Despite Costco’s reputation as socially-responsible and worker-friendly, it continues to profit from selling products made by sweatshop manufacturer Reynolds and its subsidiary company, Pactiv Corp. Pactiv forced its women workers in Kearny, NJ, to work mandatory and excessive overtime of up to 84 hours per week (12 hours 7 days a week) for weeks on end. Overheated factory rooms, limited bathroom and water breaks, and multiple other violations on top of the fatigue, exhaustion and extensive repetitive actions from dangerous and destructive mandatory overtime hours all led to severe injury and sustained disability among the workers. When workers tried to speak out, they were laid off. By refusing to take Reynolds' products off their shelves, Costco is violating it’s own Supplier Code of Conduct which forbids suppliers to impose mandatory and excessive overtime. Costco is also supporting sweatshop labor. While affected workers are demanding that Pactiv and parent company Reynolds address sweatshop conditions, do away with mandatory overtime and reinstate workers, neither Pactiv nor Reynolds has complied. COSTCO, STOP SUPPORTING SWEATSHOP FACTORIES AND DO THE RIGHT THING - BREAK TIES WITH REYNOLDS AND PACTIV!

Such egregious programming is not only inflammatory, it is unconscionably unpatriotic, and wholly un-American! Likewise, it constitutes a gross violation of the public trust. Google Inc. has a duty of care not to mislead the public, nor to allow others to do so under its trademark identity. Likewise, Google Inc. holds a fiduciary duty to its shareholders not to sanction product misuse in a way which could knowingly and directly decrement shareholder value — including brand alignment with a nationally recognized racial pejorative form of the N-word. Please read a recent Washington Post article for details: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19/if-you-search-google-maps-for-the-n-word-it-gives-you-the-white-house/?postshare=6821432083232816) This situation must be corrected immediately, and with all deliberate dispatch due The President of The United States.

Watch John Oliver's revealing piece on the secret reality behind America's favorite meat, then send a message to Congress to protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry companies. http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=2109 The poultry sector is dominated by a few large poultry processing companies that control every step of chicken production. Farmers who raise chickens do not even own the birds, though they do own the waste they create and are responsible for making costly upgrades to their farms, as dictated by these companies. Farmers borrow massive amounts of money -- sometimes more than a million dollars -- to build and upgrade the chicken houses as directed by the companies. Though the farmers must make payment on these loans for a decade or more, they often are dependent on getting the next delivery of chicks under a short-term, flock-to-flock contract to repay their debt. Chicken companies often retaliate against farmers who speak out against unfair and abusive conditions in the poultry industry by terminating their contracts, leaving farmers unable to pay their mountains of debt. Farmers should not be betting the farm if they exercise their First Amendment right to speak out or talk to public officials about the unfairness in the poultry industry. Please support Representative Kaptur's efforts to help level the playing field and protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry corporations.

On May 19, former Commerce Secretary William Daley had an op-ed in the New York Times in support of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. [1] About this op-ed, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has written, [2] “William Daley’s pro-TPP op-ed in today’s Times is just awful, on multiple levels…But what really annoyed me, even if it’s not necessarily the worst bit, was this: ‘But today, of the 40 largest economies, the United States ranks 39th in the share of our gross domestic product that comes from exports. This is because our products face very high barriers to entry overseas in the form of tariffs, quotas and outright discrimination.’ Actually, no. We have a low export share because we’re a big country… claiming that the relatively low US export share says anything at all about trade barriers makes me want to bang my head against a wall.” The New York Times fact-checks the op-eds that it publishes. Should the New York Times have published such a grossly misleading claim? Can NYT editors dispute that the claim was grossly misleading, if Paul Krugman attests that it was? Should the NYT publish a correction, clarification, or editor’s note to accompany the op-ed? Urge NYT editors to investigate by signing and sharing our petition. References: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/opinion/free-trade-is-not-the-enemy.html 2. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/the-mis-selling-of-tpp/

House Bill 4052 would take power away from communities in order to boost corporate profits. Michigan’s 1 percent shouldn’t be allowed to overturn decisions they don’t like made by local governments, but now they’re trying to repeal local laws that reflect our values, like raising minimum wages and ensuring small business owners don’t get left behind by taxpayer-funded development projects. Protect local progress today.

