After the submission of 2505 ideas and 209,950 votes, we’re happy to announce the 10 winners of the Ideas for Change in America competition.
The winning ideas illustrate that the issues important to people across the country are much broader than those few that consistently dominate debate in Washington. Because they challenge the status quo, these ideas will face resistance from many in power. This is why citizen-driven initiatives like Ideas for Change are so important: by connecting more than one hundred thousand people from all 50 states around ideas that do not always gain national attention, we’re taking an important step toward building a powerful movement for change on these issues. And we’ve only just begun.
Without further ado, here are the Top 10 Ideas for Change in America:
Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana by Spencer Pearson and Larry Talley. Spencer is a sophomore at the University of Missouri where he’s focusing his studies on the impact of drugs and drug policies on society, having been inspired by the positive impact of medical marijuana on the health a family member. Larry, a retired member of the US Navy from Flower Mound, TX with over 20 years of service, spent much of his military career working to eradicate drugs both domestically and in South America. But, after observing the futility of his efforts and the violence endemic to the black market drug trade, he became an active member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Move to Amend: Constitutional Rights for People, Not for Corporations – Abolish Corporate Personhood by Move to Amend, a grassroots coalition in Madison, WI fighting to end the legal doctrines that advantage corporations over the American people in the electoral process, including most recently the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. “Every day America knows that a deep injury has been done to our democracy, and that only constitutional reform can repair the damage,” said Ben Manski, executive director of the Liberty Tree Foundation, and a spokesperson for Move to Amend.
Increase Federal Good Time Allowances by FedCURE of Plantation, FL, who are working to pass legislation that would return the US Federal prison system to an earlier system of good time allowances that would not only create more humane conditions for those who are incarcerated, but also relieve American taxpayers of the tax burden of unnecessarily long prison sentences. A mere 10 percent reduction of prison populations through good time allowances would save the US taxpayers a minimum of $1.2 billion.
Send the Tobacco Treaty to the Senate for Ratification by LIVESTRONG, an Austin, TX based organization founded by Lance Armstrong, whose idea aims to reduce the millions of deaths each year around the world resulting from tobacco. “Cancer became the leading cause of death worldwide this year; at LIVESTRONG we are calling for transformational results rather than simply incremental ones,” said Doug Ulman, President and CEO of the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Create 1.5 Million American Jobs by Fixing Our Crumbling Schools by USAction of Washington, DC, whose idea hopes to solve the dual problems of unemployment in the construction industry and poor conditions in our schools. According to USAction, if we invest $180 billion in our schools over the next few years – a fraction of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – we can put 1.5 million Americans back to work and improve education for every public school student in America.
No Farm No Food: Save the Land that Sustains Us by American Farmland Trust from Washington, DC, whose idea focuses on America’s quickly disappearing farmland. Every minute of every day, we lose two acres of agricultural land to development. AFT’s idea seeks to protect farmland in order to strengthen the national economy and world food security, protect the environment, bring fiscal stability to local governments and provide fresh, healthy food for all Americans.
Good Food For All Kids: A Garden at Every School by Ethan Genauer who worked with sustainable community farms and led activities to increase youth engagement with sustainable food systems in New Mexico before moving to DC in 2009. Today, he is a volunteer with Washington Youth Garden, helping to bring garden science into DC classrooms. His work with third grade students in DC is what first inspired his national call for Universal School Gardens.
End Chimpanzee Experiments, Pass the Great Ape Protection Act by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, DC based organization that aims to phase out the use of chimpanzees in research. “People may be shocked to learn that laboratories in the United States are permitted to keep chimpanzees in cages about the size of a kitchen table, sometimes for decades,” says PCRM primatologist Debra Durham, Ph.D. “It’s time for us to join the growing list of countries that ban invasive experiments on these amazing animals.”
Establish a U.S. Department of Peace-building by Ted Nunn, a peace activist from Columbia, Maryland, in partnership with the Peace Alliance, a nonprofit organization that advocates for a culture of peace through civic engagement. Through their idea, Ted and the Peace Alliance seek to raise overall awareness around non-violent solutions to international and domestic conflicts in order to bring about a more stable and peaceful world and reaffirm our right to independence from violence.
