November 10 - Urge your Representative to Help Reduce Nuclear Weapons, Hunger and Poverty

Urge your member of Congress, especially those on the Foreign Affairs, Rules, and Armed Services Committees to co-sponsor the bipartisan Global Security Priorities Resolution, H. Res. 278. This legislation does two things:

1. Addresses the threat of international terrorism and protects the security of the United States by reducing the number of and access to nuclear weapons and preventing their proliferation.
2. Directs a portion of the resulting $13 billion saved annually to reduce child hunger and increase child nutrition and educational opportunities.
   

You can urge your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor at the CRS Action Center.

Read the full Action Alert issued jointly from USCCB and Catholic Relief Services.

September 24 - Help Ensure Climate Legislation Protects the Poor around the World

Key Senate committees, including the Environment and Public Works Committee, will soon consider climate legislation that could help or hurt the poor.

Call or email your senator on the Environment and Public Works Committee (LIST) TODAY and urge them to significantly increase funding for international adaptation programs in climate legislation so people living in poverty around the world can be protected from the effects of climate change.

Please see the Action Alert for details and a more detailed message for Congress.

June 24 - Poor people contribute least to the causes, but will suffer most from the effects of climate change:

Contact your members of Congress now (http://actioncenter.crs.org) and urge them to significantly increase the amount allocated for international adaptation programs in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 at the outset and at a faster pace over time so that people living in poverty around the world can be protected from the effects of climate change.

June 9 -Support Bold Action for Peace in the Holy Land

Make a bold move in support of peace in the Middle East by signing this ecumenical letter to President Obama, also signed by Most Reverend Howard Hubbard, Bishop of Albany and Chairman, Committee on International Justice and Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Ken Hackett, President, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) that states: ”There is no greater work than the Psalmist’s call to “seek peace and pursue it” and no more critical time than now to finally end the conflict in the Holy Land (Ps. 34:14).”

May 22—Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor H. Res. 278, the “Global Security Priorities” Resolution

Visit the Action Center (http://actioncenter.crs.org) and urge your members of Congress, especially those on the Foreign Affairs Committee (http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/members.asp), to co-sponsor the “Global Security Priorities” Resolution, H. Res. 278, reintroduced by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) as their previous bill on the same topic expired in the last Congress.

May 21—Urge your Representative to support President Obama's efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Visit the Catholics Confront Global Poverty Action Center now and urge your Representative to sign a bipartisan letter to President Obama supporting his efforts to provide strong U.S. leadership to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Other Ways You Can Take Action

As followers of Jesus, we want our brothers and sisters throughout the world to have access to the basic necessities to live in dignity. Recognizing the gift of God’s Spirit at work in the world, we must do our part, by putting our faith to work for effective measures to end the suffering and poverty of our sisters and brothers. As part of Catholics Confront Global Poverty, you can

Pray for people throughout the world seeking to rise from the indignities of poverty … for U.S. policies that can help make it happen…for all who stand in solidarity with the world’s poor.

Learn more about Catholic social teaching, U.S. economic policies, and the world’s poor.

Advocate by contacting your elected officials to make the case for trade, aid and debt policies that overcome poverty and promote development for impoverished people. Ask the question: How will the decisions of U.S. policymakers impact the poor, both in the United States and overseas?

Educate people in your parish and community about Catholic social teaching, U.S. economic policies, and the world’s poor.