• More Shelters, Less Homelessness
    Sometimes, I drive around Los Angeles and it’s painful to see so many people just living on the streets. I am talking about thousands of people just staying in tents or on the pavement. They don’t have shelters, food, or clothes. Why aren’t the officials doing something about it? Have they ever even been to these areas? LA is the capital of the movie industry and California is not the poorest state so we can and need to do better. These people need to have access to shelters that will help them transition to a better life. And if some of them have an addiction problem, we need to get them to recovery facilities. Some of them are kids. They should be in school. They should have a better life. We can’t turn our back on them. Together, let’s end Homelessness.
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    Created by Perri Pierre
  • Protect Victim's Rights - Stop the Release of a Sexually Violent Predator
    Per Marsy's Law [California Constitution, Article I, Section 28(b) Penal Code Section 679.026), the rights of the victim's were denied in this court hearing; they were not given advance notice of these proceedings (section 7) and they were denied the right to be heard before this matter was decided (section 8). This invalidates the court's decision and the case must be re-tried.
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    Created by Mary Taylor
  • Texas Spanish & Mexican Land Grants
    Assembly of Spanish & Mexican Land Grant Heirs for Political Action 34259 Quail Drive San Benito Texas 78586 An Open Letter To The Following Texas Public Officials: Governor, Honorable Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor, Honorable Dan Patrick, Attorney General, Honorable Ken Paxton, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Honorable Glenn Hagar, Commissioner of General Land Office, Honorable George P. Bush, Commissioner of Agriculture, Honorable Sid Miller, Commissioner Railroad Commission of Texas, Honorable Wayne Christian, Commissioner Railroad Commission of Texas, Honorable Christi Craddick, Commissioner Railroad Commission of Texas, Honorable Ryan Sutton, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Texas, Honorable Nathan L. Hecht, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-2, Honorable Don R. Willett, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-3, Honorable Debra Ledermann, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-4, Honorable John Devine, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-5, Honorable Paul Green, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-6, Honorable Jeff Brown, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-7, Honorable Jeffrey S. Boyd, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-8, Honorable Phil Johnson, Justice Supreme Court Texas P1-9, Honorable Eva M. Guzman, Joe Straus Speaker of the House Subject: Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Issues Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen: Regarding the longstanding controversy concerning illegal seizure of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants by the State of Texas, your attention is respectfully requested. Demand for action among Texas citizens affected by this injustice is progressively increasing. Driven by clear understanding of the precedent offered by past litigations, this historic travesty of justice is gaining momentous racial overtones. Multitudes of Texans believe that the primary motivation behind the state’s inaction stems from the fact that most land grants were Hispanic owned. Your sensible response could avert serious legal consequences for the state once the growing population of affected citizens reaches political solvency. It truly makes good sense to expedite examination of this issue with an open mind and judicious consideration. A proper example of this impropriety is the opinion of Justice Scalia … included herein for your recognition. Judge Scalia’s (land issue) opinion of the ADR in 1986, U.S. Federal District Court: " I want to make it clear that I read the holding of the opinion as limited by responsive to the precise and highly unique case before us. In particular, I do not read the opinion to hold that in a contemporary setting the United States Government can unlawfully expropriate property legitimately owned by aliens' property rights without compensation or consideration, and then totally avoid responsibility under our Constitution or other applicable laws of Nations. We have no occasion to consider such a situation here and we express no review on its legality”. AFFIRMED. THE SUPREME COURT DENIED AN APPLICATION FOR CERTIORARI WITHOUT GIVING AN OPINION (470 U.S. 1501; 1055C; 1751). Surviving families of Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Owners, lying between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers, are disparaged when referred to as “aliens”. Existing long before Texas became a state, and populated by a society governed by laws of nations, said Land Grant Owners properly possessed title and well-documented meets and bounds identifying each grant. Texas was