25 Million+, It is Time to Care About Rare Disease by Catherine Calhoun from Saint Francisville, Louisiana, who was inspired to start advocating on behalf of those with rare diseases after attending a January 2010 conference at the National Institutes of Health hosted by the Office of Rare Disease Research. She has dedicated herself to fighting on behalf of the almost 30 million people in America who have such diseases, with the aim of encouraging knowledge sharing between doctors in hopes of finding cures.
Now that the voting has concluded, the hard work of real change begins. We will be presenting these ideas to relevant members of the Obama Administration and Congress, and subsequently helping to initiate national campaigns behind each of these ten ideas.
For those of you whose favorite ideas aren’t among the winners, we also want to send a message: we’re here to help. One of the things we’re dedicated to at Change.org is supporting grassroots campaigns for change regardless of their size. To enable this, we recently launched a powerful free petition tool that enables you to easily start online campaigns to pressure Congress, government agencies, local officials, or companies on any issue. You can find out more about how to start a petition on Change.org here: http://www.change.org/petition.
Thanks for being the most important part of Ideas for Change in America 2010. This initiative is successful because of people like you, and we hope to continue to have you as an active member of the Change.org community as we work together to transform these ideas, and others, into real change in the weeks and months ahead.
All great ideas, but I’m HIGHLY surprised not to see any ideas around college cost in the top 10. Education is critical to our progress as a nation.
Let’s get a REAL response and (I hope) some action on the Cannabis issue. Anyone who has researched the subject has to see that the dangers come from the policies, not from the plants.
Obama can smoke till he dies of lung cancer, but I can’t cure my migraines and nausea with a vastly useful and totally affordable medicine. Is that right?
Yes! Just legalize it already! Use the buds for medicine/Recreational sale and use everything else on hemp products! Rope, Clothing, Soap, fuel and EVEN THE FIRST FORD CAR WAS MADE OF HEMP! And it was indestructable.. (youtube it)
Its common sense .
change.org team has an excellent leadership. you just make poeple involve in dicided they way to go togeter.
Legalization of Cannabis seems like such a small issue in comparison to the worlds problems! people laugh that its whats most important to so many people im glade there are so many people who understand its importance, being able to effect and improve so many aspects of life.
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Though I see the need for most of these, I would submit that the country is much farther into it’s demise than these 10 express. Rule of law has been suspended (“we must move forward”), we are killing hundreds of innocents monthly from a perch in Iowa via drones, our treasury has been looted FROM WITHIN BY WALL STREET PLANTS, our representatives are unabashedly for purchase, a half dozen corporations own 75% of ALL media, offshore registered mercenaries are the backbone of our military…and I could go on and on…PLEASE, let’s reach MUCH higher and dig MUCH deeper!!
I’m happy legalizing marijuana made the list, but number one? Come on, people! We wonder why Progressives can’t get any traction for our issues. I can barely contain myself until I hear what Limbaugh, Beck & Co. have to say after they get wind of this news. We may as well kiss issues 10 through 2 good-bye!
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to add my change: eliminate the use of extended solitary confinement in American prisons. There is a solid line between the supermax prison development in the U.S. and Abu Ghraib and Guantanimo. The U.N. has called prolonged solitary confinement torture. It’s time the federal government set the standard by abolishing this ineffective practice.
I am disappointed that one of the biggest issues facing our world today- overpopulation, is once again being ignored in favor of more “popular” issues like legalizing marijuana or being mean to apes.
Overpopulation by humans is a serious, if not the most serious problem on this planet. It is the root cause of so many other major problems– pollution, loss of habitat, destruction of land and nature, wars (fighting over resources), other species extinction and endangerment, famine, poverty, violence, and so on. Yet, not only did overpopulation not make your top 10, it is not even one of your listed “causes.” (At least, not on your pop down menu.)
I am sorely disappointed.
I am extremely disappointed in this whole gambit. Here I thought we were doing something important. Legalize cannabis? I am crying inside. Jobs to build crumbling schools? Here we are closing schools not because they are crumbling but because there are not enough students due to home schooling, tribal schools, and parochial schools. What is wrong with this country that we cannot work together to solve real problems?
@Pat: So an issue that relates to around 800,000 people getting arrested in the US every year is a minor issue? Go and have a good cry inside then. Best of luck.
