Children and adults should be able to go to school without fear. Schools are beginning to respond to the gun crisis by putting guns on campus. Stores, sports events and theaters are adding armed guards. More guns are definitely not the answer. We need a prompt and thorough examination of the reasons for, and possible solutions to, the gun violence that is escalating across our nation. The CDC is the perfect entity to investigate and suggest solutions to this problem. They are, after all, the agency charged with dealing with epidemics that kill. We need your help to get Congress and the Senate to withdraw the ban and order the CDC to start investigating this crisis immediately.

On October 5, unelected trade ministers from eleven nations reached a deal with the US on the secretly negotiated so-called "free-trade" agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It would greatly increase corporate rule and decimate democracy by eliminating health, safety, environmental, labor, consumer and privacy regulations, enforcing corporate domination over governments via offshore corporate investor-state tribunals. Despite mainstream media complicity, popular outcry has been huge, nationally and globally, yet our repeated calls to publish the text are ignored. The TPP will come before Congress within months. We are in the fight of our lives to get Congress to oppose the TPP (as well as the equally nefarious TTIP and TISA when they come up. They, too, are being negotiated in secret, and leaks are alarming). Meanwhile, anticipating catastrophe, savvy cities such as Richmond CA are declaring themselves to be TPP/TTIP/TISA Free Zones. National laws take precedence over local laws, so doing so is symbolic. These deals must be stopped!

Do not allow yourselves to be bullied by the NRA's support for continuing the gun range. The Park District has allowed operation for over fifty years of an outdoor Gun Range in Anthony Chabot Regional Park—which is otherwise made up of over five square miles of hills and streams, open space and wildlife habitat, trails and campsites. It provides an experience of nature to the masses of people living near San Francisco Bay—except for the gun noise and lead pollution which often shatter their peace and quiet. Dramatic population growth in the San Francisco area in the last fifty years and the central location of this regional park have led to thousands of people seeking an experience of nature here. They are often cheated out of that experience by the explosive sound of rapid gunfire. The Gun Club lease expiration at the end of this year provides a natural endpoint for operation of the Gun Range. Recent independent professional studies commissioned by the Park District reveal that the buildings and other facilities used by the Gun Range will need to be replaced soon and drainage reconstructed, at a cost of about $1.5 million. This is on top of the cost of complying with current State and Federal environmental regulations and reducing the gunshot noise pollution, which will cost about another $1.6 million. Add the two costs together, and you get over $3 million, and that is not even counting the $2.5 million to $20 million it will cost to remove the lead contamination from the soil. The Park District receives $40,000 net per year from the Gun Club, but if the Gun Range were to continue to operate, required cleanup would cost between $62,000 and $166,000 every year, which would require the taxpayers to subsidize the operation. This is unthinkable. Live up to the Park District’s Mission Statement, which says it will provide open space, parks, trails, safe and healthful recreation and environmental education. Let the many other gun ranges in the San Francisco area meet the need for gun training and practice. Restore this park to the thousands of hikers, horse and bicycle riders, campers and other nature lovers, who need it as a place to retreat into nature, to maintain their quality of life and their sanity–end the Gun Range operation.

In order to be a free man.

We ask that you consider rereleasing seasons 1-4 of The X-Files Blu-ray series in their correctly framed versions in order to preserve the integrity of the original composition.

Former child star Raven Symone used her platform on The View to justify discrimination against people with names she deems too "ghetto" -- a common epithet used to mask discrimination against poor and black people. This kind of discrimination is all too common in the real world. According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, "Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback." This has real consequences. According to NBER, "a white name yields as many more callbacks as an additional eight years of experience." This type of bias, whether implicit or explicit, unfairly disadvantages black applicants, even when their experience is exactly the same as white applicants. Name discrimination isn't limited to jobs -- name discrimination is also a significant factor in housing. No one should have to change their name in order to have a fair shot at finding a job or a home! It doesn't matter that Raven-Symone is black -- no one should have a national platform to advocate anti-black racist practices. If anything, that Raven-Symone is black actually makes matters worse -- it makes it easier for people in positions of power to self-justify imposing anti-black bias in their decisions because a famous black person said that this kind of bias is ok. ABC must fire Raven Symone today.

US military forces were responsible for the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders [MSF] hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Twelve humanitarians were killed while they worked; ten patients died in their hospital beds, including three children. US bombing of the hospital persisted, despite the fact that Doctors Without Borders notified the government of its location and the ongoing attack on the hospital. Cooperating with a thorough civilian-led investigation conducted by the UN or other independent body would communicate to the world that the US is committed to the transparency and accountability required to ensure such a catastrophic event does not happen again. The Pentagon’s changing stories in the wake of the disaster have undermined international confidence in the ability of the Pentagon to conduct a meaningful investigation. Urge Congress and the Administration to support the Ellison-McGovern-Lee-Grijalva call for a civilian-led independent investigation by signing our petition.

My daughter, Carla Juanita Carrington, was killed by a gun on August 17th, 1988. After 27 years of my grief, in 2015 we need the gun legislation to change. I have cried for every family and city in the country as I did when my Carla was killed. We all need to stand together and change the gun laws now!!!! Guns are without power without the ammunition. This is why barcoding is so important.

The Old Law Prisoners are being held unnecessarily after long periods of confinement. It's wrong to the previous offender and costly to the taxpayers, and they're long overdue for release.

This petition was started to counteract a recent re-zoning that will allow 6-story, high-density structures in an area of predominantly 3- to 4-story, low-density buildings. NCT has already changed one development proposal from 16 to 66 units, and encouraged another for 158 new apartments, all within a three-block radius. With NCT in place, there's no reason to expect that there won't be more.

My son Jamar was murdered August 21,2010. Jamar left his family very greived.Jamar will never get to see his children become adults. As a Mother who has lost a child to gun violence here in South Carolina, where there are other Mothers who have also lost their children to violent crimes that would love to see things change in our communities.

BECAUSE I WANT BIAFRA TO COME AS A SOVEREIGN STATE.