Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani is going to be executed in Iran in 5 days for refusing to renounce his religious faith & convert to Islam. This brings to mind what Hitler did in Europe more than 70 years ago.

The United States has waited 145 years for Metrication! "The metric system is for all people for all time." (Condorcet 1791)

Helping disabled veterans http://www.causes.com/causes/473055-helping-disabled-veterans

The 2012 Senate Appropriations Bill for the Department of Health and Human Services includes troubling cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Board of health members are responsible for approving local health agency budgets and should be concerned by the continued cuts to public health funding.

To rally global audiences around Black Cinema to demonstrate the economic viability of films made for, by and starring persons of African descent. 81% of the theater going audience is Black, and less than 0.8% of films made in 2011 featured an African American cast, storyline or lead Black star.

Our country is at war. Over 6200 young men and women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and the numbers grow daily. Why then, does the evening news start with a story on Lindsey Lohan? Every newscast and newspaper in this country should devote a moment or space to naming and honoring these young men and women who die everyday. A photo and a sentence. They deserve it. And the people of this country need to see the reality of what is happening.

Daylight Savings Time is an outdated relic from another era long since passed. It is confusing, useless and unnecessary. DST disrupts your internal clock & biorhythms, in addition to it being completely annoying changing the time on every last appliance that has a time display. So along with other useless wreckage and lumber (ie. dial up internet, typewriters and betamax) it is LONG overdue time for DST to be thrown onto the scrap-heap of history!

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SHIPPING, TRANSPORTING, MOVING, DELIVERING, RECEIVING, POSSESSING, PURCHASING, SELLING, OR DONATION OF HORSES AND OTHER EQUINES FOR SLAUGHTER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

Do you want to live down the street from a Detention Center? CCA is in the process of getting final approval for a massive 2000+ bed immigration detention center on 196th Avenue and Sheridan Street, literally blocks from our homes and schools. And all this WITHOUT any input from YOU.

It is well known that most people who get a DUI are forced to go to AA. What is not well known is that AA has been declared a “Religious Organization” more than once in court, and such assignments are unconstitutional. There are recovery programs aside from AA, including secular ones, and these options should be made available. Smart Recovery, Rational Recovery, Secular for Sobriety (SOS) Woman For Sobriety, and Lifering, The Clean Slate, and Hank Hayes’s 5 Master Keys Formula. The Time is now that average citizens are given a choice. AA has no safety measures in place to protect members from Sexual Harassment, Financial Scamming, or Sexual Battery and is proving to be a dangerous place to send unsuspecting citizens.

There are millions of pages of information, videos, scientific reports, news articles, personal accounts, expert testimony, and a generally overwhelming volume of information on the known and yet-unknown dangers and proven health risks of consuming GMO products and the millions of tons of highly toxic pesticide, RoundUp, with which they are drenched. Please sign this petition insisting on our basic human right to know and CHOOSE what we ingest. Demand mandatory labeling of all GMO ingredients (including animal products from animals fed GMO) so we can exercise our freedom of CHOICE!

SignOn.Org now has no option for editing the petition text without deleting it or omitting the recipients listed. The president of The Conservancy has communicated to me that it's membership's wishes are that there be no name change and no one's name appear on the title of The Coast to Crest Trail and Jerry's wife concurs. I hereby withdraw my pursuit in changing that trail's name, and this petition will not be delivered to either recipient. This petition will be left online for now, and if you support honoring Jerry Schad in a positive way proportional to the magnitude of his contributions that has the blessings of those who were closest to him, then sign this petition. I'll leave it to others to decide what that will be, and will decline any leadership role in that process. http://rparky.tumblr.com/post/11004273422/honoring-jerry-schad