I am starting this because at Mannheim middle school we had silence day where we were silent for those who couldn't speak for themselves. But I don't think we should be silent--I think we should speak out. Help me speak out against racial profiling.

Bond lies and spreads hatred

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It was one of the worst videos of police murder we have ever seen.[1] South Carolina police officer Michael Slager viciously killed 50-year-old Walter Scott by fatally shooting him eight times in the back. In a harrowing video, Officer Slager is also seen possibly planting evidence at the crime scene and violently handcuffing Mr. Scott as he lay dying. Officer Slager has been charged with first-degree murder. This is a good first step. But it’s only one step. No mother should have to fear that a loved one could face harm at the hands of those charged with protection. Join us in urging President Obama to sign an executive order enforcing and expanding bans on racial bias in policing. Sign on to MomsRising's petition and our message below, which we'll deliver to the White House. _________________________________________ Dear President Obama, A mother should never have to fear that her children could be killed or harmed at the hands of those sworn to protect them. But study after study is showing this happens every day. The national crisis of racially motivated and discriminatory policing requires your executive action. According to FBI statistics, law enforcement officers kill African Americans approximately every 3 days, and other estimates put this deadly number at almost every day. Studies show that in addition to causing deaths at disproportionate and inhumane rates, there is a pattern of unjust stops, abuse, and arrests of black and brown people in our nation. Every day, families are torn apart, children are robbed of their futures, and our democracy is weakened. We cannot afford to wait any longer for the concrete, structural reforms needed to keep communities safe. And the unacceptable non-indictment of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson highlights deep-seated, structural problems with the enforcement of civil rights protections that require your immediate intervention. I strongly urge you to issue an executive order enforcing and expanding federal bans on discriminatory policing, strengthening systems of police discipline, ordering the immediate collection of nationwide data on police use of force, ending federal anti-drug grants and the Defense Department's 1033 program, and massively re-investing in community controlled policing. Anything less is unacceptable. There are enough federal civil rights laws on the books to hold police officers and departments fully accountable when they discriminate, injure or kill civilians. But we need your leadership to ensure that they are enforced. A number of federal policies, such as the 1033 program, are responsible for creating these intolerable conditions of abuse and police brutality and must be terminated. Unless definitive action is taken to end these destructive polices and enforce federal civil rights law, our nation will continue to have an unequal, deadly, broken system of justice and policing that violate human rights and cannot be trusted by all. I hope you treat this matter with the utmost seriousness and do everything in your power to end the policies and practices that fuel militarized, abusive policing. Your latest initiatives are important steps in the right direction, Mr. President, but we need more. We need an executive order. [1] "South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder of Walter Scott," NYTimes 04-07-2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html

My children have grown up in Europe as bicultural bilinguals; America is their "other" home. They are 49er fans, prefer reading in English and are indistinguishable from US-based Americans their own age. But their children - my grandchildren - will be denied citizenship unless my kids spend 5 continuous years in the US, which may or may not suit their career plans. This is unfair.

As our economy continues to tank, more and more people are finding themselves without shelter and food security. At the same time businesses and municipalities are creating and building obstacles and edifice-additions that discourage and prevent people desperate for shelter and rest from using those spaces.

To Stop XeNOphobia and to find Justice for the victims of xenophobia in South Africa

My nephew Gary Crocker is a blind vendor for a roadside rest area. His sight is a challenge even under the best conditions. The purpose of AB 1353 is to amend the California Streets and Highways Code eliminating the current discriminatory practices by the California Department of Transportation on the blind Safety Roadside Rest Area vendors of the Business Enterprises Program. Currently blind SRRA vendors participating in the BEP are being discriminated against regarding the operational expenses of the BEP vending facilities at the state's safety roadside rest areas. Supporting AB 1353 will correct this injustice that has been allowed in burdening hard working blind individuals participating in this state program for the blind.

My wife and I took Keyla into our family in 2005, at the request of her family. In 2011, we had to leave Matamoros for the narco-war. Despite assurances by our federal government that we could apply for humanitarian parole for Keyla, she was taken into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. In its custody she has been moved from Texas to Illinois to Pennsylvania and now to California. Her condition has significantly deteriorated since her seizure by our federal government.

Enough said: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9d1_1429192014

Coming soon to Florida: A scared and lonely child denied an adoptive home, some loving couple denied their dream of starting a family -- all in the name of Christianity. Under a bill that just passed the state house, state-funded adoption agencies will be able to deny child placement to single mothers, gay and lesbian couples, or any other family which the agency objects to on the basis of "religious or moral conviction." A few right-wing Christians are calling this "the official beginning of the battle for religious liberty and religious freedom in the state of Florida." But no one who follows Jesus should want to keep children in need away from loving families.

Workers in the United States and around the world unite to renew the 1951 petition "We Charge Genocide" submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress and others. The 1951 petition "We Charge Genocide" opposed the genocidal violence towards African-Americans in the United States at that time. This renewal opposes the contemporary genocidal violence towards African-Americans in the United States and seeks relief from the United Nations. The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide: 1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and 2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide." Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity. The recent police murders of African-Americans in the USA meet the requirements of the legal definition of genocide. We demand that the genocidal violence against African-Americans in the United States end immediately. The police murders of African-Americans in the United States must cease immediately.