Support this city-wide initiative to address the lack of economic opportunities in low income communities, even with multi-millions of dollars being spent on development. We must fight the disparity rates in the City of Pittsburgh, and this is a equity tool that can do just that. Please sign your name or your organization's name for endorsing this Initiative.

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are ready to use the full power of the law and the courts to protect grizzly bears. We will be submitting legal comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding their proposal, but we need your help! Please join us before the comment deadline on May 10, 2016 by signing this petition and adding your comments to USFWS that you want grizzlies to fully recover as a natural and integral part of our landscape.

Bernie Sanders won the Maine Democratic caucus by a whopping 64 to 36 margin. And yet because of super delegates, Secretary Clinton could end up with almost exactly the same number of Maine delegates as Bernie. That's just not right. As a Maine Democrat and state representative, I'm proposing an amendment that will be offered at the party convention to reform the super delegate process to ensure that delegates are allocated in line with the popular vote.

I sent a letter to Debbie Wasserman Schultz requesting a series of debates across the district on the issues that matter most to working Americans, seniors, women, college students, and more. It is my sincere belief that debate is the cornerstone of our democracy, and that the voters deserve a fair opportunity to hear from our opponent and myself. I don’t know if Debbie Wasserman Schultz will agree to this challenge — her record on the presidential debate scheduling suggests someone who is uninterested in a healthy exchange of ideas within our party — but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. If you agree, add your name to our petition right now calling for a series of debates between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and myself over the next few months of this campaign.

To help bring back an actual democracy to the United States.

The bear hunt of 2015 was opposed by 75% of the state based on email responses and public media polls. Since then public media polls are up to 92% in opposition to the hunt. FWC is still contemplating another hunt and we, the citizens, would like to gain representation through our counties to demonstrate our opposition to the hunt and influence the FWC commissioners to opt against any future hunt.

Microsoft – a self-proclaimed leader in diversity – is planning to give the Trump-led RNC at least $500,000! Not only that, but they’re planning to provide the Trump-led RNC with all of its tech support needs for free. Trump, who's suggesting his supporters riot if he doesn't win the Republican nomination, has been running a campaign built on violent rhetoric, racially charged imagery, and paranoid conspiracy theories. Just last month, he offered to pay the legal fees for a supporter of his who sucker-punched a peaceful Black protester. And last week, a teenage girl was pepper-sprayed while being a called ‘n**ger lover’ by a Trump supporter at his rally. Microsoft has a history-making choice right now. Once they start writing checks, they are committing to support the platform of someone threatening riots at the convention. After hundreds of thousands of you demanded action, Coca-Cola announced it is terminating its financial sponsorship of the RNC – now it's time for Microsoft to follow suit and dump Trump.

This technology will be needed to fight malnutrition in a population of people expected to reach 9 billion. There are no risks that don't also apply to other breeding methods, and biotechnology should not be stigmatized.

The Panama Papers [1] has highlighted how Panama encourages the formation of anonymous "shell corporations" that help rich people and corporations avoid taxes and help criminals and terrorists launder money. But the leak has also highlighted how that tax evasion and money laundering was facilitated by the Panama trade agreement that Congress approved in 2011 after the Obama Administration, including then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pushed for its approval. The State Department was aware of warnings from watchdog groups [2] that the Panama trade agreement would make it harder for the U.S. to crack down on tax evasion. [3] In his opposition to the agreement at the time, Sen. Sanders said on the Senate floor, “Panama is a world leader when it comes to allowing wealthy Americans and large corporations to evade US taxes by stashing their cash in offshore tax havens. And the Panama free trade agreement would make this bad situation much worse.” [4] There will be a Democratic debate in New York on April 14; CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash and NY1's Errol Louis will be moderators. [5] Urge Blitzer, Bash and Louis to ask about the Panama Papers, tax evasion, and U.S. trade policy by signing our petition. References: 1. https://panamapapers.icij.org/ 2. http://www.citizen.org/documents/PanamaTaxEvasionReportApril2009-FINAL.pdf 3. http://www.ibtimes.com/panama-papers-obama-clinton-pushed-trade-deal-amid-warnings-it-would-make-money-2348076 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrsI0Sw2hq8 5. http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/04/politics/democratic-debate-brooklyn/

These two West Virginia county clerks could be the next Kim Davises of voting rights. Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick and Cabell County Clerk Karen Cole have rejected at least 1,300 online voter registrations. Now, would-be voters have to sign paper affidavits and snail mail them back -- defeating the entire purpose of online registration. McCormick and Cole say they're worried about fraud, -- but online voter registration is actually much safer than the old-fashioned way. In a Pew study, officials in seven states that've tried it "highlighted reduced opportunities for fraud as a major benefit of online voter registration." And since anyone who fakes their online registration can forge a signature too, these clerks aren't even making the process safer. They're just wasting time that potential voters don't have -- since anyone who wants to vote in the state's primary election needs to be registered by April 19th. We can't let these self-proclaimed voting vigilantes disenfranchise eligible voters with needless bureaucratic obstacles. West Virginia's online voter registration system is a huge step forward for voters that these clerks should be cheering as public officials. Sign your name and tell them their job is to make it easier -- not harder -- for Americans to make themselves heard at the polls.

Because people I know are not able to afford health insurance and are penalized on their Federal taxes and they fall into the hole where they do not qualify for Medicaid. These are good, hard-working people who are at risk in case of illness.

The community of Mt. Pleasant will lose almost 10 acres of beautiful, open and recreational space because the Trident Academy property has been sold to a developer who plans to construct 19 homes starting this fall. We must insist that our town government follow through on its promise to protect and preserve open/recreational space by recognizing the immense quality-of-life benefits this property provides our families. We urge them to vote against its re-zoning and purchase it for the town.