It's unfair

Whether or not Bernie can still win the nomination will depend upon how well we can mobilize the grassroots support that We, the People, feel for our urgently needed Second American Revolution. Hillary Clinton has been outspending Sanders by about 30% for paid staff, while Bernie’s campaign has spent far more on media buys, leaving less money to pay people to go door to door and provide free lawn signs for everyone who wants them. To win more than 2/3 of the primary vote in the Western states and pave a path to victory at the Convention, we are calling for the Sanders campaign to divert millions of dollars from media buys here in California starting May 9, to fund paid field organizers, free lawn signs, bumper stickers and grassroots events to allow our campaign to better connect directly with millions of voters. Our campaign needs to field a diverse legion of hundreds or even thousands of paid field organizers, so that those who appear on doorsteps and street corners reflects the demographics that will be voting in the final West Coast primaries. Here in California, we need to help people register and select a party preference before a May 23 registration deadline. We also need to help them check that their registration has not been mysteriously switched or purged, to make sure that the suspicious shenanigans that went on in New York are not repeated in California, the nation’s largest primary race. Bernie 2016 needs to match Clinton’s ground game, which is paying People of Color living wages for door-to-door outreach in Oakland and other cities. At this time, Bernie’s campaign professionals are refusing to hire more than a skeleton crew of canvassers with scarce resources, while reserving nearly all funds raised for big advertising buys from the corporate media. This is not the way we are going to win this. If we rely solely on volunteers for outreach, then only those who can afford to work for free, often meaning, the well-to-do and retirees, are able to assist. This greatly limits the diversity of those who represent Bernie, while we are working within diverse communities, where the Bernie 2016 campaign is already struggling to catch up with Clinton’s lead. As a grassroots community organizer for Bernie Sanders, I, petition organizer David Karabelnikoff (Aleut/ Alaska Native), have campaigned in Nevada, Alaska, and California. Campaign workers and volunteers like me have worked countless hours door knocking, face banking, sign building, tabling, and event and rally planning. Many of our colleagues are worried that the hierarchical Bernie 2016 campaign team is focusing too much on media buys, while starving the grassroots of personnel and materials that will be needed on Primary day. Funding a grassroots effort could also include high profile inner city projects, like the Peoples Vision of the Political Revolution Mural Project being created with Oakland and Bay Area youth to share their vision for the future, while increasing voter turnout. Please share this petition with others who want to help Bernie win big by funding the grassroots to carry our grassroots revolution now!

People don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. This man, whom I believed was a joke, suddenly looks like he will get the nomination. Trump seems to be the only option, and I want them to know that whoever they are, we are all American and need to stand against the worst possible option to run our country.

Americans cannot risk having a Supreme Court nominee selected by a President Trump. It's time for Republican senators who are refusing to even consider President Obama's highly qualified nominee to end their obstruction and do their jobs. Or else it's time for these senators to publicly declare whether they will follow the Constitution or hold out for a Trump presidency.

We must stop Trump! With a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket, nearly every demographic - except non-college-educated white males - would be covered. Together Bernie and Hillary can continue and expand on Obama's accomplishments. Such a ticket may even have the coat tails needed to take back the Senate. Let's work together!

The carried interest tax loophole allows wealthy private equity managers to pay taxes at a lower rate than teachers, firefighters and nurses. What's even WORSE is that we don't even know how much tax money we lose each year to millionaire & billionaire fund managers taking advantage of this loophole. But the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has the power to fix this, and to "show us the (lost) money." We urge the IRS to require alternative asset managers (like private equity funds) to disclose the amount of carried interest they received in their annual tax filings. Want to learn more? See Americans for Financial Reform's letter to the IRS: bit.ly/showusthelostmoney

