• End Workplace Bullying, Harassment & Discrimination
    Please support and sign this petition to end workplace bullying. It destroys lives and the workplace. It increases each day when no one deals with this issue or takes it seriously. It only takes 1 incident to create a toxic working environment. When not taken seriously it can result in loved ones committing suicide or ending up behind bars for defending themselves. The perpetrator ends up winning and moving on to the next victim. This petition is on behalf of my brother and other victims of bullying in school and workplaces.
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    Created by Marisa
  • Prison Progression Petition
    I have seen lives destroyed by just a few months in prison. Going to prison in America is just going into a hornets nest. People are forced to become Racist , Predators , and overly aggressive humans to survive prison. It is hard to adjust back to society when you have lived under the harsh circumstances of the American prison system.
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    Created by Emmanuel Johnson
  • It is time for police reform nationwide!
    Two Black fathers have been shot dead for nothing. Keith Lamont Scott of Charlotte, North Carolina, had been waiting in his car for his son to arrive home from school, and Terence Crutcher, of Tulsa, Oklahoma had been waiting at the side of the road after his truck stalled. Both men are now dead, wrongfully gunned down by police. Both are Black men. Families should never have to fear that our loved ones could come to harm at the hands of those charged with protecting them. Keith Lamont Scott and Terence Crutcher join a long and unending line of African American and Latino youth and community members killed by police, including: -- Philando Castile of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, who was shot and killed by police during a minor traffic stop because of a broken taillight. -- Alton Sterling, who was selling CDs when police tackled him to the ground and shot several times at close range. -- Eric Garner, husband and father, who was choked to death in New York. -- John Crawford, who was shot to death when he picked up a toy gun that was for sale in an Ohio Walmart. -- Seventeen-year-old unarmed Jesús Huerta was shot to death while handcuffed in the back of a police car. -- Eighteen-year-old unarmed Ramarley Graham who was shot to death in Bronx, NY -- Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas. The horror of losing family members to senseless, racially motivated police violence is a daily threat in the lives of Black and brown people in America. Studies show that, even though White Americans outnumber Black Americans fivefold, Black people are three times more likely than White people to be killed when they encounter the police in the US, [1] and Black teenagers are far likelier to be killed by police than White teenagers. [2] Law enforcement currently kills Black Americans at nearly the same rate as Jim-Crow-era lynchings. [3] Mothers, fathers, and other family members demand change that protects our young people from reckless policing. Families across America urge the federal government to take definitive and immediate action, including but not limited to the following reforms: • A fully-resourced and rigorous civil rights and criminal investigation by the DOJ into discriminatory policing, excessive force, and death or injury by police in every state in the country; • A comprehensive, streamlined, public national-level database of police shootings; excessive force, misconduct complaints, traffic and pedestrian stops, and arrests, broken down by race and other demographic data, with key privacy protections, the exclusion of personally identifying factors and information, and deportation immunity for civilians; • Mandating of Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) in every state and inter-state coordination between all POSTs; • An executive order that creates a strong and enforceable prohibition on police brutality and discriminatory policing based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability, and housing status; • Increased funding for the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights to ensure additional, accessible state-level responders for police and other civil rights violations Divestment of federal anti-drug grants and federal funding for police departments that demonstrate abuse of power and massive reinvestment in community controlled and based policing practices; • Support for the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA); • Streamlined national use of force matrix and mandating that state and local police have clear and streamlined matrices; and • Strict limits on asset seizure without due process and the transfer of any military equipment to local law enforcement under the 1033 program, guidelines that ensure that the equipment is not used on non-violent protesters, and an end to the requirement that such military weaponry is used within a year. [1] Mike Brown’s shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It’s time for America to own up, The Guardian, August 25, 2014. [2] “What we know about who police kill in America,” VOX, Oct. 16, 2014. [3] Mike Brown’s shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It’s time for America to own up, The Guardian, August 25, 2014.
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    Created by Monifa Bandele, MomsRising Picture
  • STOP OVER SENTENCING DRUG CASES
    I have noticed that people that are being found guilty of drug charges are being sentenced to extremely heavy prison terms, especially with the federal government cases. It seems as if persons with drug charges are being more heavily punished then persons found guilty of murder, raped and other violent crimes. It appears that the government is more focused on drug dealers than missing people, domestic violent, homeless individuals, the economy, rising minimum wage, cold case files, and many more serious problems happening in our country. Stand up and put a stop to over punishing what is not as important over things that are much more important.
