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.

The Teaneck Holocaust Memorial Committee has been working for 2 years to get a Holocaust Memorial created in Teaneck. We believe that it is important to create a Holocaust Memorial in the Township of Teaneck to memorialize those who perished in the Holocaust and establish a place for the community to use for reflection and education about the tragedy of genocide and the lessons of tolerance. We believe that time is of the essence as each year the amount of Holocaust survivors is dwindling and soon there will be none left to bear witness to the horrors of the Holocaust. After doing extensive searches in the town, we furthermore believe that Brett Park (River Road at the intersection of Winthrop Road) is the best choice to establish the Holocaust Memorial due to its accessibility to the community, available parking and visibility from River Road. Since the land in question is vacant, nothing will be displaced and this memorial will bring meaning and sanctity to the park and to the Township.

In 2006 Mr. Gould (my former employer) brought many false allegations against me in order for my Top Secret Security Clearance to be suspended because my wife who was ill and pregnant (my son was born with Autism) at the time wanted me to return from Iraq. Mr. Gould wanted me to stay in Iraq but I left with his blessings after he saw I was not going to stay ( my family comes first and this was an emergency) but Mr. Gould was so upset he began retaliating against me with bitter lies. Judge Leonard of the Department of Hearings and Appeals finally gave me an appointment to appeal my case in 2009 (although I started the documents for the hearing in regards to my suspended Top Secret Clearance in 2006, whatever happen to due process) but he did not abide by Executive Order 10865 which is detailed below. In response to Greene, President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10865 on February 20, 1960. Executive Order 10865 requires a hearing in which contractor employees would be given the opportunity to appear before the decision-maker to confront and cross-examine witnesses and attempt to rebut the Government's case. Not all cases go to a full hearing because a clearance Applicant has the choice of having a hearing or having the case determined on a record composed of only documentary evidence. I chose to cross-examine all people who brought charges against me and was under the impression they would be at the hearing but they were not. When I appealed the decision of Judge Leonard to the Department of Hearings and Appeals I was again denied my clearance based on the two false allegations by Mr. Gould, but I could not prove them to be wrong because Mr. Gould was not at the hearing, where I could cross examine him and prove not only the 25 other false allegations he told on me which were thrown out by Judge Leonard were indeed lies but also the only two allegations (false allegations by Mr. Gould) which Judge Leonard saw as being reason enough to deny me my clearance. I have five children and a wife who have suffered tremendously because of Mr. Gould false allegations and Judge Leonard decision not to follow Executive Order 10865. Knowbody is above the law and for 25 false allegations to be thrown out during a Top Secret Clearance Hearing in itself is an injustice because in order to receive a clearance you have to be honest and truthful throughout and Mr. Gould has a Top Secret clearance for his company and he continues to work for our Government which is an insult to our Justice and Security System.

It has been over 3 years that no one could go to the "Pihana Kalani Heiau" in Waiehu, Maui. This Heiau has been in many of Maui's families' care since its birth, which were still under Maui's Native Families who have spiritual and genealogical connections to its Chiefly Lineages, many of which are connected to our Native Families. Some of our Native Kanaka of Maui have their "Piko" or "Umbellical Cord" placed there. I for one have mine placed there and can't attend momentarily, along with our Kupuna. It is very frustrating trying to uphold family traditions such as these and not be able to practice or visit a landmark of our forefathers. The Department of Land & Natural Resources (DLNR) needs to open its "public access" to accommodate Spiritual Practices, Cultural Observance and Traditional Dances, as well as the many tourists who visit our islands. Please help us attain this goal to restore daily public access to the "Pihana Kalani Heiau" in Waiehu, Maui by signing this petition.

I believe strongly that if every citizen voted we would truly be a democracy rather than a plutocracy.

