In fact, the Palestinian leader had issued this call in mid-November.
Although the ethos of this age found its clearest (and certainly its most famous) articulation towards the end of the century with Immanuel Kant and his critical philosophy, he was not the first to issue this call.
So kudos to Leo for issuing this call to action while the world was watching.
I believe it is the latter, and that the responsibility for issuing this call should fall not only to Pope Francis and faith leaders, but to us all.
The Nobel Peace Laureates emphasized the compass point that must direct our deliberations: "To ensure that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki never reoccur and to build a world based on cooperation and peace, we issue this call of conscience.
Given what are now near daily, deadly and exceedingly painful reminders of the consequences of our nation's addiction to racism at all levels (individual, social, and institutional), I again issue this call.
In issuing this Call to Action we urge governments, international partners and civil society to ensure the active and meaningful participation of children as we scale up our collective response.
We were not able to cover net neutrality, the digital divide, mobile spectrum allocation issues, identity theft, China censorship or intellectual property issues on this call.
Amnesty issues this information, called an "urgent action", to encourage people around the world to send letters and emails to government leaders with the power to intervene, or to sign petitions calling for change.
To resolve this issue, the call for more natural experiments (see above) and the request for a sound replication among ecosystems [28] or regions [23] became louder.
