The FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation) is made up of mostly hunters, ranchers, and land developers. Some of the same FWC members who voted for the Bear Hunt in 2015 reportedly bought a Bear Hunting Permit. Thousands of Citizens' Voices were raised in opposition, including avid hunters against the 2015 Hunt, that were ignored. On October 24 and 25th, 2015, in the Two-Day Hunt, 298+ of the Quota of 320 Bears were killed; 38 were lactating mother bears leaving young orphaned cubs behind, too young to be left alone in the woods. One Hunter reportedly bragged about kicking a cub off of its dead Mother. Cubs never drift far from their mother. These cubs stood and watched mom slain and carried off like garbage. Cubs bawling for Mom, filled our woods with horrific sadness; with grief and loss they couldn't understand. Cubs need Mom for food, guidance and protection as they learn from her, for a full 2 years. The bears were protected for 21 years, until 2012, as Endangered Species; after De-listing, it was quick to get them on the 2015 Hunt. The hunt was scheduled to go on for 7 days but closed after 2 days. There were 3,700 permits sold--we only had an estimated 3,000 bears in the entire state. There was corn still in the mouths of some of the bears, which would indicate baiting. They were planning another Bear Hunt in 2016. Because of you- it was stopped! About 100 of us went to the FWC Meeting at Eastpoint, Florida where they made their final decision. We spoke from 8am to 8pm, the fate of our bears was decided on June 22, 2016. We Won! No Florida Black Bear Hunt will take place in 2016! Our Bears are safe for this one year. We must continue to be ready for their decision in 2017. The NRA and Hunters Groups are furious that the FWC ruled in our favor. They will be stronger next year- and we must be as well! The usual- FWC Commissioners-Leisa Priddy and Nick Wiley voted for having another Bear Hunt. After Signing Petition. Please one more request. Write to FWC Commissioners personally. Let them know you are against a 2017 Florida Black Bear Recreational Hunt. That you will not Travel to a State that sponsors Trophy Hunts. Commissioners Ron Bergeron, Bo Rivard, Robert A. Spottswood and Chairman Brian Yablonski. Voted against 2016 Hunt Thank them for allowing our Bears to Live. AlieseP. “Liesa” Priddy, Nick Wiley, Charles W. Roberts 111 voted to have another Bear Hunt. Thank God- they were stopped and there will be No 2016 Bear Hunt! http://myfwc.com/about/commission/commissioners/ The US Forestry is carrying out controlled burns year round, with hundreds of thousands of acres of our Florida's National Forest burned. Bear cubs are born in late winter and early spring. The bears have infant cubs too little to escape these fires. The palmetto berries and oak trees, food for the bears, are being wiped out. The small game, which is food for bears and panthers, are all on Florida's hunt list. Stop the killing of all these forest creatures, they are not consumed as food for any humans. Florida has a hunt list with unlimited year round, no bag limits of raccoon, opossum, coyote, beaver, skunk, nutria, otter, and seasonally unlimited kill of even bobcats. Thank you for signing-and sharing! Click the petition after signing--you can view your comments and others'. It is powerful to see all the citizens from so many countries standing up for our bears. Citizens Against Bear Hunts in Florida, as of July 20th, 2016, 46 countries have signed! Thank you all!! United States, Belgium, Namibia, Montenegro, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, Philippines, Canada, France, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Romania, Netherlands, Italy, India, Finland, Mexico, Cyprus, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Czech Republic, Brazil, Iraq, Mauritius, Bulgaria, Norway, New Zealand, Croatia, Tahiti French Polynesia, Macau, Bermuda, Luxembourg. Syria, Portugal, Turkey, Malaysia, Austria, Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirate, Zimbabwe, and Hungary Together- It was A Great Day for Our Bears in 2016... Thank you for your help! Please continue sharing. Lets make this a Great Day for our Bears in 2017 and every year until the Trophy Bear Hunts in Florida and Trophy Hunts everywhere are stopped! Help Us to continue Sharing this Petition! Email- Tweet and Share on Facebook. Every Earth, Conservation, Animal site you can think of. Our Bears were counting on you in 2016 and you came through- They will Live!! Thank you!!! The Bears will be counting on you again in 2017, we must be twice as prepared, the Bears are counting on us! Florida Residents- please send me an email or fb note. Tell me you will help me in your specific County. We must get Resolutions signed by every one of the 67 Counties in the State of Florida before the 2017 Bear Hunt is called!

Since 2001, public officials have known that drinking water in many Ohio communities is contaminated with C-8, a harmful chemical linked to cancer, ulcerative colitis, and other serious illnesses. How can Gov. Kasich seek the highest office in the country if he can't even protect his own residents from toxic drinking water? Tell Gov. Kasich to filter our drinking water NOW.

