The Global Citizen: Partners for Global Change

White House Briefing a Success!

Anu Joshi | September 2nd, 2011
Topics: Genocide Prevention, Get Involved, UN Funding, Take Action, Partners for Global Change, Chapters, Capitol Hill

The White House participants in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg

The White House Briefing and Training brought 50 people from 23 states to Washington DC to experience a day of briefings at the White House and a full day training at the Citizens for Global Solutions National Office. Everyone involved found the event exhilarating, useful and energizing to continue their activism after they left the nation's capitol.

One participant remarked: "I am honored to have been able to attend this event and feel it will definitely help me continue to lobby much more effectively, with more coverage and with a better understanding of the facts. Thank you. Also, a very diverse group - that is a big priority for me personally."

For many visiting the East Wing of the White House was a once in a lifetime experience: "The only place more impressive to have met would be the Oval Office!"

Ros-Lehtinen's Gauntlet

Don Kraus | January 28th, 2011
Topics: UN Funding, UN Reform & Revitalization, Partners for Global Change, Peacekeeping, Human Rights Council, Human Rights, United Nations, Capitol Hill

As posted on the Huffington Post

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the new Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has thrown down her gauntlet. In her first briefing as chairwoman, she had the opportunity to focus on any number of timely issues like the referendum in Sudan, human rights in China or reconstruction in Haiti. Instead she chose "The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action," to launch an attack against the U.N.