We are starting this petition because every candidate deserves equal treatment. No candidate for public office should be treated unfairly as it is a violation of the freedom of speech. Oppressing any candidate is violating every voter.

A developer wants to build 160 homes on the pristine 117 acres of Oswit Canyon. This canyon offers magnificent hiking for Palm Springs residents and visitors. It is also home to wildlife such as birds, rabbits, bobcats, coyotes, big horn sheep and more! We must save it!

The campaign needs to add local hires, proportional to the population and inversely proportional to historic voter turnout. Communities with low voting rates would receive additional organizers to mobilize. The political revolution is not just for those who participate in elections, but also those who feel disenfranchised and have given up on the electoral process. Paraphrasing Bernie GRASSROOTS STRATEGY: The campaign shifts strategy to a grassroots local focused approach, pulling money away from media buys and hiring up to 1000 local, minority preference, field organizers. COMMUNITY MURALS: Commissioned by the campaign, calling on the community to register to vote by May 23rd. Each of 50+ districts are awarded $50,000 for a community art project that encourages voter participation and civic engagement, that also serve as team building for the campaign and local organizers, both volunteer and paid. LOCAL HIRES: Campaign has set new goals for locally connected field organizers, hiring at least 50% of field organizers ethnic, religious and culturally representative of the communities they are organizing. We feel that this embodies Bernie’s messaging regarding community policing and is just as applicable here, when connecting with local communities, in winning votes and trust of the people. SPECIAL INTEREST RESOURCES: It is imperative that the campaign offices serve as resources for special interest groups and provide outreach efforts directed towards these groups. Resources such as voter registration outreach, canvassing, tabling, education materials, and campaign and community conversations must happen with all special interest groups including: First Americans / Native American African American Religious Minorities Ethnic Minorities Asians & Pacific Islanders Middle Eastern Latino Veterans Women’s Equality Unions LGBTQ Immigrants Thank you for your support of the Political Revolution let’s organize California for the Win! Please join us!!

The town recycling hauler has been fined for having plastic bags in our our curbside bins and due to the lightweight nature of the bags they blow around when animals dig in trash. These windblown items become dangerous for wildlife and create mosquito breeding vectors along with other litter. Very few people return bags to store recycling bins. Big corporate petro chemical corporations are spending millions to defeat any bag bans and the current two bills on the Boston State house floor are likely to die in committee, like the expanded bottle bill which took 20 years before environmentalist presented to voters in a state wide ballot.

Figures from ForProfitU.org report that only 13% of those who enrolled in the for-profit University of Phoenix had received their bachelor’s degree as of 2012. Phoenix’s parent company Apollo Group received over $800 million in federal Pell Grants in 2013 -- the most of any college in the country. Meanwhile, The University of Phoenix has been the subject of numerous federal investigations, as well as by Attorneys General in a number of states around the country, for its practices and the quality of educations enrollees receive. Lastly, the National Center for Education Statistics reported Phoenix gets $12,000 per student in tuition but spends $1,600 on actual instruction. Ellen, the student loan debt crisis is threatening the American Dream for tens of millions of student loan borrowers. The University of Phoenix deserves not your seal of approval, but condemnation and derision. If you don’t believe us, talk to people we know who have paid for Phoenix about their experience and the quality of instruction they received. This is why we ask you to please, drop your partnership with The University of Phoenix immediately.

The American Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilities in their decision to hire them. Currently, at least 5 offices on campus are unable to hire people in wheelchairs, due to the inaccessibility of the office--employees would not even be able to enter Landis House, much less use the bathroom or enter offices. Numerous studies have found that people with disabilities experience much higher rates of sexual assault and domestic violence, and are also less likely to report due to lack of access to resources. Currently, Dickinson College community members in wheelchairs do not have the ability to seek support for assault or abuse through the Prevention Education and Advocacy Center, or support for discrimination through the Women's Center, Office of LGBTQ Services, or Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity. Please show Dickinson that it is a TOP PRIORITY to make Landis House wheelchair accessible. Also, according to this website, it should cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand to make a wheelchair ramp, something that it seems reasonable that Dickinson could find within their budget. http://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/environmental-safety/build-a-disability-ramp/

