The Global Citizen: chapters

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!"

Recap of CGS 2011 Conference: Day 1

Jacob Montgomery | March 29th, 2011
Topics: Get Involved, Tax Deductible Giving, Chapters, Support Us

Citizens for Global Solutions’ 2011 Conference, Global Challenges: Global Solutions, was a major success thanks to the plethora of distinguished speakers and the energy and passion of those who attended. The conference took place in the cozy Carriage House near Dupont Circle where people listened to speakers, asked questions, and debated various important issues of international relations, the role of the U.S. and the UN in the world, and an assortment of other topics. Members came from 24 different states including as far as Maine, California, Arizona, Minnesota, and Mississippi.

It's New START -- and a small step -- Toward a World Without Nukes

Tad Daley | December 22nd, 2010
Topics: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Nuclear Disarmament, Chapters, Prevent War

If the people will lead, the leaders will follow. The ratification of the new START treaty, without question, was uncertain as recently as one week ago. But because of the indefatigable efforts of us, citizens who stand for global solutions to global challenges, we turned the tide. We moved the mountain. We carried the day.

Imagine what other mountains we're going to move in the months and years to come.

At the heart of the new START treaty stands a Big Idea that can be expressed in a single sentence. When both we and our potential adversaries agree to mutually limit our military muscle and to mutually open ourselves to external inspections, that's better for us, for American national security, than when we insist that we cannot allow our armaments or our sovereignty to be constrained in any way (as the right demagogically demands), and consequently our potential adversaries remain wholly unconstrained as well.

A Post-Election Summary from the Southland

Jordan Bankhead | November 5th, 2010
Topics: Election News & Analysis, Chapters, Capitol Hill

This is Jordan Bankhead, I’m the CGS chapter president in Oxford, Mississippi and served on the CGS PAC this year. I’m volunteering at headquarters in Washington, D.C. this week and thought an outsider’s view of the recent Congressional elections for Mississippi, and the United States would be interesting.

In my district, Democratic congressman Travis Childers lost to Republican Alan Nunnelee over mainly domestic issues. Mississippians are not likely to notice any difference on foreign policy as a result of the election though.