The Zika virus has officially arrived in the U.S. There are now many confirmed cases of the Zika virus in the Miami area that were contracted by local mosquitoes, not by travel abroad or sexual transmission, and the CDC has issued a travel warning to all pregnant women not to travel to Miami. That is on top of the thousands of U.S. Zika cases contracted or associated with travel to South or Central America. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress left weeks ago for their summer vacations without passing emergency funding for Zika. Outrageous! According to the CDC and other national health officials, we are unprepared for this outbreak and need this funding ASAP for prevention, research, and treatment—including a potential vaccine—of the Zika virus. Enough is enough! We need you to speak out! Write your members of Congress and tell them to come back to Washington, D.C. and pass emergency funding for the prevention and treatment of the Zika virus ASAP!

Puerto Rico's problem is COLONIALISM not debt. The US House of Rep with the Obama adminstration is passing the bill before July 1, 2016. PLEASE speak up!!!

Eastern Michigan University students were hit with a 7.8% tuition increase last year, and with another large tuition increase soon to be approved, privatization will have EMU students paying more for lower quality food. In addition, workers will be hired at low wages with fewer benefits, creating more income inequality. Numerous current employees and students will be at risk for losing their jobs. Given that the operation of dining services currently returns a surplus to the University, and given the satisfaction students have with the services provided, there is no reason to privatize dining services at Eastern Michigan University. There are many reasons to be concerned, however, about the cost and quality of food delivered by outside vendors. Outsourcing in the State of Michigan does not always work out, as was demonstrated when food service for inmates in state prisons was outsourced, with disastrous results. In addition, the firm likely to receive the contract is Chartwells, a subsidiary of Compass Group, a British company. Chartwells took over food service at Oakland University, and this account demonstrates how displeased the students are with Chartwells. “Chartwells confronts food issues,” Oakland Post, March 9, 2015. In addition, according to the Washington Post, students at a high school in Connecticut reported that Chartwells serves “food that sometimes features mold, human hair, dangerously undercooked meats, insects and portion sizes fit for a small, starving child.” “Moldy hot dogs, human hair and other cafeteria nightmares prompt students to boycott school lunches,” Washignton Post, Nov. 5, 2014 The EMU administration has claimed that the justification for this move is due to financial struggles of Eastern Michigan University. But the university’s bond rating remains strong, and EMU has solid cash flows and real reserves. If there are any financial issues at EMU, it is clear that the priorities of the EMU administration are completely misplaced. If money is to be saved, those savings can be achieved by reducing EMU’s bloated administrative budget, and by cutting the $1,000 per student (10% of average tuition) subsidy to athletics.

The recently-signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was negotiated behind closed doors with hundreds of corporate advisors. It would make it easier to offshore good jobs, push down our wages, and undermine essential climate policies, affordable medicines, safe food, human rights & an open Internet. The proposed TPP trade agreement should never pass, and especially not be voted on during the “lame duck” session of Congress after the election — that unique moment in the political calendar when Representatives who have retired or been voted out of office still hold their seats for a short time and political accountability to constituents is at its lowest. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and countless other progressive leaders have announced opposition to a lame duck vote on the TPP. But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has refused to take a position. Her public position will have enormous influence on how other House Democrats vote.

A new proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) considers requiring state and metropolitan transportation organizations to track, measure, and reduce carbon emissions as well as other air pollution from transportation projects. If enacted, this new measure would help increase investment in public transit, expand safe bikeways and pedestrian walkways, relieve traffic congestion, and clean up the air we breathe. But it won't happen without your support. Transportation makes up 31 percent of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and is responsible for about 53,000 premature deaths each year. Reducing emissions from transportation will clean up our air and save lives. We need your help to fix the problem. Tell U.S. DOT you support this rule now.

Jackson Square Partners, of which JPNDC is a lead partner, is seeking community support for its revised Article 80 filing towards the development of Site III in Jackson Square. Demonstrating support from neighbors and business owners is an important step in the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Article 80 approval process. For more information about the Site III development in Jackson Square, contact Giovanny Valencia at [email protected].

Dear Secretary Clinton, The vitality and integrity of constitutional democracies in Latin America should be regarded as a chief concern for the United States as well as the rest of the world. The legitimacy of the impeachment process currently underway against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been persistently questioned by Brazilian and international jurists and intellectuals, sovereign governments, multilateral entities, and Brazilian voters. In addition, many concerns have been raised over the misogyny characterizing this process, and the repercussions this could have on female political leadership and broader questions of social justice in our hemisphere. We urge you to take a stance on this matter, critical to the public trust in our democratic institutions and bilateral relations. As the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, your position on this issue will set the tone for the United States' engagement with the region going forward, and your silence construed as tacit support. Sincerely,

In October, a group of concerned citizens told Karen Keith that we do not want the Juvenile Justice Center in North Tulsa. They found a group of pastors to sign on to the plan to build anyway - against the wishes of the community. Tell the commissioners once and for all, we do not want this type of "economic development" in North Tulsa!

