It's about the way CPS has disrupted my grandbabies lives. They placed my 14-month-old granddaughter with a total stranger and took her from my sister, who was very well capable of caring and loving my grandbaby. There is a lot of wrong within the system.

Senators Regan and Martin didn't succeed in their attempts to stop pipeline protest last year, so they're reintroducing their ALEC-inspired bills again this year. Read the ALEC bill here: https://www.alec.org/model-policy/critical-infrastructure-protection-act/ ALEC, short for the Americal Legislative Exchange Council, is known as a bill mill for the far right. Versions of their anti-protest legislation have shown up in several states already. Read this account from Inside Climate News for more information. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082018/pipeline-protest-laws-felony-free-speech-arrests-first-amendment-oklahoma-iowa-louisiana Please sign and share our petition to let PA Senators know we expect them to protect our rights and oppose both bills.

Cause he is a guy

arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhir viṣṇor vā vaiṣṇavānāṁ kali-mala-mathane pāda-tīrthe 'mbu-buddhiḥ śrī-viṣṇor nāmni mantre sakala-kaluṣa-he śabda-sāmānya-buddhir viṣṇau sarveśvareśe tad-itara-sama-dhīr yasya vā nārakī saḥ If one thinks that the worshipable śālagrāma-śilā is a mere stone, that the spiritual master is an ordinary human being or that a pure Vaiṣṇava preaching the bhakti cult all over the world is a member of a particular caste or material division of society, he is considered a nārakī, a candidate for hellish life. CC Antya 6.294 (Quoted from Padma Purāṇa) N.B. Nara-matir means literally “[ordinary] person-mentality” if we consider a Vaisnava or Vaisnavi guru or teacher to be an ordinary human being that is a hellish mentality and Jāti-buddhir means literally "birth-mentality” if we consider an aspect of a Vaisnavas or Vaisnavis material birth to be a disqualification, it is a hellish mentality. Females are also a material division of society. The malcontents against VDGs (Vaisnavi Diksha Gurus) say that the above does not apply to those born female, it only applies to those born male. Thus they consider the qualification for being a Vaisnava Mantra Diksha guru to be dependent on a customary or social convention i.e. that only dvija born males can be diksha gurus. Srila Prabhupada did not teach or agree to follow the caste and gender discriminatory rules given in those certain sastras which deal with hereditary, customary social or ecclesiastical conventions, as a basis for the purely spiritual position of Vaisnava Diksha Guru. Srila Prabhupada did not accept that the qualification to be guru is based on customary hereditary, ecclesiastic or social considerations. He tells us this clearly in the section defining Guru Tattva in Caitanya Caritamrta (the first chapter of Adi Lila teaches Gaudiya Vaisnava Guru Tattva): Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī advises that one not accept a spiritual master in terms of hereditary or customary social and ecclesiastical conventions. One should simply try to find a genuinely qualified spiritual master for actual advancement in spiritual understanding. CC Adi 1.35 purport Accepting a guru ONLY from a group of hereditary lines of dvija born male gurus is wrong as per this statement. Accepting a guru ONLY from a customary social group i.e. only (dvija) males is wrong as per this statement. Accepting a guru ONLY from an ecclesiastically approved group i.e. approved by a Church system (ecclesiastical convention means Church rules or GBC resolutions) is wrong as per this statement. One may accept a guru from one of the above groups, but one must not think that only those who are hereditary gurus, male gurus or Church approved gurus are the ONLY spiritually qualified persons to be guru. If one does then as stated above in the Padma Purana, he has a hellish mentality. This evil hellish mentality must not be allowed to enter ISKCON.

Enslaved Africans during the European Slave Trade in Ghana, West Africa were brutally housed in the bowels of the castles; Castles was NOT their collective experience; for they languished in the dark, dirty and rodent infested "Dungeons" of the Castles, being raped, tortured and inhumanly treated, before being brutally shipped to the Americas and the Caribbean to be sold into slavery.

