Corporate spending to influence elections needs to be checked. If we cannot outlaw it we need to require a shareholders vote authorizing every political expense by shareholders.

A coalition of Illinois organizations (MoveOn, Move to Amend, Common Cause, Illinois PIRG, Public Citizen, the Coffee Party and others) have been successful in passing resolutions to overturn Citizens United in numerous cities, counties and townships including the City of Chicago, Oak Park, Kane County, Northfield, Warren, and Avon Townships. Ballot measures passed by margins of 70% or higher. Now we are turning our attention to the Illinois State Legislature. We have drafted a resolution (and we have a sponsor) that calls on the US Congress to pass and send to the states for ratification an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision. This decision allows unlimited indirect contributions by corporate PACS and wealthy individuals to campaigns of those who work in their best interest rather than ours, the voters. This resolution also states that money is not equivalent to First Amendment free speech rights, and that rights spelled out in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments apply ONLY to human beings and not corporations or other artificial entities. Only voters can make the difference by huge numbers of people pushing back against money in politics and changing the way elections are funded at every level of government. Join with us to get this resolution passed in the Illinois State Legislature by signing the petition below to show your support.

I was illegally fired for organizing to improve conditions at the Walmart warehouse near Chicago where I work. Walmart's contractor, Roadlink, broke the law and Walmart's own Standards for Suppliers. We demand that they live up to the Standards for Suppliers and reinstate the workers immediately and that Walmart enforce its own Standards for Suppliers. We need to stop illegal retaliation for organizing in the Walmart supply chain! We need you to join us in calling on Roadlink to settle the unfair labor practice charges and reinstate me and my co-workers with pay now.

This is a petition opposing Barbara Walters' very inappropriate choice of Brooke Shields as a co-host of "The View." In addition to having no performing talent, Shields is an ultra-conservative supporter of Newt Gingrich whose fame comes largely through the money of her land developer father, whose developments have been ecologically destructive. She is not a "real woman" in touch with the issues ordinary women face every day and certainly not worthy of a show that has hosted the president of the United States. ABC already made bad choices in canceling "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" and replacing them with boring reality shows. We ask they please not ruin "The View" by hiring a vapid, undeserving host.

Tell Comed to use the money they are paying our legislators to pay for their meter program i.e. smart grid. We bailed out the banks we've bailed out the insurance companies we've bailed out the auto industry, it needs to stop now! We are not made of money, I don't know about you? But I am tired of being the slop these hogs are feeding on at the trough.

Stop the lobbying of pharmaceutical companies. We don't need them. It is a waste of money, and a perpetuation of what is wrong in this country, stop the need for wars and mass poison by unsafe medications, (New Zealand and USA are the only countries allowing Pharma advertisements).

We have lost are only progressive AM Radio Station on the West Side of Washington State. We need a replacement station. Help us.

To stop the abuse of process by DOJ the judicial process involving homeowners (7 million of them last count). BANKS ARE COMMITTING THEFT OF PROPERTY AGAINST ALL CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNERS WHO HAVE OUR LEGISLATURE TWISTED AROUND THEIR FINGERS!!

The Los Angeles County zoning code has loopholes in it that allow multinational big box retailers to enter without the permits smaller businesses must have, Save Altadena is asking the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to adopt a moritorium on new permits and to adopt model regulations so Multinational big boxes will have to compete on a level playing field with small local business,

Verizon wireless has a policy of keeping customers' money when they leave for another wireless provider. In other words, a multi-billion dollar corporation keeps -rather than pro-rates and returns the money of the days unused wireless service for your last month to the customer. Money taken for no service and their justification is that it is in the fine print when you sign on with them. I think they should have to pay back all the money they have taken in their keep the change policy.

We are asking the the Virginia Department of Transportation and Governor Bob McDonnell reroute the Route 29 Bypass to preserve the history and dignity of these human beings. The bypass was already rerouted previously to avoid a pet cemetery and spare the feelings of the pet owners. However these more than 100 year old graves of slave descendants lack "significant historical value" according to VDoT and they plan on moving them to make way for the road. Local historian Cinder Stanton calls this report “superficial and full of factual errors.” Please help us honor the dead and let them rest in peace. http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/VDOT-Responds-to-Western-Bypass-Cemetery-Concerns-189097691.html http://www.c-ville.com/should-vdot-reroute-the-bypass-around-graves-of-slave-descendants/#.USzt7TenfTp http://www.wina.com/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=6256649

Since prohibition days, Montgomery County Maryland has operated retail liquor stores and wholesale supplier of both beer and wine to county stores. Today Consumers and Entrepreneurs can not own Liquor Stores in the County. Now is he time to privatize the county Retail Liquor Industry creating new jobs and business taxes for state and county.