BECAUSE I WANT BIAFRA TO COME AS A SOVEREIGN STATE.

This petition has been started because John McCain needs to be reigned in, and publicly condemned for his public threats and provoking of war in the Middle East and across the European Union in places like Ukraine and Crimea against Russia. Whether it's the nuclear deal with Iran or the arming of Syrian rebels against a sovereign and elected leader in President Bashir al Assad John McCain is looking for a fight, looking to send our sons and daughters off to war, yet again, while his children, both natural and adopted, stay home and live off their mother's brewery inheritances and his personal financial investments. John McCain has never, ever been held to any kind or sort of public accounting at any time in his historic life, and it is time for that to change. He should be censured by his colleagues in the United States Senate for invoking war or the public threat thereof. Thank you for your help with this petition, and please share this petition with all that you think would be interested in adding their names to our effort here.

When the Republican leadership set up the Select Committee on Benghazi, its frivolous purpose was transparent. It was created as an outlet for the Republican leadership to attack Secretary Clinton, plain and simple. We just never thought they would admit it... until now. In a recent interview, Rep. McCarthy told Sean Hannity that, “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.” The Select Committee on Benghazi has become one of the longest-running Congressional task forces in history - longer than Watergate. It has cost American taxpayers $4.5 million. And according to Rep. McCarthy, it was a political stunt to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Using taxpayer dollars to further a political agenda is unethical. But using taxpayer dollars to exploit a national tragedy that resulted in the loss of four American lives is utterly reprehensible. Rep. McCarthy dropping out of the Speaker's race is not enough. Join us and demand that the House Republicans stop this charade and shut down the Select Committee on Benghazi now.

On October 3, 2015, a United States airstrike destroyed a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan operated by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders (also called Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF), killing at least 22 civilians--10 patients and 12 staff members--and wounding dozens more.[1] Doctors Without Borders says the attack continued for 30 minutes after its staff gave U.S. and Afghan military officials the exact location of its hospital.[2] How could this happen? An early statement released by the U.S. military attempted to characterize the hospital bombing as a mistake, almost dismissing it as collateral damage.[3] Military officials subsequently altered their accounts of what exactly occurred four times in as many days, only recently acknowledging that U.S. Special Operations Forces "most likely did not meet any of the criteria [for authorizing airstrikes]."[4][5] The magnitude of the tragedy and the astounding inconsistencies between U.S. and Afghan accounts of the bombing have prompted MSF officials to demand that President Obama call for an inquiry from the independent and impartial International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.[6] Doctors Without Borders' U.S. executive director, Jason Cone, underscored the reasoning behind this call to action. "All this confusion," he noted, "just underlines once again the crucial need for an independent investigation into how a major hospital, full of patients and MSF staff, could be repeatedly bombed.”[7] Médecins Sans Frontières' international president Joanne Liu added, "If we let this go, as if it was a non-event, we are basically giving a blank cheque to any countries who are at war."[8] President Obama has apologized for the bombing and said the Pentagon will conduct its own investigation.[9] But a Pentagon investigation is no substitute for one conducted by the IHFFC. Sources: 1. http://www.wsj.com/articles/doctors-without-borders-closes-afghan-hospital-1443958030?mod=asia_home 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/asia/afghanistan-bombing-hospital-doctors-without-borders-kunduz.html?_r=0 3. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-doctors-without-borders-20151003-story.html 4. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again 5. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/world/middleeast/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-kunduz.html 6. http://abcnews.go.com/International/doctors-borders-calls-independent-probe-deadly-kunduz-hospital/story?id=34310266 7. Ibid. 8. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/uk-afghanistan-attack-msf-idUKKCN0S10SZ20151007 9. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/asia/obama-apologizes-for-bombing-of-afghanistan-hospital.html?_r=0

On September 28, at least 131 civilians, including at least 80 women, were killed at a wedding reception in Yemen in an airstrike by the Saudi-led military coalition. The US is providing the coalition with intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and logistics information. With innocent Yemeni civilians, including thousands of Yemeni-Americans, still caught in the middle of this war, the coalition’s airstrikes should be held to the same standards for protecting civilians as any US military operation should be. According to Amnesty International, more than 2,100 civilians, including at least 400 children, have been killed in the conflict, with the “vast majority” of civilian deaths and injuries attributed to attacks by the Saudi-led coalition. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced; 12.9 million are considered food insecure; more than 1.2 million children are suffering from moderate acute malnutrition. Thousands are fleeing Yemen every week; experts warn that tens of thousands of Yemenis could join the waves of refugees seeking asylum in Europe if the conflict is not resolved soon. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called for an “end to bombings” in Yemen and has said there is no military solution to this conflict. Diplomatic action, including sustained engagement with Iran, is the only way to end the hostilities, reverse the humanitarian crisis on the ground, and protect more innocent lives from reckless airstrikes. Urge your Representative in Congress to sign the Dingell-Ellison letter [1] to President Obama to urge greater efforts to protect civilians from US-assisted airstrikes in Yemen and greater diplomatic efforts to end the Yemen war by signing our petition. References: 1. http://fcnl.org/issues/middle_east/support_letter_expressing_concerns_of_growing_civilian_death_toll_in_yemen_airstrikes/

