This petition is to underscore the obvious need for white police officers to undergo psychiatric and psychological evaluation and treatment for their unreasonable phobias about Black men, (women), and children. The past four years especially there have been incidents where there was no basis for fear. I am an African American female and am tired of watching the murders by white law enforcers and hearing their same lame justification for murder.

(Scroll down to see petition signers' comments) Please be sure to enter your full name. This matters when we take the list to the State Legislature. Also, Please enter an email address you monitor on occasion so you can get our emails later. After you sign and give an email address, moveon.org will give you the choice to unsubscribe from other petitions or from all petitions including ours. Unsubscribe to the moveon.org petitions, but please consider continuing to receive emails from our petition so we can keep you updated with important information. NOTE: If you wish to help, please send an email to [email protected] . For your protection, the website does not share your email address with us. We are asking for legislators to lead WSDOT to make these changes to the I-405 Express Toll Lanes: 1. Eliminate the need for a FlexPass to be a carpool in the ETL 2. Eliminate all tolling and restore I-405 ETL to standard 2+ carpool lanes. 3. Eliminate the double lines and allow drivers the freedom to enter/exit those lanes as they see the need. 4. Allow all drivers to use the carpool lanes for free during late night hours as it was before. These changes will result in: 1. Increased participation in carpools 2. Better utilization of all 5 lanes of traffic while still meeting performance goals for the Federal funding 3. Improved overall drive times for everyone at all times, regardless of the distance they are traveling, their ability to be a carpool or their ability to pay the toll 4. Increased safety 5. Increased public satisfaction 6. Lower operating costs of the highway

Once again, Wall Street hopes to attach dangerous and widely unpopular deregulation measures to a “must-pass” omnibus spending bill. Lobbyists are telling their allies they’re putting the “pedal to the metal” and going “all out” to get their way. As a part of their frenzied push, they’re also taking cheap shots at Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with ridiculously over-the-top attack ads. The banks know the year-end spending bill is their best shot – so they’re working every angle they can. Don’t let them succeed. Tell your representatives in Washington that they need to stand up for consumers, and for the public, and not let Wall Street take the budget hostage.

I'm starting this petition because I need to show people what happens after a subject line test. And I don't see a way to do that without a live mailing.

It's bad enough that the Export-Import Bank is corporate welfare, crony capitalism supported by Members of Congress in exchange for campaign contributions from the corporations that benefit from this taxpayer-funded subsidy. But now some Members of Congress are trying to attach a provision to the re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank that would promote Israeli settlements in the West Bank [1], which former US peace envoy [2] Martin Indyk has acknowledged are the key obstacle to a diplomatic resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Obama Administration is opposed to Congress passing such pro-settlement provisions. Urge Members of Congress to oppose attaching pro-settlement provisions to re-authorization of the Ex-Im Bank, and to oppose re-authorization of the Ex-Im Bank if pro-settlement provisions are attached, by signing our petition. References: 1. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/export-import-bank-israel-palestinians-216165 2. http://www.timesofisrael.com/indyk-settlement-freeze-would-make-abbas-a-peace-partner-tomorrow/

While Greg Abbott, the Governor of the State of Texas, is busy protecting Texans from terrorists by banning the settlement of any Syrian refugees in our state, thousands of Texans are injured or killed by legally obtained firearms. Until the governor and his administration can guarantee these weapons won't fall into the wrong hands, we feel there should be a ban on all future sales.

Many students are sleep deprived and a designated nap room would solve the dilemma of lack of concentration and enthusiasm due to exhaustion.

Voting rights are under attack – and we desperately need to modernize and restore the Voting Rights Act’s protections against discrimination. But the bipartisan bill to do that, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, is caught in Congressional gridlock. We have a unique opportunity for progress. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is the newly elected Speaker of the House. He’s promised to fix dysfunction in Congress and unite lawmakers in support the essentials -- things every American can agree are important. And what’s more essential than voting? The right to vote is just too important to be a partisan political football. For decades, legislators crossed the aisle in Congress to protect our most fundamental of constitutional rights; we can get there again. Sign your name and tell Speaker Ryan to get it done!

I am quite serious about this and I hope that the following will clarify my choices and concerns: Why Congressman McDermott? First of all, he is my Congressman. In a grander sense, he is also the Congressman of many of those who feel that their elected representative does not speak for them. He has always spoken his mind without fear, often leaving him a lone voice in the wilderness. In short, I think he may be one of the very few members of Congress who would have the courage to introduce this legislation. Why pre-emptive legislation? Yes, the chances are good that legislation of this nature will be circumvented to some degree. But having these limitations already in place will at the very least require that they are acknowledged, even if they are completely evaded. On being interned close to home Ideally, I’d prefer that my concentration camp be within the confines of my Congressional District for a variety of reasons. I know where they sent people last time, and I have no doubt that some pretty grim locations can be found in this state; but at least when I escape, I’ll never be more than a few weeks walk from home. Contemplating the rumors (I wouldn’t argue too much if you were to call them wild and/or unfounded) of massive federal compounds in the Deep South, ready and waiting for an instant influx of hundreds of thousands of residents, is disturbing enough. If we find out they are real, it will only be after their first inhabitants have already been transferred there; in other words, after it’s too late. What would trigger this limitation? When citizens (ideally, residents) are required or coerced to move to a secured location against their will and/or better judgement, and without the due process set out by the Constitution of the United States of America. “Without due process” is when due process is suspended, delayed or denied. The reason given for the mass relocation is immaterial; protecting the internees from the (justifiably) angry general populace is invariably one of the first used. A final caveat, internees will be the only arbiter of their Congressional District or territory of residency.

My piece speaks for itself. No, it's not a petition. It's a fervent desire.

Panhandlers or beggars on street corners cause traffic to be slowed or impeded. Every time a driver stops to give money or other forms of assistance, the normal flow of traffic is disturbed. Making it illegal to do this from your car while on a public street would help curb the problems associated with the panhandlers.

Some of you may know, that in April, Time Warner Cable ran lines into our town but for some reason, are not offering service. I just spoke with the Office of the President of Time Warner Cable to get this issue escalated and hopefully get them in our town so we can get rid of the horrible Frontier Service. She advised in the meantime, anyone who is interested in service to either email the office @ [email protected] or Call 212-364-8300 Option 2. The more people we have contact and would be willing to switch to Time Warner Cable, the faster they will hopefully get the service going in out town! Please share this out so we can tell Frontier to get out of our town!