non-existent then and subsequently held no right to confiscate those lands at any time, nor for any reason thereafter. Furthermore, the documented murders and crimes committed by Texas Rangers under the Administration of Governor James E. Ferguson, the 26th Governor of Texas, among others, which unlawfully displaced Hispanic Land Grantees from their lands, remain unresolved. Perhaps most unsettling, while Governor James E. Ferguson, on 1917 was impeached and removed from office on nine of twenty-one counts of unlawful acts, as substantiated by the Texas Senate, none of the charges included the horrific crimes he ordered against Hispanic landowners. Hence, the undersigned organizations are poised to begin organizing the law-abiding population of Texas to remedy these illegalities. Your action(s) to remedy this controversy with fair and equitable adjudication could encourage this burgeoning Hispanic population to serve a better purpose for Texas. Otherwise, if forced to defend its racial equality, this Hispanic movement would be most inclined to adopt an impartial mode. It is the desire of all undersigned to apply this political energy to a better Texas. We therefore respectfully request your attention and support to the resolution of this important issue. Specifically, the Texas Legislature should presently implement the following “Suggested Considerations for Resolution”: 1. Create a commission to examine and legally resolve the following: a. Crimes committed against Land Grant Families from the mid-1800s to the early 1920s, and dispense a judicious amount of collateral damage compensation for those harmed. b. Study mineral rights of heirs of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants and judiciously compensate those harmed ... under the same means used in “a” above. c. Investigate Treaty of Guadalupe Articles violated by Texas, the United State, and Mexico … and correct errors and omissions in lands confiscated from Spanish and Mexican families by the same measures taken in “a” above. d. Investigate U.S. Constitutional rights denied to Land Grant Heirs and correct by the same means taken in “a” above. e. Investigate and correct by means taken in “a” above, injustices of Court Judgements of Land Grant conflicts. f. Investigate & audit financial dispositions by the Texas Comptroller, of Oil Company monies surrendered to wrong parties as opposed to legal beneficiaries of Land Grantees. g. Develop a proper fiscal institutional venue to compensate Land Grant Heirs for past & future improper withholdings of any values retained or wrongfully distributed b...
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    Created by Nicolas Balli
  • Create legislation to end false police reports and harassment
    We have seen the monikers born of excellent senses of humor and talent for alliteration: Cornerstone Caroline, Permit Patty, BBQ Becky and many more. It is past time we create AND ENFORCE laws to protect people from these false police reports and the harassment that ensues during these incidents. In the case of Teresa Sue Klein we witnessed an act of child abuse on camera and have yet to see justice for little Jeremiah. When people call the police and make false reports or try to be vigilante law enforcement, it is a threat to democracy, freedom and in some cases: innocent lives.
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    Created by Marcie Wells
  • Imposition of Fine and/or Jail Time for Disregard of, or Endangerment to Human Life
    I am starting this petition because I believe that certain white people are using 911 emergency services as a means to act out their racism against black people in America. They are weaponizing their white privilege against the black person whom they have called the police on, and do so under the belief that their actions will be not only excused but supported by the authorities. This blatant projection of racism onto the well being and lives of black people must be deemed inexcusable and a severe offense under the eyes of the law.
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    Created by Amy Grantham
  • Brian Kemp MUST RESIGN as Secretary of State of Georgia
    Kemp should not be allowed to oversee the election board while he is running for governor's office. Kemp refused help to protect the voting machines in Georgia that were hacked by Russia. Kemp purged over 1 million voters so it could not be investigated. Kemp is holding 53,000 voter applications for exact match without notifying applicants. Kemp is blatantly suppressing the vote in his role as Secretary of State. If Kemp wants the appearance of a fair Election, he must be forced to resign or withdraw from the governor's race.
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    Created by Heather Richmond
  • Revoke white-supremacist think tanks tax exempt status
    It is about revoking the tax exempt status of white-supremacist Richard Spencer's organization. Richard Spencer has promoted hatred and violence against Muslims, Jews, African-Americans, Latinx, LGBT and women. We need to put white-supremacist movements out of business. Remember Heather Heyer.