The fact that the US military could continue to bomb the hospital even after MSF staff informed them it was happening makes the US responsible. It's high time US taxpayers held the military to account for its reckless and in this case disastrous actions.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is joining with Republican warmongers like Carly Fiorina to call for the U.S. to impose a “no-fly zone” in Syria. Despite the innocuous-sounding name, these proposals for a “no-fly zone” are proposals for dangerous U.S. military escalation against Russia, Iran, and the Syrian government. [1] President Obama has rightly called Republican proposals for “no-fly zones” and “humanitarian corridors” in Syria “half-baked” “mumbo jumbo.” [2] Senator Bernie Sanders is standing with President Obama and against Hillary Clinton in opposition to these “half-baked” proposals for military escalation. “We must be very careful about not making a complex and dangerous situation in Syria even worse,” Sanders said, warning that a no-fly zone in Syria "could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region.” [3] Urge Congress to stand with President Obama and Senator Sanders against dangerous U.S. military escalation in Syria by signing our petition. References: 1. http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-fiorina-push-no-fly-zone-syria-really-175553001.html 2. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-challenges-clinton-other-2016-candidates-syria-041535856.html 3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/03/bernie-sanders-sides-with-obama-and-against-clinton-on-no-fly-zone-in-syria/

As you know, the Syrian refugee crisis is unprecedented in recent history. The United States for long has been a destination of the oppressed and those fleeing persecution based on their religion, sect or nationality. As America welcomed oppressed peoples of years past, let America welcome the oppressed peoples of today. Will you welcome Syrian refugees to Ann Arbor?

On September 29th, 55 House Democrats led by Connecticut Democrat Jim Himes sent a letter to President Obama calling for international talks, including with Russia and Iran, to end the Syrian civil war. [1] As Rep. Himes said on the House floor the next day: “The only real solution in Syria...is for the international community, all of the players that have a stake and influence in Syria, to come together today to begin the process of working out an international agreement, the terms of which will undoubtedly be uncomfortable for us, but an agreement that will bring an end to the civil war...Until we do that, we will simply be managing chaos.”[2] Urge Senators to join with Rep. Himes in supporting international talks, including Russia and Iran, to end the Syrian civil war by signing our petition. References: 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/rep-jim-himes--54-house-d_b_8222622.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myg2C3fT3uI

We, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, are compelled to call for a total boycott of British-Nigeria and her murderous president Muhammadu Buhari because British-Nigeria is a rogue terrorist state that tramples on every conceivable human rights, particularly, the rights of the beleaguered people of Biafra and IPOB—the organization of Biafrans agitating for freedom from the wicked British-Nigeria contraption and edifice of genocide. Buhari is an avowed Islamist, genocidist, tribalist, and unabashed Boko Haramist. Buhari is terrorizing Biafrans—an indigenous people forced against their wish to remain in British-Nigeria—because they are exercising their United Nations Rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination. He has been killing, terrorizing, and mounting roadblocks; abducting, beating, shooting and incarcerating unarmed Biafrans who are peaceably agitating to be free from marginalization and genocide; thus, breaking International Law and violating the United Nations Charter on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of which British-Nigeria is a co-signatory. Buhari has committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and ought not to be embraced by other world leaders. He should be at International Criminal Court (ICC) and not at United Nations. We call on the civilized nations of the world to Boycott President Muhammadu Buhari and British-Nigeria before it is too late. Thank you. Please see detailed explanation at http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1273646 Tell your friends on Facebook: SHARE ON FACEBOOK

Military aid provided through Plan Merida is used to repress social movements, indigenous groups and students throughout Mexico. Every Mexican has a close relative or friend or acquaintance that has been affected physically and economically by militarization. Without addressing the core issues pertaining to drug consumption in the United States, Plan Merida only enriches arms companies in the U.S. at the expense of the civilian population on both sides of the border.

The Syrian civil war has dragged on for four years, killing hundreds of thousands, creating millions of refugees, and displacing millions of people within the country. The refugee crisis has been an immense challenge to governments in the Middle East and is now affecting Europe and the United States. To resolve the Syrian refugee crisis, the U.S. should use all diplomatic tools to press for a negotiated end to the Syrian civil war. Rep. Jim Himes [D-CT] is circulating a letter to President Obama in support of international negotiations to end the conflict, stabilize the country, allow refugees to return home, transition to an accountable government and defeat ISIL. This is a rare opportunity to press Members of Congress to take a public stand to support serious diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian civil war. Urge your Representative to sign this important letter led by Rep. Himes by signing our petition.