The fact that the highest appointed court in this country decided that multi-billion dollar corporations have the right to freely spend untold amounts of money to influence peoples opinion using "public" airwaves in an election is tragic and absurd. Corporations don't go to war and fight, maybe get wounded, maybe die, yet they can profit from it and support politicians sympathetic to the Military Industrial Complex. Corporations don't breathe the air, yet they can pollute it and buy the influence of politicians that only care about money and power to pass bills allowing them to do just that. Corporations don't eat the food, but they can feed us the bottom of the barrel and then buy a politician who'll not only say it's fine, but offer them subsidies. I understand that politicians have been bought and sold since the first politician arrived and I understand that in the modern world, it's the corporations that are doing the buying, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT ALRIGHT AND IT SURE SHOULD NOT BE MADE LEGAL!!!! Sure, they can't put the money right into the politicians campaign fund and of course they can't have any contact with the candidates election committee, because, well that's illegal ( nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more), but to act as if these " Super -PACS" are without an agenda is moronic and they've already proven that they're more than happy to sink to the lowest common denominator.Overturn Citizens United, it's your duty to your constituents. Remember us? We're those little creatures that are still allowed to vote ( and even that privilege seems to be on rocky ground). Do your duty to your country, it's what you swore to do.

We’re launching a campaign to show grocery chains, like Meijer, that their customers want GMO labeling, and persuade them to follow the lead of other grocery stores like Whole Foods. We have a right to know what’s in the food we buy, so we can make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about what we’re eating. Sign this petition to Meijer CEO Hank Meijer and ask him as a customer to label GMOs in all store-brand products.

We’re launching a campaign to show grocery chains, like Target, that their customers want GMO labeling, and persuade them to follow the lead of other grocery stores like Whole Foods. We have a right to know what’s in the food we buy, so we can make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about what we’re eating. Sign this petition to Target CEO John Mulligan and ask him as a customer to label GMOs in all store-brand products.

The Koch brothers use their billions to fund radical right wing causes. The very least we can do is not support their efforts by not buying their products. If Costco and other retailers step up and stop carrying the products it will have a bigger impact. What the Koch brothers support is in opposition to many of the things Costco promotes.

The safety device that would have saved Janio Salinas was removed just 13 days before his death, and was put in after other workers were almost sucked under by the machines.

For Jeffrey Baldwin and the Toronto citizens who remember him, Superman is a symbol of love and hope even in the face of man's extreme cruelty.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is an organization consisting of global corporate interests and state legislators that collaborate secretly to draft thousands of model bills that are then introduced simultaneously in state capitols throughout the country. Meeting in backrooms, being wined and dined by corporate lobbyists like the Koch Brothers, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Exxon Mobil, Hughes Oil, Geo and Corrections Corporation of America (the private prison industry), the NRA, and the lobby to privatize our once great public school system, is not democracy of, by, and for the people. When you have government by the private prison industry, the NRA, or by the Koch Brothers, you have a culture where prison is encouraged by the school-to-prison pipeline, young black men are shot down with impunity, and a world where environmental degradation and climate change are the price we all must pay for business as usual. Some ALEC bills you may recognize: "Stand Your Ground Laws," promoted by the NRA; "Right to Work Legislation" supported by the Koch Brothers and other corporate interests, designed to kill living wages and public pensions; voter ID laws to kill democracy; bills to kill meaningful healthcare reform; the Parental Choice Scholarship Act that promotes vouchers and sends our tax dollars to for-profit schools and phony online degree programs. According to Progress Texas, out of 181 state legislators, at least 35 have known ALEC ties. It’s well past time to stop the flow of dirty money into our state legislatures. We must demand our elected officials stop subverting democracy and drop their memberships in ALEC. Let’s have government of, by, and for the people once again.

