• Prom 2015
    To have our prom on The Odyssey.
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    Created by Abby
  • Drop Charges Against Whistleblower Who Exposed Government Corruption
    Taxicab Authority Investigator Joe Morgan exposed local government corruption between the Nevada Taxicab Authority and taxicab companies and now the Attorney General's Office has pressed charges on Investigator Morgan! Joe should not be facing charges for doing his job and exposing government corruption that harms the public. Joe needs your support-- please sign the petition to drop the charges against Investigator Joe Morgan! _________________________________________________________ "My husband, Joe Morgan, who is an Investigator with the Nevada Taxicab Authority, exposed corruption within the agency. The chief Investigator, Ruben Aquino, failed to disconnect a call with my husband on his cell phone. The conversation that took place between Aquino and Investigator Chris Rivers exposed corruption within the agency. Chief Aquino and Investigator Rivers discussed how the cab companies run the Taxicab Authority and how investigators can’t be heavy handed because the cab companies can’t get employees and they won’t be able to make money. You read correctly, the head law enforcement officer for the police agency that regulates the cab industry was caught discussing with another investigator that the cab companies run the police agency. Joe Morgan exposed this corruption and now he is being charged by the Attorney General’s Office, under the office of Catherine Cortez Masto. The Senior Deputy Attorney General, Jamie J. Resch, is prosecuting Joe Morgan for interception of a wire communication and surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device. Even though the conversation took place with cell phones, the Attorney General is arguing that this is wire communication. Their argument is since wires run to a cell tower; then a cell phone is wired communication. So according to the Attorney General’s Office logic, since wires run to a wireless router it is not wireless it is actually wired. Additionally the charge of surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device is used for “bugs,” devices placed in a specific location that listens to a private conversation. Again, according to the Attorney General’s Office, if someone has ever “butt dialed” or “pocket dialed” you and you listened to the conversation; you are guilty of a felony punishable by at least a year in prison. The Attorney General’s Office is using its power and unlimited tax payers’ dollars to make up bogus charges to come after and silence Joe Morgan. Joe Morgan has always enjoyed helping people. While still in high school he was a volunteer fireman and certified EMT. He is a disabled Military Veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He wanted to continue helping people and became a police officer. Joe Morgan is a father and sole provider of 4 children with his 5th due in July. He teaches and encourages his kids to do the right things. He should not be charged criminally for exposing corruption within an agency that is rotten to the core. At this point he stands to lose his veteran’s benefits he worked so hard to earn. There was a complaint filed against the Chief Aquino, and the Attorney General’s Office conveniently lost the complaint. Instead of Chief Aquino and Investigator Rivers being punished for discussing confidential information about an internal investigation; they came after my husband. Please tell the Attorney General’s Office to stop wasting tax payers’ dollars prosecuting a man who exposed corruption and fix the issues plaguing the Taxicab Authority. We need to stand up and show the Attorney General’s Office that we as Americans are sick and tired of government corruption. Let’s show we will not idly sit by and let the government whether state or federal squash hard working honest Americans into the ground when they speak up against government corruption. Please support Joe Morgan, who stood up against big government and tell the Attorney General’s Office we have had enough! Please sign this petition and stand for liberty." - Thank you, Teresa Morgan _______________________________________________________ MEDIA: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/taxicab-authority-officers-say-they-re-not-allowed-fully-enforce-law The Nevada Taxicab Authority’s officers could do a better job enforcing laws regulating the taxi industry if only they were allowed to do so, according to two authority investigators. http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/Taxicab-Authority-investigator-accused-of/ADl3AbRbHUigFdGjWAEw4Q.cspx
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    Created by Shannon Gould
  • CHILD SUPPORT
    I am starting this petition to give awareness about the flaws within our justice system. There are a lot of women using our legal system to gain child support for personal reasons, like revenge against the fathers. Proof should have to be provided to the courts proving that the father does support the child financially. Instead what is happening is the courts are ordering the fathers to pay child support of 17% of their earnings with little to no facts supporting the mothers claim. I also believe that depending on the school the child attends, child care should be included within the support cost and not additionally. I also think the standard 17% needs to be adjusted per individual. The 17% hinders the middle class working fathers not allowing them to bond and connect with their child due to excessive working to compensate for the support being rendered to the mother. This is only further effecting the child. I just would like to restate my position with this petition which is not to disagree with financial support needing to be provided for children, but to provide awareness about the injustice in our family court justice system and a move for change within it.
