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TAKE ACTION! Tell President Obama to Raise Human Rights Issues With Russian President Medvedev!


World  (tags: world, HATE CRIMES, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', war, Russia, humanrights, freedoms )

Cal
- 136 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
Recent years have brought an explosion in neo-Nazi violence in Russia, spurring a wave of fear among minority and immigrant communities.Tell President Obama to raise the issue when he meets with President Medvedev next week at the U.S.-Russia Summit in Mo
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Dalia H. (571)
Wednesday July 1, 2009, 4:44 pm

Thank you for writing to President Obama about human rights concerns in Russia.
Let's hope that he takes this message to President Medvedev next week – that hate violence and repression of human rights activists must end.

Action taken and noted with many thanks Dearest Cal.
Love,
Black Dalia:)
 

Suzybell H. (220)
Wednesday July 1, 2009, 4:44 pm
Noted! Action taken!
 

Cher C. (731)
Wednesday July 1, 2009, 4:46 pm



Thnx Cal!


 

sue w. (151)
Wednesday July 1, 2009, 6:45 pm
He should be concerned with our human rights before he goes banging on someone else's door. We have people here forced by courts to torture in mental facilities every day. We are not so squeeky clean to set a standard.
 

Cynthia Davis (210)
Thursday July 2, 2009, 8:14 am
Signed
 

Mary Neal (186)
Thursday July 2, 2009, 8:00 pm
While some people are thinking Obama needs to talk tough about human rights regarding the demonstrators in Iran and talk tough to Russia's president regarding Neo-Nazi violence, I am trying to find out who I can talk to about authorities in the U.S. killing my handicapped brother under secret arrest and denying his family any records and accountability.

One woman told me I should call the International Prosecutor. I don't know who that is. I always thought that justice inside America could be handled here. Other countries look to America for help on human rights. When Americans get dogged out, where do we turn? Do you know?

I think President Obama was right to stay out of the fight for human rights affairs in Russia. Instead, he should encourage the USDOJ to stop pretending not to know which office to look in for government records regarding USA v. Shelby County Jail in Memphis, where my brother was secretly incarcerated for 18 days until death in 2003 under yet undisclosed circumstances and the DOJ helped cover-up his death Guantanamo-style. Contrary to open disclsosure and equal justice, the USDOJ response to the Neal family's Freedom of Information Act request on Larry's death is overdue.

Also, he should "talk tough" to U.S. lawmakers regarding the need to pass bills allowing post-conviction DNA testing for all inmates who request it throughout the 50 states to help ensure that America is not violating its own citizens' human rights by keeping innocent people imprisoned and/or facing execution, since the U.S. Supreme Court holds the likelihood of wrongful convictions as being acceptable.

Addressing human rights violations is like charity - It should begin at home. Otherwise, some might think the U.S. leaders are hypocrites. http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1181908

Human rights is a speck v. plank thing. Matthew 7:5
 

Pat Gill (5)
Thursday July 2, 2009, 8:12 pm
Yes, charity begins at home. He is doing us about as bad the way he's treating the citizens here. No jobs as he promised, everything here gets worse by the way. Besides, if he didn't "meddle" in Iran's business, why should he "meddle" in Russia's? However, he was pretty sympathetic to Honduras.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (241)
Friday July 3, 2009, 12:30 am
Sherbet... I don't think Russia is ready to listen to anyone... there are far to many political issues.. Ithink people come way down on the list, especially after visint Russia, tis so sad, that the youth of that nation have taken to drinking and the like... it is if they do not care... and neither does the government
 

Mark G. (25)
Friday July 3, 2009, 4:45 am
No matter what Obama says to Russia they will only pay lip service to it. He is perceived as weak and they only respect strength.
 

Pat Gill (5)
Friday July 3, 2009, 6:40 am
I agree, Mark - I have to agree with Donald Trump that we have become the laughingstock of the world, we have lost any clout we had!!
 

Tierney Grinavic (295)
Friday July 3, 2009, 9:47 am
Signed petition Thanks Cal
 

Mandi T. (258)
Friday July 3, 2009, 5:51 pm
pETITION SIGNED~!!
TX CAL
 

LLOYD H. (4)
Friday July 3, 2009, 8:17 pm
Obama to Medvedev: Sir please do as I say not as I do! Ignore my constant use of 'state secrets' to cover the plethera of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and gross criminal violations of both the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the United States committed by the two Administrations of former President George W. Bush and former Vice-Presidnt Dick Cheney, some of which I am continuing. Please ignore my consistant insistance that criminal acts in the past are to be ignored as we look forward, unless as one example, they were committed against Afro-Americans more than 100 years ago, as you know it is far more important to apoligize for a crime that no one living had anything to do with, than actually do anything about the civil and human rights of those discriminated against now. Please ignore the fact that I have done nothing significant to re-establish 'writ habeus corpus' without which the American Bill of Rights is meaningless. And most definetly ignore the fact that I am and plan to continue to hold any person I wish indefinitely with out charges, evidence, or legal recourse. In closing, President Medvedev, it is my considered that you should stop acting like an American President and clean up your human/civil rights act.
 

Sonny T. (1)
Saturday July 4, 2009, 3:52 am
Mr.Obama,
Communist China has the world worst human rights issue, you should put this uppermost of your agenda when you want to talk about human rights. Communist China has killed millions of innocent, defenceless people, women and children, young and old over the years. They tortured, raped, organ havested, suppressed and the list is endless. Why is the world so afraid to stand up to Communist China? Is it because of economic gains? I have very great respect for American system and their believe in human rights and how the Americans fought so hard to uphold this. So. Mr. President, don't let your country men down who voted for you so that you will fight for them and fight it rightfully. Let us be proud of you and go down in our history books that you are the only president who would stand up to Communist China and tell them to stop hurting, killing, raping and executing their innocent citizens. Thank you Mr. President
 

Winefred M. (69)
Tuesday July 7, 2009, 7:11 am
Thanks Cal.
 

Jada S. (1)
Tuesday July 7, 2009, 8:55 am
Signed!
 
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