Big corporations and their five best friends on the Supreme Court have teamed up to take away your ability to seek justice for yourself and your family, fight corporate abuse of consumers and workers, and join with others to pursue equal justice under law. The issue is forced arbitration and, whether you know it or not, you have already been victimized. Buried in everyday agreements for products, services, and jobs is fine print saying when you are harmed, you can’t go before an impartial jury or judge. Instead, these forced arbitration clauses send you to a decision-maker picked by the company that wronged you. Not surprisingly, one study found that arbitrators rule for companies over consumers 94 percent of the time. And you’re stuck with their decision because there’s no appeal. It’s a rigged system that helps companies evade responsibility for violating anti-discrimination, consumer protection, and public health laws. There is a bill in Congress called the Arbitration Fairness Act that will end the insidious practice of corporations forcing consumers and workers against their will to surrender their ability to seek justice in the courts. Sign the petition to let your representatives know that rigging the system to protect corporations from the consequences of their bad behavior must stop!

Community Housing Partnership believes that people who are in supportive housing have the right to jobs, housing, and a better future. Obtaining a higher education is a pathway out of poverty for many. Yet current IRS regulations are a barrier to full-time study if you live in Supportive Housing.

THE COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ACTION IS CLOSED However, you can still sign this petition to express your support for this issue. It only took a few sentences on page 1,865 of the massive 2016 budget bill to repeal a decades-old ban on domestic crude oil export. This move will lead to more drilling, more climate-disrupting emissions, and more reckless transport of oil. The oil industry has set its sights on the Pacific Northwest as a gateway for transporting more and more crude oil, and we’re fighting its plans on several fronts at once. Tesoro-Savage’s unprecedented and reckless proposal for an oil terminal in Vancouver, WA has drawn broad opposition, with Columbia River Tribes, a local longshoremen’s union, firefighters, business leaders, health professionals, climate activists, neighborhood associations, faith leaders, the City of Portland, the City of Vancouver itself, and a clear majority of local voters already speaking against it. By itself, Tesoro-Savage’s proposed facility would ship over 360,000 barrels of crude oil per day—almost half as much as the Keystone XL Pipeline. This “pipeline on rails” would bring four or more mile-long trains carrying explosive crude oil across western states, through Spokane, along the Columbia River, and into Vancouver every day. We must stop it. When these oil trains derail, they can spill, explode and ignite. We’ve already seen these devastating accidents across North America. When oil tankers crash and spill, fish and wildlife die, the harm lasts for decades, tribal economies and cultures suffer, and local river and fishing jobs are lost. Let’s work together to make sure this doesn’t happen. Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council just released its draft environmental review. Comment now to make sure this project—the largest oil-by-rail terminal proposed in North America—is rejected.

Early Saturday morning, Chicago police were called to respond to a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex. Police shot through an unopened door and killed Ms. Bettie Jones -- who died from a gunshot wound to the neck [1]. Officers then turned their weapons onto a young man suffering from mental illness holding a baseball bat, 19-year-old Quintonio Legrier. The officer's identity has not been released and he has been placed on administrative duties for 30 days. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced that the murder will be investigated by the Independent Police Review Authority. But this is not enough. From Rekia Boyd to Laqun McDonald, the violence perpetuated at the hands of the Chicago Police Department continues to claim the lives of Black women and men living in Chicago, and that violence continues to go unchecked by city leaders and officials. The Chicago police were called in order to help with a domestic disturbance. However, instead of providing help to those in need, Chicago police exercised excessive violence and claimed two more Black lives. Recent cases and released videos show a culture of excessive force and a 'shoot first and cover it up' culture within Chicago's police department. They are killing people, mostly Black people whether or not those people cooperate. The state's attorney and mayor's offices seem determined to assist officers that abuse and murder the very citizens they are sworn to protect and serve. We are demanding more than a full and transparent investigation into the murders of Bettie Jones and Quintonio Legrier. We are demanding authentic justice. The entire Chicago Police Department needs to be changed, from the racist, unjust policies to the people who enforce them. Bettie Jones was a member of Action Now and we will not rest until she gets justice. References "Chicago Cop Shoots Dead Teen, 55-Year-Old Woman" The Huffington Post, 12-26-2015 http://huff.to/1JBYAAh

The state of Michigan has been taking over cities that become to a "state of emergency" financially for years. The newly-elected city of Flint mayor Karen Weaver requested a declaration of a state of emergency in Flint, a status that if granted would empower city officials to help secure mutual aid and tap into critical, additional resources and assistance from local, state, and federal agencies. We need your help.