Over the past 20 years, childhood vaccines have saved 732,000 American children from dying. Vaccines are the greatest public health achievement in human history, and free coverage is required in the Affordable Care Act. In the US, kids are required to get four doses of Prevnar, which prevents 13 infectious diseases, before entering school. But moms like Breanna Farris of San Antonio, Texas, can't find a doctor who'll vaccinate their children. Breanna's insurance wouldn't reimburse her doctor the full, astronomical cost Pfizer and other Big Pharma are charging, so her family physician stopped vaccinating children entirely. Breanna had to go to a public clinic and lie, saying she had no insurance, to get her daughter vaccinated so she could attend school. Pfizer is charging doctors around $136 a shot for Prevnar, saying the price is justified because the vaccine cost $600 million to produce. But Pfizer didn't develop the drug or build its manufacturing facility, both of which it purchased in 2009. Since then, the price has gone up 6% each year, and the company has earned $4 billion in revenue on Prevnar, making it the world's best-selling vaccine. Pfizer's CEO Ian Read takes home a hefty $25 million a year. The most ludicrous part is that Pfizer sells the same exact drug to poor countries at $3.30 a dose, and still turns a profit. Meanwhile we have a whooping cough epidemic in the United States which has already infected over 3,000 people and killed two infants. Fewer than 10% of pregnant American women are vaccinated for whooping cough because the medicine is too expensive for their doctors to purchase. Tell Pfizer's CEO that in America, our people come before profits. Moms like Breanna Farris are trying to do the responsible thing for their kids, communities and country by vaccinating. But Pfizer's corporate greed is putting millions of lives at risk. We have the power to step up and say no! Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/health/Vaccine-Costs-Soaring-Paying-Till-It-Hurts.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

Right now huge corporations, like Wal-Mart, are getting tax breaks for handing out obscene CEO bonuses. The tax code sets a $1 million limit per executive for the amount of pay that corporations can write off their income taxes. But the problem is that there’s a loophole that exempts “performance-based” pay. So, corporations are shelling out huge CEO bonuses to pay less in taxes. For example, during the past six years, Wal-Mart pocketed $298.6 million in fully deductible “performance pay,” lowering the company’s federal tax bills by $104 million. At a time when so many Americans are struggling to find well-paying jobs and pay for basic things like healthcare, education, and housing, it’s wrong and unacceptable to give corporations tax breaks for shelling out multi-million dollar CEO bonuses. It’s time to close this performance pay loophole and end tax incentives for outrageous CEO pay.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined a West Virginia company, Freedom Industries, only $11,000 for poisoning the drinking water of 300,000 people in January. The spill sickened up to 1 in 5 people, and costed businesses an estimated $61 million.

[Note: The petition to Hillary was started before she officially declared her candidacy, before she became a grandmother, and before she had a serious challenger - Sen. Bernie Sanders - for the Democratic nomination. The petition language cannot be altered or edited once it has been made public, but the ask remains the same]. Hillary Clinton could be the next Democratic presidential nominee. Do we really want someone in the White House who protects Monsanto's profits at the expense of public health? Scientists, medical professionals and climate experts warn us that a food and agriculture system built around poisons like Monsanto's Roundup and Dow's 2,4-D, a system that promotes soy and corn monocultures instead of crop diversity, is unhealthy for humans and the environment. In fact, the World Health Organization in March (2015) declared Roundup a probable human carcinogen. Genetically engineered agriculture has failed. It has created superweeds that require increasingly toxic poisons, and those poisons are showing up in the blood, urine and breast milk of humans. The United Nations last year issued a report entitled "Before It's Too Late," stating that not only will genetically engineered crops not feed the world, as the biotech industry claims, but they are a huge contributor to global warming. Polls show that 93% of Americans want GMO labeling laws. It's time for Hillary, whose ties to the biotech industry run deep, to support public health, not Monsanto. The next leader of the U.S. needs to take a stand against huge corporations that are devastating the environment and human health. If Hillary Clinton is not that leader, consumers will look to candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has a proven track record of supporting states' rights to label GMOs, and the transition to organic, sustainable, regenerative agriculture.

I want my 1-year-old to grow up believing that Americans have a voice in their country and that citizens can have a greater impact than corporations. In 2012, the Koch brothers spent over $6.1 million to push their far right agenda in NM and failed miserably. Let's send them packing again and join the growing national movement to say "Koch no mas! Get out of our politics!"