Descendants of Mission Natives strongly oppose the canonization of Junipero Serra. Pope Francis recently apologized to Native peoples in South America for past inhumane treatment and colonization; yet our ancestors were suppressed, dominated and enslaved by Serra and considered collateral damage to the Church and State. The canonization will not celebrate Hispanics (since Serra and his Inquisition Conquistadors were foreign invaders), welcome Native Peoples back to the Catholic Church, or honor our ancestors. It will re-awaken the Inquisition Doctrine of Discovery; a very dark, and brutal time in the history of the Catholic Church and Civilization. The passage of time has not made the reality of dominations and genocide of Indigenous Californians go away, nor has it made the Mastermind of the brutal Mission system a Saint. We respectfully ask you to urge the Pope to vacate this plan and open meaningful dialogue with California Nations, in California, before his visit to Washington D.C.. We do not want an apology; rather, we need immediate action from the Vatican to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery and to recognize the inhumane treatment of our ancestors. This canonization is in direct conflict with the pope's position on protecting indigenous peoples in his encyclical on the environment. If Pope Francis is sincere in his intentions towards Native peoples, he will abandon the canonization of Junipero Serra now.

William is a 57 year old Disabled Veteran ON OXYGEN , ASSAULTED by Jacksonville Florida Police. March 15th 2014, Police arrived at Bills house on a "Well Person Check." Bill came out and told Police he was fine. Police wanted Bill to come with them. They had no warrant.... he said he was fine and refused to leave. THAT WAS HIS LEGAL RIGHT! Instead of leaving , Police held Bill hostage for 18 hours inside his home. They SHUT HIS POWER OFF , FLOODED HIS HOME WITH LIGHTS AND LOUD NOISES. 18 HOURS LATER THEY PUNCHED A HOLE IN BILL'S HOME AND THREW A PHONE IN.... THEN TEAR GAS! (Did I mention he was on OXYGEN?) Bill came out unable to breathe and dropped to all fours choking... Police ordered him to get up but he obviously could not. They surround him and shot him with rubber bullets. Bill falls sideways unable to move or breathe now.... and they follow up with tazing him . Bill spent 4 days in the HOSPITAL, and has been in jail over 300 days now, FOR DOING NOTHING! Bill's income has been cut. He has requested 3 times for indigent status.... 3 times the Judge has ignored it. His first trial was a DEADLOCK. His second trial was to start last Monday.... The Judge CANCELLED COURT AND RE SET THE DATE FOR MARCH! Many times they have offered to let Bill free if he would just plead guilty. BILL WILL NOT PLEAD GUILTY TO SOMETHING HE DID NOT DO! WHAT IS BILL BEING CHARGED WITH? ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER! WHERE AND WHEN DID THIS ASSAULT TAKE PLACE? AND, if they were there on a well person check,,,, why haven't they taken Bill to a psychiatrist? His doctor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F-9Q_fwTXo We have a petition going .... please take the time to sign. Thank you.... Justice for William Desmond https://www.change.org/.../honorable-angela-corey-email... Honorable Angela Corey @: Email Angela Corey and ask her to Let William Desmond... CHANGE.ORG

Ted Jec - this petition creator is effected every day by corruption in New Port Richey, Florida's court where child support imposed unjustly by general magistrate Angela Hoogeveen and judge Patricia Ann Muscarella and judge Kimberly Campbell exceeds many times income and Crimes Against Humanity ( all marital assets - property, house and cars were legally taken away from the victim, taking away write to work by suspending driver license, ruining lives and livelihood of conducting business, prosecuting and intimidating for money that can not be earned, incarceration for half a year when new born baby was born and wife of Ted Jec had to stay alone for half a year in despair, stealing child support from bank accounts, trying to levy private properties by Florida Department of Revenue, refusal to issue passports or other licenses, constant intimidation and court hearings to incarcerate on behalf of the ex wife where children are abused and used in worst than prostitution style exploitation, child abuse - the children are not free to see the father since 2010 as they are used as extortion tools by the corruption in New Port Richey, Florida's court. See more details at http://www.tedjec.com/petition/

It's a proven fact, communities that value diversity and promote equality see an influx of business, outside funding, and enhancement to the overall quality of life for all of its citizens. These are your friends, neighbors, children, co-workers, family; who all need and deserve the ability to work towards achieving the american dream.