Sign the petition - The following Resolution requires signatures from 1% of current APA members in order to be brought before the entire APA membership for a direct vote.
PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR AN ETHICAL APA
Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights.
Stephen Soldz writes about the NY times article that exposes the horrifying conditions at the Guantanamo prison and the continued role of Psychologists there. Will APA act?
Psyche, Science, and Society » Isolation driving Guantanamo detainees insane: Will APA act?
Thanks to a new report from ABC News, we now know that Condoleezza Rice led White House meetings authorizing torture that were so detailed, “the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed.”Watch the video: Condoleezza Rice Must GO
A Torture Debate Among Healers | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
The APAs annual meeting is this summer, in Boston. Expect interrogation to be the major issue confronting the members gathered there. Final voting for the APA president starts in October. The APA and the United States will determine their next presidents at about the same time. In both elections, a thorough debate on torture should be central.
47 Million Americans now have no heath care coverage and twice as many people died in the US in 2006 from this lack of coverage than by homicide. Â Find out your state’s numbers:Dying for Coverage
Recent research has highlighted the important role of teachers in fostering student achievement. However, the United States lags significantly behind other countries in teacher compensation, which adversely impacts efforts to recruit high-quality teachers. In South Korea and Germany, starting salaries for teachers are about 141% of per capita GDP, while the figure for the United States is only 81%. In fact, all countries in this sample pay their teachers a significantly higher relative wage as a starting salary compared to the United States. Compared to other countries, U.S. flunks in teacher pay
Neither Clinton nor Obama’s health care plans get at the root problem our of broken system. What is needed is citizen mobilization to demand that candidates  promote a single payer health care plan as opposed to their current schemes.
The Failed Health Care Reform Plan of 2009 | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
The average compensation of a CEO in 1980 was about 42 times that of the average worker in the company; in 2006, it was more than 364 times. Income Gap: CEOs vs. Workers | OurFuture.org