@pat: Legalizing Cannabis should not make you cry inside. Prohibition of marijuana is as destructive, if not more destructive than the prohibition of alcohol. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has some eye opening things to say about this issue. Also the book Marijuana is Safer so why are we Driving People to Drink? A book by Mason Tvert and Paul Armentano, with forward by Norm Stamper Ph.D. retired Chief of Police of Seattle. Hemp is a 60 day paper crop instead of a 100 year paper crop, it is better than trees for paper. We can’t use it for paper because people think prohibition is a good thing. Prohibition created Al Capone, Prohibition is creating modern day drug cartels. Human beings make endogenous cannibinoids in their bodies (endocannibinoids). Medical science has recently determined that exogenous cannibinoids such as delta 9 tetrahydracannibinol can be used as a supplement in the case of a deficiency. This cannibinoids whether endogenous or exogenous play an important role in the optimization of cell function, of particular interest is the role they play in targeted cell death in cancer cells while simultaneously protecting surrounding non-cancerous cells.
@Pat & Obama: The threat of arrest, criminal record, and incarceration is hanging over millions of people. Prohibition is fueling violence within and around our borders and filling the coffers of the black market. Illegal grow operations in national parks endanger the ecology and the people trying to enjoy public lands. This is a REAL problem despite your ignorance of it. If you fail to listen to your fellow citizens that are trying to educate you about it, why would they listen to your concerns? Let’s recognize this as a problem, and then resolve it as a nation. Only then, will all the human resources behind this movement be available to another cause.
You don’t see people’s homes getting shot up over home beer-brewing operations. Why? Because it’s LEGAL. Let’s do the same for cannabis and reduce or eliminate the prohibition-fueled greed and violence.
To all the people who bemoan legalizing cannabis as the #1 idea…think of all the money we would be saving on law enforcement and incarceration and then think of all the money we would get from taxing it like alcohol and then think of all the pet projects that were left off the list that mean so much to you which all the saved and new revenue could be spent on. It is all about the money baby, not getting high. The moral do-gooders have pissed away billions upon billions on cannabis prohibition. Those days are over! Their “messages” and slogans don’t work anymore.
I would like to add:
abolish the death penalty in
your country
i am very much dissapoingted in this whole process. I cant think what is really wrong with this country and they won’t come together to solve the problems
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/solar_smelters
If corporations continue to run Washington, the will of the people will never be realized. If you want to see legalized pot, perhaps all the users, growers and distributors can send truckloads of Money to Washington…just like Blue Cross Blue Shield or Exxon. While all the lobbyists speak there is no oxygen left for you or your sufferings. Until money can be removed from politics, your voice will remain a whisper. Move to Amend!
I can’t understand why the Obama Administration continues to act as if Cannabis is a non-issue and that we should focus on more important issues. What’s more important than saving billions of dollars and making billions of dollars? What’s more important than stopping the destruction of families,homes, lives with Cannabis prohibition? What’s more important than helping to save the environment with hemp alternatives and saving trees? It will create jobs, revenue, industry, products (textile, medicinal, and recreational). It will regulate the selling and transaction of Cannabis thereby cutting down on access to underage individuals. the list goes on and on.
But, as usual, the only important to our politicians (republican and democrat) is their pockets and positions.
It’s time to do a real change and vote every single career politician out of office. Let’s have the Libertarians give it a try for a while.
I’ve just looked at the winning “Top 10 Ideas for Change in America,” you know, the ones that change.org plans to present to the appropriate legislative bodies, the ones they’ll lobby for. While many of these are clearly important, what struck me immediately was a whole class of ideas that didn’t make it to the top ten list, a whole class of ideas that are therefore clearly less important than the rest, less worthy of being actively pursued. The ones I’m thinking of are all those relating to gay rights, something that’s apparently only important to you if you’re gay. Perhaps the absence of these ideas hit me today because the President’s much-heralded healthcare initiative suffers from the same oversight. The provision stipulating that employer health benefits paid on behalf of same-sex partners would now be taxed the same as for opposite-sex spouses is gone from the final bill. Gay couples will be required to continue to subsidize the health benefits of their straight brethren because, well, gay people are just not worth fighting for.
