On July 10 the D.C. City Council passed the Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), a bill that requires large retailers to pay their employees $12.50 an hour. This means that any company that has 75,000 square feet of space in D.C. and at least $1 billion in revenue each year has to pay its workers a living wage. The bill passed the Council 8-5 and now goes to Mayor Vincent Gray’s desk for his signature. Wal-Mart has launched an all-out assault of threats to D.C., including the mayor. It says that if the law is passed, it will pull out of three planned projects in the District. We need to tell Wal-Mart that D.C. deserves better. We need Mayor Gray to make the Large Retailer Accountability Act law.

30 million hard working minimum wage workers earn less now than they did 45 years ago.

Impeach all signers of the Grover Norquist agreement for breach of contract due to the explicit conflict between the agreement and the U.S. Constitution they swore to uphold.

He is using US taxpayer money to open and operate Medreses ( Moslem indoctrination) schools. He also is not paying sufficient taxes due to having a farm which is being used to help Moslem extremists around the world. He helped to establish an Islamist government in Turkey and put thousands in Jail and help infiltrate police. Now trying to take over military which is a true US ally.

The City of Santa Fe currently has a minimum wage of $10.51 an hour. This wage helps working families to provide for themselves and their children and to be stronger parts of their communities. Now we have the chance to expand this $10.51 minimum wage to the rest of Santa Fe County. Will you sign the petition to the Santa Fe Commission now?

We work at Guitar Center and we are organizing across the country to improve wages and working conditions for all Guitar Center employees. We love our jobs and our passion is helping our customers achieve their musical dreams. But we often have trouble making ends meet, thanks to low wages and fluctuating hours. We are asked to do many non-selling tasks which hurt our commissions. Sales workers do not receive sick days, health benefits are expensive and part timers are not even offered health benefits. It’s been an exciting year for the Guitar Center campaign: workers in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas have successfully organized a union at their workplaces, over 100 bands and artists have endorse the campaign, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting us. However, the company has responded by refusing to give us a fair contract and has launched an aggressive campaign to bust the union. The company’s last offer is worse than non-union stores. It is meant to punish us for standing up for ourselves. Our union has been forced to file charges detailing the company’s bad faith negotiating and union busting. We now say: Enough is Enough. We are asking the public to support us as we enter the final stages of negotiations! Sign the petition below to help us get a fair contract and a support our union. Artist Endorsees: Tom Morello Kathleen Hanna Roger Waters Ted Leo A Wilhelm Scream Activator Alan Cage (Quicksand) Aloe Blacc Alvvays And We Danced Andy Nelson (Paint it Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue) Anoraak Anti-Flag ¡Aparato! Arms Aloft The Attic Ends B. Dolan Beast Patrol Beneath Acacia The Bennies Bent Shapes Bevel Summers Bigger Thomas Billy Bragg B*tch Bluffing Bones Jugs N Harmony Bonesetters Boots Riley (The Coup) Born in a Cent Brass Messengers Breedloves Burn Everything Cambalache Canasta The Cell Phones Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Chicano Batman Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) Chris Frasco Chumped Chunkie Soup Circa '95 Claudio Rivera (Motion City Soundtrack) Computer at Sea Cory Johnson (Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant) Curtis McMurtry Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawamba) David Rovics Dead Leaf Echo Dean Wareham Devon Kay & The Solutions DJ Torch Downtown Boys Due North East of the Wall Elway Empty Lungs Eric Ayotte Et Tu Brute Evan Greer & Friends Ezra Furman and the Harpoons The Fatty Acids The Fever Haze Flaccid French Horn Rebellion F*cked Up Gameday Regulars The Gashers Gay Panic Glue Gun GoldBoot Gravity A The Grim The Grizzled Mighty Hold Tight! Homewreckers The Hood Internet Hostage Calm The Hoteliers I See Hawks in LA Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) Jasiri X JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN) Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) Jesse Malin John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) John Wright (Railroad Music) Jonny Rumble Karen and the Sorrows Katastrophe Krill L Train Las Cafeteras Las Vegas Gangstaz Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Leda Leftover Crack Local 802 AFM (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) Los Rakas Lyrically Illz Ma Jolie Matt Cross (Orange 9mm and ex-Guitar Center worker) Matt Pantelis Matt Reilly (Japanther) Max Bernstein (Ke$ha) Mike Golden & Friends Mike Park (Asian Man Records) The Molotov Mother Falcon The Muggs Murdoc My Body Sings Electric The New Diet Non Exotic On Your Marx The People's Whiskey The Remedies Paint it Black Painted Saints Paper Holland Pet Tigers Plague of Pilgrims Prawn Propagandhi P.Y.M.P. Quetzal Random Rab Ray Korona Rebel Diaz Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Rise Against Robot Death Kites Rocky Rivera Roger Harvey & The Wildlife Rosetta Rude Mechanical Orchestra RVIVR Saintseneca Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter) Sean Daley (Atmosphere) Sergio Vega (Deftones, Quicksand) The Sights Ski Lodge Slavic Soul Party! Slonk Donkerson Small Reactions Smalls So So Glos Sons of an Illustrious Father Sorrows Spiritchild Spoonboy Spring Heeled Jack Starlight Girls Stephanie Johnstone Steve Earle Street Dogs STRFKR The Taxpayers The Thermals Thee Oh Sees This City Called Earth Thollem Electric Tommy Siegel (Jukebox the Ghost) The Underground Railroad to Candyland Unicorn Fukr Vincent Cross Violent Bullsh#t Voodoo Visionary Vulture Sh*t War on Women Water Borders The Way Down Wanderers We Are All Savages We Are the Union Who Needs You Wilder Maker The Wood Brothers Zelienople Zuzuka Poderosa

