It's odd - we citizens are increasingly monitored more and more closely in our daily lives while monitoring the health of our precious natural resources and the creeping environmental harm to them is being scaled back and decreased by our legislative and regulatory bodies under the pressure and influence of big corporate interests and powerful elitists. Several chain retailers now charge many of us higher prices for their merchandise simply because we will not succumb to their card system to take our personal information and monitor us for the rest of our days on the earth. This is not true feedom - and it's a sad legacy if without saying a word, we accept it as our future.

Last month, the New Yorker reported that public television backed out of airing the documentary Citizen Koch -- just because they were afraid of upsetting billionaire donor David Koch. David Koch has donated $23 million as a board member of two flagship PBS stations, WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Public television was founded to support the public interest, not to cater to the private interests of wealthy donors like the Koch brothers. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmakers, Citizen Koch exposes the outsize role of money in American politics, from the Kochs and other major political spenders. This is exactly the kind of dialogue that public television was founded to foster, regardless of whether or not a powerful donor is happy about it. Add your name -- public television should end the self-censorship and air Citizen Koch!

Governor Cuomo introduced a campaign-finance reform bill this week that would make big-money fundraiser a thing of the past – and make New York a leader in publicly-funded elections. Ironically, the governor is planning to host a $50,000-per-person fundraiser featuring Paul Simon. With Albany’s legislative session ending in 1 week, the next few days will determine whether Cuomo is really a reformer or just offering this bill as a fig leaf. Paul is a good guy, though, and he has the leverage to get Gov. Cuomo to actually pass campaign finance reform. Sign the petition asking Paul Simon to only play Gov. Cuomo's fundraiser if he passes campaign finance reform.

This is a gripe of mine. General Electric spends millions to release infomercials about how great they are but does not pay a fair share of taxes to the United States. I want the company to take that money & pay it into the US treasury.

Equality under the law.

My family and I are personally affected by big chemical companies like Monsanto that are now controlling what we eat. GMO food companies are poisoning our bodies, killing our bees, bullying our small farmers to shut down their farms by monopolizing the food business, and making farmers around the world rely only on them for our food. Let's start with New Jersey and push back by demanding that our food be labeled. Let us choose what we want to put in our bodies.

Please veto HB77 which is clearly written to be pro-landlord and anti-tenant. Protect Florida residents from unscrupulous Landlords and launch a review and investigation on current Statutes that already leave Florida tenants vulnerable. HB77 makes the assumption that the Landlord is always right, and tenants have no worth. Tenants who cannot afford counsel are especially at risk. To provide Landlords with even more protection without an honest, in depth look at what is happening to many Florida tenants would be irresponsible lawmaking. Florida Landlords already have limited responsibility and there are few if any real regulatory agencies to force Landlords to maintain their properties or provide proper accounting to their tenants who pay the mortgages on their income producing properties. There is no aid for tenants who fall victim to these bad Landlords. If a tenant complains to a Landlord for lack of maintenance for instance, a Landlord can at any time, file retaliatory and fraudulent lawsuits against tenants and virtually force tenants and families into homelessness. Statistics would probably show that single women, the elderly and women with children and minorities would be particularly vulnerable.

Santa Fe, NM workers have no rights period. No Breaks. No Parking. No lunch, at the employers discretion. No Nothing! I was mortified when I received my employee handbook...and guess what, She's getting away with it:(

REPRESENT THE MIDDLE CLASS PROGRESSIVE PLATFORMS.

TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a super--sized NAFTA, TPP is a Free-trade agreement whereby countries give foreign corporations rights and privileges to encourage investment and global business. The corporate powers granted in the TPP can override domestic laws on environmental health and safety, and labor and citizens' rights. Not only that, but multinationals can claim that those domestic laws hamper free trade and sue member countries for millions of dollars. The current TPP talks include 12 Pacific Rim countries: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chili, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, and Japan. Other countries would be allowed to join the TPP at any time. The TPP negotiations are being held in secret between unelected government officials and representatives from more than 600 of the world's most powerful corporations. The implications for labor and human rights are HUGH. The talks are scheduled to finish by October of this year. Meanwhile, negotiators are lobbying Congress to grant "Fast Track" authority for the TPP. That would mean Congress couldn't revise the agreements and could only vote "yes" or "no" to the United States joining the TPP. This is shaping up as a further takeover of public policy that would impact safe food, sustainable jobs, clean water and air, access to life-saving medicines, education, even our very democracy. In March, Citizens Trade campaign organized a letter to Congress signed by 400 U.S. organizations outlining expectations for public involvement and calling for an end to Fast track. It was signed by, among others, the Sierra Club, Doctors Without Borders, Public Citizen, the National Family Farm Coalition, and state trade justice groups such as the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. American citizens would probably oppose the TPP if they knew more about it. Move-On could join the efforts to let people know about the TPP. Visit TPPxBorder.org to find out how the TPP will impact you -- and then join the effort.

This is an issue of corporations bankrolling government officials to keep workers wages lower than local boards want and take away basic workers rights like paid sick days. If local governments are stripped of control to help workers get basic rights, it means corporations can simply bankroll politicians at the state level and strip workers of basic protections and the right to earn a livable wage, having to surive on government programs to make up the difference

Our government is coming unglued. Congress is wasting time and money without accomplishing anything. Money is the new master, with all the laws written to overpower the people.