SGAC Advocacy
Call the White House TODAY Wednesday, September 7
Demand That the U.S. Keep Our Promises to the Millennium Development Goals
Make a difference in 5 minutes!
Call (202) 456-1111 before 5 pm ET
What to say (use your own words if possible):
· I oppose the changes proposed by UN Ambassador John Bolton to the Millennium Development Goals draft document.
· The president must keep the promises he made to America and the world on numerous occasions, including the 2005 G-8 Summit and the 2002 Monterrey Summit, to support the Millennium Development Goals.
· The Millennium Development Goals were carefully worked out by international development experts as an achievable blueprint for enormous progress against poverty, hunger, disease, and illiteracy.
· I fully support using my tax dollars to alleviate extreme poverty.
Note: more than one person can speak on a White House call. After you have finished speaking, you can say, “And I have someone else here with me who has something to say.” Every voice counts… even if they just voice agreement to your previous comments! You can also send your message by fax: (202) 466-2461 or e-mail president@whitehouse.gov.
Forward this message to as many people as you can. The more calls, faxes and e-mails, the more likely the president will act!
Additional background
The 2005 World Summit, also known as the Millennium +5 Summit, will be held at the United Nations in New York September 14–16, 2005. Attending will be 175 heads of state and heads of government, including President Bush. The purpose of the 2005 World Summit is to determine what the world needs to do to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which were established at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.
President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice have repeatedly reaffirmed U.S. commitments to the Millennium Development Goals, including at the G-8 Summit in June in Gleneagles, Scotland. However, within the past month, the Bush administration, led by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, has proposed hundreds of changes to the Millennium Development Goals draft document that has taken years of feasibility study and negotiation to assemble. These changes would essentially gut the Millennium Development Goals and leave a watered-down version that would lack the timetables, commitments and strategies to reach the historic goals that were promised to be achieved by 2015.
For more information, please contact Kolleen Bouchane at (202) 783-7100 x107 or Stacy Carkonen at (206) 715-4986. Or visit these pages:
Scrapping Millennium Development Goals Lowers the Bar for Humanity’s Progress
Economist Jeffrey Sachs Discusses Administration Efforts to Retreat from the MDGs
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
2005 World Summit (14-16 September 2005)
Demand That the U.S. Keep Our Promises to the Millennium Development Goals
Make a difference in 5 minutes!
Call (202) 456-1111 before 5 pm ET
What to say (use your own words if possible):
· I oppose the changes proposed by UN Ambassador John Bolton to the Millennium Development Goals draft document.
· The president must keep the promises he made to America and the world on numerous occasions, including the 2005 G-8 Summit and the 2002 Monterrey Summit, to support the Millennium Development Goals.
· The Millennium Development Goals were carefully worked out by international development experts as an achievable blueprint for enormous progress against poverty, hunger, disease, and illiteracy.
· I fully support using my tax dollars to alleviate extreme poverty.
Note: more than one person can speak on a White House call. After you have finished speaking, you can say, “And I have someone else here with me who has something to say.” Every voice counts… even if they just voice agreement to your previous comments! You can also send your message by fax: (202) 466-2461 or e-mail president@whitehouse.gov.
Forward this message to as many people as you can. The more calls, faxes and e-mails, the more likely the president will act!
Additional background
The 2005 World Summit, also known as the Millennium +5 Summit, will be held at the United Nations in New York September 14–16, 2005. Attending will be 175 heads of state and heads of government, including President Bush. The purpose of the 2005 World Summit is to determine what the world needs to do to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which were established at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.
President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice have repeatedly reaffirmed U.S. commitments to the Millennium Development Goals, including at the G-8 Summit in June in Gleneagles, Scotland. However, within the past month, the Bush administration, led by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, has proposed hundreds of changes to the Millennium Development Goals draft document that has taken years of feasibility study and negotiation to assemble. These changes would essentially gut the Millennium Development Goals and leave a watered-down version that would lack the timetables, commitments and strategies to reach the historic goals that were promised to be achieved by 2015.
For more information, please contact Kolleen Bouchane at (202) 783-7100 x107 or Stacy Carkonen at (206) 715-4986. Or visit these pages:
Scrapping Millennium Development Goals Lowers the Bar for Humanity’s Progress
Economist Jeffrey Sachs Discusses Administration Efforts to Retreat from the MDGs
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
2005 World Summit (14-16 September 2005)
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