So, change.org, I see from your top ten list that gay people are on their own. Progressive ideas are for straight people, people in the majority. But, hey, I didn’t really expect anything more. The civil rights movement is over, right? At least we’ve got that problem solved. Whew!
So, enjoy all that soon-to-be-legal recreational weed. Maybe we can smoke a joint in one of the new school gardens – if I haven’t been arrested for claiming on my census form to be married to the guy I’ve lived with and loved for the last fifteen years.
*Knock,Knock* Anyone home here?
Seriously though, Its been over a week (9 days) since the results were posted, and it appears as if there hasn’t been even a single little “squeak” about anything – other than additional comments from the community, and of course the usual articles – which are definitely appreciated…
That said, even a tidbit of feedback about what’s being planned, what sort of actions we should be looking out for, or something along those lines would be nice – before apathy starts to set in and the Website goes mostly quiet, like it did last year.
I applaud this site. It is a step in the right direction of reclaiming our country from corporate greed, misinformation and over militarization. We need to focus our attention on the issues we really care about instead of the spoon-fed rhetoric of mass-media news and political pundits with their own agendas.
If an issue is over-looked, it can be addressed. Critisizing something is such a waste of time unless it is accompanied by suggestions for improvement. Some of us just need to snivel, I guess.
One thing I would like to see would be a better vote counting system and a more open forum for canidates. More of a say in who they’ll be. Break the strangle-hold the ruling-class eltes have had on our democatic process.
Its obvious what people want! Lets legalize marijuana! If you really want to better the economy then listen to what the people want. We can create thousands of new jobs, new medicines, new fuels, tax revenues, and we could end alot of the violence from the border drug trade. If alcohol is legal then marijuana should be too!
Look at the statistics. Alcohol kills thousands of people every year. While marijuana use kills none. Alcohol brings violence and produces nothing positive except socializing. Marijuana often Inspires people to create new inventions, music, and art just to name a few things. It also is one of the very few medicines that can treat multiple ailments and that is directly grown from the ground up then used without being altered by man. Its Gods gift. Can you say that about all of those expensive prescription drugs that come with all of the side effects or the pills you take for the side effects and so on and so on. Marijuana has been around since the days of the lord. God created marijuana and man has made prescription drugs and alcohol-Who should we trust?
Use our law efforts here in the Us and go after these idiots making meth labs in there bath tubs and to keep the real drug users and violent alcoholics away from our kids. IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE
We really do care more about weed than we do about restoring adoptees’ rights to their original birth certificates?
Wow.
I want it legal too, but if I had to choose between weed and everybody’s right to their own identities, I’d choose the latter every time. It is not like people can’t move to California or some other medical marijuana state if it is just about medicine. And if it’s not about medicine… well… find another hobby.
By the way Cc, God made alcohol too. Any time you’ve got fallen fruit rotting on the ground, you have the potential for alcohol to be created. Other-than-human animals figured that out a long time ago and we probably encountered it too, in the process of our evolution.
Not that “God made it” is a good reason for any public policy–our government is supposed to be secular.
I’m just astonished though. Once again we prove conservatives right. They’re not always right about the shortcomings of liberals, but man, when they are? We go out of our way to prove just how right they are. They said we were selfish. They were right.
There is so much we need to fix in this country that is more important than the majority of items on the above list in the original post. We’ve still got people in this country suffering from second-class status. Adoptees, women (we still don’t have an ERA, and federal court precedent says the Fourteenth Amendment does NOT apply to gender), LGBT who do not have the right to marry, Native Americans, need I go on?
Marijuana? Screw marijuana. The people who really want it already know how to get it, legally or not. If Obama’s only gonna worry about ten items now because of this little campaign then I want him to worry about demonstrably important stuff.
Although, that’s the other thing. What is he actually going to DO about the list here? Talk about it?
what’s the success rate of reforms promised by politicians?
Wondering if and when we would get an update on any of these ideas?
Its past time for the federal system to pass a porole system, which allows people with good time records to enter life from behind the bars of incaration.
The money spent now on non violent prisoners is not only wasting funds needed elsewhere but is keeping people who would now be productive citzens from contritubing to this nation. I emplore you legislators….Let these people go.
I would like to continue my support of Change.org and all of it’s causes, however a recent article I read on the site has me concerned. The article seemed to be saying that women have the right to dress like sluts, and that people of a certain religion ought not to feel offended at such behavior.
