• Give Tulsans the Right to Occupy!
    Allow the 99% of citizens in Tulsa to have a voice without worrying about arrests! Give us the right to peacefully assemble and occupy a public area without permits, insurance, and curfews. To donate to this cause or for more information please visit www.occupytulsa.com or text "occupytulsa" to 443322.
    1,476 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Amanda Hammack
  • Re-Call Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
    Oakland California Mayor Jean Quan has decided to use tear gas on her constituents over choosing repsonsibility and constructive leadership. Mayor Quan's failure to protect an American's most basic right under the Constitution, the right to assemble, earns her a Re-Call. Do you Love your country? I do! Please sign today!!!
    25 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Seth Johnson
  • PROTECT THE RIGHT TO VOTE WITHOUT PHOTO ID
    The right to vote is fundamental. Without it, the true voice of the people cannot make their voices heard. The Republican-backed House Bill 108-88 that would require voters to show photo identification at the polls will SOON be voted on by the Senate. Republicans claim fraud as the reason for this bill. Their real aim is to make it difficult or impossible for elderly, black, Hispanic, youth, and our soldiers overseas, many of whom are Democrats and are less likely to have photo ID, to vote.
    23 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Sandra Becker
  • ASK LOUISIANA TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES!
    Every member of the United Nations, including the United States, is party to one or more of the nine major human rights treaties which protect virtually every child, woman or man in the world. The United States is also a member nation of other organizations which have created their own treaties or conventions on human rights, such as the Organization of American States and the Council of Europe. Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as Supremacy of National Law, establishes the U.S. Constitution, U.S. treaties, and federal statutes as "the supreme law of the land" and therefore dictates that every individual state must comply with international treaties signed by the United States. The United States ratified the Council of Europe's Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons in 1983. The Convention allows for foreigners who have been convicted of any crime to be transferred to prisons or facilities in their home countries to serve out the remainder of their sentences in order to promote social reintegration at the conclusion of their prison term. The success of these human rights treaties in the United States depends on local authorities' familiarity with the treaties and adherence to them. Unfortunately, Governor Jindal, a case has been pending in Louisiana for over three years that evidences your administration’s failure - be it due to lack of awareness, neglect of duty, or blatant disregard - to adhere to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons. Canada has been requesting the transfer of Scott Meyers, a prisoner at Angola State Prison, but the requests have been ignored. Mr. Meyers, born Wilfrid Allan Sutherland in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was stolen from his mother’s arms at the age of four during the Canadian “60s Scoop” effort to eradicate his native Aboriginal Cree Nation tribe. He was “adopted out” to a New Orleans family, and was raised there, never forgetting the day he was ripped away. There is no doubt about the psychological impact that this horror had on Mr. Meyers and how this experience contributed to the events that led to his incarceration. His family in Canada has been located, and both the family and Mr. Meyers would like him to be transferred to a prison near them to serve out his time, so that he may finally have a chance to meet and get to know the family he lost so long ago. Former Governor Foster abided by the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons back in 2001 when he signed off on the transfer of Ms. Terese Terre to France. Governor Foster no doubt acted under LA Code of Criminal Procedure, Title XXX, Chapter 1, Article 892.3, which authorizes the Governor of Louisiana to act on behalf of the State and to consent to the transfer of such convicted offenders under the provisions of Article IV., Section 5(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana. We, the signers of this petition, implore you to abide by all international human rights laws which Louisiana is a party to, and take IMMEDIATE notice of this case by acting quickly and humanely and making sure that this man is returned home as dictated by those laws.
    508 of 600 Signatures
    Created by La Liberte'
  • Stop Philadelphia Curfew
    Philadelphia's City Council seems set on passing an outrageous curfew law that violates a number of civil liberties -- this law aims to keep African-American youth out of more affluent white neighborhoods, further expands the mayor's ability to avoid the democratic process and create his own laws, and makes it illegal for all adults to take young relatives such as nieces or nephews out to enjoy the City of Brotherly Love. We believe that no citizen should fear the police harassment or detainment of innocent children. We're calling on the City Council to stop the expansion of the curfew through Bill 110633 and end the attacks on Philadelphia's future.
    139 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Khadijah White
  • Allow Occupy Tucson to stay in the Parks!
    The members of Occupy Tucson are requesting our help. Tucson Police Department is issuing criminal citations to occupiers in the who stay in the park past 10:30pm. This citation carries a potential sentence of up to a $1000 fine, up to 6 months in jail, and up to 3 years probation. Add your name to the petition to demand that Mayor Walkup, the Tucson City Council, and City Manager Richard Miranda support freedom of speech by dismissing all charges against the occupiers and allowing them stay in Armory, Library & Veinte de Agosto Parks.
    4,108 of 5,000 Signatures
    Created by Julie Jennings Patterson
  • Protect the Right to Peacefully Assemble in San Francisco, Stop ordering Police to crack down on ...
    Tell Mayor Ed Lee to stop the midnight raids on the Occupy SF encampment and the violent police crackdown.
    3,664 of 4,000 Signatures
    Created by Sarah Zimmer
  • Police should obey the Constitution, not unjust laws
    Give people the right to protest wherever and whenever they want rather than going by codes and permits. No police interference unless riots break out. Right to occupy any public space without police interference.
    817 of 1,000 Signatures
    Created by Paul Jenkins
  • Help Veto SENATE BILL No.1006 (Act 7 of 2011)
    Pennsylvania is faced with a budget crisis due to poor management. With this single amendment Pennsylvania lost 12 million tax dollars annually. Rendell vetoed this amendment for that very reason. Since then, the legislative branch and governor Corbett have acted shortsightedly with no regard for our budget or our rights as citizens using extreme cases of abuse of synthetic cannabis and use by minors as reason to pass the nations strictest state law in effect. By signing this petition you agree that this amendment should be rescinded. Let's send a clear message in the amount of several hundred thousand voices that we disagree with their recent decision.
    50 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jeremy Achey
  • Transsexuality Treatment
    Petition for a federal law to make a policy on the medical treatment of transsexuals. I would want these laws to follow the international Standard of Care version 7 (http://www.thisishow.org/Files/soc7.pdf).
    39 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Andrea Sarah Grooms
  • legalize & TAX marijuana....go on...we dare you.
    seriously? lets embrace marijuana and its benefits. put our fictious thoughts abouts it to rest and just embrace the positives.
    11 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Aeio
  • Full Federal Recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
    The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina was given full state recognition in 1885 and in 1956 by the United States Congress, but Congress withheld the full benefits of federal recognition from the tribe. Congress can correct this injustice by bringing the Lumbee Recognition Act which passed out of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to the floor for a full vote and passage by the Senate and the House of Representatives. We are calling on the United States Congress to correct this injustice and bring closure to the 125 year pursuit of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina for Full Federal Recognition.
    2,570 of 3,000 Signatures
    Created by Tryon Delton Lowry, Jr.