SEND YOUR IDEAS DIRECTLY TO PRESIDENT OBAMA via Change.gov "CITIZEN'S BRIEFING BOOK!" Forum for Political Activists to Speak Out Against Injustice

We wanted to tell you about a new feature on Change.gov which lets you bring your ideas directly to the President. It's called the Citizen's Briefing Book, and it's an online forum where you can share your ideas, and rate or offer comments on the ideas of others. The best-rated ones will rise to the top, and after the Inauguration, we'll print them out and gather them into a binder like the ones the President receives every day from experts and advisors. If you participate, your idea could be included in the Citizen's Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama. Visit the Citizen's Briefing Book now and share your ideas: Throughout this Transition, a truly inspiring number of citizens have gotten involved. We hope that you remain involved through the Inauguration and beyond. Thank you, Valerie Valerie Jarrett Co-Chair Obama-Biden Transition Project

SIGN PETITION: Tell your governor: Build green, affordable public housing! BE A HERO... Save Lower Income Families, Save the Planet! POP SUPERHERO

BE A HERO... SIGN THIS PETITION!
Save Lower Income Families... Save the Planet.

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As a Care2 member, you take action for the betterment of our planet and its inhabitants. Affordable housing projects that meet tough green building standards address both concerns
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Tell your governor: Build green, affordable public housing! >>

The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED green building standard is the top program in the country - and one that should be applied to all construction for the health of our planet. Already, 44 states have adopted some form of regulation requiring government-funded buildings to be built according to LEED standards.
But these policies can go farther. For example, Seattle's Traugott Terrace - pictured at right - was the nation's first LEED certified affordable housing. And Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development recently instituted a requirement that all affordable housing must meet Energy Star and LEED silver standards.
It's time to make saving the environment a national priority for all state-funded affordable housing projects!

Urge your state's governor to develop a regulation requiring affordable housing projects to meet green building standards >>

John McCain likes to SAY he is for "clean energy," BUT... he voted against renewable energy every time! We Need a PRO-ENVIRONMENT PRESIDENT BE A HERO

In 2008 and beyond, we need to move -- quickly -- toward clean energy and global warming solutions.
But the McCain campaign is filling the airwaves with blatantly misleading or false claims about his record and the record of Barack Obama.

Take action >>

John McCain likes to say he is for clean energy, but he voted against renewable energy every time it mattered; he missed eight votes on renewable energy this year alone.
In fact, Senator McCain's refusal to support tax incentives for clean energy could put 116,000 jobs at risk in the wind and solar industries alone.

Please speak out now >>

For the sake of people and the planet, we need a pro-environment president in the White House! Let Senator Barack Obama know that you will stand up against the anti-environment rhetoric and record of John McCain.

Thank you for everything you do to make a difference!

9 MILLION CHILDREN DIE EVERY YEAR from PREVENTABLE DISEASE... SIGN PETITION for PRESIDENT to SUPPORT Child Health Programs! BE A HERO,POP SUPERHERO

A largely invisible tragedy is happening now. Over nine million children die yearly from preventable or treatable diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia and measles.

Urge the next president to make child survival a priority!

The significant commitment of the United States to children's health in the developing world contributed to a 50 percent reduction in child mortality between 1960 and 1990. And yet we've allowed funding for global maternal and child health programs to decline by 20 percent in the last 10 years.

Tell the next president to increase prioritization and support for maternal, newborn and child health programs. >>

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Thank you for all you do!

VIDEO of BONO'S SPEECH at WOMEN'S CONFERENCE to FIGHT GLOBAL POVERTY! Sign The Petition for John McCain & Barack Obama! U2 ROCK BAND IRELAND ONE.ORG

I want to share a video with you from an amazing speech I heard last night. It was given by one of our founders, Bono. He spoke at the 2008 California Women’s Conference, an event bringing together thousands of women who are inspiring and empowering others through their work, lives and stories.

Click below to watch highlights from the speech and send the petition to a friend:
http://www.one.org/keepourcommitments/tellafriend3.html?id=634-1426682-Q8swDGx&t=2

If you’re as inspired by Bono’s message as I am, I hope you’ll send the same petition he talked about last night to your friends and contacts, too. It’s a petition you and 53,000 other ONE members have already signed, calling on John McCain and Barack Obama to keep their commitments to fight global poverty even during these difficult economic times.

http://www.one.org/keepourcommitments/tellafriend3.html?id=634-1426682-Q8swDGx&t=3

In just the last week, people from across the political spectrum, from Colin Powell to President Bush to Robert Rubin, have come forward to stress the importance of international development in our foreign policy. America’s leadership against extreme poverty is more important than ever. As Bono said last night: “When America looks outside of itself, its view of itself is never clearer. Its faith in itself is never firmer. Its purpose is never stronger. Today, at a time when America, again, is tempted to turn inward, turn away from the world and its troubles, it is more essential than ever that you look outward.”

We’re still looking outward because we know America can and must lead the fight to end global poverty.

Thank you for making a difference,

David Lane, ONE.org

SIGN "ONE" PETITION to END WORLD HUNGER! UN Leaders Meet in NYC on Millenium Development Goals for 30 Countries' Food Crisis. BE A HERO,POP SUPERHERO

High food and fuel prices continue to have a catastrophic impact on the world's poorest people and threaten to roll back some of the great progress we've made alleviating poverty in areas including AIDS, malaria, and education.

