Women’s rights are human rights and we need to protect them, We have succeeded in passing the Violence Against Women Act. Now we need to let Congress and the House know that we support the passage of IVAWA, we need to be sure that the US government is helping to end violence against women and girls globally.

Social networks are rising against the gratuitous cruelty of the Trump administration. Indeed, the US president gave Monday, April 10 its endorsement of a law passed by Congress (52 votes to 47), which will again to hunt bears and wolves in the Alaska nature reserves. This new text will remove the Obama administration's Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule, which prohibited the killing of these animals on-reserve in a large protected area. The state has 16 shelters that represent 76 million acres of land, or about 30.7 million hectares. http://moveon.org

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.."

Unhealthy water has affected plenty of people with regard to their health. It’s inportant that this doesn’t get out of hand like it did in San Berdnardino, Ca, and Flint, Michigan.

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

Sign the petition pls Co-Leaders: Amy Nguyen Levi Kessler

TX Prison Rehabs such as Henley, Plane, etc. have NO air conditioner for human beings... This is inhumane, not even animals go without air conditioner. These people work and go to school and classes to better themselves so they do NOT have to go back to these places again. They are trying to rehabilitate themselves, they deserve air conditioning..

I have had to live the past 13 years of my life sharing a room with people and I get yelled at when I make the tiniest sound these people are now 18, and 17 they should move out and I need my own room.

The company that developed GMO salmon is pushing for its product to reach U.S. stores unlabeled. Senator Lisa Murkowski recently introduced new legislation that would stop this fish from sneaking onto our dinner plates. We need your help to encourage your Senators to support this legislation. Tell your Senators: Don't let GE salmon sneak into our food system unlabeled!

The Trump administration just proposed allowing hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens. If this proposal goes through, it would put rare wildlife at risk of inhumane treatment in national preserves in Alaska. The Department of the Interior is accepting comments on this plan. So we need you to speak up now! Help send 50,000 comments to the Department of the Interior opposing Trump’s efforts to harm wildlife!

Due to dry and windy conditions here in Raton and the surrounding County.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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...