California led the way in including people with disabilities and seniors in all of our communities by requiring that public spaces be physically accessible. Decades before the ADA was adopted, California put disability civil rights into law and regulation. Now, with no new studies – but with lots of pressure by certain business interests – the California Building Standards Commission will vote on a proposal by the new State Architect to reduce decades-old access requirements in a rushed 'emergency' vote this Thursday, July 19th. Tell the CBSC not to push people with disabilities and seniors back into physically segregated conditions.

Everyone in the United States is being poisoned by the fluoridation of our water supply! It is against our Civil Rights to be medicated without consent! Because we all consume different amounts of water, the dosage is not controlled. Everyone from newborns, to people with compromised immune systems are being chemically treated with fluoride without sufficient need! Please refer to the following website for more information: www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm

Please, take a stand for the right to worship the Creator through the Holy Body: our gift from the Mother. Everyone deserves: A Free body. * No one controls your physical self. Free Speech * No one forces their words into your story. Free In Personal Energy * No one dominates your life force. Freedom * To worship and study "God as Mother" No one should be able to dictate your studies, worship or private ceremony between consenting adults, yet dozens of ordained ministers face years in prison for the practice of Tantra. Public funds have been wasted while hundreds of real sex crimes go un-investigated. Let's SUPPORT our Priestesses, Healers, Shamans & Body Wisdom Guides, thank you for signing!

Certain breeds are banned in local government and many are labeled as dangerous or viscous animals. This is a violation of rights and profiling and needs to be addressed on an individual basis.

Our farm and home were illegally sold in Freestone ,Sonoma County,Calif. by a local predatory lender. Sonoma County courts ignored our evidence,but lawyers and real estate experts showed us it was a "bogus foreclosure". One of the real estate fraud scam people involved was recently arrested by the F.B.I. The Sonoma County courts need to return property like ours to the rightful owners and provide assistance in clearing titles. Homeowners civil rights need to be respected.

The voter ID laws that have been passed in twentysomething states are merely a revival of Jim Crow Laws and poll taxes. As a country, we have grown past these archaic, racist laws yet we have stumbled as a democracy when the powers to be can enact a law that is a subterfuge. The proponents of the law claim that there are fraudulent voters, yet in the past 12 years there has only been 13 proven attempts to misrepresent a voter's true identity. This law requires a voter to produce identification at the poll. If a voter does not have a driver's license, he/she must produce a state-verified voter ID which can only be obtained with #1...a birth certificate...and #2 a social security card ..#3 ... utility records showing past bills paid. A passport will also suffice though a passport currently costs $150 and expires after ten years. In Pennsylvania, 9.2% of the population currently will be banned from voting. A large number of that percentage are in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, both cities with large African-American populations. Representative Turzai recently...and proudly stated that the republican congress of Pennsylvania has successfully passed a voter ID law which in his words has thrown Pennsylvania into Governor Romney's camp. His words to the Republican State Committee in Hershey were directed toward the republican-dominated congress in which he stated, " Voter ID laws which are going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania...DONE! It is on tape...simply Google it. This petition is important in that on July 25th, the law will be review by the courts and hopefully will go before the state supreme court before the election. Please sign this petition to repeal this onerous law intended NOT to correct voter irregularity but merely a means to deny a segment of the population their constitutional right.

LTC(Ret) Barbara Bachmeier was certified to run for the Alaska State House in the upcoming elections, but after her opponent filed a residency challenge, Lt Gov Mead Treadwell disallowed her candidacy, knowing that the decision did not include a complete review of all the evidence. After telling Barbara that he did not have any involvement with the decertification decision and pledging to look into the matter, Treadwell chooses to ignore all inquiries. [Some offices in Alaska state government, are not required to respond to constituent inquiries. Governor's office states this is not their problem.]

The privatization of prisons by the state. Prison is dehumanizing it cripples the human mind and body and its effects remain for a lifetime. For those that don't go insane or become emotional sterile, meaning "institutionalized". Life after returning to their families or community is never the same, many are mentally incapacitated from the effects of what they have had to endure or see done to others to survive. For many it is the same a surviving a war. Only to come back into a society that further dehumanizes them by not recognizing their right to vote or feed their families by having a job, which ultimately destroyes the family unit. Many of the companies lobbying the government are guaranting a 90% full capacity rate within the prisons..this means eventually someone you love or know will be imprisoned because to accomplish this rate more laws will need to be made to undermine your civil rights as free Americans!!! to embroil you into the criminal justice system and once there, there you will remain, trapped in a system that cares little for you as a individual or a human. And, the true problem is that you never quit paying and never does your family. For those that do make it back sane to their families, since they have received no true rehabilatation( you must fit a criteria and a waiting list) many come back home with only the survival skills of a prison life. We must and can do better than this!!!

Darrell's idenity was stolen by his brother and he committed six crimes in his name. We did everything we were told to do by the courts and six years later we are still getting the run around. We have lost our house, cars, and good credit because Darrell can't get a job, because of a criminal background that he didn't make.

Government Corruption is not an accident. It's caused by too many good people in power ignoring it. It is destroying our nation and our pride. If one US Veteran can be abused by gov corruption, ALL US Veterans can be abused. Please watch this video and decide if you are part of the problem or part of the solution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqu4FMGvP_s

I recently discovered that the Fair Debt Collection Practises Act only applies to 3rd party collection companies and not to original creditors. This means that collection departments for original creditors can resort to any collection practices they desire and the consumer has no legal recourse to stop harassment, intimidation or deception. Regardless of who makes a collection call, original creditor or 3rd party collection agency no one should be able to phone a consumer about a debt before 8 AM or after 9 PM. I've been woken before 5 AM and after 10 PM by collection calls from a creditor. Likewise no one should be allowed to phone constantly regarding a debt. I've had a creditor phone almost hourly even after I've made an agreement to pay by a specific date; and although I had a history of keeping my payment promises with them. Their expressed reason for not stopping these harassing phone calls was because I refused to give them a post-dated check for the agreed payment arrangement. According to my bank post-dated checks are illegal and if a post-dated check is submitted early it will be processed immediately by the bank and not held until the date on the check. This happened to me once and resulted in huge overdraft fees, so I don't wish to experience that again. My problems with harrassing debt collection practises began after a job loss due to disabilies affecting my job performance, long term unemployment and a three year wait for approval of my social security disability benefits that caused me to experience severe financial hardship. (I worked hard all my life and paid into SS for nearly 30 years.) I got behind two payments on my car loan. Although I was able to catch up one month and continued to make monthly payments thereafter, I remained 30 days behind, and this triggered the creditor's automated debt collection processes.

Not personally affected, but politically concerned