The Resolve Tour: An update from the road
After two weeks of concerts and advocate workshops and more than 3,250 miles in the van, Brian Pappalardo, Resolve’s Organizing Fellow, took a few minutes to answer a few of my questions about the...
View ArticleGuest blog: We must end the atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance...
Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and John Boozman (R-AR) led the charge in ensuring funding for President Obama’s strategy to stop the violence committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and help...
View ArticleThis isn’t your grandmother’s advocacy. We’re going high tech!
College basketball isn’t the only thing down to the final four. We’ve got just four weeks to convince Congress to secure funding in the national budget needed to implement the President’s strategy to...
View ArticleThank you, Senate Champions
One week ago, two Senators led the charge to ensure the president’s strategy to stop the violence committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has the funding it needs to be implemented. Agreeing that...
View ArticleCalling all advocates
The next few weeks are a critical turning point in our efforts to help stop the violence being perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Our members of Congress are considering whether to cut...
View ArticleTo those who believe in “the power of a small group of committed individuals”…
Prove it. In a few weeks, our leaders in Congress will be deciding the national budget for 2012. That means our representatives will be deciding – or deciphering – what we as a nation do and don’t...
View ArticleResolve Roundup: Congressional champions lead charge to ensure funding for...
In the first weeks of our S2F campaign, Resolve advocates are working dilligently to ensure our members of Congress will help implement the President’s LRA strategy. We’ve signed the petition (more...
View ArticleMeet: The Appropriators.
If the S2F campaign were distilled into a comic book, there would be a team of four caped Congressional crusaders called “The Appropriators.” By day, they would wear suits and sit in meetings, but by...
View ArticleTop US Africa official Johnnie Carson on the record about U.S. efforts to...
On April 14, Johnnie Carson, the State Department’s top Africa official, testified before the Senate subcommittee on Africa regarding President Obama’s 2012 budget request for Africa. With some members...
View ArticleMore Congressional support for bill aiming to ensure Sudan gives no support...
On March 3, Congressmen Ed Royce (R-CA) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) introduced H.R.895, the “Sudan Cessation of Support for the Lord’s Resistance Army Certification Act of 2011.” This legislation requires...
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