The campaign needs to add local hires, proportional to the population and inversely proportional to historic voter turnout. Communities with low voting rates would receive additional organizers to mobilize. The political revolution is not just for those who participate in elections, but also those who feel disenfranchised and have given up on the electoral process. Paraphrasing Bernie GRASSROOTS STRATEGY: The campaign shifts strategy to a grassroots local focused approach, pulling money away from media buys and hiring up to 1000 local, minority preference, field organizers. COMMUNITY MURALS: Commissioned by the campaign, calling on the community to register to vote by May 23rd. Each of 50+ districts are awarded $50,000 for a community art project that encourages voter participation and civic engagement, that also serve as team building for the campaign and local organizers, both volunteer and paid. LOCAL HIRES: Campaign has set new goals for locally connected field organizers, hiring at least 50% of field organizers ethnic, religious and culturally representative of the communities they are organizing. We feel that this embodies Bernie’s messaging regarding community policing and is just as applicable here, when connecting with local communities, in winning votes and trust of the people. SPECIAL INTEREST RESOURCES: It is imperative that the campaign offices serve as resources for special interest groups and provide outreach efforts directed towards these groups. Resources such as voter registration outreach, canvassing, tabling, education materials, and campaign and community conversations must happen with all special interest groups including: First Americans / Native American African American Religious Minorities Ethnic Minorities Asians & Pacific Islanders Middle Eastern Latino Veterans Women’s Equality Unions LGBTQ Immigrants Thank you for your support of the Political Revolution let’s organize California for the Win! Please join us!!

The U.S. government, through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), has unjustly tried to evict me and my son from my home of 15 years. Having been hurt on the job, I became re-employed but the bank would not accept payments or modify the FHA-backed loan. Through the FHA/HUD mortgage program, the Secretary of HUD has not only allowed thousands of unjust foreclosures across the country, but Secretary Castro continues to encourage banks to profit off the suffering of our communities by peddling massive bank bailouts for foreclosures (FHA is planning to write a check to MidFirst Bank for over 240% of the original value of the loan for my family home.) Together we can stop the foreclosures! Take a stand for community land! -Elizabeth McGriff

We the 2016 Florida Democratic Pledged Delegates, 2016 Democratic Pledged Delegate Candidates, and the voters of the great State of Florida, are writing to you to express our strong concerns for the current direction of our party and the future of the democratic process in our United States of America. It is our deepest hope that when you read our concerns and our requests for action, you do so in the sentiment expressed in a quote by Abraham Lincoln in stone at our nation’s capital: "…and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish" 1863 As citizens and elected officials, we have deep-rooted concerns for the Democratic party’s primary system. The primary system has shown to not only disenfranchise millions of independent and non-party affiliated voters, but has also been involved with numerous accounts of possible voter fraud and confirmed accounts of unethical behavior at the expense of voters. In the recent months, the execution of the Democratic primary system has: (1) Disenfranchised thousands of Democrats due to lack of polling stations in Arizona, (2) Both elected and hired party members have been involved with numerous confirmed accounts of unethical behavior relating to voting, (3) The access to our party's VAN, or member contact lists, has been used by top party leaders to prevent other members from running in the Democratic primary party system, and (4) Over 120,000 registered Democrats in Brooklyn, New York were purged from voter lists preventing them from participating in the primary system. As pledged delegates elected in this primary system, we pledge to conduct our own polls to ensure that we vote for the candidate in line with majority. We refuse to represent the State of Florida at the convention in Philadelphia without the will of ALL our Florida citizens who hold our party platform dear to their hearts. As party members, we pledge to refuse responsibility of a Republican-controlled White House come November. Currently, millions of party members will abstain from voting for the Democratic nominee if this current primary process continues. We urge you to speak with your constituents so you may truly realize that no speech on "party unity" or "lesser of two evils" will trump the intimate emotions of disfranchised party members across this state and nation. As voters in the State of Florida, we pledge to hold you responsible for your decision on our call to action. In the extreme case that our voices are not heard, you can expect activists on the ground in your district, and voters in the booth. Your acceptance to our call of action will garner respect and gratitude during your future political endeavors. Therefore, we the People of Florida ask that you pledge, as a superdelegate, to provide a means for citizens in your districts to determine your vote at the convention just as Florida superdelegate Alan Grayson has recently accomplished. If you choose not to conduct a poll, we ask that you pledge to refrain from voting and participating at the convention in Philadelphia. We sincerely hope that you join our efforts in ensuring that the State of Florida arrives to the convention with the current voice, and the will of our Florida electorate. Anything less will be considered a direct attack on our constitutional voting rights. Sincerely, The electorate of Florida

As an American I am promised that our votes count however in this Democratic Primary there are consistent reports of rampant tampering with voter supression i.e hundreds of thousands of voters being removed from the voter rolls, voters party affiliation being changed without their consent so they cannot vote, polling places reduced significantly so voters have to wait for hours resulting in voters leaving before casting a vote and lastly an overall tone of helplessness replaces the goodwill of true democracy. I am starting this petition because there are already reports of voters in California saying their party affiliation is being changed and the Primary is only weeks away. So I am calling on The United Nations as an EMERGENCY REQUEST to aid us American citizens in being able to carry out one of our immutable rights... Our right to vote for whom WE THE PEOPLE CHOOSE.

