Blumenfeld Development Group (BDG) and Forest City Ratner are now proposing an additional 1.1 million square feet of residential buildings above East River Plaza in East Harlem. The neighborhood opposes this mega planned urban development because it is offensive and out of scale, requiring numerous variances that will truly make this an “out of context” project.

I am starting this petition because Joe Scarborough has shown himself to be biased and shows no empathy to the parents of a murdered unarmed child.

If we could pick one word to define the 2014 elections it would be: MONEY. And lots of it. An estimated $3.67 billion was spent was spent on the 2014 elections, much of it by Super PACs and outside spending groups endorsed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. Every Voice and its partners are working to collect 5 million signatures against Citizens United by its fifth anniversary on January 21. Add your name to this growing movement that puts people back at the heart of our democracy -- not just billionaire donors and special interests!

Smucker's doesn't want you to know that it has GMOs in it's jams and jellies. That's why it's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years to block GMO labeling initiatives in California, Washington State and Oregon. In 2012, Dole and Mars faced an enormous public backlash for opposing California's GMO labeling initiative and pledged to not spend money opposing GMO labeling. Lets make sure Smucker's does the same!

This is About Returning Earned Benefits to Retirees of AT&T. As a retiree, our incomes are limited. Now, we are faced with having to pay Insurance premiums when we worked hard all our years to earn it. That is wrong. We will probably have to go on food stamps in the future because of the greed of Corporation ATT. Now, is that what the public needs? AT&T should pay their Retiree benefits that they EARNED without making them pay Insurance premiums.

Tax loopholes allow corporations to dodge taxes by hiding profits overseas -- some companies pay $0 in taxes. How is Massachusetts supposed to improve the T, invest in early education and job growth when we allow large companies to game the system? It’s about time that these corporations start living by the same rules as the rest of us. It’s time to close these loopholes and invest in an economy that works for everyone. We're calling on Governor-Elect Charlie Baker to support a simple common-sense reform that would make taxes more fair here in Massachusetts. Montana and Oregon recently enacted laws to recoup money stashed in offshore tax havens, by closing the "Waters Edge Loophole." If we enacted the same policy here in Massachusetts, it would generate $79 million. While he was running for office, Gov-Elect Baker said he supports making the tax code "fairer and removing corporate tax loopholes." We've got the perfect place for him to start, but we know the corporations that benefit from this tax heist will resist us every step of the way. That's why need to show Gov.-Elect Baker Bay State residents are behind us.

For the second year in a row, Walmart employees have had to launch a food drive for themselves. That comes as Walmart’s most profitable day of the year, Black Friday (now Thanksgiving, too) is only days away. The Walton family is the richest family in the world, and their company, Walmart, remains immensely profitable. But at the same time, they were paid $2.6 billion a year in stock buybacks from Walmart stock. A recent Demos report shows that not only do they deny that $2.6 billion to their own workers, but they use it to lobby against the interest of all workers, spending $7.3 million since 2000 to further their opposition to minimum wage increases, paid sick days, and workplace protections. Walmart pioneered the low-wage, no-benefit model that is wrecking our economic system. But that model is short-sighted. Were Walmart to invest in its workforce, it would actually benefit its own bottom line and the economy overall. The go-it-alone, self-interested growth model the Walton family pioneered isn’t working for anyone in our economy, least of all their employees. Rather than use their money to deny other workers decent benefits, demand the Waltons use their unprecedented fortune so their workers receive the $15 and full-time schedules the workers are asking for.

On Thursday, the president announced a long-awaited executive action that will take steps towards fixing our broken immigration system. Eligibility for the executive action is limited to immigrants with roots and family ties to the United States -- specifically, undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least the past five years and also are parents or spouses of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. This action is a step in the right direction, and it's critical that the media takes a fair and balanced approach in their coverage. Showing inflammatory footage that perpetuates harmful stereotypes and portrays immigrants as criminals will do nothing to advance the current story, and will only feed right-wing fear-mongering on the issue. That's why it's critical that the major television networks take a fair and balanced approach to covering this issue by featuring real stories of those most impacted.

I receive approximately 4 to 500 Bed Bug Hotline calls a month from people all over the US. Many of these people just moved into a dwelling that has established bed bug infestations. Make property owners be held responsible and demand for inspection for bed bugs by having appropriate documentation and disclosure on any bed bug problems issued by a professional pest management company to protect the innocent.

We are coming up on the holiday season. As we all know, the holidays are about giving, and in the process of us giving to our loved ones, retailers and big box stores make millions of dollars over a single weekend. So with 1 in 6 Americans facing hunger, and 1 in 4 children living in a food unstable home (meaning they are not guaranteed to be able to eat three meals a day), I'm asking those companies that make millions to do something. I'm asking each and every retailer and big box store, those like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy's, Belk's, JC Penny, Target, K-Mart, Amazon.com and many others to take the One Penny Promise. The One Penny Promise is a pledge that for every dollar they make during the biggest shopping days of the year--Black Friday thru Cyber Monday--they will donate one penny to poverty/hunger-ending charities. Charities like KIDS, and Concern Worldwide US, and others.

Why are the airlines so special? Why are they allowed to hold our money for flights not taken? We pay interests on our credits cards while they collect interest holding our money. It's not right and they should be held to the same rules regulating all other businesses.

I saw this message on PC Richards & Son who decided not to follow the lead of every other retailer but to respect that Family should be first. I give all respect to all the stores such as DSW, Pc Richard and Costco who decided to put family first. We should come together and tell these stores who are forcing their employees to work on Thanksgiving that we will not shop on thanksgiving. JC Penney, Walmart, Target, malls in NJ and all over the country.Your employees should be able to spend Thanksgiving with their families. Please help us fight to have these stores close their doors on Thanksgiving and keep family first.