We are starting this petition because a lot of times some people aren't punished equally or punished at all for raping someone because of the fact that some sexual assaults aren't considered as rape and the perpetrator isn't punished. We haven't personally been affected by this issue but if it was someone close to us or even us ourselves we would want punishment for the perpetrator.

To help find a solution to decrease the number of child soldiers.

Hydraulic Fracturing or (Fracking) is a method used to drill for Natural Gas. It has been proven that this method of extracting Natural Gas will contaminate underground water sources. Hydraulic Fracturing is proven to be harmful to our water sources. Fracking already occurs in Utah but it needs to stop.

Too many irregularities and instances of electoral fraud as hundreds of thousands of Bernie supporters are disenfranchised of the Constitutional right to vote when they are purged or have had their party affiliation switched so they could not vote in closed Primaries. The Justice Department needs to investigate the DNC and see if the accessed Bernie Sanders voter database (which is within the DNC database) when the system was having problems and the DNC sent a tech to work at Bernie's H.Q.

From Huffington Post: Memo to Curt Schilling: You can delete it from your Facebook page, but that doesn’t mean it’s erased from the Internet. Schilling, the ESPN baseball analyst and former major league pitcher, posted a surprisingly offensive meme on his Facebook page Monday, mocking the transgender community in general, and the lack of access to public bathroom facilities in particular. We won’t be embedding the meme here, but SB Nation’s Outsports took a screenshot before Schilling took it down. http://www.outsports.com/2016/4/19/11461618/curt-schilling-espn-transgender Not content to merely share the meme, Schilling weighed in with a comment: “A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.” Schilling responded to the controversy stirred by the meme in a rambling blog post Tuesday. “I didn’t post that ugly looking picture,” he wrote. “I made a comment about the basic functionality of mens and womens restrooms, period. “And for you people too dense to understand this one very important thing. My opinion, 100% mine, and only mine. I don’t represent anyone but myself here, on facebook, on twitter, anywhere.” It’s a surprising bout of bigotry for Schilling, who was suspended by ESPN in August for posting intolerant comments comparing Muslims to Nazis. After that incident, Schilling claimed he’d changed and acknowledged on Twitter, “this was a bad decision in every way on my part.”

Many working people and families, particularly women and people of color, become disenfranchised when we use a system that requires voters to be privileged enough to spend an entire weekend day just for their voice to be heard. It’s time for change and action, not baby steps and political pragmatism. It’s going to take a political revolution to change it, and it starts with all of us.

This petition is to send a message to the DNC that Hillary is not more electable.

My spouse died in 2015 and neither one of us never married again after we divorced. I have a right to draw his Social Security according to the Bible. I feel like the law needs to be fixed!

My name is Gary and I am starting this petition because I have seen too many of West Virginia’s children fall through the cracks. As a clinical social worker in a public school, I work with students and families who are struggling on a daily basis. In my school, like many West Virginia schools, I encounter students who live in households facing poverty, substance abuse and family breakdown. My students experience toxic stress and trauma that affect their mental and emotional health. When I try to connect my students and their families to community-based mental health services, I find that these services are not available or that my students’ families cannot access existing programs because of long waiting lists for appointments, unreliable transportation or inability to pay. We must do better. Because community-based mental health services are not available in most of West Virginia’s communities, state agencies often troublingly advise parents to file court petitions against their own children in order to get help.. As a result, desperate families seeking help from the court system oftentimes see their child removed from their home and institutionalized in a juvenile facility. A recent U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that West Virginia’s overreliance on institutions causes significant harm to children and their families. Although West Virginia invests very little in community-based mental health services, the state spends millions of tax dollars a year to operate hundreds of beds in private juvenile institutions. A year of residential treatment for one child costs our state as much as $120,000, money that could be used much more successfully in the child’s community to provide psychotherapy and counseling services, intensive outpatient services, crisis stabilization, school-based services, prevention and early intervention. By comparison, a child could see a psychotherapist 5 days a week in their own community for an entire year and it would cost $26,000, nearly $100,000 less than locking up a child in a facility. West Virginia should plan and develop a strong coordinated network of mental and behavioral health care services to reduce the number of children struggling with long-term mental illness. The state must create a comprehensive plan to ensure that those children who are coping with mental health conditions or behavioral disorders are identified early, and have a continuum of care to meet their needs. We need to ensure that families have the resources and support they need to help them navigate raising a child with mental health challenges. As a state, we are paying too much of our limited tax dollars on the back end of the problem. Unsurprisingly, we are experiencing poor outcomes as a result and wasting money on expensive and ineffective methods. Shifting services from institutions back into the community, closer to family, into the school, and earlier in the process would not only save money but will help young people successfully cope with mental health challenges. We must give schools the necessary resources and tools to ensure that children with mental health conditions are able to get a quality education, and ensure that courts utilize community-based alternatives rather than out-of-home placement for at-risk youth. This will have the ripple effect of making healthier and happier friends, classmates and neighbors. Please join me in signing this petition.

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