Police freely shoot to kill unarmed people in our country contributing to the unlawful abuse of power by law enforcement and distrust of law enforcement. We need these shootings to be handled by the DOJ and stiffer penalties on law enforcement personnel.

Of the over 120 portraits of Lincoln owed by the Smithsonian, it offends me that the newspaper picture calling him a white ni**er is the one the world and all visitors see.

It took us most of a century to acknowledge the riots of 1921 in my home town of Tulsa. It took my grandfather forty years to whisper about it to me. When there is a murder there should be an arrest and a trial. Thanks.

I'm starting this Petition because I think that art should not be a mandatory high school graduation requirement. This issue is currently affecting me now.

1100 students. 2 bathrooms. 6 stalls in each bathroom. That means that about 100 students will use each stall every day. The result: bathrooms unusable with sinks that often break down. These bathrooms are on the first floor of a three-story building. Although there are bathrooms throughout the entire school, students are forbidden from using them. Please help convince Ms. Lenore Berner, the principal of MS 51, to allow the students to use more than one bathroom per gender.

The president has a duty to the people to protect them from dangers brought by the establishment. We must fight for these changes now.

We must push our politicians to represent us now. So many need to have these bills passed now. The people of this country who are counting on us can't wait 2 years or 4 years for these bills.

After striking for more than 50 days, 244 Alutiiq, Inc. base maintenance workers at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City are left wondering why Alaska’s Afognak Native Corporation, owner of Alutiiq, is hell-bent on stripping their pension. Afognak Native Corporation (Afognak) is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) formed under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), and the companies support the Afognak Tribe. On August 1, 2016, Alutiiq assumed the base maintenance contract at Tinker AFB, after winning the bid from a previous contractor. The workers are represented by Local Lodge 850 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). The company wished to bridge the contract from the previous contractor, but demanded workers give up their long-standing pension. The company hired an infamous union-busting law firm, Jackson and Lewis, to do all the negotiating for Alutiiq on the Tinker AFB contract. The company cites worries about withdrawal liability in the plan, but the company has another contract with the IAM in Florida, which it just renegotiated this summer, and kept the plan. Over the years, the employees have forgone raises in favor of improving their pension plan. “They are determined to keep their pension,” said IAM spokesman Bob Wood. “This company knew the workers had a pension when they bid on the contract. If they didn’t want to fund the pension, they didn’t need to bid on the contract. These workers are determined to keep their plan.” “Our members would like to know if Afognak natives know that the company they own is using their money to hire union busters and stripping workers’ pensions,” said Wood. “We find it hard to believe they are aware what is being done in their name. We hope Afognak natives will tell them to do the right thing and quit attacking the workers who make the profits for the company.” “The Machinists Union shares the values of our Native Peoples of caring for our children and our elders. But it seems Alutiiq has no regard for the men, women and their families that are sacrificing to save their future, so we are reaching out to the Tribe to stop this strike,” said Wood. Learn more about the campaign at Facebook.com/alutiiqinjustice

Lennon Lacy was an African American 17-year old West Bladen high school student from Bladenboro, North Carolina. On August 29, 2014, Lacy was found hanging by belts that were tied together from a swing set in a primarily white mobile home park near his home. There is no reasonable evidence that proves that Lacy committed suicide. Lacy played football for his high school and had his uniform laid out on his bed the night before his body was found. Lennon Lacy was in a relationship with Michelle Brimhall, a 31 year old Caucasian women. Brimhall reported that the town disagreed with their interracial relationship. The population in this town is 80% white and 18% black. His death was declared as asphyxia secondary to hanging. Lacy's mother, Claudia Lacy does not believe that her son committed suicide, but was murdered. Some questions that have been left unanswered are: (1) what happened to the new Jordan’s the teen had recently bought? (2) the shoes found on Lacy’s feet were a size 10.5 but Lacy wore a size 12, who did the size 10.5 shoes belong to and why were the laces missing? (3) what did Lacy use to reach the swing set, which was 6 ft tall? (5) the belts that Lacy were found hanging from did not belong to him so who did they belong to? (6) did the person who dug up and removed the flowers from Lacy’s grave have anything to do with his death? (7) why didn’t law enforcement and the FBI do a thorough investigation and why did they rule out foul play so quickly? After two years, despite all of these unanswered questions, law enforcement still claims that it was suicide. We demand justice for Lennon Lacy! If justice is never served and this case is left closed, we are being taught that racism and murder is allowable. I created this petition to District Attorney Jon David, Quintin McGee, ADA, Cortney Sanford , ADA, and the US Department of Justice. I urge you to sign this petition to demand that this case be reopened so that a thorough and unprejudiced investigation from law enforcement and FBI.

Three important Congressional initiatives are happening this week to support diplomacy to reduce violence in the Middle East. Reps. Conyers, Moulton, and Walz are circulating a letter to support the Administration's diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire in Syria's civil war and the restoration of international humanitarian aid in Syria. The letter also calls for the Administration to extend these efforts to restoring the cease-fire and the political talks with Houthi rebels in Yemen and to restoring the cease-fire and political talks between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels in Turkey. Restoration of the peace process between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels in Turkey, necessary to reduce needless suffering for civilians in Turkey, is also widely seen as necessary to help end the Syrian civil war, because the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Turkey is now entangled with a Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Syria. Senators Murphy, Paul, Franken, and Lee have introduced a bill to disapprove the Saudi arms deal (SJ Res 39). Representatives Lieu and Mulvaney have introduced a companion bill in the House (HJ Res 98). Congressional support of these bills will put pressure on the Saudis to agree to restore the cease-fire and talks for a political and diplomatic resolution of the war between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in Yemen. Urge your Representative and Senators to support these Congressional initiatives in support of diplomacy to reduce violence in the Middle East by signing our petition.

Terence Crutcher needed help. But instead, he got a bullet. On Friday night, Terence, a father of four, was on his way home from class at Tulsa Community College when his car stalled in the middle of the road. Someone called the police. And instead of helping him, officers jumped out of their vehicles with guns drawn while helicopters circled in the sky filming the entire incident. The officers in the helicopter can be heard on video saying, "That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on something." Terence died because he was Black. There's no other reason for someone to be killed by police when they are unarmed, walking slowly away with their hands up. He posed absolutely no threat. To make matters worse, after Officer Betty Shelby killed him, Tulsa Police let Terence Crutcher bleed out on the street. He died in the hospital a few hours later. This kind of continued disregard for Black life is enraging. Officer Betty Shelby killed someone. She should not be on administrative leave, sitting at home collecting a paycheck. Terence Crutcher's family and local activists in Tulsa are calling for Officer Shelby to be arrested and criminally charged. Let's join them and make sure this officer is held accountable.

I feel the officers involved in killing this man, violated his rights to due process and this man didn't pose a threat to the officers who taised and shot him dead. I feel the officers involved shouldn't be paid when they were put on administrative leave.