Kenneth D. Thomas is serving a life sentence for a crime the Courts are clearly aware that he did not commit. The only witness to the crime has appeared before the Court informing them that he falsely accused Mr. Thomas in efforts to shorten his own prison sentence.

Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass H.J.RES.15/S.J. RES. 15 which is the Three-State Strategy to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. H.J.RES.43/S.J. RES. 15? H.J.RES.51/S.J. RES. 15, sponsored by U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA 14) and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), is the bill resolution for the Three-State Strategy to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. H.J.RES.51/S.J. RES. 15, would eliminate the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, second session. It declares that such amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the necessary number of additional states. What is the Equal Rights Amendment? The Equal Rights Amendment is an amendment that promotes gender equality in the United States constitution. It states, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." (http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/">www.equalrightsamendment.org) Since the United States has been a country, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has not become a part of the United States Constitution. What is the Equal Right Amendment Three-State Strategy? The Equal Rights Amendment, passed by Congress in 1972, would have become the 27th Amendment to the Constitution if three-fourths of the states had ratified it by June 30, 1982. However, that date passed with only 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. Instead, the 27th Amendment is the "Madison Amendment," concerning Congressional pay raises, which went to the states for ratification in 1789 and reached the three-fourths goal in 1992. The fact that a 203-year ratification period was accepted as valid has led ERA supporters to propose that Congress has the power to maintain the legal viability of the ERA and the existing 35 state ratifications. If so, only three more state ratifications would be needed to make the ERA part of the Constitution. Legal analysis supporting this strategy was developed in 1995 by Allison Held, Sheryl Herndon and Danielle Stager, then third-year law students at the T. C. Williams School of Law in Richmond, VA. Their article, "http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/misc/W&M%20law%20article.pdf">Why the ERA Remains Legally Viable and Properly Before the States," was published in the Spring 1997 issue of William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to propose an amendment and to determine the mode of ratification, but it is silent as to the power of Congress to impose time limits or its role after ratification by three-fourths of the states. It is important to note that Congressional promulgation is not a necessary feature of Article V. In the history of the amendment process Congress has promulgated only two amendments, the 14th and the 27th, following the final state ratification. In addition, the requirement for ratification within a "sufficiently contemporaneous" time frame and the chronological definition of "contemporaneous" are now open to question in light of the Madison Amendment experience. Despite arguments by proponents that the Equal Rights Amendment should go to the states without a time limit in the tradition of the 19th Amendment, the ERA passed Congress in 1972 with a seven-year time limit in its proposing clause. If the time limit had been placed in the text of the amendment itself, that restriction would not be subject to alteration by Congress after any state legislature had ratified. However, the ERA language ratified by 35 states between 1972 and 1982 (see above) did not contain a time limit for ratification. By transferring time limits from the text of an amendment to the proposing clause, Congress retained for itself the authority to review the limit and to amend its own previous legislative action regarding that time limit. In 1978, Congress clearly demonstrated its belief that it may alter a time limit in the proposing clause when it passed an extension of the original seven-year limit for ERA ratification and moved the deadline from March 22, 1979, to June 30, 1982. A challenge to the constitutionality of the extension was dismissed by the Supreme Court as moot after the deadline expired, and no lower-court precedent stands regarding that point. The Coleman decision asserted that Congress may determine whether the states have ratified in a "reasonable" time or whether the amendment is "no longer responsive to the conception which inspired it." Congress therefore could determine that the time period since the ERA went to the states for ratification in 1972 is "reasonable" and "contemporaneous" (particularly in light of the fact that it deemed the Madison Amendment's 203 years to be so), and it could decide that the ERA remains "responsive to the conception which inspired it" (indisputably so, since the fact that women's equal rights are not constitutionally affirmed will remain unchanged until the Constitution is amended or interpreted to establish unequivocally that women and men have equal rights). Therefore, under the principles of Dillon and Coleman, and based on the fact that Congress voted to extend the ERA time limit and to accept the 203-year-long ratification period of the Madison Amendment as sufficiently "contemporaneous," it is likely that Congress has the power to legislatively adjust or remove the time limit constraint on the ERA if it chooses, to determine whether or not state ratifications which occur after the expiration of a time limit in a proposing clause are valid, and to promulgate the ERA after the 38th state ratifies. Why do women need the Equal Rights Amendment? The fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution grants c...

