My baby sister, 18, died while in the custody of the Midland County Jail under the watch of the jailers. On July 27 at approximately 10:30 pm my sister and her boyfriend were pulled over by the city police. This was a controlled stop. Her boyfriend was being watched by the narcotic's department. They knew that her boyfriend had just purchased meth. My sister had a warrant for a failure to appear on a failure to stop at a stop sign ticket. After getting to the jail, my sister swallowed 3.8 grams of meth that her boyfriend told her to. There were recorded phone calls of my sister stating "I did what you told me too, how much did I swallow?" By the next day, she was starting to feel the effects. All through the night fellow inmates begged for help; screamed at the guards to please help. My sister sat in a cell screaming and begging for them to call my mom! Repeating her phone number over and over! 5 women who have called me told the same story! At approximately 4am they removed my sister from her cell and threw her in a cold shower! At approximately 10am the girls in the cell knew she was dying! Finally at noon on the 29th of July the jail called my mother to tell her she needed to get to the jail immediately! My sister was sick and it didn't look good. Our sheriff came in at 12:25 pm to let us know they were dropping all charges so that we could get in to see my sister! Shortly thereafter they came in to let us know she was gone! We begged to see her! They made us wait another hour! For three hours we sat in a little white room as they did their paperwork while my sister died alone! I begged our sheriff a couple of months later to look through video to see if it could have been different! My sister's body had bruises everywhere. Her face was smushed down on one side! They lied and said she became aggressive when help was brought, but that makes no sense! At every turn, we have been denied information or an investigation! All we want is an investigation and if a jailer denied her medical that they are punished accordingly! I don't understand how anyone could watch as someone died! I don't understand how they, the jail, can honestly say they didn't know. What about inmate checks, bed counts, searching the inmates as they come in????? How do you not notice for three days that someone is overdosing!?!?!?! We have hired attorneys but they are blocked each time! Please, this is our last hope! She didn't deserve to die! Her son didn't deserve to lose his mother! Statement from a girl who was in the cell with my sister: "She made it to population .. when before she gets back there was supposed to go through intake. Where she is supposed to sit down with a nurse.. why didn't the nurse catch her heart rate and dilated pupils? They did an entire shift change ... the first guard let her down while everyone was still locked down to go get in the shower. ( which isn't supposed to happen ) asking if she was detoxing ( jokingly).. and still after being told she was overdosing didn't take it seriously. The second guard came on to shift and went back to medical 3x letting them know the problem... The first time she came back... Medical said she would have to wait for the nurse to come around.. Sandy told me she felt like she was passing every time she closed her eyes.. after I told the guard she didn't have that time to wait she went back and told them and came back saying she still had to wait.. after asking for a medical form that I could fill out for Sandy so she could sign it so that it would be on records is when she then went back again and came back and asked for Sandy to come with her... After Sandy came out of a cold shower to help her burning up body (in all of her jail-issued clothing) I gave her a white shirt, a pair of socks to help her freezing feet and pulled her hair into a ponytail. I walked her over to the guard and told her everything would be ok.. 😞"

One thing that almost EVERYBODY agrees on -- whether or not we voted for Donald Trump -- is that it is NOT OK for him to make national and international policy decisions based on how much it will help or hurt his personal business investments. For this reason, we the undersigned call on our elected representatives from BOTH parties in Congress to demand that 1. President-elect Trump put his personal investments and assets into a blind trust while in the White House (as all his predecessors for the last 40 years have done) in order to avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof. 2. President-elect Trump immediately release his tax returns (as all his predecessors for the last 40 years have done) so that we can know in advance about his investments and potential conflicts of interest. 3. President-elect Trump and all his appointees conduct and all their official email correspondences on government servers, where these emails can be retrieved later if charges of corruption should arise. President-elect Trump campaigned as a different kind of candidate who would "drain the swamp" of corruption by wealthy special interests in Washington DC. The purpose of these demands is to help him be successful in keeping the promises he made to ALL of us.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has stated “It’s concerning for me to see the governor, who sat out this election, now take a wait-and-see approach on something like an appointment of Steve Bannon. For me, Bannon isn’t a wait-and-see situation. He is a white supremacist now named to a top White House position to advise the president-elect and that is something that needs to be denounced and rejected. I don’t think it’s prejudging to look at Bannon’s record of vile behavior and say there’s any situation to have him anywhere near the White House, let alone advising the president.” Join us in expressing our agreement with AG Healey to Governor Charlie Baker.

Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted of espionage for sharing a small amount of information with the journalist James Risen about a plot to start a new war in Iran, has been incarcerated for over a year in the Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood. He was a CIA employee who was passed over for a promotion based solely on his race and filed a complaint against the CIA. As a consequence, he has been vilified, tried, convicted and imprisoned. His plight is dire at this point. He has suffered symptoms of heart distress for several months without being allowed to leave the prison for a cardiac consultation and testing. While he was promised that he would get this care by August 29, nothing has happened to this date. Activists are calling the jail and the Bureau of Prisons regularly and Arn Menconi, the Green Party candidate for senate in Colorado, has held two vigils outside the prison, all to no avail. Even our senator, Michael Bennet, has written and demanded a copy of Jeffrey’s medical records which FCI claims to have lost. Please sign my petition to demand that Jeffrey receive the medical care that is his human right. You can email Warden Denham at [email protected] . Also please call FCI Englewood at 303-763-4300 and the Bureau of Prisons (ask for Sarah Revel) at 913-621-3939. Jeffrey’s inmate number is 38338-044. Thank you! Jeffrey's wife Holly, who is very distraught and reaching out to everyone who can help, will be very pleased at the show of support while we await a positive result of our continued pressure.

Tommy Wilson is accused of Armed Robbery and was sentenced to 12 years Mandatory back in 2012. The witness was a habitual offender looking for a reduced sentence. Tommy is asking for clemency or an alternative since he has already spent 5 years of his life in prison. We are also seeking help before The Obama administration leaves the white house .

Donald Trump's hostility to the American press corps is well known. By calling individual reporters "scum" and "losers", he has attempted to minimize the great American tradition of a free press which monitors and distributes news to an informed electorate. His ability to bypass this traditional media by tweeting his lies, racism and hate speech can be easily prevented by monitoring his "real Donald Trump" account (and eventually "POTUS") and shutting it down permanently if any tweet contains hate speech, racist remarks and verifiable false information.

We the people have a vision. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, with integrity and in solidarity of Tribal Sovereignty within the United States of America, to form or to join international Credit Unions. We make this historic Public Commitment to ask that every citizen and public figure from every Country in our world who claims to be in solidarity with Standing Rock to prove so with the Peaceful Action of Bank Exit. We believe, as Water Protectors and Mother Earth Protectors, that water is life and that all like minded people and various organizations past, present and future are in consensus with the civil right, economic right and freedom to Bank Exit from the ongoing harmful decisions of Big Banks in Big Oil. We ask that all like minded political organizations, companies and people transfer any and or all accounts to Credit Unions beginning November 25, 2016 so that in future celebrations of Thanksgiving Big Banks will no longer determine the will of we the people. This EVENT is ongoing. The EVENT is in response to all continuous Rallies and Marches inspired by Standing Rock Camp that are now related to the Circular Economy Movement and celebration of Tribal Sovereignty in the United States. Our peaceful action to Bank Exit will demonstrate Community appreciation for the Water Protectors of Standing Rock Camp. We petition for what is reasonably requested by the indigenous tribes and all World Citizens in solidarity with the tribal and environmental community. We request that all claiming solidarity be in Integrity with such solidarity. We the People of this historic petition, EVENT and peaceful action, commit to researching the benefits of Bank Exit and honor Standing Rock Camp by making a commitment to join Credit Unions before meeting with family and friends this holiday season and every holiday season to demonstrate and to celebrate Thanksgiving.

North Dakota Access pipeline protest. Lawless police, civil and human rights violations. No police oversight. My personal safety would be at risk if i vacationed there.

If we want clean government, it must start at the top. Our laws must treat everyone equal.

The 2016 campaign has led to a rise in verbal and physical attacks against people of color, Muslim women, people in the LGBT community and others -- especially children and teens. It's important to react...nonviolently, by publicly demonstrating solidarity and determination.

There is currently a pending lawsuit related to Sabal Trail that was filed against FERC by Sierra Club, Flint Riverkeeper and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in the U.S. District Court of Appeals in D.C. that challenges FERC’s approval of the Southeast Market Pipeline, saying FERC did not analyze the climate impacts of the project and did not research less environmentally destructive routes. Burning 1.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day is in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Sabal Trail Pipeline, a 515-mile project is slated to gouge its way through the Floridan Aquifer, through our sensitive karst geology, wetlands and under numerous rivers, including the Withlacoochee, Suwannee, and Flint Rivers, endangering the source of drinking water for up to 90% of north and Central Florida’s residents. Construction and drilling releases hazardous materials, and can leak and explode into waterways. Sabal Trail is cutting through the center of Florida’s world-famous springs, and would endanger our most valuable asset. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is funded through fees from the industry itself, a severe form of crony capitalism, and is a rubber-stamp operation for the oil and gas industry. In the case of Sabal Trail Pipeline, there have been many discrepancies between what Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC reported to FERC and realities on the ground like sinkholes and cave systems within close proximity of the proposed pipeline. Land has been taken through eminent domain when much of the gas will be exported. The permitting process is faulty. There must be environmental justice for Floridians. Floridians rely on our precious water resources and tourist industry. We need a legislature concerned with sea-level rise, and interested in balancing sustainable development with responsible business practices. Please stop Sabal Trail Pipeline

The Indigenous People of this land have been subjected to genocide and dehumanization for 500 years. That must stop. Please stop the violence. Protect the People, not those who have been, and still are, violating human and constitutional rights at Standing Rock, North Dakota.