When the Herero (Ovaherero) people of Namibia revolted against the confiscation of their land and cattle by German colonists, more than 80,000 men, women and children were killed. On October 2, 1904 Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha publicly issued a written extermination order, Vernichtungsbefehl, of the Herero people in Namibia on behalf of Germany Kaiser Wilhelm II. This infamous extermination order decreed: “Herero found within the German borders with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot. I shall no longer receive any women and children. I will drive them back to their people, or I will shoot them”. The United Nations and historians consider this to be the first genocide of the 20th century, and it is estimated that eighty percent (80%) of the estimated 150 000 tribe was killed. The Herero people suffered incalculable losses from mutilation, rape, slaughter, and banishment from their land. Survivors were confined to concentration camps where they performed forced labor. Today, descendants of the survivors continue to reside in Botswana, South Africa, and many other countries. The majority of the Herero people live in their homeland of Namibia, where they are now a minority. While the then German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Mrs. Wieczorek-Zeul, apologized for the genocide at a commemorative event in 2004, however the German government refuses to enter into a meaningful dialogue about reparations. In order to address the genocide of the Herero people, the late Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako filed a lawsuit against the German government and German companies that benefited from slave labor in the US courts. However, the case was dismissed for technical reasons. We, the undersigned, urge the government of Germany to offer reparations to the Herero and Nama tribes of Namibia for the genocide committed against their people from 1904-1908. Sincerely, This petition is endorsed by many community leaders and it is the undertaking of the Ovaherero Diaspora and descendants. For more information contact us at [email protected]

I am writing to add to the voices already expressed by vote in Fayetteville to prevent "THE INTRASTATE COMMERCE IMPROVEMENT ACT," which is the amended Bill SB202 (you can find AR SB202 info here: legiscan.com/AR/text/SB202/2015). After this bill is passed, a person can be legally discriminated against in cases which do not pertain to Arkansas state law, and, therefore, fired or not hired, nor even served as a customer, a patient, a renter, a human. After this bill is passed, no city or municipality can have discrimination laws which suit its own demographic and municipality’s needs. This bill has wide scope and negative potential that will greatly affect the quality of life for many. It will perpetuate our state poverty and discrimination. It will prevent opportunity, hope, and help. Senator Hester is appealing to people who discriminate against Gays for misguided ideas. I say "misguided" because nothing and no one could ever separate you from your God, so long as you love and believe in God. Furthermore, economy is not threatened by the public presence or public spending of gays or foreigners. Senator Hester is not amending a bill which will promote safe health and respiratory comfort for all patrons, such as smoking laws. Senator Hester is looking for the wrong way to alleviate regulatory burdens for businesses. He must also not know what it is like to have a loved one who is gay, to watch him be attacked violently because of hate, to watch him grow into adulthood with fear of the world and hatred for himself, and to have known well as a bystander, a loved one, before you knew what it was to be gay, that he has been gay since he was 5 years old. Senator Hester is misguided; Our state is suffering because of discrimination, against people who could participate, but rather are restricted from our commerce, taxation, and education. Thank you for your time, support, and work.

Lalíik is held sacred by native peoples of the Columbia Plateau, including the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wanapum, Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Yakama, and is revered as a spiritual epicenter to this day. Native cultural heritage must be protected.

The Roswell Daily Record has a history of publishing anti-Hispanic and anti-African-American cartoons. Its anti-New Mexican and its time to stop. Advertisers provide the financial support to publish a newspaper and its editorial positions. Roswell defines New Mexico to the world (and beyond) and local businesses who support racist publications like the Daily Record's recent editorial cartoon are turning away business and tourists from their stores. Help us tell the paper's advertisers to pull out of supporting publications like these that misrepresent New Mexico to the world.

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.