Everyone: call on Walmart and the Children's Place to give compensation for the dead Rana Plaza workers, and join in preventing a repetition.

US citizens: on May 9, ask your congresscritter to contact the Bureau of Prisons to end the vindictive cruelty to prisoner John Kiriakou.

US citizens: call on Obama and Kerry to meet with the Cowboy Indian Alliance.

Everyone: support the campaign for Seattle to raise the minimum wage to $15.

The Afghan government has a 20% budget gap and will have trouble paying salaries if it doesn't get aid.

The amount at stake is tiny compared with what the US spent on the war. This seems to be penny wise and pound foolish.