As the University of Califronia continues to raise student tuition and drop the wages of the middle-class, it still finds a way to nickel-and-dime the community. A recent EPI study showed that over 93% of clerical support staff at the University of California cannot afford to meet the basic family budget for a single parent with one child in the city where they work. On top of that, the University continues to raise the student tuition and now plans to raise the parking fees for students and employees. This has to stop!

Robert Reich has got it right. Tell Congress and the 2016 presidential candidates they need to stand up to Wall Street to make the economy work better for the rest of us. Reforming the financial system is one of the central issues facing our country, and we cannot allow big-money donors to hijack our democracy and continue to rig the game in favor of the .1%. Every lawmaker and candidate for president should take a clear stand on taming Wall Street and working for a fairer and safer financial system. It's going to take all of us to make sure they do. Please join this call for action so these issues get the attention they deserve.

We should be horrified by the acts that food producers commit to animals every day, just so they can sell a snack or a meal. I've started this petition to help others understand the impacts of the egg industry - and while they may not want to stop eating eggs, they can still help support animals by demanding that the industry become more humane.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a front for corporations to gain access to legislators that claims it's a charity. That lets ALEC's backers claim their funding for ALEC as a charitable gift and deduct it from their taxes, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab for ALEC’s influence scheme. That's not fair, which is why we've filed a whistleblower complaint with the IRS demanding that they revoke ALEC’s charitable tax-exempt status, fine them for any violations, and make its corporate backers pay the back taxes they owe. Join us!

House Bill 4052 would take power away from communities in order to protect corporate profits. Special interests shouldn’t be allowed to overturn decisions they don’t like made by local governments, but now they’re trying to prevent local laws that reflect our values, like making our workplaces healthier and requiring community benefit agreements when taxpayer resources are used in development projects. Protect local progress today.

I believe it's important for drug companies to be liable for ALL drugs that they produce and offer to the public They should not receive immunity for vaccines. It's all or nothing.

FACEBOOK IS NOW FORBIDDING THE POSTING OF VIDEOS AND ANY OTHER PICTURES OR INFO SHOWING POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACKS AND MINORITIES. STATING THAT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO POST CONTAINS VIOLENCE! WELL YES, WHEN A POLICE OFFICER IS BEATING OR SHOOTING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, IT USUALLY IS VIOLENT. AND IF YOU POST IT ANYWAY, THEY WILL SHUT YOU DOWN. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL ADMINISTRATORS AND MEMBERS IN GROUPS I HAVE STARTED BANNED FOR THIS VERY THING. WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THEY ARE USING THE WATCH FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY AS AN EXCUSE TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACK AWARENESS OF POLICE BRUTALITY. THEY ARE WALKING THAT THIN LINE OF BEING IN VIOLATION OF OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. AS LONG AS WE DO NOT PROMOTE VIOLENCE, AS LONG AS IT IS RAISING AWARENESS OF THE TRENDING OF POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACKS, I CAN'T SEE HOW OR WHY WE COULD POSSIBLY BE IN VIOLATION OF FACEBOOK POLICY. NOW, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE IF IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR ANTI-ISLAMIC PEOPLE TO TRASH A RELIGIOUS LEADER TO THE POINT PEOPLE ARE KILLED BECAUSE IT IS THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, THE SAME APPLIES TO AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO RAISE AWARENESS AND KEEP TRACK OF ALL THE MINORITIES BEING GUNNED DOWN IN THE STREETS LIKE ANIMALS. THIS ''IS NOT'' AN ACT OF PROMOTING OR IGNITING VIOLENCE, THIS IS TRYING TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM IT, WHICH APPARENTLY THEY DON'T WANT US TO BE ALLOWED TO DO!!!!!