I do not support the idea of changing a person’s religion,…not if it means war with another culture. Please do not support women’s rights on my behalf, if it means supporting a woman’s right to make a fool of herself.
Thanks for all the good work. Robert L
What do you think of the formation of IBSA (India, Brazil & South Africa) south to south cooperation. Is it benefiting to the development of each of their countries by a much tighter relationship?What are other countries saying about this? & how does the role of the civil society play in this matter?Will poverty able to be overcome by the formation of IBSA? We want to hear your opinion! Join IPC-IG in the debate on ID4Ds website! http://www.ideas4development.org/topics.html.
I just discovered your site a few weeks ago and am impressed. One receives a good feeling when discovering other people that are truly dedicated in making a positive change for the world. So for your edification, I sent you my website address.
Keep the pressure on & don’t give in…
Fredric Frank Myers
Vote for Ron Paul so we can END war, END the drug war, END the recession and END the police state!
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0414/obama-dead-heat-ron-paul/
IMMIGRATION
Yes we do need a change. We need MORE illegal alien enforcement. There is nothing Legal about the “hard working people”, the law is quite clear. Being in this country illegally is a Criminal Offense. They are Criminals plain and simple.
I welcome the new proposed legislation establishing a legal process whereby they can enter and work in the US. We must have a system that keeps out the ones who are criminals as well as those who drain our medical and welfare resources without ever paying any taxes to support those services.
The prisons have thousands of illegal aliens who have been convicted of major crimes..
I would like to see the President fulfill his campaign pledge regarding education. Our schools are in terrible shape, and while many do need updating, it is the need for better teachers, more programs and career training. Simply put, more money. This issue is grave, our kid’s are barely learning the basic’s. I had hoped that Arne Duncan would come in with guns blazing…..but it hasn’t happened yet. We need to make this a priority, and keep demanding action.
Gee….I have an idea for change. How about promoting LEGAL immigration instead of promoting ILLEGAL immigration. I sure don’t know how you got my email address to send your spam to, but please take me off your list.
It appears that you are promoting irresponsible behavior to make your point. I want none of that. I’m not a right-wing Republican either. I’m one of the disappearing voices, the citizens who got here legally and pay their taxes and really resent the right and left wing extremists trying to tell me what to think.
I have a petition that could really use some more signatures. Each one makes a difference. Please support me by visiting this page and signing the petition.
http://animals.change.org/petitions/view/stricter_punishment_for_animal_cruelty_offenders_in_the_united_states_judicial_system
MISSING CHILDREN. One of the priority problems of this country. Two Federal National Programs were started and developed in this country (United States) during the 1980′s and 1990′s (GSA Missing Child Notice Program & NALC/USPS Child Alert Program). Neither one of them is functioning according to their original intent or according to the written directions for them. The Dept. of Justice, the General Service Administration (GSA), the U.S. Postal Service, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) are the Federal Agencies responsible for these Programs management and operation. These Fed Agencies have failed miserably – this is a HORRIFIC FEDERAL FAILURE. Our children and grandchildren are not safe and long term Missing Children are not being Located because of this FEDERAL FAILURE. I recently had a meeting at Senator Barbara Boxer’s (CA) San Francisco office, to present the charity I do volunteer work for, discoveries about the malfunctioning Federal National Programs. We have, and presented, indisputable evidence that these Fed Agencies were failing their responsibility to conduct these vital help find Missing Children National Programs as they are intended; therefore, they are unable to accomplish what they are intended to accomplish: FIND MISSING CHILDREN. Recently, the head of the NCMEC (Ernie Allen) has lied to our charity, through one of his main workers (Jerry Nance), when they said Missing Child Kristen Modafferi’s flyer would be included in the March monthly printing of the Postal Bulletin Missing Child Notices – her flyer was not included. And, the Postmaster General (John Potter) lied to us, through one of his main people (Kathleen Schultz-Miner), when she promised in a written letter to our charity, “we plan to send a reminder to display the Postal Bulletin Missing Children posters in post offices.” They did not send out this reminder to Postmasters as they stated. We did interviews of several hundred Postmasters throughout the West Coast and they all claimed they’ve been told they are no longer part of the NALC/USPS Child Alert Program; therefore, they do not display the monthly printed Postal Bulletin Missing Child Notices as they are required to do according to the 1/19/96 Presidential Memorandum Executive Order. Unless and until our public officials start taking responsibilities for their mistakes they are destined to repeat them. The bureaucratic response (based on lies and misinterpretation of the facts) we’re getting from our elected governmental officials is UNACCEPTABLE (regarding all issues and problems).
