• JUSTICE FOR MARCUS B. VANCLEAF !! Shut down illegal after hours club & put up memorial park in me...
    Justice For Marcus B. Van Cleaf This Petition is to draw community awareness and concern after the recent Murder of Marcus B. Van Cleaf, a 32 year old Great Grand Son, Grandson, Son, Father, Brother, Nephew, Cousin, Uncle and Friend who was murdered Saturday, June 21, 2014. This petition will be used to bring awareness of an Illegal After Hours Club operating in a residential area on the Near East Side of Columbus, OH. This After Hours Club, located at 1323 East Fulton Avenue, Columbus, OH 43205 is located on the Northeast corner of Kimball and Fulton and has been in existence over the past 30 years as an after-hours night club responsible for 5 murders since the late 70s, various drug activity, fights, shootings, prostitution, and illegal liquor sales. As a community, we would like for the City of Columbus to condemn and demolish said building and use (if available) allocated funds from the City’s budget to convert the land into a Memorial Park in Honor of those who have lost their lives at the hands of this establishment. By signing this petition you agree that enough is enough and how many more people have to die at the hands of this establishment. Ohio Revised Code Title [37] XXXVII HEALTH - SAFETY - MORALS Chapter 3767: NUISANCES 3767.01 Nuisances - disorderly houses definitions. As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances: (A) "Place" includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself; (B) "Person" includes any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent, or assignee; (C) "Nuisance" means any of the following: (1) That which is defined and declared by statutes to be a nuisance; (2) Any place in or upon which lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted, permitted, continued, or exists, or any place, in or upon which lewd, indecent, lascivious, or obscene films or plate negatives, film or plate positives, films designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition films, or glass slides either in negative or positive form designed for exhibition by projection on a screen, are photographed, manufactured, developed, screened, exhibited, or otherwise prepared or shown, and the personal property and contents used in conducting and maintaining any such place for any such purpose. This chapter shall not affect any newspaper, magazine, or other publication entered as second class matter by the post-office department. (3) Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place where beer or intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, or kept in violation of law and all property kept and used in maintaining the same, and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of beer or intoxicating liquor and beer or intoxicating liquor contained in the room, house, building, boat, structure, or place, or the operation of such a room, house, building, boat, structure, or place as described in division (C)(3) of this section where the operation of that place substantially interferes with public decency, sobriety, peace, and good order. "Violation of law" includes, but is not limited to, sales to any person under the legal drinking age as prohibited in division (A) of section 4301.22 or division (A) of section 4301.69 of the Revised Code and any violation of section 2913.46 or 2925.03 of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 03-30-1999 3767.02 Nuisance. (A) Any person, who uses, occupies, establishes, or conducts a nuisance, or aids or abets in the use, occupancy, establishment, or conduct of a nuisance; the owner, agent, or lessee of an interest in any such nuisance; any person who is employed in that nuisance by that owner, agent, or lessee; and any person who is in control of that nuisance is guilty of maintaining a nuisance and shall be enjoined as provided in sections 3767.03 to 3767.11 of the Revised Code
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    Created by ART OVER IGNORANCE
  • Don't force out 98-year-old San Francisco resident Mary Phillips
    STOP THE GREED! Put an end to the rising number of evictions in San Francisco, CA, using the Ellis Act, which allows landlords to evict tenants, temporarily shut down a rental property, and then sell it at a profit.
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    Created by Paul
  • Time to Change the name "Shockoe Bottom" to "ShoLo Bomba"
    I have been personally affected by the name Shockoe Bottom all my life. It's so sexually charged and hard to pronounce. Say it a few times really fast. See what I mean? So sexual. So difficult. It's time to change this. Are you with me, Richmond?!
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    Created by Sho Lo
  • Companion Cats for Seniors
    My husband and I are over 55 and have been researching future housing options for ourselves, but we are not willing to give up our pets. Our cats are part of our family and should not be discriminated against.
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    Created by Valerie Hawkes-Howat
  • Gentrification Displaces People - Block The W.O.S.P. Vote 7/15/14
    "The W.O.S.P. is Oakland’s plan to help developers and incoming high wage populations speed up the accumulation of capital in Oakland." The City of Oakland's webpage touts our position as "the most diverse city in America." Without actual plans protecting long-time, low income, disabled, elderly, LGBTQ, and P.O.C. residents, that unique distinction will be lost. Oakland need not suffer the same fate as San Francisco. Council voting on this redevelopment plan should not proceed without more protective policy overlays. The petition will not stop the W.O.S.P., but will provide time to add citizen safeguards. That's essential when we're talking about eminent domain. https://www.facebook.com/Oak.Awake http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/wosp-the-city-of-oaklands-plan-for-gentrification-a-target-for-anti-displacement-activity-community-voices/ www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gentrification-transforming-face-of-Oakland-5387273.php
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    Created by OaklandAwake
  • Don't displace working families from Chinatown!