One in four transgender people will experience assault in their lives because they are transgender. LB504 is just one step to protect transgender people and end the violence. There are many factors as to why transgender people face this violence. For example, in many states including Nebraska, it is difficult to impossible for transgender people to update the gender marker listed on their driver's license or birth certificate. Without identification matching their gender, transgender people frequently are "outed" as transgender in everyday interactions at bars, movie theaters, hospitals, or with police. These interactions can lead to harassment and violence. A ProPublica report documented, being known as transgender leads to pervasive job discrimination. Without laws protecting transgender people from discrimination face housing and food insecurity, homelessness and criminalization. Thus, it is vital that the Nebraska Unicameral pass LB504 to add gender identity to the Hate Crimes law. This violence against the transgender community has steadily risen in recent years. Last year 26 transgender people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means. In 2017, 29 transgender people were killed, and in 2016 the number was 23. Let's pass LB504 in remembrance of those transgender lives lost in 2018: - Crista Leigh Steele-Knudslien, 42 - Vicky Gutierrez, 33 - Celine Walker, 36 - Tanya Harvey, 35 - Zakaria Fry, 28 - Phylicia Mitchell, 45 - Amia Tyrae Berryman, 28 - Sasha Wall, 29 - Karla Patricia Flores, 26 - Nino Fortson, 36 - Gigi Pierce, 28 - Roxana Hernandez, 33 - Antash'a English, 38 - Diamond Stephens, 39 - Cathalina Christina James, 24 - Keisha Wells, 54 - Sasha Garden, 27 - Vontashia Bell, 18 - Dejanay Stanton, 24 - Shantee Tucker, 30 - Londonn Moore, 20 - Nikki Enriquez, 28 - Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier, 31 - Regina Denise Brown, 53 - Tydi Dansbury, 37 - Keanna Mattel, 35 *All information was from the ACLU and HRC*

I am starting this petition because Burlington, NC doesn't have a street that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I feel like this would show the community unity. We have a confederate solider statue in Graham, NC, so why can't we have a street named after such an honorable and astute man as Dr. King.

PoliceAbuse.com is currently investigating the collusion of multiple government entities to illegally remove personal property and illegally trespass. An investigative video was completed on behalf of the victim, and they have already garnered the support of their neighbors, family members, and community. The main complaint is directed at the Putnam County Sheriff's Department and the Putnam County Commissioner's office. The victims have been involved in this dispute far too long and deserve justice. Help to end this illegal overreach. View a brief explanation and evidence video at the URL below: https://policeabuse.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175

Principal Rowe, Your students travelled to Washington, D.C. and rather than supporting life, they became a mob that desecrated life and reveled in fear and hate. I understand that you have issued a condemnation of their actions and promise to investigate and take action. In this moment, you must all do far more. I urge you to root out the foundations of such unacceptable and hateful behavior and to teach your students to treat every person they encounter - and particularly elders - with dignity, humanity and respect. I urge you to engage every one of your students - and specifically all those who attended the march and surrounded Veteran and Elder Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial - in understanding the legacies and the values of the man who stood before them in song and the man at whose memorial they gathered. I urge you to remind them that hate and violence, racism and misogyny, have no place in the Catholic faith. I urge you to take this opportunity to show your students their privilege in even being able to travel home - when students of a different race who have engaged in far less have been arrested or attacked or worse. I urge you to lead the people of Covington to honor one another, and to forge a path forward where violence towards Native peoples or children with disabilities or the poor or the vulnerable is simply no longer. Covington can be known as having raised a white supremacist mob and, a few years back, having handcuffed and violently traumatized children with disabilities. Or it can be known for something far different: building to a higher ground without hate and violence. That is the only building you and your students should be screaming for. More information on the 2018 settlement on the use of handcuffs on students with disabilities in the Covington public schools: https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/covington/aclu-kenton-county-sheriffs-office-agrees-to-settlement-in-school-handcuffing-case

Karen Pence, second lady of the United States, has agreed to teach art at a Christian school in northern Virginia twice a week that does not provide admission to LGBTQ students or parents. She has taught for this school for 12 years and is now returning on a part-time basis. The rules of this school are obviously discriminatory against folks that are LGBTQ, and this is unacceptable.

