Stephen Soldz makes the case for an independent investigation of psychologists’ aid to abusive interrogations. Join the effort to make it happen.

APA Ethics Policy-Maker Endorses Torture « Psychologists for Social Responsibility Blog.

AlterNet has launched its Top Ten Hottest Take Action campaigns for social change — a tool for you to check out what’s bubbling among the most important progressive campaigns in the country, and what you can do to get involved. This week, they’re highlighting Amnesty International’s campaign to save death row inmate Troy Davis’s life, efforts to hold Shell Oil accountable for its environmental and human rights crimes, and CODEPINK’s Mothers for Peace action for Mother’s Day.

Check out AlterNet’s 10 Hottest Activist Campaigns

This post ’s designed to ask NIH to devote more stimulus money to prevention work in communities, in line the President’s vision. Visit the sight and sign on to their petition.

As members of the prevention science community, we are concerned about the research priorities of the National Institutes of Health as indicated by its plans for spending the $10 billion in stimulus funds allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

President Obama has clearly articulated an agenda for bringing about change in our communities through evidence-based programs and comprehensive efforts to address the risk factors that put people at risk for multiple problems. Yet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and NIH funding of research that would advance these priorities is extremely limited.

Biological and behavioral research has brought us to the point where it is possible to substantially improve human wellbeing in most American communities.1 Nevertheless, actual wellbeing—especially in impoverished communities—lags far behind what the evidence shows could occur. Prevention science can help us reach that goal.

via The Economic Stimulus and Prevention « Nurturing Environments.

 On Friday, Good Morning America ran an inaccurate and unbalanced story, painting public pre-kindergarten as a “scam” and a “waste of money.” 

The three-minute segment did not have a single word about the four decades of research proving that quality pre-k benefits all children or that it returns $2 or more for every dollar we invest.

Add your name to the petition to GMA producers and help make sure our children don’t pay the price for news stories that omit the facts about pre-k!

Take Action: Stand up to media attacks on pre-k

Ratify CEDAW Petition

To:  U.S. Senate
Dear Senators:

We, the undersigned, are writing to urge your strong support for ratification by the United States of the Treaty for the Rights of Women, formally the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It is the most comprehensive international agreement on basic human rights for women.

185 nations have already ratified this important Treaty. However, the United States is one of only eight countries yet to ratify CEDAW, alongside Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Iran, Nauru, Palau and Tonga.

This Treaty has enormous support within the United States. Over 200 leading organizations representing millions of people across this country form a strong coalition in support of U.S. ratification. The coalition groups range from the AARP and Amnesty International, to Business and Professional Women USA, and the American Association of University Women, to B’nai B’rith International and the American Bar Association.

Lawmakers in Georgia and Florida are beginning to use ‘budget cuts’ as an excuse for targeting programs and courses on sexuality, queer and women’s studies. Georgia State University is being forced to testify TODAY in front of the state senate about ‘questionable’ faculty research and course offerings on sexuality. At Florida Atlantic University, the administration is trying to suspend the Women’s Studies program.

Please help by signing the petition below, and forwarding this to anyone else who may be interested in signing on. We have the support of several hundred academics so far, we need more.

McCarthyism is alive and well in these states. Your state could be next.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savesexualitystudiesnow

Local gay, lesbian, straight citizens to protest passage of anti-gay constitutional amendments in Arizona, Florida, California 

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight citizens will take to the streets of dozens of cities to protest the passage of Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay marriage amendment, as well as other anti-gay ballot initiatives in Arkansas, Arizona and Florida. 

Every day since Election Day, thousands have protested up and down streets in cities across California, including in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento. A national, grassroots coalition of LGBT activists have followed in their footsteps. 

On Nov. 15, 1:30 p.m. EST/10:30 a.m. PST, in large cities and state capitals across the country, Pro-Equality supporters will raise public awareness of the need for LGBT equality in marriage and in other civil right

JOIN THE IMPACT: UNITE FOR LGBTQ EQUALITY – Join the Impact

Come join Boston Psychologists for an Ethical APA, Physicians for Human Rights and other sponsors in protesting the American Psychological Association’s continued acceptance of psychologists involvement in military interrogations. 

We must act now–together–to get quality, affordable health care for everyone.

Click here to join the Health Care for America Now campaign

Campaign for America’s Future has joined with other groups to forge a new coalition effort to solve the health care crisis in America. Health Care for America Now, a massive national grassroots campaign launching today, will organize millions of people to win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on.

Health Care for America NOW

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