Safe Transit of Performers and Promoters Since December 31, 2011, Patrick Allocco, a concert promoter, and his son, Patrick, were abducted at gunpoint and have been unable to leave the country of Angola when the performer NAS and opening act Jemiah Jai failed to appear for a New Year's Eve and New Year's Day concert.

Students in Tucson Unified School District recently had their books taken away as part of the state's elimination of the Mexican-American Studies program. Books removed included works by Leslie Marmon Silko, bell hooks, Sherman Alexie, Winona LaDuke...even Thoreau and Shakespeare. Let's call on TUSD to uphold free speech and stop preventing Arizona students from the right to think critically about their shared history, cultural identities, and complex future.

Stop SOPA and PIPA being passed. Corporations whose lobbyists drafted SOPA and PIPA want the ability to block you from reaching any web site they feel hurts their profits -- without due process, or review in any court -- by hijacking DNS (!) and censoring search results. Hoping you won't notice until it's too late, Congress is preparing to give them that right.

Stop these Voter ID laws

This is a governmental petition to OPPOSE the proposed legislation by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to move forward the new election laws for proof of citizenship when a first time voter applies for registration from January 1, 2013 to June 1, 2012, which enforces the citizenship requirement for the 2012 election. Kansas Secretary Kobach, the author for preventing aliens to vote by showing proof of citizenship, also known as the "Birth Certificate" law, has become zealot in thrusting ahead with legislation to change the effective date of his election laws so they will be in effect for the 2012 Primary and General Elections. Kansas legislators are being coerced to vote for the proposed legislation. It must be noted that the Kansas Secretary of State's Office does not recognize a governmental petition. Kansas University publications are for different states, not Kansas. In Kansas slang, Whoa, Kris Kobach. Hold on there partner. You are not a wild mustang. Leave your laws alone. We don't need your kind around here.

Sex abusers need to be publicly identified so more children are protected from predators.

Movement for a Constitutional Amendment that codifies Habeas Corpus as a human right for all people everywhere and makes War illegal except in self-defense, making false flag operations a felony punishable by death; and requiring thorough independent investigations of all incidents that would prompt a defensive war.

American concert promoter, Patrick Allocco, and his son were kidnapped at gunpoint in Angola after their client, rapper Nas, failed to show up at a New Year’s Eve performance there. Nas was paid $300,000 in advance for the conference. The Angolan promoter allegedly kidnapped the Allocos, demanding repayment of the advance. The men were later released but their passports were being held and they are unable to leave the country. Nas has paid back some of the money but refuses to pay the remaining $100,000. January 11th, Alloco alerted his Facebook friends that he was being arrested, the State Department has not been able to confirm this report.

The Patriot Act is anything but patriotic in its nature and intent. The privacy and civil liberties of American citizens are disregarded in this law, created in the wake of September 11, 2001.

In 2004, the Clinton Assault weapons ban was allowed to expire . Senate Bill 6396 banning the sale of assault weapons was introduced shortly after Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was wounded and others were killed at the "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson Arizona. The House allowed the bill to die. This country needs to reinstate the Ban of Assault Weapons so that tragedies of this magniitude are prevented. We urge congress to pass this very important "Homeland Security" bill.

Homeowners over 65 years old are supposed to be able to get reverse mortgages guaranteed by HUD, called HECM's for short which stands for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages. In 2008 Congress included eligibility for seniors who are homeowners in cooperative housing. But so far HUD has failed to issue regulations which are needed to tell mortgage lenders how to handle HECM's for coops. Thus coop seniors like me cannot get the reverse mortgages for which we qualify in theory. This petition asks the White House to force HUD to do its job.

I am calling on all members of the US Congress to describe & implement a simple voter ID card for use in elections & to set up a means for obtaining one that passes all re- quirements throughout the USA.