Letters to the Editor

In 2011 global military spending amounted to $1.74 trillion – despite the fact that 1 billion people suffer from hunger, even more do not have access to safe water or adequate health care and education, and even in developed economies millions are without work. Join us in calling on our government and others to agree on a global plan for disarmament at the Rio Summit in June 2012.

Help stop efforts to cut U.S. spending on human services, while maintaining military spending. Write a letter to the editor urging the new Congress to protect children’s health insurance, Medicare and other important programs, while cutting the bloated military budget.

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Send a letter to the editor calling for investigations of the Wikileaks documents from Iraq.

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Tired of hearing the media mis-characterize the immigration debate?  Do you feel that immigrants' rights issues aren't being recognized in your local media?  AFSC's NC Immigrant Rights program is launching a new campaign to reach out to the media in support of progressive immigration reform.  Write for a Change is a campaign to write letters to the editors of local newspapers.  The campaign has a website that can help you draft a letter, look at letters others have written, and find out where

Support the Human Rights of Immigrants!  Advocate for Just & Humane Immigration Reform!… AND Join CFIR’s Denver Letter Writing Ladder!

(Coloradoans for Immigrants Rights -- CFIR -- is a project of the American Friends Service Committee.)