• US AG Intervene! Utah Courts Support Invasion of Privacy
    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.
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    Created by Victoria
  • Bring Back Howard Dean as DNC Chair!
    According to a recent observer.com article. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz has ignored 3 Democratic Congressional Candidates and has chosen to support her Republican Colleagues because she calls them "friends and has to work with them in Congress." The ONLY person who has the ability to remove or appoint the next DNC Chair is the Next Democratic President of the United States.
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    Created by Daniel Sohn
  • CNN must report on poll results without bias or misleading headlines.
    A new CNN poll showed that Sanders had gained 4% since CNN's last poll in November, and Clinton had lost 8%. That totals up to a 12% swing in Sanders' favor, with last night's poll having Clinton up 16% total, 50% to 34% for Bernie Sanders. On CNN's website and television network, they have been hiding the actual poll data by showing "interview results" that have Clinton gaining support after the debate. When CNN got a poll result that showed Bernie Sanders had almost cut Clinton's lead in half, they used data that wasn't even a part of the poll to spin it as great news for Hillary Clinton. Their headline for the poll's article on their website is "CNN poll: Post-debate, voters move to Clinton", their news ticker on TV is only mentioning the "interview results" and not the actual poll results. For more information, you can read this article: http://progressorperil.com/2015/12/24/blatant-clinton-propaganda-from-cnn/
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    Created by Brett Jacobson
  • BLACK COMMUNITY DEMANDS COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT ORDINANCE IN PITTSBURGH, PA
    The Most Liveable City in the United States, Pittsburgh, PA means everyone except the poor and African American residents of the City. Disparity rates are the highest in the country on every level. It is time we as the people begin to fight for our rights. As the City of Pittsburgh concentrates in urban revitalization; with all of the development taking place throughout the City, it is noted that there is no protection of residents' rights within the strategies of re-development. There is no clear plan of economic revitalization for the residents of the most vulnerable populations that reside in the most livable city in the United States, the City of Pittsburgh. With multi millions of dollars planned for development, it is vital that disparity rates be addressed. One critical way to address it is by the creation of a Community Benefits Ordinance for the City of Pittsburgh. This Ordinance or Law will reinforce and set in place contractual binding agreements that requires community participation at all tables when it comes to development dollars, financial packages and tax incentives/abatements created for revitalization of the urban communities, and that our participation is required at all levels and planning stages.
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    Created by Lugenie Beckom
  • Demand Voting Rights in Kentucky!
    If you live in Kentucky, last month you heard some welcome news. If you had a previous felony conviction and served your time you were about to regain your right to vote thanks to an executive order by the outgoing Governor Steve Beshear. That all changed when the new Governor, Matt Bevin, rescinded that executive order, snatching away the promise of restoring the vote. This now means that 140,000 people who are out of prison, living in the community, paying taxes and raising families, remain disfranchised for life. We cannot call on individuals to resume responsibility of citizenship without returning to them their fundamental constitutional rights. One in 5 African Americans in Kentucky have previous convictions, which means that 1 in 5 African Americans in Kentucky are not only unable to vote, but they are also not allowed to serve on a jury or run for office. Preventing individuals from having their voices heard in our democracy, preventing them from representation and the opportunity to represent themselves is a terrible policy. Let Kentucky’s legislators know that - when it comes to democracy - all eyes are on them. When the legislative session starts in January, they have the power to make good on a lost promise; they can act to restore the right to vote for thousands of participating citizens in their state.
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    Created by Common Cause Picture
  • Equal Education: Demand North Carolina to Change the School Curriculum!
    African American drop out rates are increasing and graduation rates are decreasing. African American history is not implemented in the school curriculum. We are taught the prominent leaders are Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, yet we still have little knowledge of these leaders and others. We are taught slavery, and civil rights, but they over shadow all of the contributions that have been made to society by African Americans. America’s youth is growing up ignorant. With little knowledge of African American history we are allowing young black kids to grow up thinking they can’t be anything in life aside from a basketball player or rapper. We are giving them little self-esteem to how much potential they truly have. If only we were taught about the people in our history just like us; growing up in poverty, with little education, who still contribute to this nation.
