Delaney Hall represents a dangerous expansion of the immigrant detention system, one driven by profit, and unconcerned with public safety. In 2025, ICE handed a $1 billion contract to GEO Group to run Delaney Hall which essentially quadrupled detention capacity in New Jersey overnight.  Now, hundreds of people inside are risking their health to expose what’s happening behind the doors of Delaney Hall. More than 200 detainees remain on hunger and labor strike, protesting unsafe conditions: lack of medical care, spoiled food, and extreme heat without air conditioning. These are not isolated complaints, they are systemic failures in facilities that were never meant to be kind to the people within them.  Warehouses like Delaney Hall exist because of a system that outsources detention to private prison corporations with little transparency or accountability. GEO Group, the corporation in charge of Delaney Hall and other detention facilities across the country, profits when more people are detained for longer periods of time. This system creates incentives and rewards for holding people, often without cause, while cutting corners on their healthcare and safety.  If people inside speak out about their conditions inside, the response is retaliation. News reports include pepper spray and physical force against detainees, forced transfers, and blocked access for families. Even local elected officials and members of Congress are being denied oversight. Sign the petition if you agree: Delaney Hall must be shut down NOW!

As the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) prepares to mark up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), we’ve got a critical first opportunity to block Trump’s record-breaking Pentagon budget: The good news? Lawmakers already know Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon topline is a nonstarter — and key HASC members are already racing to stop it. That includes Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who has introduced an amendment that would CUT the Pentagon topline before the NDAA even reaches the House floor. This amendment is our first opportunity to derail Trump’s $1.5 trillion war budget, so we’re going all out to rally support amongst HASC members to get it passed. They need to hear from you too.

The proposed changes to the Clean Air Act would apply to all industrial facilities, including data centers, the power plants that would serve them, chemical plants, and carbon, capture, and storage (CCS) facilites. While the proposed changes are considered a win for all industries, we mention CCS specifically because owners of those projects can qualify for 45Q tax credits if they begin construction by a deadline set by the IRS. Being able to begin construction before the permitting process guarantees that they would be able to meet the deadline. We are submitting this petition to the EPA's docket and sending it to the Trump administration. We ask that you take a couple of extra minutes to submit a comment to the docket using our EZ form. Regulators generally count petitions as one comment, regardless of how many signatures they contain, so filling the docket with individual comments is important. Our form asks you to write opening and closing statements and, if you wish, select talking points we provide. We format your comments as PDF files and upload them to the docket for you. If you prefer, you can submit a comment directly to the docket by visiting Regulations.gov.

The Congressional Black Caucus has come out demanding that corporations that signed the Business for Voting Rights letter to Congress back in 2021 take a stand now. In a letter to corporations the CBC highlighted a critical point: “The same corporations that have benefitted from Black consumers, Black talent, and Black communities cannot now retreat into silence while Black political power is openly dismantled in plain sight.” Despite its supposed commitment to voting rights, Starbucks is staying quiet and moving forward with plans for a new corporate headquarters in Tennessee—a state where the governor wasted no time signing into law a new congressional map that will split up the state’s only Black-majority district. The map strips Black voters of their ability to influence elections and choose their leader. We need to hold Starbucks accountable and demand that the company use its corporate influence to condemn the Tennessee legislature's move to dilute Black voices at the ballot box.  We must not allow corporations to fall back on the importance of protecting voting rights. When the voting power of a community is purposely targeted, that is not a democracy. That is not what John Lewis and so many other civil rights organizers and activists bled and died for.  When corporations stand up and demand change from lawmakers, change happens. It’s time for Starbucks to live up to its promise five years ago and condemn these attacks on our democracy now—in words and in action. 

Dear Neighbors, We need your help to protect our neighborhood from a proposed commercial rezoning project near 2330 McFarland Road in Raymond, MS. We are working to safeguard our community from developments that could increase costs, impact safety, and decrease our property values. The Ecowomanist Institute Southeast Corp (EWISE) formally submitted this request in conjunction with a permit filed on May 27, 2026. While their specific intentions for the project remain unclear, the proposal involves 196 acres of land on McFarland Road within our private residential area. This project will disrupt our community by causing unnecessary traffic, decrease in property values, potential crime, diminished infrastructure requiring future maintenance and higher taxes. Please take a moment to sign the petition to prevent this Special Use Permit. We must act now to preserve our neighborhood; please sign the petition and forward this email to others in the area. Thank you for your support. Best Regard

Our health and well-being is at risk. We pay so much for the water here and it isn't even safe to shower in or consume without proper filtration!! Unacceptable - we must band together to demand a change.

Facial recognition technology involves many practical and ethical issues. Over and over again, it has misidentified women and ethnic minorities, sometimes as much as 34% more often than it did lighter-skinned men.  Law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to surveil everyone from peaceful protesters to immigrants. The pictures taken are then scanned against millions of photos in federal and state databases that include driver's license pictures.  This technology is not harmless, and Disney using it to take pictures of adults as well as children is cause for concern.  We’ve seen how businesses and corporations have misused facial recognition technology to violate individual rights. Families should be able to go to a theme park without having their privacy compromised. Add your name to the petition! 

