Canadian Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, please keep your pledge to cancel the Canadian purchase of the F-35.

With over $200 million in charter school fraud reported last year, it’s clear that the rapid expansion of charter schools with no public oversight isn’t working for taxpayers and students. The Walton Family Foundation has been the biggest driver of the rapid expansion and its grantees have led the battle against appropriate oversight. We ask that the Walton Family Foundation demand that its charter school and charter advocate grantees adhere to a public oversight and accountability agenda that helps safeguard taxpayer funds. The eleven common sense steps for charters would be a start to creating a more transparent system that works better for kids and will help push out some of the worst offenders in the charter school sector.

Stop the $608 million in budget cuts, recently proposed by Governor Bobby Jindal, as a reduction in higher education funding in Louisiana. These cuts amount to roughly 80 PERCENT of the operating budget of the University of Louisiana System.

We call upon the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to use the 2015 Review Conference to immediately, without delay, develop a timetable to ban and eliminate all nuclear weapons. We call upon the four states outside the Treaty that have nuclear arms, India, Israel, North Korea, and Pakistan, to join this process, immediately and without delay. Yes to a Nuclear-Free World! Yes to Nonviolence! Yes to Economic Justice and Environmental Sustainability! Yes to Peace!!

Governor Scott, Senate Bill 318 and House Bill 191 would expand fracking and prohibit local communities from banning it. You must veto both of these bills that would put local jurisdictions at risk, and prevent them from making local decisions.

Instead of working with Democrats’ bipartisan solution to the government shutdown, Trump is sending ICE agents to major international airports to intimidate passengers and staff. Federal agents with guns marching through our airports is yet another example of our country’s rapid descent into authoritarianism—and we won’t stand for it.  Trump is trying to bully Congress into passing his budget that would further inflate the Department of Homeland Security’s budget, giving more money to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they terrorize, abuse, and violate the rights of people across the country.  American taxpayers don’t want any more of our money to go to ICE's cruel and inhumane agenda—and we don’t want agents creating chaos at our airports.

Justice Clarence Thomas must resign from the Supreme Court immediately or else be impeached.

Benjamin Banneker is arguably America's most unsung hero. He is most often referred to as "America's First Black Man of Science." However, the Washington Interdependence Council, administrators of the Banneker Memorial, has elected to refer to him as "A Man of Many Firsts." Among Banneker's most notable achievements was serving on the team of the first presidential commission, established by President George Washington to help in the survey and design the “Federal City" as the new capitol of the nation; but this was just one of his many trailblazing contributions to America and the world. He also: Engineered the first all American made clock; Authored amongst America's first almanacs; Was America's first high profile Black Abolitionist; Was among the first to discuss the prospect of intelligent life forms existing on other planets; Was the first to document the 17 year locust cycle; Originated the formula for what is now called the "Reverse Mortgage," allowing the elderly to live out their lives in comfort; Served as the progenitor of the idea for a U.S. Dept. of Peace, which is currently being pursued by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and which led to the establishment of the U.S. Institute of Peace in the nation’s capitol; Authored America's first publicly documented Protest Letter to then Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, condemning the Declaration of Independence as disingenuous as it did not include slaves and other oppressed persons; Was the first farmer noted for utilizing water irrigation and crop rotation as planting techniques; and Was America's first publicly known black astronomer; mathematician, scientist, publisher, surveyor, and planner. He was indeed "A Man of Many Firsts." Should you Google Mr. Banneker's name, you will find that millions of entries are propagated. To us this represents a groundswell of silent support and recognition which needs to culminate with a suitable world class memorial at the site already commemorating him along the L'Enfant Plaza/Banneker Overlook Park site in the nation's capitol. Please contact your members of Congress, President Obama and other official offices such as the National Capitol Memorial Commission to voice your support for this memorial. The Washington Interdependence Council has been stagnated by others who wish to desecrate his memorial by putting other memorials, museums and/or commercial interests there; and Americans need to voice our outrage at this egregious act of injustice. Only then will the Washington Interdependence Council be able to continue its now 15 year journey of meeting daunting milestones to succeed in upgrading the Banneker Memorial to a world class memorial, as he, and our children, so richly deserve.

Florida legislators and DeSantis must stop playing politics with the lives of our children, healthcare professionals, and educators. Florida is in the midst of a public health emergency with the delta variant ripping through our communities, and those in power need to take action. Florida needs a mask mandate and an end to DeSantis’s absurd threats to withhold salaries for school administrators that defy his mask ban in public schools.

The the federal reserve isn't own by us the tax payers, and how it have cause the country to pay interest on money printed by the US Treasury with federal reserve note printed on it, then given to to them. On December 23, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act, also known as the Glass-Owen Bill, was passed. The Republican controlled Senate rammed the bill through when many members of the US Congress were home for the holiday. The President, Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, signed it into law one hour after being passed by the Congress! Somebody very powerful really wanted this law passed. The Federal Reserve System is an independent central bank. Although the President of the United States appoints the chairman of the Fed, and this appointment is approved by the United States Senate, the decisions of the Fed do not have to be ratified by the President, or anyone else in the executive branch of the United States government. Buried in the legislation was the granting of total power over the monetary policies of all US banks. A very curious statement is found in the original 1913 law. SEC. 30. The right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Reserved expressly to whom, or what? No definition is provided. This is the entire Section 30 statement! "Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice". OWNERSHIP OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE Most Americans, if they know anything at all about the Federal Reserve, believe it is an agency of the United States Government. This article charts the true nature of the "National Bank." Chart 1 Source: ** Federal Reserve Directors: A Study of Corporate and Banking Influence ** - - Published 1976 Chart 1 reveals the linear connection between the Rothschilds and the Bank of England, and the London banking houses which ultimately control the Federal Reserve Banks through their stockholdings of bank stock and their subsidiary firms in New York. The two principal Rothschild representatives in New York, J. P. Morgan Co., and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. were the firms which set up the Jekyll Island Conference at which the Federal Reserve Act was drafted, who directed the subsequent successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress, and who purchased the controlling amounts of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914. In 1914 a few families (blood or business related) owning controlling stock in existing banks (such as in New York City) caused those banks to purchase controlling shares in the Federal Reserve regional banks. Examination of the charts and text in the House Banking Committee Staff Report of August, 1976 and the current stockholders list of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks show this same family control.