We believe that the food served by our public schools is a significant financial and social investment intended to help our students attain better health, enhance their learning, support food security, and foster a lifetime of good eating habits. We support Healthy School Food Maryland’s efforts to bring about positive changes to the school food environment in Maryland. See healthyschoolfoodmd.org for bill texts.

To inform people that your b.c. and ss# are connected to ten accounts worth 3.5 billion dollars each. That money is yours to pay ALL public debt including but not limited to, car notes, mortgages, utility bills, taxes etc. Take control of the funds that are yours and free yourself from debt slavery!

The Occupy movement and political scientists have proven we are no longer a democracy. Congress and the President respond to the wealthy and corporations in making decisions. It is time the 99 percent spoke out and reclaimed their voices in government policy making.

This petition is by Ben Gordon and Charlotte Ashlock. We are an engaged couple who moved to the Bay Area to start a new life together. The Bay Area doesn’t seem so great to us any more. We see some people in multimillion dollar homes and other people begging just for pennies. It's not okay. Beneath is the full text of our petition, written in the form of an open letter to local government officials in the Bay Area. Thanks so much for taking the time & effort to check out our petition! Dear Mayors Edwin Lee of San Francisco, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, and Sam Liccardo of San Jose; Dear Supervisors of Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco counties; Recently the Mayor of Portland faced an army of its citizens protesting outside city hall his threat to destroy homeless camps. I think this is a wake up call that people won't stand for dealing with the homeless in this way. But let's be real; no one's putting up any solutions here, especially when Lee's most exciting announcement was that we might house 500 of the 10,500 homeless people who applied for housing. Maybe. Maybe next year. Maybe 500. We as society have a problem where we are willing to allow people to fall out of society and have not constructed the proper tool set to keep them from falling out, nor for bringing them back in. We all universally agree this is wrong, but when faced with the problem or assigning a budget to the problem we look away and walk away. We pretend it's not there. It's not our problem we tell ourselves. We in the Bay Area are at the forefront with San Francisco dubbed "the homeless capitol of the world". San Francisco may be the second densest population area in the US, but we have by far the densest homeless population. We have become the global face of income inequality and poverty and the face of tremendous economic growth and success simultaneously. We challenge elected Bay Area leaders to step up and COLLABORATE. These are the challenges and demands we are issuing to Bay Area leadership: 1.) Admit that the issue of homelessness is a regional issue that needs to be tackled regionally. 
 2.) Admit that it is unacceptable we can give tax breaks to Twitter, Google, Facebook, and all the other tech giants who have all the resources in the Bay Area and we let people beg in the streets for the right to eat and have shelter. 
 3.) Admit that we do have the collaborative resources to productively solve this problem and that we can turn from a global embarrassment to a world leader if we work together.
 4.) The assignment and creation of a inter-county budget and task force with the full political support of the Bay Area’s major city leaders and business leaders. 
 5.) The creation of effective, lasting, comprehensive policy that addresses basic needs and a plan for a return to self-sufficiency. This includes but is not limited to elements of inclusion, outreach, housing, job training, job placement, language training, hygiene, clothing, nutritional support, mental health, physical health, social work counseling. This plan must provide for the infrastructure and staffing of ALL the bay area's homeless even the criminally dangerous and the severely mentally ill. This plan must provide the full scope of support and enablement to return to self-sufficiency with all the tools we have at our disposal. 
 6.) The establishment of a permanent regional funding source to the project that will be a tied percentage to the required scope of the issue. This funding source should not be a sales tax source and voted on by the 2016 election. Please like, share, tweet this message, even if you’re not from the Bay Area. Please email Sam Liccardo, Edwin Lee, Libby Schaaf or whoever your local mayor is. Our voices must be heard. Thank you.

Money has corrupted our political system. Both major parties have been corrupted. Public financing of elections must be available as an option to qualified individuals who want to run for office without becoming indebted to special interests.

Winning the House and Senate at the national level will become impossible if the Koch Brothers control everything at the local level. They are invading high schools, colleges, boards of education and state houses all over the country. This hostile takeover of America by right wing extremists must stop.

Too many voices have been silenced by Mike Pence and the state legislature. Sign up to be heard in the Hoosier state! Move the state forward and not back.

It's not right or fair for members of Congress to be tricked into voting for "must pass" bills that are loaded with unrelated items, and it's really not fair to the American people who then have to live with the consequences of these bills.

The Raleigh News & Observer reported on 2/15/2015 that Gov. Pat McCrory’s Dept. of Health and Human Services is extending a contract with Alvarez & Marsal for “performance improvement” of how the agency handles Medicaid finances. The contract with the Washington, DC consulting firm is now worth $8 million. It was signed a year ago without giving competitors a chance to bid on the work, and it keeps getting extended. The newspaper also reported, “Campaign finance reports show that the firm contributed $25,000 to the Republican Governors Association in April 2012 as Gov. Pat McCrory was running for office, and that the donation was used in the campaign to help elect him.” This is a textbook case of pay-to-play politics. Gov. McCrory promised to “clean up corruption in Raleigh” but ethical conflicts with Duke Energy and now this contract show that he needs to know people are watching what he does, not just what he says. Here’s the kicker: the contract is paying the company’s top executives $242 to $473 an hour! Please sign the petition to Gov. McCrory and forward it to others.

Brownback's tax cuts have backfired and our legislature is now scrambling to find a way to save the Kansas economy. Ending the prohibition of marijuana would increase state tax revenues and significantly decrease wasteful spending on marijuana enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration. (A $200 transaction can cost taxpayers and the government $100,000 for a three-year sentence.) Domestically grown marijuana is thought to be the second MOST PROFITABLE cash crop in the United States. Think about the kind of impact that could have on our economy! Look at the U.S. alcohol beverage industry. Ending prohibition on alcohol paid off nicely. In 2011, the industry generated $91 billion in wages and over 3.9 million jobs for U.S. workers. In reality, ending this prohibition would also increase the number of people moving into the state (or at least decrease the number of people we are losing to Colorado) and increase tourism leading to more outside spending with all Kansas businesses. This as a viable solution to our current economic nightmare. The rest of the country is headed this way, so it makes sense to take advantage of the enormous financial benefits of being a pioneer before the rest of the country catches up.

As Texas MoveOn members we have worked tirelessly to get the money out of politics, to empower the powerless and equalize the playing field for all Americans over the past ten years. Senator Warren speaks boldly about the values that could re-create our democracy in the image we long for. Her dedication to challenging the banks and Wall Street, lowering interest rate on college loans, establishing not just a minimum wage but a living wage, protecting our environment from the reckless fossil fuel industry and calling out both Republicans and Democrats alike when they vote with the lobbyists and against our best interests as Americans makes her one of the most progressive candidate we could elect as President in the 21st Century. But first we need to draft her to run. Sign this petition calling on Senator Warren to run for President in 2016.

Please impeach Brownback for violating the sacred trust between governor and people and for putting the will of lobbyists and corporate backers before the needs of the people.