Hospitals are supposed to be places of compassion, kindness, and care. In all wards that deal with physical illnesses, patients will receive that kind of care, except in the psych ward. People in psych wards across the country are being stigmatized and discriminated against by staff and sometimes abused. -When people are first admitted they are forced to put on ugly looking scrubs, that are similar to prison wear and they have their clothes and their cell phones and laptops taken from them. While they claim the scrubs are to protect people from hurting themselves and the cell phones and laptops are taken away from them for privacy. They do not do this in other wards for people with physical illnesses, making it discrimination. -Upon admittance, the nurses, staff, and doctors do not talk to the patient or get any medical history from them. Instead, they get it from the patient's caregivers and not to the patient, treating them like children. -The staff treat and talks to the patients like children. -When someone is admitted to the psych ward, they do not talk to the patient who is suicidal or in pain. They leave them alone and tell them to cope with it. -There is a shortage of beds in psych wards. Causing patients to have to stay in the ER for months at a time. -They do not provide peer specialists. -If a patient does not have a place to stay after the hospital, the doctor will discharge them into a homelessness situation. -The doctors have a poor bedside manner. -Patients who are lucid and coherent and not a threat to themselves or others are forced to be locked in the psych ward. -The staff makes inappropriate assumptions about patients based on the stigma of mental illness. -Patients sometimes face abuse at the hands of the staff. Request of the Government We ask that the federal and state governments do as follows; -Upon admittance, to the ER, for a psychiatric ailment, the nurses and doctors will talk to the patient and the caregivers -Forcing a patient to wear those ugly looking scrubs will be prohibited -Patients who are lucid and coherent will be allowed to keep their cell phones and laptops while in the hospital provided they sign a contract not to take pictures. Same goes for visitors. -A working group will be put together to teach the doctors and nurses bedside manner, and how not to stigmatize and profile someone with a mental illness. It will also teach people who work in hospitals how to talk and give hope to someone who is suicidal. It will also teach people in the Emergency rooms this too. -Requires peer specialists to work in psych wards. -Patients will not be discharged into homeless situations. -Patients will have the choice between individual and/or group therapy. -Patients who are not a danger to themselves or others will not have to be locked in the psych ward. -People who are patients in the psych ward will be treated with the same respect and courtesy as people with physical illnesses. -Require the government to give more money for beds in psych wards. -Put together a working group to help find better group treatments.

Deceptive Violation of an oath to Commisioners and the Constituents in regard to a Contract for Toll roads on Interstate 1-77 which was submitted as HB-954. Mayor Travis conducted a "Secret" Meeting on June 8, 2016 in Raleigh with Senator Berger and other Senators to kill the Support for this Bill! We ask that Mayor Travis resign or be recalled Immediately. http://corneliustoday.com/wp/renegade-mayor-travis-lobbies-for-tolls-in-raleigh-commissioners-call-his-comments-inaccurate

Proyecto Jardin is a garden in Boyle Heights that has been sustained and managed by community members for over 15 years. At the garden we maintain over 60 fruit trees, grow fresh organic produce, host fitness classes, nutrition classes, and workshops on medicinal herbs. In addition to harvesting food, we cultivate healing relationships among the residents in our community.

The Zika virus has officially arrived in the U.S. There are now many confirmed cases of the Zika virus in the Miami area that were contracted by local mosquitoes, not by travel abroad or sexual transmission, and the CDC has issued a travel warning to all pregnant women not to travel to Miami. That is on top of the thousands of U.S. Zika cases contracted or associated with travel to South or Central America. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress left weeks ago for their summer vacations without passing emergency funding for Zika. Outrageous! According to the CDC and other national health officials, we are unprepared for this outbreak and need this funding ASAP for prevention, research, and treatment—including a potential vaccine—of the Zika virus. Enough is enough! We need you to speak out! Write your members of Congress and tell them to come back to Washington, D.C. and pass emergency funding for the prevention and treatment of the Zika virus ASAP!

