LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! As the executive director of the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery, I have become incredibly concerned with the City's "Compassionate Disruption" campaign against houseless families with children in Honolulu. The vast majority of houseless in Hawaii are local families with young children-- 'ohana struggling to make ends meet. I have seen young children, adults, and kupuna whose rights are violated every time a so-called "city enforcement" of the poor executes the unconstitutional confiscation and disposal of all property belonging to the houseless who are relegated to living on certain sidewalks in a dwindling number of districts. Most all other public spaces are not legal for the houseless to rest. This is the epitome of injustice and it must end. There are currently nearly 400 houseless families with children and other houseless individuals living in the Kakaako area alone. They cannot fit into shelter, they would max out the capacity for the proposed sand island encampment, and public housing is not an option with its 10-year waiting list. Compassionate Disruption, Sit-Lie, and other City Ordinances selectively enforced upon the houseless neither work nor are they just. Please support the measures seeking to protect the Houseless in Hawaii so that we may work with this population to get them out of poverty with true compassion. SB269 RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER SB270 RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS SB273 RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION CARDS SB1014 RELATING TO THE HOUSLESS BILL OF RIGHTS SIGN THIS PETITION AND SHARE TODAY!

The Arizona legislature is attacking the voter-approved Clean Elections Act, our strongest anti-corruption tool that helps voters reclaim government of, by and for the people. The same big money-backed lawmakers are passing bills that make it harder to vote and attack our courts. Please sign our petition to Andy Biggs, President of the Arizona Senate and David Gowan, Speaker of the Arizona House asking them to support legislation that strengthens Clean Elections, Voting Rights and Fair Courts.

Citizens of Alabama should have a chief justice who respects the law and the limitations to his/her authority. Judge Roy Moore continuing in his current position poses a threat to the rights of all Alabamians. Our rights are at the mercy of his personal convictions.

Please join the National Nominating Committee in supporting Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Help us to encourage President Barack Obama to accept this moment in history and select her for this esteemed Award. On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton was beaten, knocked unconscious and left to die on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in what has become known as “Bloody Sunday.” At 103, she is still a champion for freedom, justice and equality. Born on August 18, 1911, one of ten children of George and Anna Hicks Platts in Savannah, Georgia, young Amelia, at age 10, began her life-long quest for voting rights as a vehicle to equality. She assisted her mother in going door-to-door by horse and buggy in 1921 to encourage Blacks to vote. After graduating from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1927, she began a career with the United States Department of Agriculture in 1929. Later, she became reacquainted with fellow Tuskegee graduate, S.W. Boynton, whom she subsequently married. Together, they began helping to lay the groundwork in the 1930’s for the now famous Selma-to-Montgomery March, of which “Bloody Sunday” was a part, and which ultimately led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A part of Amelia’s role in the movement is immortalized in the recent Oscar-nominated movie “Selma,” where she is portrayed by Lorraine Toussaint. Because of the pivotal work that she performed in securing the right to vote for Blacks in the United States, our nominee, a resident of Tuskegee, Alabama since 1976, is known as the “Matriarch of the Voting Rights Movement.” Please sign this petition and join our Committee in nominating Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, and in urging President Barack Obama to name her as a recipient for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thank you for your support. National Nominating Committee Post Office Box 941 Tuskegee Institute, Alabama 36087 Dr. Elaine C. Harrington, Chair Atty. Lateefah Muhammad, Co-Chair

As an American reading "Guantanamo Diary," I was sickened by the accounts of US-inflicted torture on Slahi and his fellow prisoners. I asked myself: "Why is he still there?' and "Why is Guantanamo still there, shaming us all?"

Discrimination of anyone is wrong. Transgender people using single-sex public facilities (including restrooms in public, workplaces, and schools) that correspond with their gender identity should not be criminalized. Guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine for using a restroom. The bill would also empower people in a single-sex restroom during any “unlawful entry” to sue the alleged interloper and owner of the facility for attorneys fees and damages. Discrimination is wrong. Let's stop this bill.

