I am a professional freelance writer, a career path I have been following for the past ten years. It is no exaggeration to say this path would not have been possible to follow without the Internet. I had tried freelancing before there was an Internet and it was slow, unwieldy and costly. And, if I had to do research, it would often involve a trip to the library, yet another time-consuming process. The Internet, I am happy to say, solved many of these issues for me.

An open Internet is a key to social justice.

It is important that all websites get equal access or only the big players will be available to the small guy. Verizon and big business makes enough money already off of consumers.

An open Internet is very important to everyone. My daughter is home-schooled online, and slowing that down would make the whole thing much more tedious and time consuming. As an avid internet user, I would definitely leave websites that take way too long to navigate. The internet should not be changed so that sites have to pay to have faster access. I have a healing business and have a website, and I would not be able to pay to be in the "fast lane," so I'm sure that would impact my business. We need to keep Net neutrality and a level playing field for everyone. We need our representatives to convince FCC chairman Tom Wheeler to rewrite the proposal before the May 15 FCC meeting.

As the president of BiNet USA, I work to advocate for bisexual people in America. As a friend of Larry Nelson, Brenda Howard’s surviving companion, I am deeply upset over the mistreatment of her legacy (Brenda passed from cancer in 2005). As a bi woman who has battled suicidality and survived sexual assault, I too represent the resiliency of the bisexual spirit in the face of poorer health and safety than our gay and straight counterparts.

Because the Separation of Church and State is fundamental to a free society. Roy Moore has shown his inability to be impartial. He has shown himself to be utterly biased and bigoted. He is standing in the court house door against marriage equality. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/alabama_chief_justice_roy_moor_4.html After the letter to the Governor and the Order to the Probate judges, I will be going to Montgomery to file a complaint, if able, to the Judicial Inquiry Commission. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mujTchVKDanlkslDTWpXwjRMQihyD8r0gK6jpRafuck/edit?usp=sharing I delivered this petition on 2-17-2015. Thank you to all the supporters, and MoveOn .org. Keep signing, the more the better. I will email all signers with information as it unfolds. http://www.southalabamaatheist.com/

This Petition is about the sanctity of elections in the U.S.A. For too many years, the electronic voting machines and tabulators have been extremely vulnerable to hacking and have often been hacked. This affects every voting citizen in the United States of America.

My name is Confidence Omenai. I am a poet activist and mother of four. I spent the earliest years of my childhood in Nigeria where my father, siblings and half my family still reside. On April 14, a group of militants calling themselves Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian school girls ages 15-18 from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, located in Borno State. The group’s name directly translates as "Western education is sin." These girls have been missing for two weeks now with gruesome reports of them being married off in mass weddings. Their families are weary with grief over the rumors that their daughters were sold as brides for the nominal price of 2,000 naira, the equivalent of $12 in the United States. If 200 American girls were abducted, there would be round-the-clock coverage on every network. I cannot, as a mother and a woman with Nigerian blood in her veins, stand back idly and wait for the world at large to care. I am asking you to feel the pain and desperation of these women and children. Join me in urging President Obama to lend U.S. support toward returning their daughters to their homes. The mass weddings belie the horror these girls are enduring. These mothers want what so many of us want: an education and a better life for their children. We cannot let darkness overtake them. We cannot stand for this kind of wanton brutality. I am asking women, men, mothers and fathers around the globe that believe all our daughters have a right to an education to please stand with me as I stand for them. I will not rest. I will not stop fighting. I will not give up until we bring every single one of them home. We have the power to move mountains. Consider if this was your daughter. Human trafficking is real and we must fight it on every shore. As long as they are captive none of us is free.

I am frustrated and have had enough with Dos Equis beer being promoted to the Hispanic community with a character that is supposed to be Jatin. The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's most interesting man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman. The Hispanic American community of The U.S. should see Hispanic characters on TV / Film / and Radio be played by Hispanic actors. I consider the ads to be an insult.

The purpose of this petition is to raise public awareness about the efforts of Black Veteran Organizations to redress an era in American History when separate was not equal for Black Americans serving in the defense of the nation.

All Navy veteran Madelynn Taylor wants is for her wife's ashes to be buried beside her when she dies. But the Idaho Division of Veterans Services rejected the 74-year-old's application — because of the state's ban on same-sex marriage!

Donald Sterling was caught on tape telling his girlfriend to refrain from inviting Black People to LA Clippers games. This is not the first time Sterling has been caught out on racist rants, even taking on Magic Johnson is a recent tirade. Not only are his comments patently offensive, in a league where perhaps more than half of the players are black and most of the big stars are, the comments are moronically stupid. Join me in boycotting anything "Clipper"-Games, TV broadcasts, merchandise or even media stories that do anything other than excoriate Donald for his childish and idiotic behavior. Let us keep the boycott up until Sterling is stripped of the franchise and given rock-bottom dollar for it from the league. Racism has no place in professional sports!