Bikes N' Roses is a non-profit, youth-led bicycle collaborative that provides mentorship and sorely needed jobs for under-served young people while promoting biking in our communities of Albany Park and Belmont-Cragin, some of America's most diverse neighborhoods. We were promised $276,000 in funding but when Governor Rauner took office, we were forced to shut down most of our operation. With just a few hours notice, we had to lay off 50 youth from 15 worksites, including the Bikes N' Roses shop and a local foster home. "Even though we lost all the money, we're still here. I'm never going to lose hope for the shop. I've put in effort and time, and this is my home." -Jassmyn Venegas, Roosevelt High School Senior Our youth are incredibly resilient. Many have stayed on as volunteers and they have resolved to do a 211 mile, 3 day bike ride to Springfield to help keep the doors open and advocate for programs like ours across the state. They'll ride 70 miles a day—partnering with community organizations, meeting elected officials, and elevating the youth voice along the way—before arriving in the capital to urge our legislators to pass a responsible budget that doesn't shut out Illinois' youth. To learn how you can help, visit us online: http://www.bikesnroses.org/

We need to remove career politicians, avoid long time deals between congressional members and special interest groups. Allow a wider range of americans to be involved in the government we elect. Congress / legislators will never pass legislation to limit their own control.

The Supreme Court thinks the super-rich and corporations should be able to spend as much money as they want in politics, and I disagree. Period. Let's take the first step to reversing Citizens United by making sure Oregon's constitution gives us the right to limit campaign contributions to politicians. SJR 5 would put that question on the ballot for Oregonians to decide.

Eliminate campaign pollution!

This petition will be delivered to all declared candidates for President. Here are some basic facts about the rate of incarceration in the United States: +The incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. +While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners. +The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other nation - 2,217,000 people. +African Americans constitute nearly 1 million of the total incarcerated population, and have nearly six times the incarceration rate of whites. +A black male born in 1991 has a 29% chance of spending time in prison at some point in his life. +One out of nine African American men will be incarcerated between the ages of 20 and 34. +These numbers would be even higher if we included military facilities, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, facilities contracted by the U.S. Marshals Service, jails in Indian country, or juvenile facilities.

Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America explained in his inaugural speech the founding values of the Confederacy. He said, "our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition". The Confederate States of America's most popular symbol should not be flown on the state house grounds. The Confederate flag's display at the central law making institution in South Carolina is unethical, especially amidst concerns of racial injustice nationwide.

Bernie Sanders can win this thing, and Move On should be a part of that.

I think the military can train on their bases. We don't need surprise training in our neighborhoods. What is the reasoning behind this? Is this one of the reasons we as a nation started a revolution against the British? Stop this now, America.

I believe Senator Sanders is a great man with great ideas. We need to help him get elected and ensure that his voice his heard by all Americans.

I have been a US Senate candidate as a Democrat and know that trying to unseat a fake progressive is an almost impossible task because of Party politics. This country needs a viable, pleasantly aggressive progressive to run for U.S. President. We have potential choices. Senator Sanders is an Independent but caucuses with Democrats and is about as left as they get for the most part. Governor O'Malley is a reasonably left, progressive choice as well. This petition is about changing the conversation from the media and Party picking our candidates and telling us to pick the 'shoe-in', vs we the people picking who runs the White House in the next 4 years. Lets see if MoveOn will help or hinder here. I hope you sign this in droves. I encourage you to help make this petition successful. Change the conversation.

My reasons for doing so should be self-evident. We common people need to wrest control of the Federal government from the hands of the one per cent wealthy on Wall Street and in the Pentagon who are hell-bent on turning the U.S. into a plutocratic oligarchy--something akin to Western Europe during the age of feudalism. We common people need and demand nothing less than full and pure democracy as classical Athens, Greece invented it.

Because of the lack of leadership and planning, the city of Baltimore is in a state of emergency. We have police hurt, businesses burned down, and youth put into the criminal system over this. Good leadership was not in place and could have saved the city and state millions of dollars.