US voters must be offered a better choice on the November ballot than the unpopular Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. If Bernie Sanders is not running, we must fight onward with Jill Stein to take on Clinton and Trump in the presidential debates. By remaining united we can qualify Jill for the debates to make sure our progressive voices are not silenced, but continue to be heard in the 2016 presidential campaign. We will also be building a party for the 99% by merging the Bernie Sanders movement with the Green Party.

Pick almost any subject, issue, or topic of political discussion, in the past 36 years and you'll realize that the progressive voice has been systematically smothered under a pillow of right-wing ideals and money. Our government has been auctioned off to the highest bidders by the very system we've created through our ignorance and apathy. Under both parties our standard of living and dignity have both plummeted as our ability support ourselves has steadily declined over that same period of time. Under a Democrat, in cooperation with all Republicans, laws were passed that gave tax incentives to companies to take our good paying jobs overseas. This, in turn, left millions of prosperous, hard working, American's unemployed, destitute, depressed and fending for themselves. Our good paying jobs were systematically stolen from us and given to destitute people around the world willing to work for slave wages and working unspeakable hours while leaving them no time to be with their families. Eight years ago, Wall Street crashed the global economy by lying to the world about the quality of the mortgages their banks were underwriting. They stole billions of dollars from the American people through 'bail outs' and credit tightening measures while they gave themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in "performance bonuses." The result? Nobody went to jail or was even tried. British Petroleum (BP) ruined the Gulf of Mexico's seafood industry, our food supply and the financial future & health, of millions of people in the fishing industry depending on that food supply. The result? Nobody went to jail or was even tried. Under a Republican governor, over 100,000 people in Flint, Michigan were poisoned with lead because government officials wanted to "save money" by changing their water supply. Two years later, no one has done anything to fix the problem. Still… The result? As of yet, nobody has been tried in court or gone to jail. Both Parties currently have candidates that the public CLEARLY Prefers and yet both parties are doing everything in their power to sabotage and subvert the will of the people. At this point, it is clear that neither political Party represents their constituents any longer and that our country now responds only to the desires of billionaires and big business. It has been made abundantly clear to us that our voice no longer carries any weight with our political representation. Senator Bernie Sanders has distinguished himself as the political voice that most closely mirrors the value system at the core of the American spirit. That American spirit is best embodied in the following description: Being Honest & Living With Integrity Being Industrious & Hard-Working Being Helpful and Considerate of Your Neighbors, and Standing Up For Those Weaker Than Us Senator Sanders has proven his ability to convert our belief in his integrity into close to $50 million dollars per month in political contributions. That enormous sum of money translates into $2.4 billion dollars every four years. This is plenty of money to start a new political party that thinks like we do; a Party that believes in unity, prosperity, social justice and capitalism, as we do. It is for these reasons that we've come to the conclusion that it is time to harvest the best ideals from the decaying carcass of what’s left of the Democratic Party and bravely move into a future filled with the promise of a government responsive to the will and needs of it's citizens. Please join us and sign this petition to indicate your desire to help us form “a more perfect union” through your support of the American Change Party. We have only until June 5th to get 2 million signatures. Please sign our other MoveOn petition. It is our effort to control the Superdelegate vote in the different way. That petition plays on their worst fears. It is a nightmare, scenario that they will do ANYTHING to avoid having happen to them because it causes their entire down-ticket party structure to collapse. Check it out here: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/superdelegates-if-you?source=c.em&r_by=15635646 Please visit our informational site at: American-Change-Party.org as well and then "Like" and "Share" that site, if you would. For more information please visit www.American-Change-Party.org