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Changing Tables in Mens RestroomsAs a father, who regularly spends quality time with his child without his spouse I find it difficult to bring them to certain places. It is difficult because there are no changing tables in most mens restrooms. I want to make it mandatory to have them in every mens restroom.58 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Martin Schneider
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Reclaim our Park: Lindbergh Park named after Nazi SympathizerAs someone who was born and raised in Culver City, I learned the importance of celebrating all people who are a part of our community. Charles Lindbergh did not share those values and we should not have a park named after him. Here are a few things he said: During World War II, Charles Lindbergh was the lead spokesperson for the America First Committee. Lindbergh gave a speech to a huge crowd in Des Moines, in which he described the agitators for the U.S. to enter the war. There were three groups: the British, the government, and “the Jewish race.” “Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government,” he told the audience. He wrote, in an infamous essay published by Reader’s Digest in November, 1939, weeks after the war in Europe began, that Western nations “can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood.” President Roosevelt disliked Lindbergh's outspoken opposition to his administration's interventionist policies, telling Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." In 1941 he wrote to Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "When I read Lindbergh's speech I felt that it could not have been better put if it had been written by Goebbels himself. What a pity that this youngster has completely abandoned his belief in our form of government and has accepted Nazi methods because apparently they are efficient." Sign our petition to reclaim our park and demand the city of Culver City change the name of the park to better represent our community’s values.1 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Nick Guthman
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Motorcycle Passenger Age/weight/height Restrictions Needed to Protect Kidsto help keep our kids safe14 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Adam E AND Tammy L Corwin
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Walt Disney Worlds Grand Floridian Greeter Richard Gerth Memorial StatueFor all the millions of people who Richard Gerth greeted over the years at WDW Grand Floridian and made their stay that much nicer.6,319 of 7,000 SignaturesCreated by Kim Kowalczyk
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Terrell: Get out of my room!I have had to live the past 13 years of my life sharing a room with people and I get yelled at when I make the tiniest sound these people are now 18, and 17 they should move out and I need my own room.15 of 100 SignaturesCreated by terrell
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No Fireworks in Colfax CountyDue to dry and windy conditions here in Raton and the surrounding County.146 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Natalie Trujillo
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We Stand With Joy ReidWe start this petition to show our continued support for Joy Ann Reid.234 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Friends & Fans of Joy Ann Reid
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Alaskan's to upgrade our companion animals to sentient beingsWe need to start addressing the violence that is prevalent in Alaska. This includes the violence against our animals. As we all know, violent acts on animals leads to the violence against humans which if intervened earlier we could reduce some of the violence in our domestic households, as abusers usually act out on the animals first to scare or terrorize the humans who live in the home. We are better than this and by upgrading our pets to being sentient beings, will enable more people and organizations to intervene before actual harm or death comes to an innocent animal due to humans being cruel and abusive to animals that can't or normally won't fight back. We need to take this step to reduce the on going battle of these acts of violence not being taken seriously.34 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Merlynn Petito
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Utah Pride Festival: DITCH WELLS FARGO & CHASE BANKTo Utah Pride Center Leadership and whom it may concern: Due to conversations with leadership being ignored and a lack of community representation on your board, we of the community have been forced into the uncomfortable position of writing this letter. While we understand the fundraising achieved during the Pride season is by and large the biggest source of funding for the services provided by the Pride Center, we cannot deny that some of our sponsors have a history of discrimination against the most at-risk in our communities. Specifically, we formally request that the Utah Pride Center immediately divest from Chase Bank and Wells Fargo as well as retract their parade entries for the 2018 Pride Season and the indefinite future. Both of these banks have a history of exploiting communities of color 1,2, propping up companies that monetize the destruction of our environment 3,4, defy and reject indigenous sovereignty 5,6, and exploit the poor and undocumented. Salt Lake City has already announced its