I was in my twenties during the Vietnam War. When that conflict and the Cold War were at last over, Americans thought (wrongly) that the need for a bloated military budget was over as well. Dr. King understood how our spending on war went hand in hand with increased poverty and greater racism in the US, and opposed the war in Vietnam. A proposed budget of 600-700 billion dollars has been offered to the Military in 2018. Cuts have meanwhile been proposed for Departments of Energy, Education, the Interior, EPA and Health and Human Services, some at close to one-third of their current budget (See Wikipedia, 2018 Federal Budget, for details). If instead of cutting these agencies, we instead cut the Military by one-half, we could approximately DOUBLE the proposed budgets for these essential services. We have already committed 5-7 trillion dollars to wars in the Middle East (as a candidate, Trump condemned the estimated 6 trillion spent, and we must stop. We demand that the Congress truly act in service of the American people.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a “bloody nose” strike on North Korea, despite expert warnings across the political spectrum about the dangers of escalation. One bomb from Trump could launch full-scale war. Urge Congress to intervene immediately and prevent Trump’s “bloody nose” attack.

I am a mother and a teacher who believes all children are our future in a global world. The four current centers of Women for Afghan Women (and there is need for more) currently cost the U.S. two million dollars annually. There is less than a year to change the U.S. government decision to stop this funding. https://www.womenforafghanwomen.org

Moving our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem undermines the Middle East peace process and is not what the American people want.

I know the tragedy of these wars because as a therapist I have tried to help young vets with PTSD. They struggle every day to forget the things they did and witnessed. More vets have committed suicide during or after these wars than even Vietnam. There are no clear objectives or they change sporadically, it's almost impossible to distinguish between innocent civilians & Muslim extremists. We aren't shown how bad it is there, we aren't told how horrifically our soldiers are tortured when they're captured, we don't know how traumatized they are about the things they were ordered to do. And they will never be the same.

Food, medicine, and water treatments are urgently needed in Yemen. Even more catastrophic would be a U.S.-initiated or U.S.-provoked nuclear attack relating to North Korea.

It is time for the world to know which companies are doing business and making their profits on colonial Israeli settlements which, in violation of international law, appropriates the land designated to be a Palestinian State.

Maher Arar is a Canadian citizen who was taken by the U.S. special forces and flown to Syria for torture. A year later he was released and the Canadian government gave him compensation and an apology. The United States government won't apologize for their wrong doing of torture to Maher Arar.

It's unconscionable that slave traffickers in Libya are enslaving, abusing, raping and killing West African migrants we must do whatever we can to help these migrants they are human beings and they deserve better

As a Jewish community, it is our responsibility to be the voice of the voiceless. Many of us have family members who were affected by the Holocaust and therefore understand the frustration when major world powers turn a blind eye to ethnic cleansing. It is our duty as a nation of survivors to help the Rohingya being persecuted in Myanmar.

President Trump says he wants to broker the “ultimate deal,” a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But since taking office in January, he and his aides have failed to offer a framework for negotiations, have failed to assert positions that are vital for securing a peace deal, such as sternly opposing settlement construction, and have refused to endorse the only viable formula for a deal: the two-state solution. Not only has Trump failed to adopt or advance the two-state solution. He won’t even publicly say “two states.” Successive U.S. administrations, Republican and Democratic, have recognized that the two-state solution is the only feasible way to resolve the conflict. They therefore made the two-state solution America’s official policy – a key position guiding U.S. policy in the Middle East – for over 15 years. The two-state solution has become a matter of consensus in the region and internationally. The parties, under their own successive leaderships, have committed to this vision and negotiated to realize it. For the Trump Administration to eschew it is disastrous. Extremists on both sides have been trying to discredit the two-state vision since it was internationally adopted. Now they have a partner in the White House. President Trump, don’t play into the hands of the anti-peace extremists. We call on you to endorse the two-state solution. Say two states!

We are witnessing government-sponsored massive suffering and death and we must DO SOMETHING to stop it!