This is the first of two protests and boycotts against Bristol West and The Farmers Group. The second one will entail the racist practices and racist connotations against African-Americans. I will have help from N.A.A.C.P. National Chapter, Rev. Al Sharpton, and The Urban League. As an African-American Veteran who fought for this country and a Gold Star Family Member. Bristol West, The Farmers Group and Copart 14185 Dallas Parkway Suite 400 Dallas, TX 75254 are in cahoots to steal my car, low-ball me, and delayed payment of car. They have my car, I signed the title over to them, and they have not paid my car loan. I was in the car business for ten years; I have witnessed Copart gangster ways. They are treating me like the lowest scum on this earth. I don’t expect them to act honorably with my claim since they have stubbornly refused to pay off my car as of January 14, 2019. I had the accident on November 4, 2018. This insurance company is complicit with The Farmers Group to swindle, deceive, and dupe consumers under the guise of racist discrimination and not paying litigable claims. These companies have ruined my credit. They are making me jump through hoops to pay my medical claim. My medical claim is a little over $5,000.00. Do you really think I am that ill-advised to play with an insurance company that is trying their best to ruin my existence? On this claim, they have not paid off my car, and they are sending the check by snail mail. I had to literally beg for additional car rental. The bank has sent me to the collection department. Bristol West and The Farmer Group don’t care. They keep giving me the runaround hoping I will simply forget about the claim. This episode with my adjusters isn’t isolated. Just ask them to consider revealing their consumer complaints filed against them and the supervisors have given the adjusters cover. They are operating like a Mafia. I was called by this terminology, “You people.” This phrase has long been used as an interpersonal generalization. It has become known as a racial epithet embattled to African-American communities only. The unlikeliest documentation of this connotation I can verify happened in 1992 when presidential candidate Ross Perot was rebuked for telling an NAACP audience about financial hardships befalling them by "you people." At this cultural moment in the U.S., we still live in a racialized social and cultural hierarchy, and our dialectal approach continues to replicate our ongoing endeavors to struggle with the realism that was perpetrated by these adjusters and previous slave owners. I hope they try to deny it and don’t own up to this racist statement; this is a violation of public trust and this fraudulent delay with my claim. I may get in trouble for recording the conversation between us. At this point, I don’t care. Secondly, they are trying to base the decision on lack of documentation. They are looking for reasons to deny the claim. Bristol West is notorious for doing this, especially since the Insurance Commissioner has rebuked them. It is only appropriate to tie Bristol West adjusters to the hip with The Farmer Group. The supervisors are standing behind this wretched, reckless behavior, and they are obstinately refusing to move forward with my medical claim and the auto payoff to my bank. They are dragging me for no earthly reasons. Now, I have to run from city to city to gather additional medical records. The only concern they have is to save their brand. They had no intention of paying the claim. I have researched numerous complaints by consumers who were distressed and persecuted by Bristol West and The Farmer Group. I will personally go to the end of the earth to see this company answer for the damages they caused to me. I pray and hope for justice for anyone who is a victim of bad faith business practices with this company, and these illegal actions by Bristol West. They are treating me like a criminal for filing a legit auto claim. In the most stressful moments, such as after an accident with an injury, these vultures are not here to help consumers, they are looking for every reason to deny my claim. They have wrecked my credit file. I only put down $1,000 when I bought this car. Since I am a credit risk now, they are requiring me to put between $4,000-$5,000 as the down payment. I am prepared to put my all on the line for this cause. I am prepared to go the last mile of the way. I will not kick the can down the down. Let us expose Liberty Mutual as an organization that targeted African-American in the Bible Belt of this country. This claim should have been settled months ago. I thought Jim Crow was dead, and in 2019 we are dealing with his nephew, James Crow, Esquire, and his nephew Jill Crow, Esquire.

Dr. Angela Davis' record speaks for itself. She is a renown leader of the civil rights movement, including being part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This is why it should've come as no surprise that Dr. Davis was chosen to be honored for a human rights award by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) in October. But earlier this month, BCRI decided to revoke its award from Dr. Davis by releasing a statement that read, "Upon closer examination of Ms. Davis’ statements and public record, we concluded that she unfortunately does not meet all of the criteria on which the award is based." [1] Although BCRI never stated which "criteria" Dr. Davis did not meet for the award, the move came after the Southern Jewish Life magazine spoke critically about BCRI awarding Dr. Davis and her support for Palestinian human rights. As Dr. Davis prepares to attend an alternative event in February, it's important to stand in solidarity and show support for her as a leader, a visionary, and a human rights advocate. Source: 1. "Why a Revoked Civil Rights Award for Angela Davis Is Causing an Uproar in Alabama," Slate, January 8, 2019 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/angela-davis-birmingham-alabama-award-civil-rights-bds.html