is the revelation of the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the public and to Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership are on-going closed-door talks between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with countries like Japan and China potentially joining later. 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress, journalists, and civil society are excluded. The agreement would offshore millions of American jobs, free the banksters from oversight, ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy, decrease access to medicine, flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.