• Label Genetically Modified Foods in TN
    Over 85% of foods in the grocery store contain genetically modified material, and yet there have been NO long term studies on their effects on public health. We should have the right to know and to choose for ourselves.
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    Created by Bob Mathews
  • Draft Rep. Steve King of Iowa for Ambassador to South Sudan
    George Clooney remarked that the US needs eyes on the ground to address the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. George further stated that strong agricultural leadership was required to stabilize the region. Further, US oil interests are under represented in South Sudan.
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    Created by Robert Lee
  • Call for Special Session in Hawaii
    Supporting Full Marriage Rights for all our LGBT couples in Hawaii so that we can follow suit after the Repeal of DOMA by the US Supreme Court.
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    Created by Rev. Carolyn Martinez Golojuch, MSW
  • Guarantee Affordable Housing in the Crown Heights West Rezoning
    Despite the drastic increase in rent in the Crown Heights neighborhood, the proposed rezoning for Crown Heights West offers no guarantees that new housing will be affordable to existing residents. The rezoning only includes a voluntary incentive, called Inclusionary Zoning, for developers to build some affordable units within market-rate developments. This incentive has a track record in NYC of resulting in few affordable units, and a vast array of luxury housing. Regardless of whether developers take the affordable housing incentive, they would be allowed to build larger buildings, which would increase the property value. This could mean: • Rents could increase. • Existing housing and retail space could be demolished. • Tenants could face increased harassment to leave their apartments. We need your help to tell the New York City Council to include protections for affordable housing and increased penalties for harassing tenants in the proposed Crown Heights West rezoning. We're asking NYC to: 1. Adopt Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning, a policy that guarantees a certain percentage of affordable units in new developments under a rezoning. 2. Establish an anti-harassment area, which requires the City to look into whether harassment occurred when it receives demolition requests and penalizes landlords who harass tenants. This petition is sponsored by the Crown Heights Assembly, a coalition of long-term residents and newcomers working for affordable and harassment-free housing in Crown Heights.
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    Created by Elana Bulman
  • Cannabis Shrinks Tumors; government knew in '74
    "In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that cannabis damages the immune system, found instead that cannabinoids slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice - lung and breast cancer, and a virus induced leukemia." The results were censored and the rest is almost unbelievable! It wasn't until 2000 that Dr. Manuel Guzman of Complutense University in Madrid Spain rediscovered that cannabinoids do indeed shrink tumors. This information was also censored! However, many more studies now prove this incredible fact, but, we still don't hear about it! 1600 Americans die each and every day of cancer, many more suffer needlessly, and, the cost to our health care system is staggering. Cannabis is also proven to treat many, many other diseases yet the federal government still claims cannabis has no medicinal benefit even though before prohibition, cannabis was was the most widely prescribed medicine in the USA! Even colicky babies were treated with it! Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74 http://www.alternet.org/drugs/9257 The '74 study http://www.ukcia.org/research/AntineoplasticActivityOfCannabinoids/index.php Here is the 2000 study by Guzman, twenty six years later, over ten years ago, that proves the same. How sad! 1600 Americans a day!!! http://www.brainlife.org/reprint/2003/guzmán_m031000.pdf Or; http://herb.com/guzman.pdf And; "Cannabis destroys cancer cells... reveals research at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry" http://www.qmul.ac.uk/qmul/news/newsrelease.php?news_id=175 And; " Here, we review recent work that raises interest in the development and exploration of potent, nontoxic, and nonhabit forming cannabinoids for cancer therapy. http://m.cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/68/2/339.full Prior to becoming illegal in 1937, "cannabis tinctures, fluid extracts, and flowers" were the most commonly used medicines in the USA. Your great-grandparents would have used them! (This information was deleted from the pharmacopoeia in 1941) http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap4/Tincture.htm http://www.new-territory.net/cann_uses.txt There's so much more! Let's speak up! Kaneh bosm!
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    Created by Garry Minor
  • Speaker Boehner: Remove Rep. Steve King from committee now
    Rep. Steve King's (IA-R) ugly history of anti-immigrant rhetoric reached rock bottom this week after saying that some DREAMers have "calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert." Not only did he claim that for every valedictorian DREAMer there are 100 more carrying drugs across the border, but he then doubled-down by claiming that he didn't "yet know of anyone who has raised a logical argument against" his gross misstatement. Rep. King's attack is nothing new. Last year he compared immigrants to dogs, and then in an Univision interview claimed he meant it as a compliment. Last month he voted to defund DACA, called a group of DREAMers visiting his office "illegal aliens," compared it to an invasion, and then wondered why they hadn't been arrested yet. And now he's accusing those same young Americans of being drug runners. House leaders Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) quickly repudiated Rep. King's statements, but when pressed by a reporter about whether Rep. King would keep his seat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Speaker Boehner simply brushed off the question. We need House leaders who lead. Instead of elevating Republicans willing to engage in respectful debate, Speaker Boehner is giving Rep. King a platform to do nothing but spew his ugly views. We need Speaker Boehner to stand up to Rep. King and take control of his House. Tell Speaker Boehner that Rep. Steve King doesn't deserve a pedestal for hate. Remove Rep. Steve King from the powerful House Judiciary Committee now.
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    Created by Matt Hildreth Picture
  • GOP Leadership: Save DACA from racist King
    Steve King has recently said that “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds, and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert... These people would be legalized with the same act.”. The GOP leadership has come out against his remarks, but they supported him when he introduced an amendment to defund DACA in the DHS appropriations bill. They need to stop the hypocrisy and stop this amendment form moving forward.
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    Created by DRM Action Coalition
  • Larry: Wasn't Killing The US Economy Once Enough? Let Someone Else Try.
    Larry Summers is being considered for Federal Reserve Chair, the single most important economic position in the country, which requires a quick review: When Larry Summers was Treasury Secretary, he was the foremost advocate of effectively repealing Glass-Steagall and passing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which led directly to the financial crash of 2008, nearly toppled the global economy and wreaked havoc at home. He then went on to a career of mismanaging Harvard so badly while behaving in such an openly sexist manner that he was forced out, before rejoining the White House Economic Council just in time to support a bailout for banks but not for homeowners. Our question for Larry as he considers taking the gig: Isn't killing the US economy once more than enough?
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    Created by The Other 98%
  • Turn Off Fox 11
    Fox 11 News has implemented an unfair contract on it's union workers and has cut their wages and benefits!
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    Created by joe ayala
  • Tell First National Bank to pay Katie Barnett restitution for breaking into her house
    An Ohio woman returned from vacation to find that all of her belongings had been stolen, taken right out of her house. She knows who did it, but the local police aren't helping her. That's because Katie Barnett's stuff was not stolen by a burglar who slipped in under cover of darkness, but by a bank. First National Bank of Wellston foreclosed on her neighbor across the street—but got the wrong house, changed the locks and removed everything from Barnett's home. Meanwhile, the McArthur police chief has declared the case closed—even though Barnett doesn't have her stuff back and hasn't been paid. Katie estimates that she lost over $18,000 in personal property, itemized everything and has asked the bank to reimburse her. First National Bank has refused. Sign our petition to Eric Emmert, president and CEO of First National Bank of Wellston, demanding they reimburse a minimum of $18,000 to Katie Barnett.
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    Created by Chris Bowers
  • Free Lolita the Orca
    Lolita the Orca, or "Killer Whale", is being held in captivity in inadequate facility for more than 30 years. She should be rehabilitated and set free.
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    Created by Erika Haynes
  • am class 7drop out
    idont have parents
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    Created by bonface odongo