Marissa Alexander is a 31 yr. old mother of three - a battered woman who only fired a warning shot at her attacker. This was in "Stand Your Ground" Florida...the same state George Zimmerman killed an unarmed teen and was initially allowed to walk, without charges. Marissa was not only denied that same right, and she didn't even KILL the guy. She successfully stopped the attack. And now she has been sentenced to 20 YEARS IN PRISON...an OUTRAGE.

My fellow Americans: Thank you for taking the time to read about this petition and an issue that is very near and dear to my heart. I work for the Nation's second largest blood bank and the issue of blood donation has been a cause of mine ever since my grandmother had breast cancer. While undergoing a double mastectomy she lost an immense amount of blood and required multiple blood transfusions. Had it not been for those in her community, which cared enough to donate their blood, I would not have grown up having a grandmother. Once in high school and discovering who I was and that I was gay. I soon discovered that I was discriminated against from further donating and helping save others lives just as others had done for my grandmother because of the threat or risk of HIV/AIDS infection into the blood supply. I understood the reasons and back then I was even ok with them. Because it was all about ensuring the blood supply was safe for everyone. Fast forward a few more years to 2007 when I was elected student body president of Los Angeles City College and with the knowledge that only 5% of Americans that are eligible and actually donate I doubled the number of blood drives we had on campus and recruited feverishly to make sure every drive was more successful than the previous. But, every with every blood drive it got more and more difficult to answer questions about why I wasn't donating and the excuses of tattoos and traveling often didn’t hold much water as everyone knew I hadn't done either in years. Having to turn away would be donors based on solely on discrimination and old science made me feel even worse. I don’t think I could ever manage to forget the inner turmoil those experiences was a catalyst to. During the last blood drive on campus I began to see clearly, because I was a man and loved another man, I was separate and not equal. If not for anything else, living with HIV/AIDS for over 30 years has taught society that it doesn’t discriminate but we do. Had we not come farther as a society? Now, some 5 years later I once again am championing the effort of saving lives through donating blood as a Donor Outreach Coordinator. Having taken blood banking 101, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't the Non-Profs or the numerous tests each donation undergoes, 11 test for infectious diseases and 3 specifically test for HIV, that were keeping the LGBT community from donating that in fact its the FDA. Whose 32-year-old policy of discrimination was not only keeping thousands of healthy Americans from donating but also innocent children from receiving much needed transfusions so they could once again leave their homes and attend school like other children who don't suffer from sickle cell anemia. After learning the facts it was clear to me that I could no longer sit on the sidelines and stand by as our government continues their policy of separate and not equal while thousands of Americans die or cannot live their lives to its fullest because of outdated interpretations of, “Anyone who is at risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.” This outdated and discriminatory policy needs to be updated and new interpretation needs to be based on science and not fear mongering. I believe that this petition, http://signon.org/sign/allow-the-lgbt-community, can change this and thousands of Americans will benefit as a result of changing the FDA's policies. I hope that you will stand with me against this policy of institutionalized discrimination, by doing so help build a bridge from one community to another and help individuals within our communities together as one America! Sincerely, Ryan C. Allen

Last night 518 peaceful demonstrators were brutally arrested in Montreal under a new law known as "Bill 78". Under this martial-law like bill, all public assemblies are effectively banned in clear violation of Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, a set of laws and principals to which both the US and Canada are signatory. Please join us in demanding that Jean Charest, the Premier of Quebec, abolish this draconian law and drop all charges against peaceful protesters.

Stop the GAG order against Doctors. It is unconstitutional and a clear violation of the First Ammendment. Dr. Gina Makris

Last year, Cheyenne River Sioux Vern Traversie, a tribal citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, went to the Rapid City Regional Hospital for heart surgery, but a graphic photograph taken by a nurse upon his September return home indicates the procedures went far beyond normal medical care. The pictures show three distinctive Ks - or KKK - on his abdomen. Law enforcement and medical personnel have yet to satisfy Traversie and others with any follow up action against the hospital's staff. They maintain no one did anything wrong to Traversie. (Source: Native News Network)

President Obama point of view on same sex marriages shows the direction our sociaty is going. He said that his family is a christian one, but his way of thinking is showing that is not a reality in his own life. If you think that marriage still should be between a man a woman according with the Bible, share it.

HOA are taking over the rights of Home Owners. Taking monthly payments, but realy does nothing for community? Putting leans on home owners property when they fall behind on payments and they can't park in front of their own home. Sign to Stop the this type of power of HOAs in our neighborhoods.

We demand the the Justice Dept.in Washington imediately investigate the NYPD,regarding the myriad of civil and human rights violations that have occured under Ray Kelly's watch.Illegal suppression of the right to protest goverment policies,illegal stop and frisk used to terrorize people of color,many,many incidents of corruption, and violence against ordinary citizens.

If a citizen of a state does not have any new convictions,(other than traffic fines or parking tickets) within a 7 year period. That person should have that right to have his record cleared. *I believe that there are many people out there that have been denied access to better paying jobs because of something they did 10-15 years ago. This is unjust to these people that deserve a chance.

We all know the reasons for going to war in Iraq were based on one lie after another. First it was that Saddam Hussien had Nuclear Weapons, then it was chemical weapons of Mass Destruction; all of which were never found. Then, we stayed and fought for control of oil in the region. Then it was for Stability of the region which we made unstable by a massive invasion ("you break it, you buy it."). As we all know, Colin Powell was forced to Lie to the United nations in order to change the public opinion from "we need to have an investigation" to try and prove a clear and present danger to the world at large. That danger was never found, and what resulted was a massive conspiracy to mislead Congress and the American people into a "police action" which caused over 100,000 injured American Soldiers, over 4,000 American Soldiers dead, and the Iraqi Civilian death toll of over 1 million. I demand a International Tribunal to try these men (George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove) for conspiracy, lying under Oath and 1 million counts of murder.

Hispanic Americans are singled out as being Latinos,the thing is that no nation in the world speaks Latin. Hispanics are just as much american as other ethnic races in the USA!

It's absolutly amazing to me that in a country riddled with so much political and social injustice, that a person can be arrested for smoking marijuana. While men and women fill our prisons and jails for possesion and use of marijuana. Washington continues to rip us off. And deny us the right to smoke a joint. The laws that prohibit this are older than all of us. Many people have been arrested for this non violent act. Medical marijuana has passed in 17 states to this point, but every patient who uses, posseses or cultivates is subjet to fedral prosecution. Do we really have the money in this country to continue to put people, who are hurting noone in jail. If you want to solve the defficet why not start by leaving people who smoke weed alone, and stop turning them into criminals.