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Ask President Bush to Commit to UN Development Goals

Target: President George W. Bush
Sponsored by: Oxfam America

It's rare that the nations of the world agree. But certain crises are so desperate and cause such human suffering that the global community can rise above all other conflicts and work together. Global poverty is a crisis that we truly have the ability to end.

Millennium Development Goals:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
All 191 member countries of the United Nations have pledged to meet a set of eight development goals, called the Millennium Development Goals, by the year 2015 - and we need your signature today to keep the world on track.

How can you help? Sign this petition - the ONE Declaration - and urge President Bush to pledge one percent of the U.S. federal budget to help the world achieve these far-reaching but critical development goals.

Here's what's at stake: Every week, 27,000 people die from lack of clean water; 60,000 people die from AIDS; and 204,000 children die from hunger, AIDS, and other preventable causes - that's one child every three seconds. More than 1.5 million Americans have already signed the ONE Declaration to make poverty history - please add your voice today!
deadline: 8-17-2006
goal: 20,000
 
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Dear President Bush:

WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.

WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs – education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans – would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget.

WE COMMIT ourselves - one person, one voice, one vote at a time - to make a better, safer world for all.

Sincerely,

[your name]
We signed the “Ask President Bush to Commit to UN Development Goals” petition!
# 100:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Jeri McCoy, Oklahoma
# 99:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Alan Hoffner, New York
Compassion is urgently needed on this matter, not conservatism. No child should starve, anywhere, ever. If we can help more, we must do so.
# 98:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Margo Thomas, Illinois
# 97:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Azra Variscic, California
# 96:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Cherie McCoy, Ohio
# 95:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Danna L. McDonough, California
While you profess to be a Christian you continue to be a warmonger instead of a peacemaker and caretaker for humanity. Stop building weapons and produce food and shelter.
# 94:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Patricia Colognesi, California
# 93:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Jim Rahn, California
# 92:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Michael Wolff, Massachusetts
If you've seen TV reports on Darfur or Rwanda, then you must surely require that the US come to the rescue. If not, where did that personal or institutional heartlessness come from? If you haven't seen the reports then your staff is horribly negligent.
# 91:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 90:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Kay Gallin, California
# 89:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Thomas Hodges, Alabama
Poverty is THE cause of terrorist violence, domestic violence, etc, etc. Boil it all down; that's what you get.
# 88:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Raymon Carlson, Oregon
# 87:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Jane Roddy , Texas
# 86:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Liz Koch, California
# 85:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Kristin Burch, Vermont
Hunger is unnecessary in this world.
# 84:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Diane Schnell, Illinois
american taxpayers would appreciate some of OUR money to help in this crisis
# 83:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Sue Doyle, California
# 82:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, California
# 81:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Susaan Aram, California
# 80:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Dale Matlock, California
# 79:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Jonna Woodburn, Texas
# 78:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Brian Thompson, Kansas
hell yeah, Im the 58th signature.
# 77:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Rage Smith, Minnesota
# 76:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, John Brower, Minnesota
# 75:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Deborah Pelletier, Massachusetts
What about the right to life, Mr. President? Why should people starve to death when it can be prevented?
# 74:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Darlene Makin, Pennsylvania
It is the Christian thing to do! WWJD.
# 73:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Kira Radtke, Louisiana
# 72:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Ron Gordon, Pennsylvania
# 71:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, BRYAN GRANT, Georgia
# 70:
10:55 am PDT, Aug 26, Alice Beloin, Connecticut
noone should have to starve in this world.
# 69:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Mary Beth Martini, Washington
# 68:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Kimberly Lowe, Ohio
# 67:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Pat Pruitt, Arkansas
Cut the food budget for the White House and feel all the hungry, not just in Africa but everyshere!
# 66:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Lloryn Swan, New Mexico
It is unthinkable that people are starving when help is at hand. Please do your part in meeting the UN Millenium Development Goals and helping end poverty.
# 65:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, George Stone, Wisconsin
# 64:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Karen Martellaro, Kansas
There is nothing so cruel,as letting someone suffer and not do anything, when you could.We are letting people die from dehydration and starvation.Look at your breakfast,lunch and dinner,and the next time you get a drink of water,please think"Am I doing all I can for the people who don't have this"Then do something.Look at the pictures of the faces of those who need our help,and do something! Don't let those little faces,older faces,all of those faces, hurt anymore.
# 63:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Rhoda Milstein, Indiana
# 62:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Lee Baker, New York
# 61:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Michelle Bafik-vehslage, Texas
# 60:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Lezlie Nordquist, Minnesota
# 59:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Andrea Kuryak, New York
# 58:
10:54 am PDT, Aug 26, Jim Mays, Kentucky
It's The Proper And Humane Thing To Do
# 57:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Michael E. Brantley, Texas
# 56:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, California
# 55:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Robert Taylor, New York
# 54:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Stephanie Yura, Pennsylvania
It is our responsibility as caring human beings to STOP hunger now.
# 53:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Simon Teolis, New York
# 52:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Greg Pace, Ohio
# 51:
10:53 am PDT, Aug 26, Jamie Fellrath, Ohio
Stopping the starvation of hungry children is only the Christian thing to do.
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