Puerto Rico's problem is COLONIALISM not debt. The US House of Rep with the Obama adminstration is passing the bill before July 1, 2016. PLEASE speak up!!!

Eastern Michigan University students were hit with a 7.8% tuition increase last year, and with another large tuition increase soon to be approved, privatization will have EMU students paying more for lower quality food. In addition, workers will be hired at low wages with fewer benefits, creating more income inequality. Numerous current employees and students will be at risk for losing their jobs. Given that the operation of dining services currently returns a surplus to the University, and given the satisfaction students have with the services provided, there is no reason to privatize dining services at Eastern Michigan University. There are many reasons to be concerned, however, about the cost and quality of food delivered by outside vendors. Outsourcing in the State of Michigan does not always work out, as was demonstrated when food service for inmates in state prisons was outsourced, with disastrous results. In addition, the firm likely to receive the contract is Chartwells, a subsidiary of Compass Group, a British company. Chartwells took over food service at Oakland University, and this account demonstrates how displeased the students are with Chartwells. “Chartwells confronts food issues,” Oakland Post, March 9, 2015. In addition, according to the Washington Post, students at a high school in Connecticut reported that Chartwells serves “food that sometimes features mold, human hair, dangerously undercooked meats, insects and portion sizes fit for a small, starving child.” “Moldy hot dogs, human hair and other cafeteria nightmares prompt students to boycott school lunches,” Washignton Post, Nov. 5, 2014 The EMU administration has claimed that the justification for this move is due to financial struggles of Eastern Michigan University. But the university’s bond rating remains strong, and EMU has solid cash flows and real reserves. If there are any financial issues at EMU, it is clear that the priorities of the EMU administration are completely misplaced. If money is to be saved, those savings can be achieved by reducing EMU’s bloated administrative budget, and by cutting the $1,000 per student (10% of average tuition) subsidy to athletics.

The recently-signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was negotiated behind closed doors with hundreds of corporate advisors. It would make it easier to offshore good jobs, push down our wages, and undermine essential climate policies, affordable medicines, safe food, human rights & an open Internet. The proposed TPP trade agreement should never pass, and especially not be voted on during the “lame duck” session of Congress after the election — that unique moment in the political calendar when Representatives who have retired or been voted out of office still hold their seats for a short time and political accountability to constituents is at its lowest. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and countless other progressive leaders have announced opposition to a lame duck vote on the TPP. But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has refused to take a position. Her public position will have enormous influence on how other House Democrats vote.

A new proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) considers requiring state and metropolitan transportation organizations to track, measure, and reduce carbon emissions as well as other air pollution from transportation projects. If enacted, this new measure would help increase investment in public transit, expand safe bikeways and pedestrian walkways, relieve traffic congestion, and clean up the air we breathe. But it won't happen without your support. Transportation makes up 31 percent of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and is responsible for about 53,000 premature deaths each year. Reducing emissions from transportation will clean up our air and save lives. We need your help to fix the problem. Tell U.S. DOT you support this rule now.

Jackson Square Partners, of which JPNDC is a lead partner, is seeking community support for its revised Article 80 filing towards the development of Site III in Jackson Square. Demonstrating support from neighbors and business owners is an important step in the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Article 80 approval process. For more information about the Site III development in Jackson Square, contact Giovanny Valencia at [email protected].

Dear Secretary Clinton, The vitality and integrity of constitutional democracies in Latin America should be regarded as a chief concern for the United States as well as the rest of the world. The legitimacy of the impeachment process currently underway against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been persistently questioned by Brazilian and international jurists and intellectuals, sovereign governments, multilateral entities, and Brazilian voters. In addition, many concerns have been raised over the misogyny characterizing this process, and the repercussions this could have on female political leadership and broader questions of social justice in our hemisphere. We urge you to take a stance on this matter, critical to the public trust in our democratic institutions and bilateral relations. As the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, your position on this issue will set the tone for the United States' engagement with the region going forward, and your silence construed as tacit support. Sincerely,