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    Created by Standing 4 Justice
  • Hold Fairfax County Police accountable
    I was deeply disturbed by this column in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-should-force-police-to-come-clean-over-shooting-of-unarmed-john-geer/2014/10/15/7be2d804-54b2-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html?hpid=z2
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    Created by Cathy Welker
  • Pass Natasha's Law for South Dakota
    On July 16th 2014, 22 yr old mother Natasha Adams rode her bicycle to work, Natasha had just dropped her 3 yr old son off at his daycare moments before,unfortunately Natasha never made it to work, Natasha was hit and killed by a distracted driver. The consequence for the driver who caused the death of a precious life was much too easy, receiving only 2 traffic citations. There is no laws in South Dakota with harsher penalties and consequences for Drivers who are sober and kill pedestrian/bicyclists while distracted or negligent. If you are driving distracted and you should take a life you should be held accountable to the same extent as an individual under the influence receiving jail time as well as losing your Operators license. Support Natasha’s Law to bring change to South Dakota and Make our Streets and Hiway’s safer. Maybe the next life that is spared will be yours.
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    Created by Courtney Ortega
  • Demanding Public Accountability By BCSO
    My name is Doug DiZoglio, and I live in Bay County, Florida. On Jan 14 2013, a Bay County deputy entered my home uninvited, without warrant, without cause, and without procedure. He demanded I give him my dog, saying "You will give me that f**** dog, Mr. DiZoglio.” I responded by telling him to leave my house and said "If you are not the police or a deputy at this time, just an armed intruder, then I am about to call 911 to have you arrested. Please leave." At that point he charged at me and began beating me. He cuffed me and said if I ever speak of this to anyone he will be back to finish this. Then he uncuffed me, repeated the threat, and left. While this happened, an animal control officer also came into my home and took my dog, dragging him by the neck out of the house and to the shelter. I reported this to Internal Affairs, but there was no action. The deputy did not do his incident report until 5-6 weeks later, and it was a story I had to work hard to recognize. There was no accountability, from either the Sheriff’s Office or Animal Control. They break the laws, hurt us, and do it without fear of consequence. Isn’t it the job of the Sheriff’s Office to help the public feel safe? Isn’t it their job to supervise their deputies? Isn’t it their job to respond to honest reports of harm done to citizens? Please sign my petition, saying you agree that things are out of control and that we the public demand accountability.
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    Created by Doug DiZoglio
  • Demand Justice! Actual Innocence in New Orleans Murder!
    I have been personally affected by this losing 14+Years of my life for a crime I am innocent of. Please help me get the Justice deserved. We need this case opened and the actual killer deserves to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Please sign on and allow Justice to be reached for me as well as the family of TJ Emfinger. Thank you and God bless!
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    Created by Jeremy J Jones
  • Governer perry help Innocent offenders get out soon
    I have a brother who was given 50 yrs for aggravated assault, that was never proven he did. He was a business owner with no previous background history. Injustice like that has to stop.
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    Created by Julie Cota
  • WRONGFULLY ACCUSED
    My son Pavielle Walton, has been housed at the county jail here in the state of Arizona every since February 2012. I have tried several of our black leaders to come and see what's going on and know one is willing to come and see how corrupt their system is for people of color. I have reached out to Al sharpton, the Nation of Islam and the NAACP as well but no help.
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    Created by Yolanda Taylor
  • Punish those worthy of being punished let be the innocence guilty of no crime.
