The Indiana state legislature just passed a bill that attempts to strip away women's constitutionally protected right to safe and legal choices when it comes to what they can do with their own bodies. HB 1337 is the most dangerous anti-choice legislation this country has ever seen, and we must urge Governor Mike Pence to veto this unconstitutional bill. HB 1337 could be signed into law any day now, but we cannot allow states to continue to perpetuate the war on women by chipping away at their rights. Please join me in urging the state of Indiana to leave women's choices about what to do with their own bodies to WOMEN.

Thousands of local soccer-playing children in Annapolis, Maryland, many of whom are low-income minorities, are being denied equal access to modern, new, recreation and athletics facilities in publicly-owned parks located in their neighborhoods because of favoritism and cronyism on the part of the Director of Recreation and Parks, Rick Anthony. Mr. Anthony and his staff consistently award preferential access to the newest and most modern park facilities to elite groups from outside our town, who shouldn't even be permitted to use the facilities, and they deny equal access to the local residents. Elite travel teams from outside our town are being awarded most of the access to modern, newly constructed, recreation and athletics facilities in publicly owned parks in our town, while local children, many of whom are low-income minorities, are being relegated to inferior, poorly maintained, mostly dirt and stone fields that are not safe places to play. Mr. Anthony and his staff do not even follow the department's own adopted and published guidelines and policies. They violate the county's own guidelines and policies to make exceptions for a privileged group. They consistently make exceptions for one particular elite travel soccer group that seems to have Mr. Anthony's ear. Stop the conflicts of interest. Stop the insider deals. This must be stopped. Fair and equal access for the local residents must be restored.

The City of Eugene has been criminalizing our homeless community members for years and continues to do so at great cost. People have been arrested for violating no trespassing signs when sheltering themselves from the weather. Their RV's in which they live have been impounded along with all the belongings in them. They have been giving out violations and tickets for "illegal" camping and yet the City has not put the necessary effort needed into providing adequate shelter. In fact they have been doing things to make it even more challenging for people to self-shelter, such as constructing fences. Fences were constructed by the City (Parks and Open Space) under the overpass near 1st and Jefferson, near Washington Jefferson Park with a budget of $67,000. They were built in addition to the fences that were previously constructed in the park. Instead of using that money to come up with a solution to people having to live without shelter, they are using it to push people out of spaces that provide some shelter from the rain as well as a safer place to sleep. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists all of our human rights, including the right to housing. The City is not only in violation of this human right, but is also exacerbating this violation by not allowing people to self-shelter themselves. Recently the U.S. Department of Justice issued a brief in a court case that said punishing people who are sleeping outside when there are insufficient numbers of shelter beds being provided is a violation of the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and thus "cruel and unusual punishment. Preventing people from accessing a place to self-shelter it seems is equally a violation. There are plans for more fencing to be constructed in other areas as well, which means more of our taxpayers' money being used to do so. Please tell the City of Eugene, to remove any and all fences already constructed and to stop plans of any future fence construction as well.

We need to vet our presidential nominees. The Trump University trial is supposed to last well into the next president's first term. We can't have a president who is guilty of fraud, and we can't wait until he's in office to find out.

The Porter Ranch gas leak exposed just how dangerous fracked gas and infrastructure can be, as the gas blowout forced 15,000 residents out of their homes for four months due to health concerns. We have the ability to transition to real clean energy and ensure a future of climate resiliency, good green jobs and healthy communities, but we need L.A. Mayor Garcetti and the L.A. City Council to get on board.

Curious to see just what level of support there is for Jews in Europe. Jews remain the one group most vilified around the world regardless of their positive contribution to society. #Putin offers Russia refuge to European #Jews facing anti-Semitism http://on.rt.com/7299

Because of Donald Trump, violence continues to escalate in the United States, dividing our nation of many different races, creeds, colors and religions, against each other. This is the "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and Donald Trump is creating a "Divided States of America" through speeches aimed to invoke rage, anger and violent actions.