plans to encourage ethical banking practices and divest from all companies with fossil fuel ties 7,8. We feel a remarkable sense of disappointment and outrage that the Utah Pride Center would not stand in solidarity with our city and would knowingly take money from these sources. It is important to acknowledge that the majority of this letter’s authors are white. While we do not wish to speak for those who have lost faith in the Utah Pride Center’s ability to serve Utah’s larger multifaceted queer community, we express concern in the rising trend amongst queer minorities--our indigenous, undocumented, Black, and disabled communities--who feel both alienated and neglected by our services. Nonetheless we call on the Utah Pride Center to recognize that when any form of oppression is aimed at a minority community, the queer people within that community will always be marginalized to an even greater degree. We call upon you to recognize that queer liberation can only be achieved when we move to stand in solidarity with all oppressed communities. We must not put a price tag on our integrity and we must not convince ourselves it is noble to trade the dignity of our queer family for minimal donations. Furthermore we demand the Utah Pride Center re-examine its Board of Directors, it’s personal lack of diversity on that board, and the practices used to appoint their board immediately. A history of trading board positions for donations coupled with closed-door practices serves to maintain a disturbing culture of white supremacy, colonialism, classism, and ableism within the center. Until there is a substantive change to board functioning, problems such as these will continue to exist and thrive. We call upon the Utah Pride Center to hold a public town hall meeting to discuss current board practices and genuine plans to restructure these systems for appointing board members, disseminating information about board discussions and decisions, and to return the power of the Utah Pride Center to its community. We look forward to hearing of your divestment before the end of the week, and we have private citizens and leaders within several organizations in the community who are willing to meet and discuss this letter and the points therein in greater detail and length. We hope you will be as open to our message as you have been to your donors. References Egan, Matt. “Wells Fargo fails test over 'discriminatory and illegal' practices.” CNN Money 28 Mar 2017. http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/28/investing/wells-fargo-fails-community-test/index.html White, Gillian B. “J.P. Morgan Chase's $55 Million Discrimination Settlement.” The Atlantic 18 Jan 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/jpmorgan-lawsuit-discrimination/513494/ Kaufman, Alexander C. “JPMorgan Facing A New Environmental Fight Over Tar Sands Funding.” The Huffington Post 26 Sep 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jpmorgan-tar-sands_us_59ca6944e4b01cc57ff5a982 McGuigan, Connor. “ Campaign to Divest from Wells Fargo Gains Traction.” Sierra Club 03 May 2018. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/bulletin/campaign-divest-wells-fargo-gains-traction Russell, Steve. “Wells Fargo Preyed on Natives, Elderly and College Students.” Indian Country Today 25 Oct 2016. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/wells-fargo-preyed-on-natives-elderly-and-college-students/ Sutherlin, Laurel. “Chase AGM: Dozens of Indigenous and Frontline Community Representatives Call for an End to Bank Financing of Extreme Fossil Fuels.” Rainforest Action Network 15 May 2018. https://www.ran.org/chase_agm_dozens_of_indigenous_and_frontline_community_representatives_call_for_an_end_to_bank_financing_of_extreme_fossil_fuels Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office. “Mayor Biskupski a leader in U.S. mayors’ new national drive for 100 percent clean energy.” http://www.slcgov.com/mayor-biskupski-leader-us-mayors’-new-national-drive-100-percent-clean-energy Pleune, Ryan. “Salt Lake City Pledges to Divest from Chase Bank and Fossil Fuels.” Last Real Indians 18 Apr 2017. https://lastrealindians.com/salt-lake-city-pledges-to-divest-from-chase-bank-and-fossil-fuels/120 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Dylan Ashley
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ABC & Disney: Fire Roseanne BarrRoseanne Barr over the years has faced heavy criticism for her racism, homophobic, anti-Semitism, and hate speech. Enough is enough of the hate pouring out of her mouth on the national stage. The nation deserves better. On her twitter feed 5/29/18 @ 2:45am Roseanne Barr said: "muslim brother and planet of the apes had a baby = vj This was in reference to a WOMAN. A WOMAN OF COLOR. A HUMAN BEING -- Valerie Jarrett: Former advisor to President Barack Obama.17 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Robert Ostrander
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AppleCare music on hold is unbearable!Music on hold is not a new technology. Thousands, maybe millions, of companies have figured it out decades ago. There are many things people do not object to listening to: news, weather, nature sounds, computer tips, or just synthesized recordings that let you know you are still connected. However, Apple seems to think that forcing their best customers to endure listening to a playlist of ear-shattering crappy noise is the way to maintain their image. It sucks. And if you complain to the people who provide the world's best tech support for the world's best products from the world's largest company, they tell you that there is nothing they can do about it, but you can go to a feedback page on their web site. Been there, done that, . dozens of times. It's time for a better way to get the attention of the C-level at Apple.1 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dennis Burnham
