According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, women bosses abuse female employees about 80% of the time. I am an older Black woman and one of over 25 Black & Hispanic female victims terminated as a result of workplace bullying by a Black female executive over the past 10 years. Like Domestic Violence - a crime in the home, workplace bullying is about power and control and is a crime in the workplace. It is not a private employer/employee problem. If their behavior is not stopped, school yard bullies grow up to be batterers and workplace bullies. If the bully is the boss, abuse in the workplace becomes the unhealthy norm, negatively impacting the bottom line. We're calling on Governor Deval Patrick and Massachusetts state legislatures to pass the Healthy Workplace Act now.

We demand that state of North Carolina open an investigation into whether the Republican-backed firm Strategic Allied Consulting engaged in voter registration fraud in North Carolina. Strategic Allied Consulting has been accused of filing fraudulent registration forms in nearly a dozen Florida counties, and may have done the same in North Carolina. This should be done immediately - prior to the 2012 November election.

THE I.D. VOTER LAWS OF 28 REPUBLCAN STATES

denial of early voting on weekend

We need your help to reinstate early voting and weekend voting in Ohio! To preserve our right to vote, we need to ensure everyone can before election day.

Many voters can't vote during the week, because they're working. Ohio's Republican secretary of state finally agreed to early voting, but only during the week during office hours. We're asking U.S. Rep. John Boehner to ask Secretary Husted to require boards of elections to have weekend and evening early voting hours so working people can vote.

The state of North Carolina should open an investigation into whether the Republican-backed firm Strategic Allied Consulting engaged in voter registration fraud. Strategic Allied Consulting has been accused of filing fraudulent registration forms in nearly a dozen Florida counties, and may have done the same in North Carolina.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been double-dipping, collecting his pay while pursuing a side business of writing and defending legislation against undocumented immigrants for other states.

The lead opponents of Washington marriage equality have invited Rick Santorum to help them raise money for their efforts next week. Yes, you heard that right -- Rick Santorum. This is someone who has spent his entire career insulting and degrading gays and lesbians every chance he got. Same-sex marriage? To Rick Santorum, that is literally the greatest threat to homeland security. These guys aren't moderates. They don't respect loving gay and lesbian couples and their families. They're extremists, pure and simple. They are way, way out of the mainstream. Let's tell Rick Santorum to stay home and keep his right-wing bigoted views to himself. Join us now and help us send a message before his two events next week.

Our democracy guarantees every citizens right to vote. Across the country in 40 states, the GOP controlled legislatures proposed and in many stes enacted legislation to disenfranchise voters in the fall. A majority of the laws were rebuked by the courts as was Ohio. Secretary Husted has refused to adhere to the courts ruling and in a partisan way has chosen to limit early voting by nearly 50%. This is a coordinated GOP stragedy to steal the election for Mitt Romney and disenfranchise voters who are poor, senior, and minorities and who vote by a majority democratic. As a constituent, I call on Rep. Bill Johnson to fight for our right to vote and call on Secretary Husted to reinstate early voting on weekends from now until Election Day.

This petition is about reinstating early voting on the weekends here in Ohio. We used to have this right. Secretary of State Jon Husted took it away from us. If our representative, Bob Latta, publicly calls for Husted to reinstate weekend voting, there could be a chance for reinstatement prior to Election Day.

We live in an area where there is little to no public transportation and where people do not have the luxury of having Election Day off to vote. In order to encourage widespread participation in our democratic process, we need to reinstate the weekend early voting times that have been taken away from us.