President Obama's campaign co-chair, Caroline Kennedy, advocated adding marriage equality as a platform plank for the Democratic National Committee's convention. The convention will be held in Charlotte, NC in September 2012. Support Marriage Equality and Caroline Kennedy's push to have this issue included in the official DNC platform.

Robert Howard grew up in the 12th Ward in New Orleans. His mother died when he was a young boy. At eleven, after leaving the foster care system to live with his father, Robert dropped out of school to work in a restaurant as a dishwasher and substitute cook. His cooking was so good, he was offered a job. This angered the current cook and he came after Robert with a knife. Robert defended himself and the man eventually died. Without adequate counsel, Robert pled to manslaughter and was admitted into Louisiana's infamous Angola Prison. For the next 45 years, he endured violent assalts. Recommended for release repeatedly by the LA Board of Pardons and Appeals, Robert's release is denied by sitting governors concerned with their political standing. Now sick and 60 years old, the friends of Robert Howard ask you to stand up for this model citizen. For decades Robert Howard has mentored young men in chosing a moral life. He has tutored, run rehabilitation groups, prayer groups, revivals and legal clinics. His recommendations for prison reform are sought out by wardens across the state - yet he remains behind bars. Why? What kind of country imprisons its children and leaves them to die behind bars for nearly five decades?

Howie Carr's ethnic slurs again Elizabeth Warren, and his insinuation that Pres. Obama and Ms. Warren are the beneficiaries of unfair treatment from Harvard Law School based on their ethnicities.

The government allows truckers to work 70 hours a week with very little down time in between. Companies expand on this by stretching them as far as the law will allow! Somtimes to the detriment of everyone. If a driver has been on the road 14 hours and then back on again in 8 hours, where is family time? Where is wind down time? Where is dinner time? Most companies see their drivers as part of that truck, not a human. Well my husband is human. Going down the road I have witnessed many small cars whip in front of a tractor trailer only to not give that driver a thought of what could happen if he had a bad night or didn't sleep well because his wife is disabled and needed his help. We need this 70 hour law lowered for the safety of all!! Please, I have seen this and too many accidents, and marriages break up over this 70 hour work week to not bring this to someones attention.

My granddaughter came home from school saying they were learning judaism and muslim religion. I don't mind learning different religions, but they had to stop teaching christianity in the schools and saying the pledge of allegiance. My daughter called the school and told them that she wanted to take her daughter out of the class. The teacher said that she would get a "F" for that class. The teacher also said that President Obama made it a law that all schools had to teach this course. If this is true, we need to tell Obama that we are a proud American and that we have a right to our own religion and beliefs and also for our children. Come on, let's start being a strong country again. The president is taking a way another one of our rights of being a parent.

We all are witnessing our loved ones suffering every day in our homes nursing homes etc., with all kinds of terminal illness and no hope of recovering in sight & no quality of life. They are in unbearable pain every minute of every day, suffering with every breath they take begging to let them go. But do we? Sign this petition to end our loved one's suffering NOW.

Panera Bread Company, a chain of restaurants, has as their hiring policy that no one "Black or ugly" works behind the counters. In short, they don't know that this is the twenty first century and that that kind of policy is stupid, and illegal. Which is why, though I love their food, I'm not eating there anymore. I want others to do likewise, and make sure Panera Bread knows about it.

The American people should pass an Amendment to our US constitution, reaffirming that every citizen has the right to pursue Life, Liberty, and Happiness....and that each and every citizen shall not be discriminated against for so-called "victimless crimes" that do infringe upon any other citizen's right to do as they please.

Prior to the 1980s, it was virtually impossible for a black person to get a trial before their peers, many admitted to crimes they didn't commit, rather than face these juries, so why have them incarcerated now, many for life, based on those convictions. The facts are clear, black people were seldomly seen on college basketball teams in the South, before the mid 1970s.

The Birth Certificate Truth which currently manifest as a form of loans with the US Goverment of the 50 States. I am Starting a Petition to received our birth right back!

If you are an American citizen you should honor your right to vote by voting, and each of us should pledge to do so. We should also send a message to candidates that our vote means something because we will only vote for a candidate who pledges to place his constituents' will and needs above party ideology, special causes and the influence of lobbyists and donors.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't take complaints seriously! I have a complaint that has been basically ignored since filing...The Commission is in with the same companies that are reported to them, thus invalidating the seriousness of the complaint.