Last election secretive out-of-state non-profits connected to the Koch brothers funneled $15 million of dark money into California. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Californians deserve to know who is influencing their elections. SB 27 will make sure billionaires and corporations can't hide behind secretive non-profits. It requires any group spending $50,000 in California elections to reveal exactly who gave the money. It is a key step before passage of the California DISCLOSE Act (SB 52). The final Assembly vote on SB 27 could come any day. Join Progressives United and the California Clean Money Campaign and sign our petition today demanding that Assembly members vote YES to close the dark money loophole.

My name is Rhiannon Broschat and I've been working at Whole Foods for almost two years. Chicago experienced severe weather on Tuesday, January 28 with subzero temperatures and high windchill prompting Chicago Public Schools to close. The dangerous cold and schools closing in addition to me being a single mother, left me scrambling for childcare and unable to find anyone to watch my special needs son. As a result, I was forced to call off work to stay home to stay home and care for him. Whole Foods, instead of understanding my difficult situation, fired me. Recently, Whole Foods promised a more fair attendance policy which includes excused absences for "a metro wide weather disaster, which affects a significant number of people." I work hard every single day to make Whole Food's a thriving business, yet they claim I was abusing their attendance policy. Stand with me as I protest this unfair termination and demand that Whole Foods immediately reinstates me!

VICTORY! Governor Brown has now signed SB 27, the bill to force Dark Money non-profits to reveal their secret funders in California elections! As California Clean Money Campaign President Trent Lange said afterwards in the Sacramento Bee: “Governor Brown’s signature of SB 27 marks a turning point in the fight to reveal secret funders of political campaigns. It starts to shed light on dark money in California and serves as an example for the entire nation." Your petitions and calls worked! SB 27 became law after more than 40,000 people like you signed petitions. More than a thousand people applied extra pressure by calling their legislator. SB 27 was a great coalition effort in which the California Clean Money Action Fund worked with not only the bill author Senator Lou Correa, the sponsor FPPC, and our CA campaign finance friends at California Common Cause, California Forward, and the League of Women Voters of California; but also with national organizations like Public Citizen, CREDO Mobile, Courage Campaign, Progressives United, Represent.Us, causes.com, MoveOn.org, Money Out Voters In Coalition, MapLight, Label GMOs: California's Grassroots, Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California, Moms Across America, and others. Thanks to everybody who signed and helped us achieve this historic victory! PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE PETITION and we'll tell you how you can help pass other crucial bills to end the dominance of Big Money in politics, like SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act and SB 1272, the Overturn Citizens United Act. -- Your friends at the California Clean Money Campaign (www.CAdisclose.org)

Animal Planet claims that its hit reality show, "Call of the Wildman," is saving the animals it features. However, the truth is the program has engaged legally and ethically dubious animal-handling practices to boost its ratings and profit. Animal Planet relies on the viewing public for ratings and profits, so we need to let them know we are paying attention!

Everyone should be concerned about lower electricity bills and breaking up the monopoly electricity providers in Florida. U.S. Congressional FERC Order 888 dated from 1998 DEREGULATION OF ELECTRICITY in America. Remember telephone deregulation gave us the cheap phone bills we have now and electricity deregulation could do the same for your overpriced electricity bills you now pay.

Oxfam has cut ties with celebrity Scarlett Johansson over Johansson's new role as a "global ambassador" for the Israeli company SodaStream, which is based in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. As Oxfam stated: "Johansson's role promoting the company SodaStream is incompatible with her role as an Oxfam global ambassador. Oxfam believes that businesses, such as SodaStream, that operate in settlements further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities that we work to support. Oxfam is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law." Thank Oxfam for taking this principled stand by signing our petition.

GMOs aren’t without risk – some are designed for increased pesticides, which have been linked to serious health and environmental effects. And they usually don’t undergo safety testing before being brought to market. Consumers have a right to know what is in their food so we are asking Publix to please label store-brand products for GMO ingredients.

We have a right to make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about the food we eat. Yet it's usually impossible to know whether our food contains GMOs. We can't just wait for Massachusetts to pass a GMO labeling bill, so in the meantime we need Stop & Shop to take the lead and start labeling their store-brand products that contain GMOs. Sign this petition to the head of Stop & Shop and ask him as a customer to label GMOs in store-brand products.

There is no issue more profound or more basic than the food that we put into our bodies. While more research needs to be done on the full impact of GMOs, they are not without risks. For example, some GMOs are designed for increased pesticides, which have been linked to serious health and environmental impacts. Consumers have a right to know when GMOs are in their foods and to make purchasing choices for themselves. Ten months ago, Whole Foods committed to labeling their store-brand products in response to consumer demand. GMO companies like Monsanto and their Big Ag allies have spent millions to defeat efforts to win labeling laws. However, Whole Foods has shown that if enough of their customers demand it, grocery stores will label their products. Schnucks already offers Full Circle, an organic store-brand, which is GMO free. However, those who do not purchase the more expensive organic brand every time are left in the dark. With widespread customer support, we can get Schnucks to label all of their store-brand products. People power is what will win this effort – please sign the petition, send it to other Schnucks shoppers you may know, and get involved in the local movement.

Verizon, Facebook, and Google have all agreed to release transparency reports disclosing how many times local, state, and federal law enforcement ask for our phone and other records. That's a vital first step in the work millions of us are doing to stop government and corporate invasion of our privacy, in all our communities. But in recent news reports, Comcast officials noted that they were evaluating whether they would release a similar transparency report. Let's help them with their evaluation and sign a petition to Comcast, telling them that they must release that report now and on a regular basis, and let consumers know when the government has asked for our data.

Having been diagnosed with a neurologic condition, I am aware of the danger of Aspartame/Nutrasweet. Basedon all the scientifi tests in the past, the FDA has bowed to the pressure of the soft drink industry to allow this Poison to continue! millions of children adn adults will potentially be affected and afflicted with neurologic conditions!!

We learned how much it takes to buy an election in Washington: $25 per vote. That's how much money the Grocery Manufacturers Association and other outside spending groups spent to mislead voters in thinking I-522's GMO-labeling initiative would be overly complicated. Consumers should have a right to make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about the food we eat. Yet it’s usually impossible to know whether our food contains GMOs. Let's be clear. GMOs aren’t without risk— some are designed for increased pesticides, which have been linked to serious health and environmental effects. And they usually don’t undergo safety testing before being brought to market.