I am starting this petition because I want to make a change in communities around me. If there are suicide rates 150% above the nation's average, that is beyond alarming. I have faced the effects of suicide first hand and it is not an experience I would wish upon everyone. This bill would be so beneficial to the Native American communities who are in desperate need of a helping hand to give them a sense of purpose and support in their lives.

Please also see the Petition to Impeach Judge Benjamin Smith of the 380th Judicial District Court, Collin County at https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/please-sign-to-impeach-1. Please sign and share. Our case was transferred to Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th Court only after our rights were severely violated by Judge Benjamin Smith of the 380th Court who denied all our rights to this child. Judge Emily Miskel then, though fully aware that adequate service requirements were not met to the mother of this child or paternal grandmother as per Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, knowing the file was sealed by Judge Smith as requested by the paternal grandmother with whom he had a personal relationship, entered final orders in the suit affecting the parent-child relationship, giving full custody to the father although he was clearly proven unfit at the temporary hearing not only by counsel of the mother and maternal grandmother but also by his own parents, and though he had not even resided in Texas nor Collin County for the allotted time as he had only lived there 3 weeks, breaking the requirement of legal standing. Judge Emily Miskel also wrote off more than $12,000 in back child support owed to the mother by the father as he was absent from the child’s life since birth and had provided no monetary support. The child's mother was given no visitation privileges whatsoever, stating visitation was to be determined by and supervised by the child’s father, allowed no phone number to be listed in the Final Orders, and only a PO Box in McKinney stating the mother was to mail a letter to the PO box to discuss seeing and/or discussing the child. The mother was ordered to pay child support to the father. Judge Miskel had previously worked with the owner of opposing counsel's law firm, and knowing this was a CLEAR conflict of interest signed the order anyway. Since that time, the child’s father and paternal family have been allowed to move the child out of state to an undisclosed location, changing phone numbers and blocking all social media profiles, giving the child’s mother and the maternal family no access to him for now 6 years. The last time the mother and maternal family saw the child was March 2015 only for 15 minutes while being videotaped by the paternal grandmother Marguerite Alba, who used her legal ties and legal assistant position with the Dallas Law Firm who represented her to, as she put it per witness testimony, “destroy” the child’s mother. Since the father has had custody, he has abandoned the child at least 5 times, moved him at least 9 times, changing schools at least approximately 8 times more. We miss this little boy every single second of every day. With every breath, I pray we will see him again. We were with him consistently since birth, but now we have all been stripped away from him. The place this Judge put him in does not provide him a healthy, safe environment. We have heard so many stories of civil rights violations by this Judge with other families. Please help us send a message to this Judge that her illegal, unethical, bias, partial rulings will no longer be tolerated. Please sign this petition to help us make a stand to impeach Judge Emily Miskel. There are many other families who have been destroyed by the bias, impartial, illegal corruption of this Judge. If your rights have been violated by this Judge, please contact us at https://www.facebook.com/injusticeincollincounty. Please sign and share our other petition to impeach Judge Benjamin Smith located at https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/please-sign-to-impeach-1 as he also grossly violated the Civil Rights of the child, his mother/paternal family. The law provides strict policies governing Texas Judges by way of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. Texas law upholds that “our legal system is based on the principle that an independent, fair and competent judiciary will interpret and apply the laws that govern us.” It is required that a Judge should act as an arbitrator of "facts and law" to resolve disputes fairly only after allowing parties their right to testimony without showing bias or partiality "under the rule of law" while "establishing and maintaining high standards of judicial and personal conduct.” Canon 2A "admonishes Judges to conduct themselves in a manner to promote public confidence." Canon 2B states: "He (a judge) should not lend the prestige of his office to advance the private interests of others." Canon 3A(2) "admonishes judges to be unswayed by partisan interests." Canon 3B(5) states “a judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice.” Canon 3B(7) states “a judge shall require lawyers in proceedings before the court to refrain from manifesting, by words or conduct, bias or prejudice based on race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status against parties, witnesses, counsel or others.” Canon 3B(8) states “a judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law. A judge shall not initiate, permit, OR CONSIDER EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS or other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties between the judge and a party, an attorney, a guardian or attorney ad litem, an alternative dispute resolution neutral, or any other court appointee concerning the merits of a pending or impending judicial proceeding.” It is clearly stated in the Texas Constitution Article 15 entitled “Impeachment” that "Any judge of the District Courts of the State who is incompetent to discharge the duties of his office, or who shall be guilty of partiality, or oppression, or other official misconduct, or whose habits and conduct are such as to render him unfit to hold such office, or who shall negligently fail to perform his duties as judge; or who shall fail to execute in a reasonable measure the business in his courts, may be removed by the Supreme Court."

TAM LAWRENCE, LOBBYIST For several years, I trusted a home health care provider to care for my mom after a series of strokes my mother needed 24hr care. For the first 5yrs we received cares; as the business owner continued to open up more homes- the service declined and her staff went along with it. Unfortunately, my mom has for too long endured the abuse and neglect provided by Willowcrest Turner's Point Community Residential Facility located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On March 31, 2019 when I found my mother in a closed room sitting in a pool of urine, she had been in this condition for at least several hours. When I confronted the caretaker she agreed my mom was in this condition for over 2 hours [i have video] of her statement. Thereafter, I called the owner of the Community Residential Based Facility she stated, " I can not control what those people do over there. You have to do, what you got to do! We've been going through this for sometime and the state will not define this as abuse, your mother does not have any skin breakdowns nor does she have skin issues." - stated Kim Turner the owner of Willowcrest ll Turner's Point On one too many occasions the owner of WILLOWCREST TURNER'S POINT has played the victim and rather than fix what's wrong with her business's model- she'd rather complain about there not being suitable caregivers in MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN for her to hire. In efforts, to derail me from contacting the governing bodies or removing my mom she stated - it's a problem for basically everyone in the business in MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN so my mom in most cases would be treated the same or even worse if relocated. Her candid remarks, would normally make me feel a sense of hopelessness in which case I'd freeze up in fear. However, on April 1st 2019 I refused to be treated like a FOOL any longer and found assistance from the staff at St. Anne Day Service. I got my mom out! Let's make sure our seniors are protected - In closing, there needs to be tough laws, jail time, fines and the termination of licensing for those who abuse and neglect our seniors

Because something must be done in the aftermath of the massacres in New Zealand, at the Tree of Life Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, at the Sikh Temple of Oak Creek, Wisconsin and the firebombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. These headline-making attacks are just a few of the many on houses of worship in recent years. Muslim Advocates and our partners need the FBI to take this threat seriously and devote sufficient attention and resources to understanding, preventing and investigating the white nationalist threat.

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