    I am really depressed about the way Councilor Fukunaga has singled out these families for removal as part of the rules governing the sale of city owned housing. I know many of these people personally and I think they are being targeted in order for a few wealthy land owners to drive the price of their properties up. It would be easy to manage the sale of the city owned housing without kicking these people out!
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    Created by Drew Astolfi
  • Murrieta City Council: Censure Mayor Long for inciting an anti-immigrant mob now!
    I am a resident of Murrieta, and I believe that Mayor Alan Long should be censured for violating Murrieta's Code of Conduct and inciting an anti-immigrant mob that has damaged our City's reputation! After Mayor Long made the time and location of the refugee transfer public and called on residents to send a strong message to Washington DC, a hostile crowd reacted by harassing a bus made up of mostly women and children from Central America and blocking their safe transfer to Border Control. News outlets everywhere caught this anti-immigrant mob waving signs comparing the refugees to wet dogs, and even spitting in someone's face. Although many of these protestors were not even from Murrieta, the national coverage of this incident has stained the reputation of our community. I know of good citizens in Murrieta who in no way share the sentiments of these extremists. Many in Murrieta reject this protest and do not believe it reflects the values of our city and the United States. Mayor Long and others took action that not only harms our reputation, but violates our City's Code of Conduct as well. The Murrieta Code of Conduct requires elected officials to "refrain from participating in negative activity and avoid personal attacks against fellow officials, staff and the public to insure the reputation and integrity of those individuals and the city." But this hostile mob can be traced directly to Mayor Long's press conference and subsequent Facebook posts about the transfer of refugees. He's even said that he's "proud" of what happened! Our City Council’s Code of Conduct also tells elected officials: "Murrieta’s voting citizens are the ultimate enforcers of this code. However, I fully understand that I am subject to the City Council’s commendation or censorship, depending upon my ability to exemplify the ethical behavior promoted by this code." I'm calling on the Murrieta City Council to follow the Code of Conduct for elected officials and censure Mayor Alan Long now!
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    Created by Nancy Brenner
  • CEASE & DESIST SPRAYING CHEMTRAILS NOW!
    The deliberate spraying of citizens is UNAUTHORIZED and ILLEGAL. It is destroying our health and our personal property. I personally have been so adversely affected that I have had to leave not only my own property, but the country. This is not to mention that I PAY TAXES on MY PROPERTY and should have the right to clean air over my own home. I cannot even go out to tend to my own backyard garden. I can no longer eat the things I grew, as the soil is polluted and so are my crops. This is deliberate and criminal. Every single individual knowingly responsible for this needs to be taken to JUSTICE. Now!
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    Created by Marty Johnson
  • The legalization of Cannabis
    To legalize cannabis as a whole and reap the benefits of everything that comes with it.
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    Created by Dorian Bradley Waite
  • Save the Internet: Fire Tom Wheeler
    The Internet is the last level playing field where every citizen, every website, every small business and every idea has equal access, but FCC Chairman (and industry lobbyist) Tom Wheeler's vision for the Internet could lead to major ISPs like Comcast selling every bit of bandwidth to the highest bidder... leaving main-street behind once again. Join me in calling for the President to sweep aside ex-lobbyist for cable and wireless companies, Tom Wheeler, in what could become the defining action of Barack Obama's second term. History may be able to look back and credit President Obama with saving the Internet from greedy corporations and maintaining the Internet as the last form of communication that gives voice to every American citizen--equally, without preference to the powerful or the rich. The Internet was founded in the most important principals of our great nation: freedom, equality and liberty. If Tom Wheeler and Comcast get their way, ISPs (like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others) will no longer be under any real obligation to quickly and equally transmit any particular web site, email, blog, newspaper, opinion, idea, new service, free content or anything else that you have come to love the Internet for. Instead, Tom Wheeler's Internet will allow all ISPs to put the highest paying or most self-serving messages, news, opinion, content or anything else they like at the front of the line on the fastest connection for the highest bidder to have the most access to every computer and every browser. This is OUR Internet! President Obama: make a stand for liberty, equality and freedom by firing Tom Wheeler and keeping the Internet fair, neutral and open to all of us. Not convinced? Watch this and you will be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU Thank you.
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    Created by Jeffrey Galvin
  • RING BELLS FOR PEACE & A WORLD WITHOUT WAR
    War not only kills people but is distroying our environment and economy. The billions spent on war can be used to feed and educate the people of world and to clean up the planet. It is time to lay down all arms.
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    Created by SuZen
  • Run, Elizabeth, Run!
    America needs a presidential candidate who stands up and fights for us, not just millionaires and billionaires or the highest bidder. America needs a candidate who believes that we succeed together, and that we don't have to go it alone. America needs a candidate who will rebuild our economy on shared economic values and prosperity, not winner take all. America needs you, Senator Warren, because all Americans deserve a fair shot.
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    Created by Ben Paul