Each year the US gives Israel $3.8 billion dollars in military aid, part of which pays for the midnight arrests, blindfolding, handcuffing, and transferring of Palestinian children to Israeli military jails, where they are routinely abused by military interrogators, after which they must appear in military tribunals presided over by military judges who have a 99% conviction rate. See the resolution here: https://mccollum.house.gov/palestinianchildrensrights

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To sign leave a comment with: name, department, school, expected graduation ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are students opposed to the weaponization of technology by companies like Google and Microsoft. Our dream is to be a positive force in the world. We refuse to be complicit in this gross misuse of power. In a recent NYT op-ed Stanford prof. Fei Fei Li and Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Vice President of Google Cloud wrote that an important goal of human centered AI is "ensuring that the development of this technology is guided, at each step, by concern for its effect on humans." Technology companies that have vast quantities of sensitive data from users across the globe should not build offensive technology for any country’s military. If Google truly wants to build humane AI, they cannot be in the business of technology for warfare, they must take a stand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Maven is a United States military program aimed at using machine learning to analyze massive amounts of drone surveillance footage and to label objects of interest for human analysts. Google is supplying not only the open source ‘deep learning’ technology, but also engineering expertise and assistance to the Department of Defense. According to Defense One, Joint Special Operations Forces “in the Middle East” have conducted initial trials using video footage from a small ScanEagle surveillance drone. The project is slated to expand “to larger, medium-altitude Predator and Reaper drones by next summer” and eventually to Gorgon Stare, “a sophisticated, high-tech series of cameras…that can view entire towns.” With Project Maven, Google becomes implicated in the questionable practice of targeted killings. These include so-called signature strikes and pattern-of-life strikes that target people based not on known activities but on probabilities drawn from long range surveillance footage. The legality of these operations has come into question under international and U.S. law. - Open letter in Support of Google Employees and Tech Workers, International Committee for Robot Arms Control [3] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We, students, feel compelled to follow the lead of over four thousand Google employees who have spoken out against Project Maven in a letter to their CEO: “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war.” [1], as well as the dozen who have resigned in protest [2]. Their protests were supported by an open letter signed by over a thousand academics on the International Committee for Robot Arms Control [3]. The Tech Worker’s Coalition has also published a petition signed by over three hundred tech workers, demanding that Google terminate its contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) [4]. On June 1st, 2018 Google announced that it would not extend project Maven [5]. This is a huge win for those who took a stand. But we need much more. We, students, pledge that we will: First, do no harm. Refuse to participate in developing technologies of war: our labor, our expertise, and our lives will not be in the service of destruction. Refrain from interviewing with Google until it fully withdraws from its contract with the Department of Defense (Project Maven) and fully commits not to develop military technologies in the future, nor to allow the personal data it has collected to be used for military operations. Abstain from working for technology companies that fail to reject the weaponizing of their technology for military purposes. Instead, push our companies to pledge to neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade or use of autonomous weapons; and to instead support efforts to ban autonomous weapons globally. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Instructions for signing: Leave a comment with: name, department, school, expected graduation To have your student organization sign email us at: [email protected] (postdocs and recent grads are welcome to sign) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Niloufar Salehi, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Dan Walls, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2018 Gilbert Bernstein, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Michael Mara, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Mark Whiting, Computer Science, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar Ali Alkhatib, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2020 Vera Khovanskaya, Information Science, Cornell University, 2020 Sarah Tran, Symbolic Systems, Stanford Univeristy 2020 Afshin Nikzad, Economics and MS&E, Stanford University, 2018 Forest Peterson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2018 Alex Ahmed, Computer Science, Northeastern University Jingyi Li, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2022 Elizabeth Murnane, Computer Science, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar Maryam Aliakbarpour, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, MIT Ethan Li, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Palashi Vaghela, Information Science, Cornell University, 2021 Ailie Fraser, PhD Student, Computer Science, UC San Diego Vineet Pandey, Computer Science, UC San Diego, 2019 Pesho Ivanov, Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Ph.D. student, 2022 Noopur Raval, Informatics, University of California Irvine, 2019 Ameneh Shamekhi, Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2019 Mehrdad Farajtabar, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018 Sahar Harati, Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, 2019 Elias Khalil, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech Ahmer Arif, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Wa...

