- No More Weapons to Anywhere
Message to Congress: "There is no moral justification for arming the globe."Email your Representative and Senators in the U.S. Congress.
Tell Governments to Use the UN for Peace in Palestine
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 ("Uniting For Peace") allows the General Assembly to act when the Security Council fails.Email governments around the world all at once.
Tell Congress to Pass the College for All Act
Let's make higher education a right, not a privilege.
Please email your representative and senators.
Tell Your State to Tax the Super Wealthy
Massachusetts has created a very successful way to tax the very wealthy. Your state can easily do it too. Only Washington D.C. and these six states have a higher tax rate for the wealthiest: CA, HI, NY, NJ, OR, MN.
Please email your state legislators.
Fix the Minimum Wage in Your State
Let's fix this once and for all.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Let's Fix the Electoral College Problem
What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State
Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.
End Life Sentences Without Parole for Those Under 21
According to a neuroscientist at MIT: "As a number of researchers have put it, ‘the rental car companies have it right.’ The brain isn’t fully mature at 16, when we are allowed to drive, or at 18, when we are allowed to vote, or at 21, when we are allowed to drink, but closer to 25, when we are allowed to rent a car."
Ban Slavery in Your State
Some states still allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Abolish the Death Penalty
The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Create Ranked Choice Voting in Your State
Ranked choice voting has proven itself more representative of the electorate.
Blasts From the Past
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News and Views
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Former presidential candidate and celebrated consumer advocate Ralph Nader discusses Israel’s war on Gaza, the U.S. presidential election and more.
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