The simple fact that the people should have the sole power to elect our representatives for both legislative and executive branches invalidates the need for super delegates and an electoral college. Only the popular vote should count and as of right now with those systems in place our votes don't technically matter. It is time for that to change.

The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better! We need a newspaper that serves the public good and not its own political agenda. The New Britain Herald and Bristol Press is nothing more than fake journalism that systematically fails to find and seek the truth, that isn't fair and balanced, that plagiarizes, and that's in the pocket of the right wing conservative elite. We deserve a newspaper that serves the community and not one that serves Michael E. Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson!

There has been silence from Congress since 2000 and 2004 when the election counts were hacked and changed. Elections were stolen from the voters. A wise person or persons in Congress must stand up and work to get hand counted ballots in every state. 43 states have voting machines that are over 10 years old, near the end of the life cycles, and could cause long lines and lost votes.

Trying to eat on $16.00 in food stamps is impossible for children, seniors, and all. Let's do something about this crisis.

ABC, NBC, CBS & CNN are engaged in rigging the Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton and obstructing Bernie Sanders. Limiting coverage of Bernie Sanders and the grassroots movement of millions of supporters is violation of "Equal Time Rule", "Public Need to Know" and "Censorship of the People". The pattern to ignore, downplay and mis-characterize Sanders' positions is an attempt to manipulate pubic opinion with intent to subvert the Democratic process. As American citizens, we have the right to a fair election process and for our voices, which number in millions, to be heard.

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To the Office of Civil Rights, Special Litigation, US Department of Justice When it comes to one black woman in Utah, Utah courts intentionally neglect precedence or misinterpret the facts to coerce an outcome on an that immunizes the white, elite of a religious organization and others at the expense of the law. Precedence on Invasion of Privacy Torts is clear -The courts have traditionally investigated this questions in 4 or less steps as necessary. In the case the litigant demanded remedies under 3 of the 4 aspects of the tort, namely: 1. Intrusion of Seclusion 2. False Light 3. Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Facts but Utah 3rd District Court chose to lump all the three aspects of the tort under one claim of Defamation instead of testing and discharging all the different categories as they have done in other cases. In applying this standard, the court must construe all facts and reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. In Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 1356, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986) the I am the person involved in the Invasion of Privacy case that Utah courts failed to view in the light of the case I cite above. Regarding the background information of the case: I requested my daughter's ( then a minor) medical files from Dr. McDonough, who instead of giving the files to me, chose to give them to Bishop Reese of the LDS Holladay 4th Ward. I was very upset about this situation and when I protested the bishop's actions, Kirton & McConkie, an LDS law firm, wrote me a letter that barred me from the Mormon Church property. This letter contained a threat to have me arrested if I did not follow the orders in it. In addition to the order to stay away from the church property, the letter also instructed me to take medication, get counseling and be reviewed by Bishop Poulsen, who would decide whether or when to lift the ban after he had conferred with the law firm. This medication the law firm was instructing me to take was Lamictal, prescribed to me by an IHC Nurse Clinician;this was a major misdiagnosis whose prescription had horrible side effects. A few years later, Dr DeCaria successfully diagnosed me with PTSD--brought about by a traumatic war and violence in Southern Africa--and said no medication was necessary for my condition. I filed a 3-prong Invasion of Privacy claim and you can follow it here with the documents that I filed with the various courts: I initially filed this case in the Federal District Court where the court decided they would not hear the case or exercise what they termed "supplemental jurisdiction". I then filed the case in the Third District Court where the court lumped all the 3 parts of the case under "Defamation". It was Kirton & McConkey attorneys who decided that the entire Invasion of Privacy Claim be lumped under "Defamation". I disagree. Defendants, Kirton & McConkey included, obtained my family's private medical files from the health practitioners without my permission. This is a claim on its own. Then they brought this information to publicity. This is another aspect of the claim. The ultimate result of their unlawful activity was to present me in poor light. That is the third aspect of this tort claim. After the Third District dismissed the case under "Defamation", I requested a hearing in The Utah Court of Appeals to be heard on my claim as I had filed it under 3 prongs. This court returned the case to the lower court where I have requested a hearing over ten times without a response. All I am asking for is a simple hearing. The US courts as well as Utah Courts have a clear history on this type of a tort case, but they are choosing not to follow the rules. Miscategorizing this case in order to immune Mormon and IHC officials involved in this case is not justice. I demand that this case be opened and those who broke the law face justice. Religion and State must be separate in Utah or injustices continue to protect religious duties.