This is a change that is long overdue. Many indigenous people have already made the holiday their own. Changing consciousness requires changes in syntax.

In the wake of the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College last week, communities around the country are coming together to demand a ban on gun shows at their local fairgrounds and convention centers. Will you join with these members and call on the Ventura City Council to ban gun shows at the Ventura County Fairgrounds?

40-50 members of the Freedom Caucus are threatening to Shut Down the government if their legislative agenda is not enacted by the new Speaker of the House and the US Government. Basic Democracy is being threatened and held hostage. It's time to show the Tea Party how democracy works. "Free the House from the Freedom Caucus" today. Have MoveOn.org begin running ads in every Tea Party district announcing a national campaign to RECALL every Freedom Caucus GOP member.

Prison is not the answer to all crimes. M11 was voted into law to impose longer and stricter sentencing for violent and repeat felons in prison. First-time offenders with no criminal background are being given the same sentencing as repeat and violent felons. Measure 11 in Oregon has turned into a "one strike, you're out" state. Oregonians spend over $200 million a year to house first-time offenders in prisons throughout Oregon. This measure needs to be reformed to not include first-time offenders and get the power of the court room back into the judges' hands.

SanGolden has served his time for the robbery he committed 16 years ago. No one was hurt - he has learned the gravity of his act and has been a model prisoner. It seems he is only kept in for revenge purposes. But we are a changing society and know that revenge only does not work. His family is suffering greatly with his absence, as is our whole society because overcrowding in our prisons and no resources for training and treatment for prisoners now coming in makes everything less safe. The DOC has left its rehabilitative mission and we want that to change. Start the process toward sanity by releasing SanGolden Gilbert. .

In 2012, the I-94 Panera Bakers voted to have the BCTGM union represent us. The NLRB has certified us many times, yet the company still refuses to negotiate a contract. Due to this inability to negotiate, we have an unfair pay scale, no acknowledgement of seniority, a third shift work schedule with variable days off and no shift differential. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/16/panera-bakers-union_n_2688639.html

To convince the opponents of this Act that it is a civil right to have the CHOICE to end suffering if given a terminal diagnosis of less than six months to live.

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.

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