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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!
# 150:
10:59 am PDT, Aug 26, Kacy Utech , Wisconsin
# 149:
10:59 am PDT, Aug 26, Felicity Moller, Maryland
# 148:
10:59 am PDT, Aug 26, Jeff Miller, Massachusetts
# 147:
10:59 am PDT, Aug 26, Jan Weiss, California
More food less oil. No child should starve to death in this world - there is plenty to go around. So instead of invading countries for oil - let's take care of the next generation.
# 146:
10:59 am PDT, Aug 26, Gwen Gay, Alabama
# 145:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Robert Jimenez, Connecticut
All humans are part of our family. Anyone who is hungry or impoverished should be helped. If it is not done then we are ALL poorer for it!
# 144:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Colleen Malone-Engel, California
# 143:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Melissa Kavonius, Wisconsin
# 142:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, George Davis, Nevada
# 141:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Vermont
# 140:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Maria Herrera, Maryland
# 139:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Kristen Thomas, Massachusetts
How can we spend money on frivolous things when children are starving?
# 138:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Ernie LaPointe, South Dakota
# 137:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Daniel Moynihan, Massachusetts
Everyone in the world is connected. Besides being the right thing to do, helping poor nations helps us in the long run. Let's be remembered for doing the right thing.
# 136:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Todd Lavoie, California
# 135:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Heather Slater, Washington
There is no better way to "win the hearts and minds" of the world than by saving it's most helpless victims of poverty and starvation.
# 134:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Katharine Emory, New Jersey
# 133:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Laura Laughlin , Massachusetts
# 132:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Sybil Stauffer, Ohio
# 131:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, John & Barbara Naslund, Florida
Since we seem to be hell-bent on bringing democracy to every country -- even if we have to kill them doing it, why can't we champion food and nutritional needs as well as democracy to other countries. You promised a closer association with the UN, well this is a good starting place! We have the "no child left behind" for our educational system, how about helping these children live to be school age!
# 130:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Theresa Viscuso, Texas
We need to do the one thing we can make a difference at - feeding the hungry! It is time we start making a real commitment to helping those that really need and want our help.
# 129:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Richard J. Franco, Minnesota
# 128:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Amy Holt, Wisconsin
# 127:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Alexandra Khalaf, Virginia
# 126:
10:58 am PDT, Aug 26, Anne Daymont, New York
# 125:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Richie Royer, Arizona
Instead of spending a billion dollars a month on your war, spending a fraction of that would feed a biliion people !
# 124:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Ashleigh Mott, Maryland
# 123:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Linda Deutsch, California
# 122:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Katherine Baars, Wisconsin
no one should go hungry
# 121:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Florida
President Bush Commit to UN Development Goals
# 120:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Barney Barker, California
We must get our priorities straight: saving humanity vs. killing.
# 119:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Andrew Strauss, Oregon
# 117:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Sharon Sellers, Texas
# 116:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Dennis Stein, Maine
# 115:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Lillian Castner, Massachusetts
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10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Bonnie Cail, Ohio
# 113:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Kevin O'Bryan, Texas
# 112:
10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Karen Purvis, Pennsylvania
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10:57 am PDT, Aug 26, Harriet McConnochie, New York
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10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Michigan
# 109:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Liese Sadler, Virginia
# 108:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Timothy Allen, Illinois
# 107:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Elizabeth Gibson, Wyoming
Eradicating hunger should be the number one goal of the HAVEs in this world. The US leads the HAVES., we are the richest, most blessed country on earth. Let us FEED others, NOT kill others. Leave Irag, feed the rest of the world, stop wasting oil. Help the HAVES wakeup to the realities of the rest of the world. Thank you.
# 106:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Dale Kastelberg, Virginia
# 105:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Robin Lindberg, Minnesota
# 104:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Wendy Mangan, Florida
We CAN stop hunger. If the greedy would stop trying to run the world and protect their personal interests, we could ALL be healthy and at peace.
# 103:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Georgia
# 102:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Joe Ciuffini, Massachusetts
# 101:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 26, Joseph Alfano, New York
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