A sitting president buying and trading stocks that they have direct insider information about and influence over is a clear ethical violation and conflict of interest.  White House spokespeople insist that Trump has no input into these trades and that his portfolio is entirely managed by third-party advisers. But the evidence speaks for itself.  Trump bought millions in Nvidia stock only one week before approving it to start selling its advanced computer chips to China, which sent its stocks soaring. He bought millions in Palantir stock right around the time the company signed a billion-dollar deal with the Department of Homeland Security. He bought stock in Thermo Fisher Scientific the exact same day he toured its facilities.  The sheer consistency of this pattern makes it nearly impossible to accept that Trump has no influence over these trades. But insider trading isn’t the only problem. Trump has repeatedly taken to social media and public speeches to talk up companies he holds stock in, directly inflating the value of his investments using the platform of the presidency.  Meanwhile, everyday Americans are living through the worst cost-of-living crisis in recent history. Groceries, housing, healthcare, and other basic necessities have all become crushing costs for millions of families. While working people are struggling to get by, the president is running a personal enrichment operation out of the Oval Office.  The office of the president is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Sign the petition to stop Trump’s shameless corruption and demand a stock trading ban for all high-level public officials! 

This is only the ninth time in history that the WHO has classified an outbreak as a “a public health emergency of international concern,” and already the outbreak is the third worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.  Trump has already eroded and undermined our public health infrastructure. Cuts to contact-tracing, disease surveillance, and vaccine funding has left us underprepared for an outbreak of this magnitude. And while emergency funding and disaster response relief has been approved, we are playing catch-up to a disease that is rapidly spreading.  And the Trump administration’s appointed acting head of the NIAID stepped down in the midst of this crisis, leaving a gap in leadership when we need it the most.  Given the circumstances, it is as imperative as ever that experts to have the most up-to-date information, resources, and guidance in order to tackle this outbreak in coordination with global leaders. And that means allowing disease experts in NIAID to have open communication with the WHO.  We don’t have time to wait. Tell the Trump administration to lift restrictions preventing NIAID staff from openly communicating and coordinating with the WHO now!

This is only the ninth time in history that the WHO has classified an outbreak as “a public health emergency of international concern,” and already the outbreak is the third-worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.  Trump has already eroded and undermined our public health infrastructure. Cuts to contact tracing, disease surveillance, and vaccine funding have left us underprepared for an outbreak of this magnitude. And while emergency funding and disaster response relief have been approved, we are playing catch-up to a disease that is rapidly spreading.  And the Trump administration’s appointed acting head of the NIAID stepped down in the midst of this crisis, leaving a gap in leadership when we need it most.  Given the circumstances, it is as imperative as ever that experts have the most up-to-date information, resources, and guidance in order to tackle this outbreak in coordination with global leaders. And that means allowing disease experts in NIAID to have open communication with the WHO.  We don’t have time to wait. Tell the Trump administration to lift restrictions preventing NIAID staff from openly communicating and coordinating with the WHO now!

The Department of Defense regularly fails independent financial audits regarding where the Pentagon budget is spent. The precedent to continuously allow the Pentagon to increase its budget without any sort of accountability must end.    The federal government continues to put the needs of people last, and wonder why people no longer have faith in our federal institutions. Many Americans are feeling the financial strain of higher costs at the gas pump and the grocery store. People are having to get second and third jobs to make ends meet while rent increases. Time and financial investment in warfare continue despite working people across the country suffering from instability, healthcare cuts, unaffordable housing, and cuts to programs that support children and our caregivers.    An intentional decrease of the Pentagon budget is about making real safety and security possible for all of us: safe homes, healthy children and families, affordable care, strong schools, and a government that shows up when people need it.    Congress must cut the Pentagon budget and reject any NDAA or defense spending package that locks in another round of military expansion, especially at the expense of our domestic programs that support families.    Every dollar spent on the Pentagon is a dollar siphoned away from essential programming everyday people rely on to survive.    Congress should stop writing blank checks for war and start investing in US!

Roughly one million people become green card holders every year, and about 500,000 of them apply while living in the U.S. These are people deeply embedded in their communities, sometimes living with family members who are U.S. citizens, and contributing to the economy through work and taxes.  Trump and the USCIS have offered very few details about who will be directly impacted by these changes, sharing only vague language that some people who have an “economic benefit or otherwise are in the national interest” might be allowed to remain in the U.S.  But experts are already concerned about how these exceptions might lead to even more discrimination, especially for immigrants from countries on Trump's “travel ban” list—like Brazil, Colombia, and Thailand—who cannot seek consular services in their home countries.  This policy is already causing mass confusion among immigrants and their lawyers. The UCIS should reverse these unnecessary changes NOW and allow green card applicants to continue residing in the U.S.