Advocacy Ideas

From Day One, the next president should have as their highest priority getting us off our addiction to oil, coal, and nuclear power. The president needs to lead America into a new energy future and pave the way for a 21st century energy economy, one based on high-performance, low-carbon technologies like solar wind and efficiency.

From Day One, the next president should have as their highest priority getting us off our addiction to oil, coal, and nuclear power. The president needs to lead America into a new energy future and pave the way for a 21st century energy economy, one based on high-performance, low-carbon technologies like solar wind and efficiency.

Today humans from every corner of the globe face one of our largest challenges to date—climate change. Icebergs are melting, storms are intensifying, and we are experiencing food shortages and water scarcity all over the globe. Time is running out! On day one, we need a leader to realize that we, the human beings of the world, are all connected. We need a leader that is willing to take charge and support bold federal solutions for tackling climate change. America is ready!

On Day One the next president should do three things: 1.) Begin to extricate troops from Iraq and allow displaced Iraqis to go home; 2.) Immediately begin an international effort to achieve peace in the Middle East; and 3.) Launch a multilateral partnership to address war, terrorism and poverty. Visit www.RefugeesInternational.org to learn more.

If the next president wants to work with others to combat widespread poverty across the world, he will have to reform a U.S. aid bureaucracy that is old and not fit to deal with today's challenges. On Day One, the next president should commit to modernizing foreign aid from top to bottom.

On Day One, the next president should fulfill our global commitments to women and girls around the world by helping ensure that everyone has an opportunity for education, can earn a livelihood and have access to health services.

On Day One of his term, the next president should start taking global poverty seriously. This is one of the biggest issues facing our country and the world, from both a moral and a security standpoint, so it should be part of the international agenda.

On Day One, the next president needs to keep his promises to take on the suffocating poverty we see in the poorest places on the planet. Lead the way, and finally put an end to extreme poverty, and finish the job of erasing preventable diseases from the face of the earth.

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On Day One, the next president should fulfill our global commitments to women and girls around the world by helping ensure that everyone has an opportunity for education, can earn a livelihood and have access to health services.

On his first day in office, the next U.S. President needs to make a priority of stopping the genocide in Darfur and bringing peace to Sudan. This entails a committed effort to achieve peace, to protect civilians, and to ensure accountability that is acceptable to the victims of this genocide.