Following a court ruling, a handful of major corporations — Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable — now have total control over what we're able to see and do online. The free and open Internet is critical is to our communities' ability to access and share information without a corporate filter, and to effectively organize for racial and social justice. And as the FCC's National Broadband Plan acknowledges, high-speed Internet is an essential service that all Americans need in order to perform basic tasks, from applying for a job, to doing schoolwork, finding a home, and running a business.

We believe that Cpl. Farrell Gilliam was killed in action! On January 5, 2011, our beloved 25 year old Farrell stepped on an IED while on a dismounted patrol with his unit, (3/5 Marines, Lima Co.) in the Sangin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He suffered many catastrophic injuries, including the amputation of both legs above the knee and several open fractures of his right arm including a 6 inch segment that is missing bone and tissue. His worst injury however was to the right side of his chest and abdomen, which took the full impact of the explosion, and left him completely eviscerated as a result of the blast. With the help of Hospital Corpsman HM3 Brown, HM3 Gojar, Cpl Griff, and Lcpl Gutierrez, lifesaving measures were immediately undertaken to stop his bleeding in the field. He fought for his life in the back of the Marine transport truck which raced him back to camp. He fought for his life as he was Medi-Vac'd from base camp to a hospital in Kandahar where he underwent 9 hours of damage control surgery. He fought for his life as he was medi-vac'd again to Bagram Hospital in Afghanistan, where he underwent further damage control surgery. He fought for his life as he was flown to Landsthul Germany, where he underwent further surgery and again as he was flown to the US, arriving state side, on Janury 9, 2011 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland (outside Washington DC), with trips to the OR continuing every other day since then. But Farrell is a fighter! The Doctors have said that to survive an abdominal wound like his is one in ten million - they rarely see them because nobody ever survives them. Farrell was a fighter and after three years of fighting he succumbed to further injuries from which he did not recover. We believe Cpl. Gilliam was killed in action and the fight he gave in trying to recover makes him worthy to have his name placed with his other fallen brothers on the Camp Pendleton, Operation Enduring Freedom, 5th Marine Regiment Wall. Please sign our petition in agreement of this cause.

Equality was a key thought with the founding of the country. How is it equal for some to continue to receive pay while others with the same employer go without a paycheck. This has the potential to be exploited and must be stopped.

The Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down restrictions on corporate and union spending in elections. The court enabled an explosion of election spending, often from secret sources. In the 2012 New Hampshire gubernatorial race, outside groups spent $19 million - almost 5 times what the candidates spent themselves. Americans of all political backgrounds are outraged. In New Hampshire, 72% of residents oppose Citizens United (81% Democrats, 70% Independents, and 64% Republicans). SB 307 is about taking power away from outside influences to decide our political leaders and giving it back to the people of New Hampshire to whom it rightfully belongs. With our democracy in crisis, now is the time to act. Senator Prescott is a key vote to ensuring the passage of SB 307 and has expressed his inclination to support it. Sign the petition and thank Senator Prescott for his support and urge him to vote yes on SB 307.

Massachusetts has not substantially updated its election laws in decades. The time is now.

I am starting this petition, because I believe in America...and I believe Americans should not go without.

Money simply should not be the determining factor in an election. Conservative groups received a huge boost from corporations to the tune of $719 million in the 2012 elections. We need a constitutional amendment that will put the power back with the masses. This idea that "corporations are people" must come to an end. We need to break this fixed system!

Some Supreme Court Justices scoff at the idea that their associations past and present could effect their judicial fairness. The arrogance that leads them to feel that they are immune to the effects of behavior not tolerated in lesser mortals creates public mistrust in the Courts and undermines a vital part of our system of government.

As a nation, we have lot's of problems, and all of them can, at least in theory, be solved. But as long as expended money is treated as protected speech, and corporations are treated as people with constitutional rights, very few of our problems can be solved. The power of big corporations will trump everything else as long as they can spend vast amounts of money campaigns and on (often false) message ads and commercials aimed at influencing legislation and elections.

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Those lane closures caused traffic to back up, with delays to all who tried to cross the bridge, and those drove in and around Ft. Lee, NJ. Those same lane closures caused delays to emergency service vehicles, both crossing the GW Bridge, and locally in Ft. Lee, NJ. While Gov. Christie fired one single appointee; two others have been implicated. We still do not know how many members of Gov. Christie's administration had responsibility for this action. In addition, we do not know whether Gov. Christie himself, had influence over the decision to close lanes at the GW Bridge.

This petition is about telling the facts and stopping the legislators of this country using a "Conservative" talking point to soil these programs as enablers to moochers and takers. We the people paid into these programs.