Later this month, world leaders are going to the United Nations in NYC. They’ll be discussing the world's progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—critical issues like health, education and water. They must also act on the food and hunger crisis. There are 30 countries in immediate need of emergency food assistance and essential seeds and fertilizer. These countries have created specific plans to feed the hungry and prevent future crises by enabling people to provide for themselves. Meeting these emergency needs requires $1 billion in funding by the end of this year.

As world leaders come together for the United Nations summit, please ask them to close the book on the hunger crisis. Please click below to add your name to our petition asking them to do so:http://www.one.org/un2008/o.pl?id=558-1426682-rs9Xosx&t=2

The petition reads:
Please provide life-saving food and essential seeds and fertilizer to the 30 countries that need it most by filling the 2008 food and agriculture funding gap of $1 billion without delay.
If our leaders don’t answer the need for food and agricultural development, these victories will be blunted by the immediacy of the unresolved hunger crisis. Thankfully, there is a window of opportunity to end the hunger crisis, and we have the ability to urge world leaders into action.

Thank you,
David Lane, ONE.org

ONE TV AD STARS MATT DAMON w/ various Americans' voices: Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain & Mayor Bloomberg! Presidential Candidates,Global Poverty,Africa

MATT DAMON has always been a "HERO" amongst celebrities,
due to his humble nature and environmental & humanitarian actions.
Here is the latest ONE campaign TV ad, starring the Matt Damon,
with a cool twist on trying to get our presidential candidates
to commit to a stance of ending global poverty. GO MATT... WAY TO "BE A HERO!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CvW42MC-14


For more than a year, ONE members have been trailing the presidential candidates asking them to go on the record with their plans to combat global poverty. Now we're taking our message to the airways with this major new TV ad. The ad features Matt Damon with different Americans' voices - among them Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain and Mayor Bloomberg. Watch for it on TV and across the Internet starting Sunday, August 24th, but add your voice and share the online video with your friends now.

READ MORE & GET LINKS TO SHARE / EMBED THIS VIDEO HERE:
http://www.one.org/voices/?id=484-1426682-PdV5w2x&t=2

ONE CAMPAIGNE to END WORLD HUNGER & GLOBAL DISEASE... Sign the Petition for Congress! Be A Hero,Pop Superhero,Power of Pink

SIGN THE PETITION to END EXTREME POVERTY & GLOBAL DISEASE!
BELOW is the LINK & A LETTER from SENATOR TOM DASCHLE

I just returned from a trip to Rwanda with my friend Senator Bill Frist, MD and leaders from both political parties. Senator Frist and I went to Rwanda not as politicians, but as students, to learn about people who are rebuilding their country after the unspeakable horror of genocide.
My news from Rwanda is very encouraging. The hard work of the Rwandan people and the generosity of Americans are coming together in partnership to create a model for how we can end poverty in the most desperate countries on earth.

I came home more convinced then ever that we’re all in this together. Rwandans' daily struggle to start anew, even as they deal with poverty and disease, is also our own struggle to build a more prosperous and safer world.

To further the progress in Rwanda and spread that hope, we need to take full advantage of this election year. That’s why Senator Frist and I will be meeting with our respective parties' leaders in the next few weeks, as they’re writing the platforms that will be unveiled at the presidential nominating conventions in Denver and Minneapolis. These platforms contain the policies on which Barack Obama and John McCain will campaign for the presidency.

We're going to ask these committees to make sure that their platforms take on the generational challenge of tackling global poverty, and we need your help to do it.
Click the link to sign the petition seen below, and I’ll deliver your signature when I meet with representatives from the Democratic Party – and Senator Frist will do the same on the Republican side – to ask these political leaders to include extreme poverty and global disease in their 2008 platforms.
http://www.one.org/platforms/o.pl?id=443-1426682-bzDBT7x&t=2

As a proud American, I urge you to make ending extreme poverty and global disease in the developing world a core part of your 2008 platform by including commitments to:
Fight AIDS, TB and malaria and improve basic health services, particularly for mothers and young children, Ensure access to clean water, basic sanitation and sufficient food supplies
Spur economic growth through equitable trade and investment policies
Modernize and increase development assistance, focusing on partnership, transparency and accountability, Achieve universal primary education.

In Rwanda, I saw the tremendous impact of some of the very things you’ve worked to make possible. Deaths from malaria have been cut by 66%, in large part because of the increase in bed net and anti-malarial medicine distribution. The death rate from malaria, as well AIDS and TB is going to continue to fall, because of your work pressuring Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR, America’s global AIDS bill, for five more years.

Victories like PEPFAR are saving lives and giving people in places like Rwanda new hope, making the whole world a safer and more prosperous place. Now we have the chance to make ending extreme poverty and global disease a focus for the Democratic and Republican parties.
Click below to sign the petition and I’ll deliver your signature when I meet with Democratic Party leaders to ask them to make the struggle against global poverty a priority in 2008.
http://www.one.org/platforms/o.pl?id=443-1426682-bzDBT7x&t=3

My late friend Paul Wellstone was fond of saying that, “The poor don’t have a lobbyist. That’s why I went to Washington.” The hope for a better future that Senator Frist and I saw in Rwanda shows what’s possible when two million of us “go to Washington” on behalf of the world’s poorest people. This summer, together, we have the chance to go to Denver and Minneapolis and show that ending global poverty is a priority for both political parties.

Thank you for joining me,
Senator Tom Daschle
ONE Member and National Co-Chair ONE Vote ‘08