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Stop Piece work exploitation and pay a fair hr rate.Stop employers like DirecTV that paids technicians by the job they complete only, but in many, many cases these technicians dont get paid over time, driving time, jobs that were canseled or rescheduled by customers, jobs where the customers were not home or jobs that were not able to be completed for reason that are out of the technicians control, these technicians work long hours, but they dont get pay all the hrs of work, and the employers like DirecTV are getting away with that, what we need is a law that forces all employers to pay the employees by the hour their work insted of piece rates.18 of 100 SignaturesCreated by nicolas
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Hold bank CEOs accountableMy son and his wife were unable to have their bank (PNC) lower their interest rate, but instead their monthly payment were raised. The scandal at Barclay's in London which involves American banks affected all of our interest rates since 2005 - perhaps even earlier. When is the Congress going to hold the top officers of banks legally responsible, instead of treating them deferentially, as they recently did when Robert Diamond testified.3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Susan Giesel
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End the Banking Culture of Impunity: Investigate, Prosecute and IncarcerateWe the People grow weary of waiting for justice to be served to the financial institutions who brought our nation to its knees with the 2007-08 economic collapse from which they recovered immediately with our tax bailout money while the people are continuing to lose jobs, homes and savings with no end in sight; We demand action on the part of Congress and the White House to end the culture of impunity under which the financial institutions continue to operate as evidenced by: 1. The recent $9 billion loss incurred by JPMorgan Chase in the same kind of risky gambling with the People’s money that brought us the Great Recession; 2. The unfolding London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) rigging scandal in which sixteen global banks are alleged to have colluded to set the international interest rate from which flow interest rates for trillions of dollars of loans worldwide, including credit card debt, mortgages, student debt and other indebtedness too numerous to name; We demand the end of the business-as-usual practice of federal investigations of financial crimes which result in a relatively small fine which the financial institutions simply consider a cost of doing business.4,937 of 5,000 SignaturesCreated by stephanie hampton
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Romney's FinancesMitt Romney should give a full disclosure of his taxes and financial holdings, just as did his father, George, when he ran for president. Voters deserve an honest disclosure. Mitt's support for reduced taxes for the rich and corporate power make this a serious issue2 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Bruce Noll
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Investigate Blackwater and CheneyCheney is linked to Blackwater a contract organization that provided civilian troops to Iraq. They were rumored to have indiscriminately killed thousands of innocent civilians, using sophisticated ordnance and weapons.9 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Donald L. Mercer
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Overturn Citizen's UnitedOur democracy has been hijacked by the powerful elite. Citizen's United has created the legality of corporations to function as though they are citizens. Overturning this legal abomination would restore some sanity to our "democracy".5 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Bruce Combs
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Hold the executives and board of trustees legally liable for all corporate actsThe decision-making executives of corporations are not legally liable for any of the damages their decisions have caused -- whether it is polluting the air we breathe or cleaning up their oil spills. The corporations themselves may be liable, but the executives who knowingly direct their corporations to engage in illegal acts in order to make an extra profit can do so with 100% impunity. Let's change that and make both the corporate executives and the board of directors legally liable for all of their corporation's activities.3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Robert Shorin
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Boycott Sean Hannity advertisersI want people boycotting Sean Hannity's advertisers the same way they did with Rush Limbaugh's.1,899 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by brian
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Boycott corporation's products who will not hire American workers.Letting corporations know that there are millions of Americans fed up with Companies outsourcing American jobs, and at the same time are sitting on 2 trillion dollars, failing to invest in American workers, and causing the economy to slump into a deep recession, near depression level. .3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jerry Meyer
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Corporations aren't peopleOver at least the past 130 years or so, a series of US Supreme Court decisions have incrementally afforded more and more rights to corporations, to the point that they are now legally considered people in the eyes of US jurisprudence. A long term, determined series of lawsuits should be undertaken to weaken and finally terminate this flawed fundamental principle of US law. We the flesh and blood people and citizens of the United States call on all public interest lawyers, legal organizations and other interested parties to coordinate and support such a strategy.3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Ben Tansey
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Stop the Monsanto RidersSo-called 'Monsanto riders,' quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require - not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech producer has to do is ask.209,984 of 300,000 SignaturesCreated by Robert Shepherd
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Corporations Eligible for Death PenaltyIn the eyes of the law Corporation are considered people. As such they should be treated no differently than individuals when they commit crimes. Ex: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air andd to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said. In this instance the corporation and the executives involved should be eligible for the death penalty based on the severity of the crime. French Example: French law provides for the prosecution of companies as legal entities in a similar way as an individual offender. Under article 121-2 of the Penal Code, «legal persons, with the exception of the State, are criminally liable for the offences committed on their account by their organs or representatives». As implied from article 121-2 of the Penal Code, companies may be held liable through imputation for acts caused by a natural person, so long as the natural person is acting as its organ or representative. A company may be prosecuted for most of the same offences as an individual offender. Therefore, the differences in the prosecution of an individual and a company result from practical realities, as detailed below. IN OTHER WORDS, IF CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE CONSIDERED NATURAL PERSONS THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME LAWS AND PENALTIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THOSE CRIMES3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Richard H