Now the Administration and the U.S. Trade Representative have reached a deal with 11 other nations on a new, secretly negotiated, massive so-called "free-trade" agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The public and the press did not have any access to the negotiations, and even Members of Congress had limited access. However, over 500 official corporate “trade advisors” representing Wal-Mart, Haliburton, Dow chemical and others have not only had access to, but also influenced, the negotiations. As the long fought for, recent release of the TPP text proves, the agreement will greatly empower corporations to challenge new consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy, and environmental regulations and have a devastating impact on CT small businesses and local farmers. The TPP would allow foreign corporations to bypass our domestic justice system to sue governments for domestic laws that they consider to undermine their “future profits” through the investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS. CT residents must reserve the right to determine our own consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy, and environmental regulations without the threat of our governments being sued by foreign corporations. Do not surrender our rights to trans-national corporations. Despite massive popular opposition to the TPP (despite media silence) on the part of citizens of all party nations, the Obama administration is trying to bring the TPP up for a vote in Congress within months under the anti-democratic Fast Track procedure. Fast Track legislation, which limits Congressional debate on trade agreements and only allows an up-or-down vote with no amendments, was passed in June 2015 despite no votes from nearly all of the Democratic Congressional Delegation with the notable exception of Jim Himes (4th district). CT residents, like all Americans, are in the fight of our lives to urge Congress to oppose the TPP. We also urge members of the CT Legislative Assembly as well as city and town councils to speak out against the TPP.

I am starting this petition in hopes to spread awareness about Sickle Cell and how it is underfunded. Sickle Cell deserves more attention and I feel that a petition has a wide outreach, gaining awareness and starting a conversation for change is my ultimate goal. Some of the symptoms for Sickle Cell are pain in the limbs, strokes, excessive fatigue, and a weakened immune system. All of those symptoms cause for the life expectancy for a person with Sickle Cell to be under 50 years old. Some people are still simply unaware that they carry the Sickle Cell Disease trait. This must change, and I feel funding and awareness are some of the main ways to combat this disease. I can not do this alone and that is why I am asking for as many signatures I can get. Cystic Fibrosis is a disease very similar to SIckle Cell. 30,000 people suffer from Cystic Fibrosis in the United States and 70,000 Worldwide. In 2015 the NIH reported that Cystic Fibrosis made $80 million meanwhile Sickle Cell made $75 million. Sickle Cell affects more than double the amount of people Cystic Fibrosis does. Even though Sickle Cell is more common the funding and research numbers would not show that. I am an 18 year old Senior at New Haven Academy and am living with Sickle Cell disease; I know first hand the toll it can have on someone and their family. Funding for Sickle Cell can go toward screening for the Sickle Cell trait, more research, and better inpatient and outpatient care. Those are just some of the many things funding for Sickle Cell can do. I personally thank everyone who even takes the time to read this because you too are making a case for change. This petition is not just for me, it is for the hundreds and thousands of patients battling this chronic illness everyday.

I adopted a Chinese baby girl when I was a green card holder. I started her immigration papers after I became a U.S citizen a few years back; the U.S embassy in China denied her green card visa. I then applied for citizenship for her in 2014, and it has been with administrative processing for almost two years. Stop the unnecessary delays / separation and let us be together!

Volkswagen installed "defeat devices" on some 567,000 "clean" diesel cars in the U.S. to avoid emission control laws. These devices are elaborate software that turn on emission controls during testing, and turn them off during regular driving. As a result, these cars can emit as much as 40 times the legal limit of NOx, a major smog-forming pollutant. The Justice Department has been seen as the only agency that might hold executives personally accountable for this wrongdoing. While they have filed a civil suit to levy penalties against the company, they haven't pressed individual criminal charges yet -- so they need to hear from you.

Our older daughter has severe cerebral palsy, and she has seizures. She could benefit from medical marijuana. I have been through cancer treatment. I could benefit from medical marijuana, too, as I still suffer from neuropathy. Governor Rauner just rejected the findings of the Medical Cannibis Advisory Board which is made up of doctors, nurses and patients who know what the benefits could be.

The Cabot project has been in the Schematic Design phase of the MSBA process since August 6, 2015. The project entered this phase with the current design as the preferred design, and the project team has been working on refinements to the design for the past 8 months. The project team has sought and considered input from the school administration, parents, neighbors and organizations such as Safe Routes to School and the Newton Historical Commission throughout this time and has worked in an open and transparent manner. The Cabot School Building Committee voted unanimously, excepting one abstention, to approve the current design on April 5, 2016. The city’s agreement to purchase the property at 23 Parkview Avenue this winter helped in this process by providing the opportunity to improve the traffic flow around the school site. It did not, in any way, offer new options for the placement of portions of the school building. All land that is currently available for siting the school structure has been available to the team throughout the design process. While there has been a request by the Ward 2 City Councilors to explore alternative design options subsequent to the approval of the current design, these options are not new concepts. Moreover, their request stems largely from meetings with a small group of residents outside the public process focusing on the aesthetics of the design that are, by nature, subjective . Re-examining alternative design concepts now, would obstruct the open, collaborative committee process and would result in costly delays to this and other school projects in the city. If this delay and reconsideration is permitted, a precedent would be set for similar obstructions to this project later in the process and/or to future building projects throughout Newton. Additionally, the community’s trust in the honesty and fairness of the building process would be significantly eroded. Residents of Newton want to avoid the type of delays and cost overruns experienced in the Newton North High School project, not repeat them. This is precisely why adhering to the open, public design process and supporting the design approved by the CSBC on April 5, 2016, is so important.