Ann Coulter’s grotesque and toxic commentary has reached a new low. After a Donald Trump rally was shut down by protesters in Chicago, Ann Coulter took to Twitter to further embolden Trump supporters by asking them to instill “more violence” against the peaceful demonstrators. So far, Twitter has refused to act on Ann Coulter’s violent call to action despite dozens of reported incidents where Trump supporters retaliated against minorities and protesters. By allowing Ann Coulter to use their platform to promote acts of violence against peaceful protesters, Twitter is validating and even enabling violent acts by Trump supporters. As a verified Twitter user, Ann Coulter’s words carry significant weight and should be taken seriously. Twitter should ban Ann Coulter for her attempt to encourage acts of violence against demonstrators at Donald Trump rallies. Tell Twitter to ban Ann Coulter for promoting violence and abusive behavior against Donald Trump protesters.

It is deeply troubling the way the DNC has been treating anti-establishment candidates this cycle. They need to stick to their name and values. Be Democratic and foster democracy.

The Green Meadow Elementary School's playground has drainage problems so our children cannot play on it for much of the school year, and it is not accessible to children with disabilities. The taxpayers in Maynard have already set aside funds to improve recreation opportunities in town through the Community Preservation Act. We need full funding to move forward with the construction phase of this project.

California Penal Code 404.6 PC defines the crime of "incitement to riot." One commits this crime if, intending to cause a riot, he urges other people to: engage in rioting, commit acts of force or violence, OR burn or destroy property1 To commit this crime, the defendant himself does not actually need to engage in rioting or violence. Urging others to do so is sufficient. Nor is it necessary that the "incitement" actually cause these other people to riot, commit violence or burn or destroy. All that's necessary is that the accused was trying to instigate these things Incitement was an offence under the common law of England and Wales. It was an inchoate offence.[1] It consisted of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/11/could-donald-trump-be-held-legally-responsible-for-inciting-violence-at-his-rallies/ "On Aug. 11 of last year, Donald Trump reacted to an incident in which Black Lives Matter protesters seized a microphone from Bernie Sanders. "That will never happen with me," he said. "I don't know if I'll do the fighting myself, or if other people will. It was a disgrace." On Oct. 23, a Trump rally in Miami was consistently interrupted by protesters. Trump explained his strategy to the crowd. "See the first group, I was nice. Oh, take your time. The second group, I was pretty nice," he said. "The third group, I'll be a little more violent. And the fourth group, I'll say get the hell out of here!" On Nov. 22, Trump responded to an incident in which a protester was roughed up by people at a rally. "Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said. "I have a lot of fans, and they were not happy about it. And this was a very obnoxious guy who was a trouble-maker who was looking to make trouble." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-donald-trump-history-violence-protesters-article-1.2561656?utm_content=buffer378fe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

Fracking is a type of drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids — a mixture of chemicals, water and sand — into a well to create pressure that cracks open rock underground, releasing natural gas or oil. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health. The fugitive methane pollution from the hydrofracturing process is accelerating global warming. On a national scale, a growing body of scientific evidence is building that the climate benefits of switching from coal to natural gas were a total mirage, with the catastrophic Porter Ranch methane blowout the most visible and extreme example of a nationwide surge in methane leakage as a result of the domestic fracking boom promoted by the Bush and Obama administrations. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a twenty-year timespan. Fracking threatens our air and water. The toxic results of using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas have led to the contamination of drinking water, and disposal of wastewater from fracking causes earthquakes. Oklahoma became the number one place for earthquakes on Earth this year because gas companies inject fracking fluid back into the ground. Toxic and carcinogenic fracking chemicals—as well as hazardous working conditions—are poisoning and killing workers in the fracking industry. Fracking is a large-scale industrial process that doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard or deserve exemption from laws that protect the health of our children and of our workers. That’s why communities all over the country from New York to California and Texas to Colorado have stood up to the oil and gas industry and said they don’t want fracking in their backyards. We have clean energy solutions to climate change, and fracking is not one of them.