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    Created by Sierra Moore
  • Make Sheldon Adelson Comply With Israeli Anti-NGO Laws
    An ongoing right-wing campaign in Israel against Israeli human rights groups like B'Tsalem has recently escalated. The Israeli Right is attacking these human rights groups as foreign "plants" [1] because they receive funding from European governments, and right-wing Israeli legislators have proposed to punish Israeli human rights groups that receive foreign government funding. But the restrictions proposed in the Knesset would apply only to human rights groups that receive funding from foreign governments, not to right-wing political groups that receive funding from foreign private sources - like GOP casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. [2] The private U.S. fundraising of the right-wing settler movement, which receives tax-exempt U.S. donations, [3] would not be touched. Urge President Obama and Congress to support U.S. legislation and regulations that would ensure that similar restrictions to whatever is enacted in the Knesset against "foreign funding" of Israeli human rights groups are applied in the U.S. to private U.S. funding of the Israeli Right and the settler movement by signing our petition. References: 1. http://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=15954#.Vnra2d-rSAw 2. http://www.timesofisrael.com/government-bill-would-oblige-ngos-to-declare-foreign-funding/ 3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-us-subsidizing-israeli-settlements/2015/12/21/407c3558-a781-11e5-9b92-dea7cd4b1a4d_story.html
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  • Replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz with Elizabeth Warren as DNC Chair
    During Debbie Wasserman Schultz's tenure as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party has suffered drastic losses at every level of government from state legislatures, governor's offices, and both houses of the U.S. Congress. With the exception of the 2012 presidential election, Democrats have suffered losses which have demonstrated that our party's leadership is weak, feckless, and incompetent. After these losses, Republicans have waged an almost endless war on the progress this country has made over the last century. Wasserman Schultz has sown division in the Democratic Party at a critical moment in the election cycle, and the only remedy is her immediate removal from her position of Charwoman of the DNC. From her decision to have less Democratic debates at any point in history to her decision last week to cut off the Sanders campaign's access to voter files critical to the running of his campaign, she has demonstrated that she does not serve the interests of the Democratic Party as a whole, but rather the interests of the Clinton machine. After these deep divisions within the Democratic Party, it is absolutely essential that we heal said wounds, move forward, and unite as a party. It's critical for us to express whom we wish to run our party. The only leader around whom all Democrats would rally and who would remain impartial for the remainder of the primary season is U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. She has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Democratic principles and would undoubtedly run the Democratic National Committee in a fair, equal, and unbiased manner. She is the leader our party needs during this time of great political turmoil. One would think that the Democratic establishment would learn from the losses in the past elections; however, the Democratic establishment has made clear that its priority in the upcoming election cycle is not to take back either house of Congress, but to continue the Clinton dynasty and line their own pockets with cash from the Clinton machine. Though every electoral loss cannot be laid solely at one person's feet, there is absolutely no doubt that the leadership of the Democratic National Committee under Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be held accountable after such drastic and historic losses at the polls. These losses are but one of many instances which demonstrate that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is no longer qualified to run the Democratic Party. Senator Elizabeth Warren is the only clear choice for real change in the Democratic Party and for the party to take back both houses of Congress. Please sign this petition asking President Obama to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz with Elizabeth Warren as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
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    Created by Ryan Barry
  • Raymond Arrieta: Stop Doing Brown or BlackFace
    Blackface and Brownface have been historically racist practices in the media that have dehumanized black and indigenous people. We live in a time where this should no longer be acceptable. It only further marks our marginalization and lacks a positive representation of us. If Raymond Arrieta really cares for the people he should not be performing in these type of practices.
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    Created by William Garcia
  • Keep the Farley Station Post Office Open!!!
    By closing the local post office, the Postal Service is putting undue hardship on the elderly residents of the surrounding communities. The post office is the heartbeat of the community, it serves a great need in the area, and closing it would go against the whole premise of strengthening communities. Closing a post office marks certain doom for surrounding neighborhoods, and decay of the area. Please do not close our local Farley Station Post Office, located at 3621 NW 16th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73107, we need our post office and the sense of community it creates.
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  • Reschedule The Next Democratic Debate for a Tuesday
    This petition is about correcting an injustice that has been weakening the Democratic Party's brand. Reschedule the next Democratic Debate on a Tuesday, not a three day weekend, not during an NFL playoff game. Hold the Democratic debates on Tuesdays, when people are home and will be able to watch.
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    Created by Jacob Wolf-Saxon
  • Stop KY Governor Matt Bevin from violating LGBT Rights
    Please support the American Civil Liberties Union in this fight for equal rights for all Americans. As stated by the ACLU of Kentucky, "government officials, from the highest to the lowest, have a duty and responsibility to impartially administer the laws that exist, not the laws as they wish them to be.” Thus, not only is this order out of the scope of Governor Bevin's executive authority, but it paves the way for further discrimination against the LGBT community within the state of Kentucky.
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    Created by Colton Mojesky