My petition is in regard to pre-employment personality testing. Such testing should not be relied on in determining whether someone gains employment with a company or not because it may exclude people who are qualified for the job and are not a risk. The reverse is also true concerning qualifications and being a risk.

We spend more on weapons and war than the combined military budgets of the next 16 countries, including many U.S. allies and friends. But House Republicans want to fund an increase in Pentagon spending with more cuts to vital services – literally taking hot food from the mouths of vulnerable seniors and robbing children of education and a path to a brighter future. This outrageous plan and the right-wing obsession with cutting our nation to the core must be stopped. Tell Congress: Don’t cut vital programs to increase Pentagon spending. Slashing vital social safety net programs that serve millions of families makes absolutely no sense, which makes the GOP’s 2014 spending plan particularly cruel. They would add to the devastating sequester cuts to domestic spending in order to increase a Pentagon budget that already eats up 57% of the money Congress votes on. Well, it’s time for Congress to hear what the American people think about the GOP’s tea-party priorities. Tell Congress: Don’t cut vital social safety net programs to increase Pentagon spending. Some in Washington have completely lost touch with the everyday struggles of life – finding and keeping a good job, paying rent and bills on time, and taking care of our friends and family who’ve fallen behind through no fault of their own. As families and communities struggle just to get by, we need jobs and prosperity for all, not austerity. We have collapsing bridges in Washington, we have cancer patients going without treatment, and we have children being turned away from Head Start at a time when we should be investing in their future. It’s up to us to stop these cuts to our communities and speak out for prosperity for all. Join us as we call on Congress to do the right thing and defend our social safety net against these radical right-wing attacks.

The fact that our government (you) feel it is okay to improperly spend taxpayer funds and cut budgets in integral areas such as labor, wages, armed forces, Medicare, social programs and other subsidies; is shameful and disgraceful. Sounds like the leadership of this country has their priorities entirely wrong.

Security Officers live in near poverty while providing safety and protection for some of the wealthiest tech companies in the world. It's time for wealthy corporations in Silicon Valley to provide good jobs for Security Officers.

Do you have $10,000 to spare so that you can dine with Tea Party Republican Paul Ryan in Baltimore? I didn’t think so, but that’s how much billionaire Mitt Romney’s former vice-presidential running mate is asking for if you want to be a “Presidential Sponsor” for the Republican Party’s annual Red, White and Blue Dinner in Baltimore on June 20. It’s not often that someone like Paul Ryan comes to town, and maybe it’s because he knows that most Marylanders don’t support his extreme right-wing policies that hurt the working class while benefitting Ryan’s 1% campaign donors. As part of his austerity agenda, Ryan has fought tooth and nail against efforts to increase the federal minimum wage – which has remained stagnant since 2009 As he visits Baltimore tell Rep. Paul Ryan and his Tea Party allies to stop opposing a raise to the federal minimum wage! Raising the minimum wage is one of the issues I care most passionately about, and that’s why we’re fighting to increase Maryland’s minimum wage. Unlike the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires that Paul Ryan supports (that do nothing to help create jobs), raising the federal minimum wage would stimulate our economy from the bottom up. Raising the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would increase GDP by about $32.6 billion and create approximately 140,000 net new jobs. I don’t know about you, but I think that sounds pretty good Join me in telling Rep. Paul Ryan to stop opposing a raise to the minimum wage – hard work deserves fair pay!

Americans are working harder and harder for less and less. For the past 45 years, the federal minimum wage has not kept up with the cost of living. Right now, forty percent of Americans make less than the minimum wage from 1968. While working Americans do more work every year for less pay, the wealthiest watched as their share of the total income pie grew by 275% over the last thirty years. Senate Majority Leader Reid has said he intends to take up a minimum wage increase in the Senate before the end of the year. Now is the time to stand together and call on Congress to enact a living wage and strengthen America’s middle class. Raising pay for American workers is not only the right thing to do, it will also increase demand for goods and services, creating millions of good new jobs. Big, profitable employers like McDonald’s and Walmart should learn that better wages for their workers mean millions of families will have more money to spend at their stores. It is unacceptable that the minimum wage today pays only $15,000 per year. That’s $3,000 below the poverty level for a family of three. A living wage would help working families still suffering from the effects of the recession, and would boost the economy by putting money in people’s pockets. Join me in spreading the call for a living wage.