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Contact your congressmen and tell them to choose wisely. Ultimately it’s up to Congress to decide if we spend our money on things like job training and food assistance, or on sending more soldiers into a war that terrorism experts say can’t be won by brute military force.

Send a fax to your congressman. The fax says: “I urge you to pass a constitutional amendment to stop unlimited corporate political spending and to support legislation for public financing of congressional campaigns.” MoveOn.org

Tell your members of Congress that it’s time to reform the Patriot Act. ACLU

Send a letter to your Members of Congress letting them know that you oppose $3 billion in military aid to Israel this year because of its human rights abuses of Palestinians and that you would rather see that money spent on domestic priorities in your state and Congressional district. Democracy in Action.

Sign the petition to take action against the Afghanistan war.

Urge Congress to Call for Independent Investigation into Shooting of Detroit Imam. MPAC

Ask your members of Congress to reject the president’s proposal to increase Pentagon spending. Ask them to find ways to reduce the military budget so that the government has money to spend to provide real security for people in the United States. FCNL

Sign petition to Pass Legislation to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics. change.org

Send an email to your representative thanking them for signing the letter to President Obama to lift the blockade on Gaza, or asking them why they did not sign. U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation

Send an email to to tell Congress not to clap when Obama proposes spending $100 billion on the war in Afghanistan while freezing spending on everything else. True Majority

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urges you to recognize and thank the 54 US House Representatives who signed a letter to President Obama asking his Administration to lift the blockade on Gaza. Thank them for exhibiting leadership by contacting them. AA-ADC

Sign the petition for a FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE AMENDMENT to the Constitution. Public Citizen

Sign the petition to Pres. Obama and the U.N. to work to make this a nuclear free world.

Tell the Pentagon that the Use of Scripture on Military Weapons is a Misuse of Faith. Faithful America

Please write letters to Iranian officials to free Ibrahim Yazdi

Please send a letter to President Obama and send copies to your representative urging the U.S. government to immediately act to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitian immigrants. FCNL

Those wishing to donate to Islamic Relief USA’s “Haiti Emergency” appeal may visit http://www.IslamicReliefUSA.org or call (888) 479-4968. Checks payable to “Islamic Relief USA” may be mailed to: Islamic Relief USA, P.O. Box 5640, Buena Park, CA, 90622.

Please donate to CAIR’s Spirit of Islam Fund to Help Rebuild Malaysian Churches

Send an email to Egypt to let the Freedom Marchers enter Gaza and stop construction of another Separation Wall.

Contact Dove World Outreach and let them know what you think of their Christmas message of hate (Islam is of the devil)

Send emails to the Malaysian embassies and consulates about the ban on Christians using Allah in their literature in Malaysia

Send an email to B’nai Brith of Canada about their Islamophobic ad published in the National Post.

Sign fax petition, no more escalation in Afghanistan (Peace Team)

Email Secretary Clinton: Stop Tensions From Flaring In Jerusalem (J Street)

Please sign on to the Interfaith Open Letter to President Obama - Build, Don’t Destroy in Afghanistan. Sojourners

Sign on to support the Goldstone Report. Jewish Voice for Peace

Please take a moment to fill out the form here (make sure to choose The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as your topic) to thank Jon Stewart for airing the interview with Dr. Barghouti and Anna Baltzer on the topic of a non-violent approach to middle east peace. They are getting a lot of angry emails.

contact your Representative NOW to co-sponsor H.R. 3845, the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009. Introduced by Representatives John Conyers, Jerrold Nadler and Bobby Scott, H.R. 3845 provides for stronger civil rights, civil liberties and privacy protections against many of the surveillance powers of the current USA PATRIOT Act. ADC

Write letter and join ADC in Calling on Congress to Oppose H.RES 867. This is an Attack on the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.

Write your senators to ask that they take action to end the Afghanistan war. Shalom Center