Basic cable offers only Fox News as a 24 hour news channel. This is the same with DIsh Network and Direct T.V. This is Segregating the people by views that are out of the mainstream and are highly subjective to the point of being fraudulent. It's necessary to offer the common man a choice.

I am a customer of a wireless phone company that I found out donates large amounts of money to candidates whom I oppose, so I am changing carriers. Nevertheless I do not appreciate them using my business with them in this manner. I believe that corporations making contributions under the umbrealla of Citizens United should have to be very transparent about it - that they should have mandatory requirements to publicize it.

I don't like my family not having a choice of what we eat simply because manufacturers DO NOT LABLE GMO products. GMOs have not been tested properly...ever...and you DO NOT KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE EATING THEM. I assure you...you are... Labeling should be mandatory. Americans have the right to know what's in our food? Or we will continue to let our food policy be ruled by political decisions engineered last century in a Monsanto or Dupont boardroom by corporate lobbyists? YOUR CALL!

Many states have already banned the discriminatory practice of checking credit ratings before offering employment but many have yet to catch up. This petition is in effort to raise awareness to Government Officials at all levels in Massachusetts that this practice is discriminatory and elitist in nature. It prevents those who have recently fallen on hard times through no fault of their own from joining the workforce again and being productive members of society. I urge you to take a stand for the hard working Massachusetts residents that want to work. US States That Took Action to Eliminate Credit Checks in Non-Financial Employment * In the Northeast: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Maryland, Pennsylvania. * In the Midwest: Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, * In the South: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina * In the South/West: Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Arkansas * In the West: California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nebraska

Asking Sears and other retailers to close on Thursday thanksgiving day, so workers can spend time with family instead of in stores for pre black Friday deals. Keep black Friday on Friday.

Wall Street campaigned to put its candidate in office and lost. Now it still wants to prove it runs Washington by blocking Elizabeth Warren from the Senate Banking Committee. This is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision, and we should let him know that we want Warren on the committee.

Walmart workers around the country walked off the job on Black Friday in protest for more full-time positions, better wages and more affordable access to insurance. As a former Walmart worker, I know that Walmart keeps many or most of its employees part-time, pays exceedingly low wages, and the insurance is so expensive that most workers cannot afford to participate in the plans.

This petition is designed to oppose the attempt, by George Soros, to undermine the basic principles of freedom upon which America was founded.

It IS NOT TOO MUCH to ask that people have Thanksgiving and Christmas off. Obviously, some people will have to work--emergency personnel, law enforcement and hospital personnel mainly--but we have PLENTY of time to shop for the holidays without asking retail salespeople to give up their holiday.

Wal-Mart (along with other merchants) are requiring their employees to work on Thanksgiving. They are being forced to forfeit time with their families to support the greed of massive corporations who are concerned only with their bottom lines.

We want to guarantee that Elizabeth Warren is elected to the Banking Comittee by the Senate. She will help lead the way to banking reform and oversight. She will put the Glass Steagall Act back in place.

The past few weeks have been deeply trying ones for New Yorkers, with scores of lives and thousands of homes lost. The storm exposed not only our vulnerability as a city, but widespread inequality as well. Wall Street reopened one day after the storm, but many in public housing waited three weeks for heat, and many others remain without adequate shelter. But we’ve also seen extraordinary acts of generosity and courage, as people have come together to provide food, blankets, money, helping hands, comfort, and hope on an incredible scale. As we turn from relief to recovery, we face a stark choice. Will we simply rebuild what was there before – a city riven by inequality and poverty, vulnerable to climate change, with government decisions too often driven by corporate interests rather than the public interest? Or will we build on the remarkable spirit of organized compassion we’ve seen – to try to create a city where everyone is protected, and no one is homeless? Will we rebuild two cities, or one? Mayor Bloomberg should make this a recovery that genuinely works for everyone. Let’s rebuild by creating forward-thinking infrastructure and good jobs, while including residents in the decisions about the future of their communities. After Hurricane Katrina, rebuilding policies focused on corporate tax breaks rather than public housing. Here in New York, the 9/11 recovery ensured a resurgent Wall Street, but created a Lower Manhattan that was even less affordable for most New Yorkers. We must invest significant public resources to rebuild our city and create the sustainable infrastructure we need. While we do that, we must also insure genuine economic opportunities, affordable housing, a healthier and safer city for everyone. Let’s reject a trickle-down recovery. Mayor Bloomberg should invest in New Yorkers and their neighborhoods, so New York City’s recovery creates a more sustainable, equal, and democratic New York. • A more sustainable recovery will invest in infrastructure we needed long before Sandy - like neighborhoods and environmental systems that are sustainable in the long term and help protect New York from extreme weather. We need to focus on preventing climate change by expanding our mass transit system, promoting energy efficiency and green buildings, and accelerating regional alternative energy projects like solar, tidal power and wind farms. • A more equal recovery will create good jobs for those impacted by the storm. Let’s make sure that publicly-funded rebuilding jobs go to low-income communities, and pay workers enough to lift them out of poverty. And let’s not just rehouse people made homeless by the hurricane – but also the 46,000 people who were in NYC homeless shelters before Sandy. • A more democratic recovery will empower regular New Yorkers – especially those in hard-hit communities – to help envision the city we rebuild, so that rebuilding creates stronger neighborhoods and doesn’t concentrate risks in low-income communities. We should strengthen the community organizations that were first on the ground in Hurricane Sandy’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, giving them a central role in rebuilding their neighborhoods and setting them up to be even stronger in the next crisis. Hurricane Sandy can be an opportunity, to rebuild a more sustainable, more equal, more democratic New York City.