This "President" is starving the people of Uganda of 16 of their human rights Any Large problem that Affects the World affects you in some way and if it does not it probably will in the future, so help me by helping them to help you. Thank You.

Dennis Rodman has been an inspiration to private citizens working for peace. His successful outreach to North Korea may have helped prevent war where our government has failed. He stands as an inspiration to other global activists to do the same in promoting peace everywhere.

Nicaragua is our next door neighbor, part of the Americas, and we have the right to freedom and democracy, and we request immediate help from the US. President. Daniel Ortega is in power against the will of the Nicaraguan people. He is killing innocent people in mass quantities, committing genocide against the people, and using Cuban sharpshooters to do so. This man must be stopped now along with all his accomplices and all his assets must be frozen. I would like an invitation to urgently speak with a special panel about this issue. Thanks

Popularly known as the White Helmets, Syria Civil Defence is a group of 3,000 volunteers, men and women, from local communities who have since 2013 risked their lives to save people from underneath the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Syrian civil war. Bakers, tailors, salespersons, teachers – they are now trained fire-fighters, search and rescue workers, and medics. The group has won the Right Livelihood Award in 2016 and received 130 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The White Helmets are viciously slandered by forces allied with the Syrian dictator, who claim they are “terrorists” or actors making propaganda. In fact they’re the only organized rescuers in areas controlled by opposition forces. They’ve saved 100,000 people while losing 200 of their own. They video their work and this enrages those who demand Syrians either meekly die or surrender. As of mid-April 2018, funding from the U.S. government to the White Helmets has been frozen by the Trump Administration. The U.S. has sent Syria Civil Defence around $33 million over 6 years, a tiny sum compared to the billions and billions spent on war. We call on the U.S. to unfreeze and increase money sent to this amazing humanitarian organization.

The Iranian people want to live everyday lives just like us. They too share a desire for peace and a diplomatic resolution to conflict—not war or baseless provocation. They too are afraid. From the start of his candidacy, Trump demonized and degraded the people of Iran—a theme that has continued throughout his presidency, from the Muslim Ban to his appointment of anti-Iran Cabinet advisers. We reject Trump’s poisonous soapbox. And that’s why—at this perilous crossroads—we are delivering our own messages to the people of Iran and the world. Please add your name to our message of peace, love, and solidarity—and add a personalized message of your own in the comments box—which we'll publish in newspapers around the world and promote over social media.

Michael Avenatti's relentless opposition to the greatest threat to peace in the modern world should be recognized and rewarded.

Because I have five children and the Trump Administration's policies are creating a world that I don't want them to have to live in.

Donald Trump and his war cabinet just axed the Iran deal — in defiance of experts across the political spectrum. This reckless action puts us on a collision course to war with Iran. Demand Congress step in to stop Trump from dragging us into a terrible war with Iran.

Donald Trump's assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq is widely being viewed as an act of war. The American people do not want another chapter in the endless war in the Middle East with Iran, a nation of 80 million. Congress has not authorized war with Iran, nor assassination campaigns against Iranian generals and militias in Iraq. Yet Trump is running roughshod over Congress, blocking efforts to rein in his war authorities and taking steps that put the U.S. and Iran on a glidepath toward a messy, regional war. This is a 2002 moment for Congress, which must halt a reckless march to war. There are three steps Congress can take to prevent war with Iran: 1. Clarify that Trump does not have Congressional authorization for a disastrous war of choice with Iran. As tensions rise, this becomes all the more important. 2. Pass legislation to restrict the administration from further escalating its shadow war with Iran. 3. Demand Trump return to the negotiating table and invite in international mediators to forestall a rush to war.

Because I have friends that are Filipinos. They would love to come over here to visit. We Americans can go over to the Philippines without a visa. I think it would only be fair that the Filipino people can come to America without a visa as long as they have a passport.