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    Created by Samuel White
  • Governor Brown: Don't sign AB 2174
    The Senate Standing Committee on Governmental Organization is holding a committee hearing on AB 2174 on June 10, 2014. The staff employed at 745 Franklin Street in San Francisco were not given advance notification of the State's intent to sell our parking lots and have not been offered any cost of living increase or alternate parking arrangements. If our parking lots are sold, employee parking expenses will increase by $3,000 - $6,000 per year. We in the Employment Development Department feel very strongly that these parking lots are needed as they are an essential part of allowing state employees to continue being able to work in San Francisco and provide vital services to the people of San Francisco and the State of California.
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    Created by Kristin Anderson
  • Making wolf hunting illegal
    Ban wolf hunting. Yes, I love wolves; I'm a big animal lover. Save the wolves
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    Created by Avery
  • Save NPR's "Tell Me More" show
    NPR has announced the cancellation of "Tell Me More," just days after announcing NPR's new CEO, a former MTV and E! Entertainment executive. This is the third NPR show focused on meaningful conversations about race to be cancelled in recent years. After "The Tavis Smiley Show" was cancelled, Smiley said NPR failed to "meaningfully reach out" to listeners of color. Former "News & Notes" host Ed Gordon said, "Sometimes, I feel this show is being allowed to die on the vine." The National Black Church Initiative is calling on its 15.7 million members to stop giving money to NPR until "Tell Me More" returns to the air. This show is invaluable for listeners of all races. I want to hear more of the honest conversations I can only find on Michel Martin's "Tell Me More."
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    Created by Noah T. Winer
  • SUPPORT ADOPTEE RIGHTS BILL A909/A2490A FOR GOVERNOR CUOMO
    We want Governor Cuomo to restore the Original Birth Certificate to every NY ADULT ADOPTEE. They DESERVE to know where they came from, their medical history, and it is their right to know.
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    Created by susan conte
  • Tell MSNBC to fire Joe Scarborough
    I am running this petition to remove Joe Scarborough from the MSNBC morning. The time on air he is given is disproportionate to the target audience for the network. It seems to me a much better fit for the morning show would be "NOW" host, Alex Wagner.
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    Created by L. Miller
  • Remove License Fees for Portsmouth ATVs!
    The license fee added to the property tax bills in Portsmouth, VA was adopted in place of city stickers which were placed on vehicles and trailers operated on the street. All-terrain vehicles, also known as ATVs, cannot be operated on the streets. They are utility equipment that should be treated like lawn mowers. Charging a license fee for something that cannot be licensed in a city already overburdened with taxes is wrong. I request the license fee be rescinded.
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    Created by Kevin Hix
  • Don’t snatch food from the mouths of hungry people!
    LATEST UPDATE (June 18): The Senate recently introduced its version of the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act (S. 2444). Thanks to your efforts, it does NOT take critical food-aid dollars away from hungry people to subsidize the world’s largest shipping companies. The bill now faces a vote by the Senate Commerce Committee. If it passes, the full Senate will vote on it and it will have to be reconciled with the House version of the bill, which provides for increased subsidies to shipping companies using food-aid funds. But the fight is far from over. Amendments could still be introduced when the full Senate deliberates on the Coast Guard bill. Changes could also happen in the conference committee of Congress when both versions of the bill are reconciled. Continue to tell your senators not to use food aid to increase subsidies to the world’s largest shipping companies, leaving 2 million more people hungry every year. * * * Dear advocates, I am outraged. The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would keep 2 million people from receiving lifesaving food aid. This bill takes critical food-aid dollars away from hungry people to pay for the increased cost of transporting food. This subsidy to the world’s largest shipping companies was quietly inserted as a provision in the Coast Guard Reauthorization Bill for fiscal year 2015. This provision has nothing to do with the U.S. Coast Guard and is a blatant attempt by special interests to line their own pockets while more people overseas go hungry. The lives of millions of people should not be sacrificed to subsidize shipping companies. These companies already take up to six months to deliver emergency food aid to countries that need it. Increasing the shipping companies’ subsidies will not make them deliver U.S. food aid faster. Frankly, it’s a waste of our taxpayer dollars. A Senate committee is now debating the Coast Guard reauthorization bill. Tell your senators and the Senate’s leaders: Don’t use food aid to increase subsidies to the world’s largest shipping companies and leave 2 million more people hungry every year. For more information on ways we can make our country’s food-aid programs better – without increasing their cost – see www.bread.org/ol. Ryan Quinn, Senior Policy Analyst Bread for the World
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    Created by Ryan Quinn, Bread for the World
  • Safe seafood act
    To prevent seafood fraud and provide more consumer knowledge about the seafood we eat.
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    Created by A.Carroll
  • Politicians: Set an Example for Mental Health.
    We all suffer. I know first hand how blind spots in our awareness contribute to our individual and collective suffering. No matter what side of the political line you fall on, more insight, awareness, and inner peace is the only way we get out of the struggles we find ourselves in. Let's go in together.
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    Created by Nick Krismunando