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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!

# 250:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Roger Miralia, Ohio

# 249:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Reginald Barker, Washington
Make Peace not War

# 248:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Tiffany Brown, New York

# 247:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Stephanie Emerson, Florida

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Chris Stolle, Florida

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Kiffin Hope, Montana

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Mississippi

# 243:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Kelli Wilson, Pennsylvania

# 242:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Gerald Orcholski, California
If America can spend billions on an unnecessary and deceitful war, certainly a small fraction of that amount can be spent to curb hunger.

# 241:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Debra Rehn, Oregon

# 240:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Laura Silagi, California

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Rodney Griffith, Arizona

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Wendy Woolford, Kansas

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Beth Cole, New York

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Ben,helen,michele Stanky, New Jersey

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Ralph Stalter Jr, New York

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Amy Tucker, Texas

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Jennifer Sanborn, Maine

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Sin~ (sheen) Boyce, Rhode Island

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, North Carolina

# 230:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Lindsay Nogle, Maryland

# 229:

11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Raven Pease, New York

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11:04 am PDT, Aug 26, Lynn Coffey-edelman, New York

# 227:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Missouri

# 226:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Xristi Megas, California
It is shameful that obesity is becoming a national problem in this country while our brothers and sisters across the world are starving; that we fall prey to our own greed and incessant advertising to buy-buy-buy while babies die for lack of food. Making pledges and failing to fund them (a routine policy of this Administration) is hardly helpful. A thoughtful, ongoing, well-funded plan to help starving areas formulate and implement policies to become self-sustaining is what is needed. Not Christian rhetoric. Action.

# 225:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Jen Salome, Arizona

# 224:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Karen L. McSweeney, California

# 223:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, David L. Seivard, Jr., West Virginia

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11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Maria Bengtsson, California

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11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Oregon

# 220:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Charles Connors, Hawaii

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11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Clauldia Seldon, Michigan

# 218:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, James Martin, Tennessee

# 217:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Kate Sky, California

# 216:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Anna Asbury, Kentucky

# 215:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Ernest Hopkins, California
It's morally wrong for people to starve when we are buying Hummer's, plasma T.V., and countless items we don't need.

# 214:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, California

# 213:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Aisha R. Usher, California

# 212:

11:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Darcy Gemskie, Illinois

# 211:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Ira McEvoy, California

# 210:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Kylene Sevy, Nebraska
Maybe if our president spent lest time on vacation and invading countries, he could focus on some real issues. AIDS is the weapon of mass destruction.

# 209:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Lisa Lewis, Virginia

# 208:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Nicky Mann, Illinois
I saw a picture in the Chicago Tribune yesterday, of women and children eating leaves to try to stave off their hunger. There is not much nutrition in leaves unless you are a bug. Please let them have real food!

# 207:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Peggy Harrison, North Carolina

# 206:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Joy Lieberman, Missouri

# 205:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Theresa Pedrotti, Georgia

# 204:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, CHERYL WALKER, Texas

# 203:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, VALERIE VILCHES, California
The government sticks their noses into other countries to fight WARS, but you won't help to SAVE LIVES! What is wrong with this picture?

# 202:

11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Carol Schaefer, Illinois
The other signers comments echo my thoughts.

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11:02 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Washington

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