    Due to the law put in place to stop the illegal distribution of narcotic drugs by doctors or better known as pill mills and other narcotic traffickers a greater crime has occurred. The law was made into law to stop a crime that effects our society but at the same time the law is targeting the innocence, paving the way to a law that is a crime in it self. Patients such as myself who are not drug addicts, drug dealers or criminals suffering from chronic pain illnesses are being victimized and have been victimized due to this law and the advocate responsible for the creation of a law that oppresses, legally discriminates, causing fraud, forms of malpractice, deformation of character moral and humanitarian crimes against humanity. I myself and many other patients suffering from chronic pain cant find help because of this law that is and has violated our rights to receive care and treatment for our chronic conditions which is caused the innocence to suffer. A doctor because of Steve Beshear tried to frame me and then pushed me out of the clinic because she due to the Governor and the law was afraid to treat me for my condition after seeking help else where from another doctor they express they can not help me because of the new law and refuse to treat my condition I have evidence of the framing and prove they admit it is wrong and false. People in this state cant even be seen by a doctor if they have chronic pain. This law and what this Governor has done is a violation of basic human rights, needs and patient right and treatment needs which therefore is crime against our rights and our humanitarian rights and is crimes against humanity its self. Sign the petition, Stop the law, Put an end to the suffering.
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    Created by Fredrick Campbell
  • Justice for the 43 Disappeared Mexican Students
    We, the undersigned, are writing in support of the demands of Mexican protesters and to express our indignation about the horrible events of Friday, September 26, 2014, when six people, three of them students, were assassinated and 43 other students were disappeared from the Rural Normal School “Raul Isidro Burgos” in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, and when two teachers two teachers from the State Coordinators of Workers of the Education of Guerrero were mortally wounded. The persecution and assassinations of the students by the Municipal Police of Iguala and by groups dressed in civil uniforms is extremely alarming to the international community - especially those of us who stand with these students and teachers who were organizing to defend their right to public education - and provides concrete evidence of the lack of guarantees for anyone to exercise their basic human rights, such as those of to petition, demonstrate, and organize. We demand that your government act immediately to guarantee that the 43 students who were disappeared return alive. We also demand that those responsible for the assassinations and the persecutions, be punished to the fullest extent for their heinous crimes. We believe that the fight to defend public education and the human and political rights of all the people in our countries is a righteous and just fight, and we demand that you use your positions to bring about justice for these murdered and disappeared freedom fighters. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: (Fact Report from Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan) On September 26, 2014, at 9 pm, 80 students from the Rural Normal School (teacher training college), “Raul Isidro Burgos,” were headed by bus to the city of Chilpancingo from the city of Iguala. As they were leaving the bus station, police cars suddenly blocked the exit of the station and began firing their weapons intermittently without any warning whatsoever. One student was wounded and still remains in a hospital in a “vegetative state.” The students who were in the back of the bus were violently removed by the police, who forced them to lie in the street by a store. The rest of the students ran in different directions, while the municipal police continued to fire their weapons for almost 40 minutes. At midnight, as the students were informing other organizations about the attacks, a van arrived and a number of armed people jumped out and started randomly and indiscriminately firing their assault weapons. Two students, Daniel Solis Gallardo and a first year student, were killed; five students and two professors were gravely wounded. This second armed aggression lasted about 15 minutes. On September 27, Normalista students appeared at the “Fiscalía de la zona Norte de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Guerrero (PGJE) (government judicial state offices), where they were told that no students had been detained. During the second armed attack many of the students had run away to escape the gunfire. Fifty-seven of them were now considered disappeared, including those who were detained by the municipal authorities in the first attacks. After the 27th, 14 students came out of hiding but 43 students still remain missing. At 4:00 pm, the students at the government judicial state offices (PGJE), the Public Minister informed the students who were at the state office that just three blocks away from the site of the attacks the corpse of one of the students had been found who had visible signs of torture. His eyes had been gouged out and his face had completely skinned. After being identified by his classmates, it was confirmed that it was the body of Julio Cesar Fuentes Mondragon. On these grounds, a legal complaint was lodged on September 28,2014 denouncing the crimes related to the dangerous disappearance of, of the 57 students (now 43), which was filed under the prior investigation VRA/03/2385/2014 in the State Office(PGJE) of Chilpancingo. A legal complaint has also been filed with the “Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Guerrero,” the State Commission for Human Rights of the State of Guerrero. The assassination of the three students, the situation of those who were gravely wounded and the disappeared students all constitute grave and serious violations of human rights that cannot remain unpunished. These acts are evidence that the Municipal Police used excessive force in and that there was a failure by the state and federal authorities to implement appropriate preventive and security measures to avoid the second armed aggression, as well as to stop the disappearance of the students.
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    Created by Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education - USA