To save innocent children and their families from the legal abuse that the department of human resources and the courts are committing against fit and loveing families by Kidnapping our kids and violating our God given and civil rights in order to collect government funds, services, and child support. Parents need to be aware of the truth so families can protect themselves and raise their children that God blessed them with without interference. To give the people back their God given rights and our Constitutional rights that they have swore to uphold. Stop the abuse of all our children and fight for our Country to be free at last. Our Children's lives and futures are being destroyed everyday for reasons like a human resource employee may not agree with a parenting style, or they may say that they think that it's possible the child is at potential risk of being neglected in the future though there has never been any neglect in the past. This should never be reason to remove a child from their safe fit home and loving family, placed into government foster care where the chances of them being sexually, physically, abused, and or even killed. This is not uncommon in foster care. It happens everyday. Our prison population is made up of 85% of former foster children that live with the devastation of being torn from their families as a child and alienated from their loved ones. It's causes the child much more harm and places them a much higher risk more than doubling their chances of suffering from neglect, abuse, death and in almost all cases as an adult their potential is never met in life. The majority of the unemployed, Homeless, addicts, and violent offenders come from foster care. This is information collected by government statistics yet they are still funding these crimes. Our children are our lives, our futures and the civil rights garenteed to all Americans or God's supreme law and rights should not be a thing of the past. Who are we to judge lest we be judged? Fact Dhr, Cps, and organizations that deal with foster placement are paid to remove children from their parents and lives but they are not paid to leave them in their own homes with their families nor do they get paid to return them. This is a multi-billion dollar business in the United States. U.S children are a higher profitable commodity than crack cocaine and heroin. The demand for this commodity is growing . That means that your child is at high risk of being abducted into state foster care and the majority of children are placed on psychological mind altering black boxed drugs that change the chemical make up in their developing brains. Do not think that it's unlikely that your child and family will become the target of such an unimaginable horrific and devastating tragedy because everyday their is a high demand for kids in order for Dhr to receive funding and create more jobs for their employees. This is not a God send. It is a business making profit off of taking away our future and the greatest God sent gifts we have. This has to stop! This is abuse in every sense at its highest and worst but it will continue as long as we let it. Some where there has got to be a line drawn. Our homes is a good place to start if you care about the safety of your children. Please do the research your self. You will be horrified at what you find. Google medical kidnapping in the U.S or legal kidnapping. Get the facts before your child's life is in the hands of some one who is getting paid to abduct them. Please before another child suffers this devastation stand up and say no more will we let you destroy our family and our lives. You would research someone's past before giving them a loan so research it before giving them your child. The proof is there and all you have to do is google it. Don't let what has been done to my child and countless others happen to yours. Learn your constitutional rights and fight to put an end to child trafficking. God bless us all.

I am a founding member of "Pure Water Alaska" and we oppose the fluoridation of our pristine glacial-fed water supply. Ocean Life is also affected by our "treatments" to the water.

Dental amalgam is 50% Mercury, which is a known neurotoxin that adversely affects human health and the environment. Many people are not only unaware of the alternatives that are available but, more importantly, they are unaware of the harm Mercury causes to their health and the environment.

The Hillsboro School Board recently voted 4 to 3 to prevent the school-based health center at Century High School from providing students with access to contraceptives. There are 4 men and 3 women on the board—can you guess who voted for access to contraception? That's right: all 3 women stood up for women's reproductive health care. This is one of the many reasons why having women leaders in public office matters. It's unacceptable for men to make this health care decision for young women—when they've never known what it's like to be in their position. Tell the Hillsboro School Board: Provide birth control in the school-based health center! In Congress and in Hillsboro, I'll always stand up against attacks on women's health. Despite the national attacks on Planned Parenthood, Oregon has been a leader– we've reduced teen pregnancy rates by 55% between 1988 and 2014 through the expansion of comprehensive age-appropriate and science-based sexual education and access to contraception. This decision from the Hillsboro School Board sets us back and can hurt the future of young women. I'm proud to stand with the three women on the Hillsboro School Board who fought for the young women they serve. It's not the 1950's—we know that refusing to provide contraception to high school students does not stop them from having sex. Sign the petition: Provide access to contraceptives in Hillsboro's school-based health center!