Last week, the Vermont State Senate passed automatic voter registration with nearly unanimous support. This legislation would make Vermont fourth in the nation to enact such a law. Governor Shumlin needs to hear that you support automatic voter registration, and he should sign it into law. Automatic voter registration, H. 458, could add up to 50,000 voters to the rolls in the next four years. It would strengthen security of our voter database, increase accuracy, save taxpayer dollars, and protect the fundamental right of every eligible citizen to participate in our democracy. It works by allowing the DMV to use information they already collect – age, address and citizenship – to determine if a person is eligible to vote. If eligible, the citizen is added to the voter rolls unless they decline to be registered. Automatic voter registration is already seeing incredible success in Oregon, quadrupling registrations since it was enacted four months ago. We believe that our democracy works best when more people participate, and it's time for Vermont to join the wave of automatic voter registration.

Yes I personally have been affected by this. Geico went from charging me $241 for 6 months of liability to wanting $820 for 6 months because my credit is bad. My driving record is good and I have not been involved in any claims at any time through Geico or any other insurance company. Decent paying jobs are scarce and a lot of us cannot afford to pay these ridiculous premiums based off of nothing more than a credit score

We have a problem - we need a clean energy source to replace the dirty coal power plants that are closing in 2017. Thankfully there is a solution - there is enough offshore wind on our Atlantic coast to power all the homes in Massachusetts. Offshore Wind is a clean energy source that can - Reduce pollution - Increase energy security - Stabilize electric rates - Create thousands of new jobs across the state - Confront the urgent threat of climate change. While there are lots of offshore wind farms in Europe, there are none in the US yet. If we invest first then we will have an advantage in attracting offshore wind jobs. If we wait then New York State will jump on this opportunity and they will have the advantage. We need our state leaders to make sure that Massachusetts is first when it comes to offshore wind! For more information visit - http://www.offshorewindma.com/ http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Renewable-Energy/Offshore-Wind.aspx

The PennEast Pipeline Company is trying to build a massive pipeline through Hunterdon and Mercer counties that will pollute the water supply and scar preserved land. Pipelines put local communities at risk – and to add insult to injury, PennEast may get the power to take private property against land owners’ wills for this project. The good news is that there's massive opposition to the project. Local townships in the pipeline's path, residents across the state, and members of Congress have weighed in, and they’ve managed to delay PennEast's application for seven more months. If we can mobilize state lawmakers to speak up, we can keep the pressure on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and get the attention of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which needs to approve PennEast’s application too. Tell your state legislators to oppose the PennEast Pipeline and urge FERC and DEP to reject the application!

Southwest Airlines claims to operate on the principle of #SouthwestHeart, but when it comes to Muslim and Arab customers, it seems to be #SouthwestHeartless. On April 6th, the airline kicked 26 year old Khairuldeen Makhzoomi off a flight after a customer overheard him speaking Arabic on his phone. Makhzoomi was then subjected to an FBI interrogation—simply for making a phone call to his uncle. On April 13th, a Southwest flight attendant removed Hakima Abdulle, a woman of Somali descent wearing a hijab, from a flight after she tried to switch seats with fellow passengers. These recent cases are just part of a trend of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination by Southwest Airlines—last November, the airline delayed two men from boarding a flight after they had a conversation in Arabic together. That same week, a Southwest pilot removed several Arabic-speaking passengers from a plane after they tried to be seated together. People shouldn't be barred from air travel just for speaking Arabic, being Muslim, or wearing a hijab. It's clear that Southwest needs to make some changes in how it treats its customers. We're calling on them to publicly apologize for discrimination, review their policies, and implement anti-bias training for flight crews.

We took the issue of cybercrime head on in our Global Action Initiative project at Edgecombe Early College High School. Cybercrime is the criminal activity or a crime that involves the internet, computer system, or computer technology. In our world today, there are over 1.5 million victims of cybercrime daily. "To ensure your security online, sign this petition so that we can get our message to the Governor."

This petition is about Rape. I personal have not been affected by it, but I do know people who have been effected by it.

The union security officers protecting hundreds of thousands of fans and employees at Heinz Field lost their jobs with little notice when the Steelers organization fired their employer, U.S. Security and decided to go with a non-union security contractor. The 15 hardworking security officers were given less than a week’s notice and were left without a means to support themselves and their families. Bill Chernosky has been a security officer for 41 years and has been at the stadium for three years. He loved his job and knows Heinz Field inside and out. Now, he doesn’t know how he’ll take care of his car payment, mortgage, insurance, and other bills.

Governor Larry hogan is terrible on marijuana legalization.

I believe in democracy in its purest sense. I am registered as an Independent and should be allowed to vote in the Primary. I should not be required to change my registration just to be given my right to vote; it is un-American!

The right to vote should be seen as a sacred right for all citizens. However, the New York State Board of Elections has purged over 60,000 voters from the rolls in Kings County — the most populous county, which houses Brooklyn — between October and April, just before the New York primary. A voter can be moved from active to inactive status if they have not voted in two consecutive federal elections (or four years). However, only 10,000 voters have been added to the "inactive" list, meaning that over 50,000 voters are unaccounted for. Kings County is one of only seven counties, out of a total of sixty-two, that reported a drop in Democratic voters. As of April 19, no official explanation has been given for why these voters were removed from the rolls. We demand a full, statewide audit of all voter purges across New York. We further demand that the unedited results of the audit be published online for public view.

I am starving to death. I've been teaching as a part timer for ten years with no assurance of employment, benefits I have to pay for, afraid to make a peep or join Cal Strs whenever I don’t know how long I can continue to do this. Retirement looks sketchy at best. I'm 61 years old. Because I got into this "racket" called community college teaching, I am doomed to a subsistence level quality of life. I share custody of a 12-year-old girl. All she sees is this overworked, underpaid, grumbling, disappointed curmudgeon who wonders why he even liked to read and write in the first place. My eyes are going bad from all the bad writing I've had to read. My neck is a mess from all the nights in front of a computer. And for what? I’ve been passed over every year for a tenure track position because I am not a "team PLAYER"--In other words I say it like it is, you can call it all the sour grapes you want but this country is going to the dogs and those ignorant of history (like my students) are doomed to repeat it. You are welcome to the next generation. You think they will suddenly get curious about all the ways their freedoms are being taken away day by day? Rhetorical question? It won’t hit them till they’re in their thirties, still living with their parents, unable to pay off their student loans and worst of all, useless as far as contributing to society. What society? It’s a big gang of owners and we ain’t in the club.