Campus workers in Tennessee are under attack. Governor Bill Haslam's Administration has quietly launched a scheme to outsource facilities management for every public building in the state, including colleges and state universities! The plan impacts prisons, state parks and National Guard armories, too, which adds up to roughly 10,000 working people! The pay and benefits of these workers, including custodians, landscapers, electricians, and maintenance staff, would be threatened in order to "reduce operating costs." In the past, outsourcing has proven to be detrimental to working conditions and to the quality of service provided, and has not been proven to be a worthwhile investment of Tennesseans’ hard-earned tax dollars. Governor Haslam has stated that individual schools, including UofM, SWCC, and UTHSC, will have the opportunity to "opt out" of this outsourcing plan this spring semester. President David Rudd of the University of Memphis has promised the UofM will opt out. However, we need him to say that publicly, and President Tracy Hall of SWCC, and Chancellor Steve J. Schwab of UTHSC must speak up as well. We also call on the University of Memphis Board of Trustees to take a stand against the outsourcing. Over the last year and a half, thousands have protested, spoken out, called-in, written columns, and passed student and faculty resolutions in opposition to privatization, but Governor Haslam continues to move ahead with this unpopular plan. As students, faculty, alumni, staff, and concerned citizens, we care about what happens to our campus workers. With this petition, we appeal directly to each head of their institution to listen to what the university and greater Memphis community is saying: NO OUTSOURCING! For more information please follow: https://www.facebook.com/TNisNOTforsale/

Tell President Trump we don't want a wall between us and Mexico. We need effective immigration laws, not racist and isolationist tactics for our global economy.

We believe that a single-payer "Medicare-for-all" system of health insurance is the best way to insure affordable health care for all American. Representative John Conyers (Democrat - Michigan) has introduced a bill that would put such a system in place. Republicans are repealing Obamacare, but don't have a suitable replacement. Conyers does. This is an opportunity for President Trump to lead a bi-partisan effort to do something great for the American people.

We call for an asterisk to be placed by any listing of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. This asterisk should remain next to any listing of Mr. Trump as president until two issues have been resolved regarding the legitimacy of his presidency. First, we need assurance that the election was not subject to massive voter fraud. Mr. Trump has alleged that between 3 and 5 million votes were cast by ineligible voters. While most of the country appears to understand that these allegations are false, these claims undermine general confidence in our voting system, particularly in the results of this election. There is no reality in which voter fraud of the scale alleged does not render the election illegitimate. Second, we need assurance that Donald J. Trump did not collude with the Russian Government to influence the outcome of the election. Documents leaked to the public regarding intelligence assessments raise significant concerns about the relationship between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government. To date, 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have implicated the Russian government in a scheme to influence the outcome of our election in favor of Donald J. Trump. Public concern demands an investigation, already promised by Congress, to allay doubts caused by Russian interference regarding the integrity of this election. The asterisk can be removed if and when these two substantial concerns regarding the legitimacy of this election are resolved. If these concerns cannot be addressed, we demand that the name Donald J. Trump, when listed as president, always appear with an asterisk to denote the questionable legitimacy of his rise to power.

President Trump has, as a candidate and more recently as President, made statements of fact that cannot be substantiated or, in some cases, are proven false. There is bipartisan support for the lack of evidence for the President's claims of large scale voter fraud. With this claim, he has taken a much larger step that challenges and potentially undermines the very foundation of our democracy.

Pledge to protect immigrant families! The Women’s March is a beautiful reminder of the power we wield when we come together. And it is just the beginning of a growing national opposition to President Trump’s politics of hate. President Trump has already taken action on his anti-immigrant platform. With recent executive orders, he laid out plans to build a border wall, punish local governments that stand with immigrants, and increase detentions and deportations of families and children. He has threatened to target Muslim communities and dismantle life-saving refugee programs. He has promised to end important programs like DACA — which allows nearly 1 million DREAMers to live, work, and go to school in the United States. It’s up to us to transform the momentum of resistance into a movement with the power to fight these dangerous policies. Together we can protect our families, our communities, and our democracy. Eleven year old Leah joined hundreds of immigrant leaders at the Women’s March in Washington, DC. Leah’s mother is undocumented, so she traveled from Miami, Florida “to tell the new president that girls are STRONG and that we will defend our immigrant mothers and community from hate. WE ARE HERE TO STAY!” “As a kid I live with the fear of being separated from my mother everyday. It’s not fair. It breaks my heart. However, as part of the We Belong Together campaign I know my family is not alone. We are a community of women and kids who love each other.” In February, Leah will be returning to DC with a delegation of children from Florida to deliver the Pledge and show that immigrant families like hers are here to stay. Join Leah and sign the Women's Pledge of Unity today!

Donald Trump was in violation of the Constitution's emolument Clause the minute he took office. He has violated his oath and We The People demand to see his Tax returns and current business interests. We will not Pay Federal Taxes until our demands are satisfied. His Financial interests all over the world put our Democracy in Harm's way.

My father's friend lost all his savings, and he almost lost his business, because his child got cancer.

The shamelessly unjust scapegoating of immigrants needs to be resisted. As a life-long New Yorker, I have interacted with immigrants daily my entire life. My experiences have enriched my life. I have taught ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 24 years, and have had the joy to help thousands of individuals from more than 50 countries to succeed in this country. I would like to see similar individuals continue to have opportunities in New York City.

Not only is this an expensive and flawed solution, the wall would infringe upon private property - AND would violate over 30 laws - including the Endangered Species Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. John F Kelly, the Secretary of Homeland Security, says - "It won't work. A physical barrier will not do the job, it has to be a layered defense."

I don't want my tax dollars to build a wall on the Southern US border because the American people were promised they wouldn't pay and I don't want my tax dollars to be used for an investigation that has no merit or foundation.

It's been reported by a number of outlets that Trump's team are already using unsecured RNC email addresses and personal email addresses for government work. It is also reported that Donald Trump is still using his unsecured smart phone after being sworn in as president. It might be allowable to give them time to adjust, if they hadn't campaigned on sending Hillary Clinton to jail over her use of personal email. Call upon them to get on secure servers, where their emails become part of the public record, now.