We are known to be the best nation to provide defense. Though medical expenses are quite high, we are known to have the best medical institutions and technology. Centuries ago, we were able to prove that if we stand together, we can regain our loss of the battle. What has been missing I think is preserving morality. It knocks off the idea and essence of being a nation. We don’t need too much change as it requires too much time. I guess what we need is to revisit and realize what we missed to maximize: our resources. Chill out folks; speak up for mother nation!
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Is this list for real? Legalizing Marijuana is number ONE on this list? Passing the Great Ape Protection Act? These are noble causes, but this cannot be the list of the Top 10 ideas to turn this country around. We are in the midst of the Great Recession and only ONE of those “ideas” touched on anything remotely associated with our economic troubles.
What about solutions for the millions of children that live in debilitating hunger and poverty?
What about the families that suffer through the effects of losing unemployment benefits?
What about our legal Hispanic brothers and sisters who now have to live fearful of racial profiling?
How can we have a Department of Peace when we’re still at War?!
What this country really needs isn’t for Marijuana to be exploited for economic gain, it needs programs for retrain workers into growing job sectors. What this country needs is for companies and small business to grow in high population areas (i.e the inner city/rural populations). What this country needs is the enforcement of better child enrichment programs. We need legislation to fix our school crumbling curriculum, not our schools.
The problems are many, and all this list does is provide haphazard solutions for problems that will do little to lift this country out the fog.
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Why nothing about war and peace on change.org? Why no critique of the military industrial complex? Or US foreign policy? Or the still ever present threat of nuclear arms? Looking around this site, it’s as if the illegal War and occupation in Iraq never happened. Or Afghanistan. Why no category of blog dedicated to these all important issues of our time? What about the so-called War on Terror? Could it be that the editors are afraid of criticizing the Obama administration or challenging the “right” of the US to use international violence at will?
Ahem, well, It’s sad to see that most of my friends are on this site via face book. I look into it and see the mentality that’s on here. I’m frankly appalled by it.
Legalizing Mary Jane? Are u insane? Have you all not payed attention to the Border as of late? Do you all seriously think that Obama cares about your thought’s? Agenda’s? NO! He hasn’t made this clear to you in the last 2 years, and if you haven’t gotten it through your thick skulls yet you never will! You all need to stop worrying about your political agenda’s and start worrying about yourselves and your families first! America is in jeopardy! Close minded activism is what got it here! Left, right, middle, doesn’t matter. Feed the need of Americans first! Haiti, Africa, Iraq can wait! If you don’t take care of you, there won’t be a you to take care of! Get it?!
Contaminated California strawberries and Governor Brown
If Governor Brown is unwilling to take protective action against California strawberries treated with a dangerous chemical, he should either restrict the strawberries to within the borders of California or have them prominently labled with a warning that they may be harmful to the health of humans, or both. Additionally, Change,org should initiate action to advise the Governors of the rest of the states in the country about the strawberries, the potentially harmful chemical and the reluctance of Governor Brown to take protective action.
I would like to know why labor is not listed as a cause . The American worker has been severely raped and tortured beginning with the Reagan administration. Our government has allowed our companies to move over seas where they exploit workers and the enviroment to the ultimate max and then expect us to buy their cheap garbage at inflated prices. Mean while our wages go rock bottom along with full time hours turning into part time hours. Its very clear that both Democrats and Republicans are in the hip pockets of the greedy capitalist . After all it takes alot of money to get elected and that money always comes with conditions. I see no hope for Americans as long as our minds are fixed on the two party system. I would like to see Labor listed as a caused, because it surely is. American style capitalism breeds poverty , crime and war. The American worker needs to unite and they need sites such as this to unite behind them.
Sad that Change.org members are not willing to say no to genocide, colonization, and US mining of West Papua. Much easier to pretend one’s own nation is not involved in such things.