There is a pervasive pattern of racially abusive policing and profiling in Berkeley, as well as many other forms of racial inequality. On December 6, a peaceful gathering protesting police abuses nationwide was teargassed, pepper-sprayed, shot with projectiles, and beaten with batons. Mayor Bates and the City Council majority continue to put off addressing these long-term issues in a meaningful way and have postponed consideration of Councilmember Arreguin's proposals twice in the last month. The next City Council meeting is February 10, and we want Mayor Bates to know it's time for real action. All of us in the Bay Area need to come together to address these issues, since any of us could be negatively impacted by the police in a nearby city, or even in our own city because of the mutual aid agreements between cities. Berkeley has a reputation for being progressive -- we need to be leaders on these issues, rather than falling further and further behind. Read below for more background and specific actions we want to see taken. Together our voices are powerful. We can make a difference if we stand up and speak out on these issues of racial justice and freedom of speech. The 2013 NAACP report drew a clear picture of racial discrimination and disparities in Berkeley, making specific and actionable recommendations, yet Mayor Bates has not acted. Encouraging minority youth to become police officers, supporting a federal ban on profiling, and holding regional meetings on these issues may be positive steps but they are far from sufficient. We want real action HERE and NOW in Berkeley. 1. Conduct a Police Review Commission investigation into the actions of the police on December 6, when peaceful protesters – including reporters and the elderly -- were teargassed, beaten with batons, pepper-sprayed, and struck with projectiles. 2. Support the national demands put out by Ferguson Action. 3. Freeze now, and then abolish, the use of teargas, projectiles, and over-the-head baton strikes in crowd management and ban military weaponry and equipment in the Berkeley Police Department, and require that mutual aid agencies meet Berkeley’s standards of conduct. 4. Ban physical assaults on members of the media. 5. Create a broad community process to address the pattern of profiling and racially abusive policing in Berkeley as well as inequities in housing, employment, education, and health faced by African-Americans. 6. Ban undercover officers from covering their faces, and enforce the ban on uniformed officers covering their badges. 7. Strengthen the Police Review Commission to the full extent allowed by state law. 8. Press for independent prosecutors to investigate and prosecute crimes by police. 9. Enforce the implementation, at long last, of the Fair and Impartial Policing policy including demographic data collection, and make the first round of data public, with an analysis by race, by August 1. 10. Review recommendations in People's Investigation of In-Custody Death of Kayla Moore, including extension of mental health services to replace police as first responders in mental health crises.

Last summer, following Deming PRIDE's annual pageant, a group of LGBTQ customers entered their local Denny's looking to celebrate another successful pageant. But, "they sat for more than 45 minutes without being offered drinks, given menus, or provided service of any kind." Supported by the ACLU and New Mexicans across the state, those customers have filed discrimination complaints. It's unacceptable (and illegal) for corporations to refuse service on the basis of sexual orientation, or gender identity. Denny's should be serving up hot cakes not slurs.

This petition is about discrimination. After a meal, some people will use the public bathroom to brush their teeth, especially if they have braces. This is allowed. But, in Burien, Wa., an ordinance was created implying that the homeless are not allowed to brush their teeth in a public bathroom. Oral Hygiene is very important to our health, by taking care of our teeth we all prevent many problems, including some that lead to death. Emergency hospital visits have risen 40% in regards to dental problems. By not allowing homeless people to brush their teeth, many could end up in the emergency room and some will inevitably die from oral diseases. It is inhumane to allow some patrons to brush their teeth in a public bathroom and not other patrons. This is blatant discrimination against people who happen to be homeless.

Gerawan workers are excited. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board (LAUSD), who contracts to purchase Gerawan’s products, is taking a stand for their rights. On February 10, the LAUSD Board will vote on a resolution asking its procurement office to inform the board about Gerawan Farming’s compliance with fair labor practices before any contracts with this vendor are brought to the board for approval. Can you sign the Gerawan workers’ petition in support of this resolution? Gerawan workers will deliver the signed petition when they testify in Los Angeles on February 10th. This vote will be held while an administrative judge in Fresno continues to preside over the months long state hearing regarding alleged flagrant labor law violations by Gerawan Farming Inc. The school board resolution “calls upon Gerawan Farming to comply with state and federal laws, including labor relations…and to immediately implement the agreement issued by the neutral mediator and the state of California.” The proposed LAUSD resolution vows to ensure “that agricultural vendors and suppliers be in compliance with all local, state and federal laws, including the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.” It also requests that the district’s “Procurement Services Division report back to the board updating Gerawan Farming’s compliance with fair labor practices before any contracts with this vendor are brought to the board for approval.” The Los Angeles City Council and Berkeley City Council both passed similar resolutions.

In my home state of Idaho you can: lose your home, job, and be denied emergency services because someone SUSPECTS that you hold a gender or sexual identity that they disagree with. It's time for codified bigotry to end. If Idaho won't do the right thing, maybe they will do the fiscally prudent thing.

The foreskin is not a birth defect. Circumcision is a permanent amputation of normal, healthy, sensitive tissue that serves important physiological functions and without which normal sexual performance and sensation can be impaired. During the 19th century, circumcision was promoted as an effective remedy for a host of ailments including but not limited to rheumatism, epilepsy, asthma, skin cancer, insanity, and venereal disease. But it was as a remedy for "masturbatory insanity" which was believed to result from masturbation or "self-abuse" that circumcision was most widely promoted by its supporters during the 19th century. These are the historical and pseudo-scientific roots of routine infant male circumcision as it is practiced in the U.S. today. Yet this petition is not about banning circumcision. It is about banning forced circumcision. It is about ending the practice of denying men the right to choose for themselves whether to be circumcised. There is no right more basic nor more important than the right to control one's own body. Forced infant circumcision violates that right. It is a human-rights violation because it deprives infants, boys and men of the right to determine what is done to their bodies. The campaign to end involuntary circumcision, like its sister campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation, is based on the simple idea that each individual, regardless of sex, has an innate right to control his or her own body. Thus, the effort to ban routine infant male circumcision is part of a greater human-rights struggle in the broadest sense. It is a crucial part of the effort to create a world in which all people's rights - infants, girls, boys, women, men, and intersex individuals - are respected.