Greetings, This petition is about treating every human being equally and fairly. Prejudice has no place in our society. I am appalled and dismayed at the lack of impartiality and justice for the tenure of this color Professor. This is about a Woman Professor of color who has been denied tenure although her credentials are far superior to the faculty members who were granted tenure in last several years in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University.  I did some investigation myself and found out that this professor is the only faculty member in her Department to receive prestigious “Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)” award from the President of USA. Please read the news at- http://clinton6.nara.gov/2000/04/2000-04-11-president-clinton-honors-outstanding-young-scientists.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79276514.html How many PECASE awardees are there at AU? She has published closed to a dozen peer reviewed scientific articles in various science journals between 2005 and 2011 during her time at Auburn. Federal Government funding agencies who have funded her research work are National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  How many professors do you have at Auburn University with funding from three major Federal Agencies such as NIH, NSF and USDA at the same time?  She is also a very sincere and a good teacher as rated by her students as well as by her peers. Why then has she been denied tenure?  How could you deny her tenure?  Is there a word called “shame” in Auburn’s dictionary? This is absolutely unjust. Do we want excellent scientists and teachers for our children or not?  Is it still 18th century for Auburn? Are we back to East Alabama Male College? It is hard to believe that discrimination is still continuing at Auburn University in this century.  She is the first color person to be hired on a tenure-track position in 2005 and the first color person to go up for tenure in that Department. What a shame! This is a public University. It does not belong to some prejudiced, self serving people and administrators. Auburn University gets a share of our tax money.  We have as much say as those few self-serving, prejudiced, ignorant, arrogant and intolerant folks who unfortunately could not keep up with the times. They are still in the 18th century.   Wake up, Auburn. Stop discrimination and injustice.  Embrace diversity.  Is Auburn University a public institution of higher learning?  Auburn, what are you teaching our children?  Please do not make us all feel ashamed of you. This Professor has my full support. I call on Auburn University to be champion on embracing diversity and justice by granting tenure to this Professor. It is a shame that this is happening when President Obama is our President. Thank you all for your time and I request your support for this petition and to stop this injustice, intolerance and discrimination.. Jean T. Baker

Lowes pulled its add from the show All-American Muslims proving to be un-American and bigot

We need to urge the President to VETO the NDAA-National Defense Authorization Act which authorizes indefinite detention of civilians, including Americans, without charge or trial anywhere in the world The Senate passed this 93-7 and the House passed a version authorizing worldwide war as well as indefinite detention worldwide. This is such an affront to civil rights and our democracy that we need to stop it now.

"All-American Muslim," a reality TV show about the lives of mainstream Muslim Americans, premiered in November on The Learning Channel to critical acclaim and a record 1.7 million viewers. The show portrays five American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan and shows the shared values of Americans of all faiths—whether they be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist. Yet no sooner had the show premiered than anti-Islam hate-mongers called on the TLC's advertisers to pull their commercials in an attempt to strangle the show off of the air. One advertiser has already caved—Lowe's, the big box home improvement store.

We are expressing our strong opposition to the disenfranchisement of Egyptian voters abroad in the lead-up to the parliamentary vote on Monday, November 28. In response to a lawsuit filed by Egyptians abroad, the Egyptian Administrative Court ruled on October 25, 2011 that Egyptian citizens living overseas have the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The court’s decision affirmed the basic civil right of Egyptians abroad to participate in Egyptian electoral politics as full and equal members of Egyptian society. It was a first for Egypt’s 7 to 10 million Egyptian citizens living abroad, and winning this right was a key demand of protesters in Tahrir.

Support Lowe's decision to exercise their freedom to support whoever they choose by removing their ads from a TV show about American Muslims.

New research reveals train platform can be 8" as it is shared with freight trains. However, this performance standard of all cars at platform must be accessible to everyone will apply at stations where construction or alteration of platforms beginning 135 days or more after the rules went into effect on October 19, 2011. So this platform must be completed by February 21 in order toavoid compliance.

Texas Republican legislators, and Gov. Rick Perry, are demanding state citizens show photo ID before they vote. This forces us to pay for the right to vote. Perry's shameless attack on the elderly, the poor and our disabled citizens, who can't afford to obtain ID, will cost them their right to vote.

HB 4770 would prohibit providing health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of public employees and would take away health insurance coverage from LGBT families throughout the state. It's discriminatory and it's unconstitutional.

On December 7, 1941, when the Japanese made their infamous surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, a black cook, Doris "Dorie" Miller took over a machine gun aboard the USS West Virginia and became one of the first heroes of World War II. Miller dragged the ship's commanding officer, Capt. Bennion out of the line of fire, and manned the ship's machine gun. Despite shooting down several attacking aircraft his citation for bravery his citation reads: "For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge." Like Miller, no African-American sailor or officer was ever recommended for or awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. They served despite many other similar heroic efforts, and under extremely oppressive conditions during World War II. Many often fought a quiet, internal battle with officers who consistently implemented unlawful orders, denied them equal protection under the Constitution, and generally put their men at risk in the face of the enemy.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been passed by the United States Senate and is under revision by the House of Representatives. The amendment to the Act drafted by U.S. Senator Mark Udall is defined in Title X, Subtitle D, SEC 1031(b) of the bill.

If laws presently on the books are diligently enforced, and if the rights of injured workers are still not protected, this creates a great injustice to injured workers as well as society as a whole. The injustice not only plagues injured workers and their families it burdens the economy. Anyone is susceptibe to a work related injury and this petition demands fair and just treatment across the board for injured workers. Ms. Hunter has continued to fight against the gross violation of injured workers' rights through her own work related injury. She knows firsthand the disadvantage, oppression, and nihilism that detrimentally impacts workers' as a whole. This is a real and palpable issue due to the excessive shift in costs, increased poverty rates, lack of accountability, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, lack of transparency, conflict of interest, misrepresentation, which places massive burdens upon taxpayers, and other managed health care entities, the economy, and skyrocketing rate increases as a result of filing a claim, which significantly impacts small businesses. Also, excessive costs placed upon the government through Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security permeates a significant problem. Injured workers you're not alone and this petition demands protection of injured workers rights, fair treatment, and accountability for compensable injuries.