This past summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump's Muslim Ban—giving the green light to an administration that has made xenophobia, racism, and anti-Muslim bigotry its official policy. With the Court steadily being packed with radical right-wing judicial operatives like Brett Kavanaugh, it's time for Congress to take action to undo Trump's racist agenda. From putting migrant children and adults in internment camps to defending violent white supremacists, Trump is out of control. He spews racist, xenophobic language and pushes dangerous policies to exclude people of color from the U.S. Meanwhile, the Ban continues to permanently block nationals and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries from coming to the U.S.—based on nothing other than Trump's bigoted campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Just because Trump and the Roberts-led Supreme Court think it's OK to discriminate against people based on how they worship or where they come from doesn't mean it should be the official policy of the United States. Congress has the power to defund Trump's Muslim Ban and they should do so immediately. The bills, H.R. 4271 and S. 1979, would prohibit the use of any funds or fees to implement Executive Order 13780—the third and most recent iteration of Trump's Muslim Ban. #NoMuslimBanEver

On Tuesday June 19, 2018 the Trump Administration announced that it would withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. This petition is our declaration to Trump and the world that We the People of the United States wish to remain a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

I am starting this petition as a concerned citizen of the United States.

Trump is requiring many active-duty U.S. military personnel to give up their Veterans Day holiday weekend. Instead of spending time resting or with loved ones, soldiers will have to march in Trump's parade. Active-duty military personnel already have to give up many weekends and holidays for training and deployment. Let's respect the time off that U.S. military personnel do get. Block funding for the Trump Parade.

While we can’t address all of the nonsense from Donald Trump and all of the harm to relationships with allies around the world, let’s stand up to disavow the inappropriately negative and personal comments that President Trump addressed to Prime Minister Trudeau. Canada has been a strong ally of ours and a very good neighbor — President Trump’s treatment of Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada is a poor reward.

I have never been so ashamed to be American as when our Government officials spoke to another world leader with those insulting remarks. At any other time in our history they would both have been fired immediately.

We are horrified and embarrassed by the attacks on our good friend, Canada, and its Prime Minister, apparently in an attempt to look stronger going into the negotiations with North Korea. Instead of stronger, he has succeeded in making himself look irrational.

President Trump's efforts to alienate our Allies and befriend our Enemies does not represent the will of the majority of Americans and must be checked.

As an American citizen residing in Germany I oppose America's senior diplomat in Berlin taking partisan positions in German politics, endorsing other European leaders or domestic partisan grounds, and stating that his mission in Germany is to "empower... conservatives throughout Europe.."

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.