Our profoundly developmentally/physically disabled children/residents Anthony, Arthur, George, Paula and one additional resident will face a catastrophic future if Brook Street is no longer state funded/operated with the present staff. Also join us in opposing changes to all Connecticut group homes and facilities. These residents need your help - please support them by signing this petition.

The petition is about inhumane heat levels affecting guards and inmates and their families and friends. There'd be less deaths, less health conditions and less turn key in employees. As well as less law suits. If they can keep conditions at a certain temperature in the other seasons why is the summer any different, When this is the most crucial month in Texas.

The gerrymandering of our congressional and legislative districts has led to the creation of "safe" districts for Republican and DFL candidates in Minnesota. This has allowed powerful — sometimes extremist — minorities in both parties to successfully run candidates whose political views are not broadly representative of the districts they intend to represent.

Saving a piece of America that can't be reproduced or made, and once it is gone, it's gone from everyone's life and the children will only read about it online

This petition is about the very damaging impact that recent hateful, bullying political speech has upon our children. I am a mother, grandmother, and professor of education and am very disturbed by the negative effect that many teachers have related regarding the influence this "language of hate" has had upon children's behavior and fear. Demeaning verbal attacks on people with disabilities, physical appearance, religious beliefs, and ethnic and cultural heritage has no place in our society. Our children hear this speech everyday and this language undermines schools' efforts to stop bullying behaviors and create responsible and respectful young citizens. A presidential candidate should be an exemplary role model for our children by using respectful and inclusive language. ENOUGH!!!!

Ronald Reagan, The Republican Party leader's legacy as President should be tried in an international court of law for War Crimes Against Humanity. Republican leaders should face trial as accomplices for the manipulation and corruption of big oil business and politics setting our future generations up for ecological peril and survival.

We all have been traumatized by the events of September 11, 2001. It is time to forgive everyone who was involved in any way in planning, directing and supporting the carrying out of this tragic event. Let the fifteenth anniversary of this event be a celebration of our great Nation's ability to Forgive..

We need MoveOn to create an email campaign to the Senate with its software so that we can directly email our Senators and DEMAND that they cosponsor Bernie Sanders' bill to legalize and regulate cannabis! In order for MoveOn to undertake this action, they require that enough support be shown on a member petition like this one. So please, sign and share so that MoveOn understands that we will support this campaign with strength! We want the DEA out of the way, we want all patients to have the freedom to use whole plant cannabis medicine, we want all adults to be free to use cannabis, we want all of the industrial uses of hemp and hemp seed brought to the market, right here in the US! Track Sanders' bill here - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s2237#

In 2003 a deal was cut between members of the Mayor Daley administration and Redflex Holdings to allow red light cameras in Chicago. Executives from Redflex Holdings have pled guilty and are awaiting sentencing while the insider from the Dept of Transportation was found guilty on all 20 counts. After seeing the tremendous amount of revenue generated from the red light cameras, the Emanuel administration added speed cameras to the program in October 2013. Several studies have been done by independent agencies that have proven that these cameras do not promote public safety and are primarily used as a revenue generator. This program amounts to nothing more than a tax imposed on the citizens of this state.

Sanders wants to debate...Trump said he wanted to, but then changed his mind. So, let's give Sanders the chance... When the media silences Bernie, they silence us all!

Antibiotics are a miracle of modern medicine, and are designed to be given in precise doses, to treat specific illnesses and infections. But once big farming operations discovered that a regular dose of antibiotics promoted rapid growth and prevented disease in their livestock, they started to routinely put lifesaving medicines into the daily feed of healthy animals. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with those animals grow resistant to antibiotics. Already two million people fall ill, and 23,000 people die each year from drug-resistant infections -- and that was before the arrival of mcr-1, a gene carried by bacteria that can resist even our last resort antibiotics. Superbugs aren't taking their time, and neither can we. Call on the FDA to stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms.

An Open Letter to the Members of the Board of Education for the Chappaqua Central School District, We are the parents, relatives, and friends of children with dyslexia who attend school in Chappaqua. These children deserve the same access to all that the Chappaqua Central School District has to offer. However, many of these children aren’t provided with evidence-based instruction. The International Dyslexia Association and National Institutes of Child Health & Human Development define dyslexia as a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition along with poor spelling and decoding abilities. According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity, one in five people has dyslexia. It is the most common learning disability crossing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines. Chappaqua Schools have historically been at the forefront of educational advancement. We call upon the Board to continue to honor this commitment and extend its proactive tradition by specifically addressing the needs of children with dyslexia. We respectfully ask the Board to require schools under its control to: 1. Accurately identify students with dyslexia, a reading disorder, not a reading delay; 2. Use the word dyslexia or reading disorder so that evidence-based instruction and intervention can be provided; 3. Provide a written plan of action specifying evidence-based intervention, frequency, and measurable objectives for all students with dyslexia; and 4. Train at least one reading specialist and one special educator in each of the schools in an Orton Gillingham program (for e.g. PAF - preventing academic failure). These modifications require minimal funding. Moreover, since many children with dyslexia receive services, the modifications ensure effective use of the funds already allocated. We look forward to working together so that children with dyslexia thrive in the Chappaqua schools. Signed,