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Lemon Lake and the Red ROC Disc Golf ClubAfter 14 years, thousands of man-hours and dollars the Red ROC Disc Golf Club successfully built 4 championship disc golf courses at Lemon Lake County Park in NW Indiana. Jay and Deb Svitko conspired to wrest control of this complex from the Red ROC Disc Golf Club in 2013 and they were successful in no small part because we, as a club were exhausted from that effort and successfully hosting 2 World Championships in 3 years. The Svitkos are on a mission to re-write history in their favor and have taken credit for our accomplishments. They do NOT help Grow the Sport and need to be removed. The Red ROC Disc Golf Club started the first course at Lemon Lake (red) in 1998. Over the next 14 years we expanded it to the complex it was in 2013 with a multitude of volunteers herded by Hall of Famer Brian Cummings. We designed all the courses, built the paths, installed tee signs and ran tournaments and leagues there all those years. We paid for built and installed all the benches on the course. We paid for many of the concrete teepads when the parks dept ran out of money and poured them all....96 teepads in 5ish years. Long time club member Jay Svitko and his wife were voted off the worlds steering committee (they were self appointed) in early 2013 (unanimously) but continued to act in that capacity without authorization of the club or the tournament director Brian Cummings. We were always 1 step behind and very frustrated as we were juggling the 2013 Worlds including course prep and the multitude of tasks that go into running an event of that magnitude....our 2nd Pro Worlds in 3 years. Push was coming to shove and angry words were exchanged but as the Worlds was rapidly approaching cooler heads prevailed and for the good of the event we chose to engage in that battle after the worlds. By then it was to late. The 'Flight Center' was supposed to be a club store but suddenly it was Jay and Debs store (this coincided with both of them suddenly being unexpectedly unemployed). The parks manager is mainly interested in the path of least resistence and her immediate superior in the parks dept retired in 2013 as did her boss about a year prior. Brian and the exhausted club took some time away from Lemon Lake after the worlds and the new parks dept folks aligned with Jay and Deb...possession being 9/10ths of the law and the new people at the parks department were only hearing from the Svitkos. They won't allow us to run leagues there (they called the police once when we tried) let alone tournaments. They took over all the tournaments we ran by name and made them there own. They started the Indiana Disc Golf Museum because Indiana disc golfers would not let them have the Indiana Disc Golf Hall of Fame. There should be SOMETHING in the museum for Brian and the club but there isn't. Brian installed his first course in NW Indiana in 1986 and MANY more. Since our ouster from Lemon Lake the RRDGC has continued to grow the sport by installing more courses and continuing to improve the ones already in the ground. Freedom Park in Lowell , Rivers Edge in Munster, Riverside in Hammond, Purdue Calumet in Hammond, LRCA Church Camp in Winfield, Countryside in Portage, and 50 Acre Park in Evergreen Park, IL are some of the courses we've built and developed since 2012. The courses at Lemon Lake are being poorly maintained according to the standards we set as a club. If you played in one of our Worlds (2010 and 2013) and played again in the Masters (2018) you would notice the deterioration. Browse the posts in the petition for some first hand accounts of basic disc golf codes being broken ie: Call the Number on the Disc Before You Put it in Your Used Disc Bin.... When the PDGA awarded Lemon Lake a $5000 grant and the title of 'PDGA Midwest Development Center' in 2015? Brian Cummings was not invited to the ceremony....the architect of the complex. This award went to folks that don't play disc golf, the Svitkos. This is an excerpt from my recent email to the current PDGA Director: Below is a quote from a recent PDGA news letter. I take issue with the untruths propagated in this statement. The heart and soul of Lemon Lake are Brian Cummings and the Red ROC Club members that built it over a 14 year span. Jay and Deb's hostile takeover occurred after and during the 2013 Worlds. They've run about 6 tournaments a year for less than 5 years not 'well over 100 tournaments'. They did NOT run the 2010 Worlds and the 2013 Worlds. If Jay and Deb are your soul source of information than you are being mislead and engaging in shoddy journalism. "US Masters Brings PDGA Major Back To Lemon Lake Lemon Lake County Park and the Lemon Lake Flight Center in Crown Point, Indiana, have seen more than their fair share of high-level PDGA events. In the last decade alone, Jay and Deb Svitko, the heart and soul of the complex, have run well over 100 tournaments, including multiple A-tiers, dozens of B- and C-tiers, and the 2010 and 2013 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships."446 of 500 SignaturesCreated by Bartel G Zandstra