Pledge to Vote Out PovertyMartin Luther King Jr. famously warned that a
"a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Yet despite King's caution, we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a disastrous war in Iraq while 37 million Americans are living in poverty and 3 billion people worldwide live on less than $2 a day.
This election season, we can answer Jesus' call to care for the "least of these" by
demanding that candidates go on the record with real plans for addressing poverty in the U.S. and around the world.Send this petition to:Democratic Presidential Candidates
Republican Presidential Candidates
I pledge to make your commitment to overcoming poverty, which I believe is one of the greatest moral and religious imperatives of our time, central to how I cast my ballot in 2008.
I want to hear your specific plans for cutting in half over the next 10 years the number of Americans living in poverty and for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, thereby delivering hope to the billions of people living in extreme poverty around the globe.
In the coming months, I'll be working hard to ensure that you address these critical issues -- and to inform my friends, family, congregation, and community members about how you respond. Signed by:
{Your name}
{Your address}
Sign the petition @ http://go.sojo.net/campaign/voteoutpoverty ***** The Presidential Forum on Faith, Values, and Poverty will air on CNN today (June 4) @ 7 pm ET/4 pm PT. *****For more info...
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