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    Created by Brandon Harris
  • Stop Vigilante Justice against Black Children
    District Attorney Faith Johnson is caving to the outrage of a lynch mob. Six black kids are the target of this hatred. We demand that this vigilantism end immediately The District Attorney’s Office recently announced that it will seek to try the teens accused of car theft and robbery as adults, after the victims demanded “aggressive” retribution and organized more than two thousand people in Dallas around one goal: trying and locking up children as adults. Vengeance doesn't work as criminal justice policy. And it is not going to make our community safer. We know that kids tried as adults are more likely to commit new crimes, commit them more frequently, and commit more violent offenses than kids treated like the kids they are. Children are fundamentally different from adults. Research shows that kids who commit even serious crimes can and frequently do grow out of intransigent behavior as their brains mature. It is not a matter of leniency - youth need a system designed to rehabilitate youth. DA Johnson’s decision is not about justice or community safety. Rather, it is about obeying the demands of those who have the power and social capital to demand we throw away the lives of children. If these children were rich or white, would the outrage be as swift and the demands so damning? It is District Attorney Faith Johnson’s job to recognize and follow the course of action that protects everyone and best serves the interest of our community, not to respond to the demands of her rich constituents at the expense of black children. Racist mob action has no place in our justice system. D.A. Johnson must do her job and take a principled, common-sense approach to community safety, one that treats children like children. We demand that D.A. Johnson withdraw her motion to transfer these children to adult court.
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  • Stop Hate Crimes Against LGBT American, African Americans, and the Female Gender Citizens' Rights
    Stop Hate Crimes Against LGBT American, African Americans, and the Female Gender Citizens' Rights. Also to have the NYPD to enforce such laws as soon as possible. Because if NYPD serves as an example, then other cities and states shall too. There are far too many discriminations towards the LGBTQ, People Of Color, and women who experience such behavior in 2018. We would like to seek change before 2018's Thanksgiving Holiday.
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    Created by Wadsworth Hall
  • Grandparents' Rights in Florida
    Grandparents rights. I am personally being affected by the lack of grandparents' rights.
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    Created by Susan Ray
  • The officer who killed Botham Jean must be FIRED and charged with murder.
    Amber Guyger, a white female officer, killed Botham Shem Jean in his own apartment in Dallas and her story isn't adding up. Apparently, she thought she had entered her own apartment when she killed him. But so many questions remain unanswered: How do you mistake someone else's apartment for your own? Was she drunk or on drugs? How did she get into the apartment? Did she know Botham personally? And making it even more unbelievable, the officer's story keeps changing. At first, she said that the door to Botham's apartment was locked. Now she's telling investigators that she yelled at Botham to show his hands after she walked into HIS apartment. However, the attorney representing Botham's family has received witness accounts from neighbors saying that they heard "knocking down the hallway followed by a woman's voice that they believe to be officer Guyger saying, 'Let me in. Let me in.'" So many questions remain unanswered and Amber Guyger is only getting more time to re-work her story. We need answers and transparency now.  When police kill Black people they almost always get away with it and are protected under the "blue code of silence." And this is no different. Any other person, especially if they were Black, would have been arrested immediately and charged with home invasion and murder. But the Dallas Police Department gave Guyger THREE days to craft her story before she was arrested or even publicly identified. She was released immediately after her arrest on manslaughter charges. She's free. And she's still on Dallas Police Department payroll. Dallas District Attorney, Faith Johnson, is in charge of this case and has the power to make the final decision on the charges that Amber will face for killing Botham. In a press statement, she alluded to the inadequacy of manslaughter charges and said, "The grand jury will decide if the charges should be different. Believe me, we will make sure justice is done in this case." So we need to turn the pressure up on DA Johnson and make sure she keeps her promise by ensuring Amber Guyger is charged with murder and that the Dallas Police Department gets Amber Guyger off the force.
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  • Mayor Haeker: Remove Deputy Jesse Langley from the Harlan County Sheriff's Office
    I have been "harassed" in many ways by this deputy. He has constantly driven by my house or followed me with his lights off as I was following the law. I have many friends who can say the same thing. We aren't doing anything bad and he chooses to follow us around and constantly watch us when there are more illegal things to be focused on. He has targeted my family and my friends for as long as I can remember and I'm starting to feel like I can't leave my own house without him following us or watching us.
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    Created by Rylee Wing