• All Lives Matter!
    I've been seeing too many lives being taken by police for something so small or for nothing at all. Sandra Bland's case in particular is my motivation for this movement. I want justice for not only her but for all the others who lost their lives and their voices weren't heard. They will be heard now with the help of American citizens who care, who want to see a change, who want to feel safe; being protected by police and not in danger when they get pulled over for something, or stopped on the street by a cop. Things should change, and if enough people care, THINGS WILL CHANGE!
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    Created by Jasmine Acosta
  • Sandra Bland's Full complete autopsy
    The autopsy of Sandra Bland was incomplete. We need to prove that it was murder. WThe District Attorney of Waller County said the autopsy was incomplete although Sandra Bland was released to her family. There is suspicion that Sandra Brown was murdered and there is a cover-up. Another autopsy has been done and we believe an independent autopsy is needed ASAP. Here's what Donald Mersel wrote about it: To Get Justice for Sandra Bland.
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    Created by Pastor AL
  • Black Women Have Rights
    FIRE Brian Encinia, Texas State Ranger, who arrested Sandra Bland because of her attitude. Black women have a right to question mistreatment, especially when conducted by the state. Encinia couldn't handle that. Texas doesn't need someone who cannot deal with assertive citiens, especially if they are Black and female.
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    Created by Mrs. Harris
  • Abuse reform bill
    I am a victim of domestic abuse. My brother has made a life for himself while physically abusing me and verbally abusing me as well. My life is not at all how I planned it as a small child and i want justice foe the years of pure hell that he put me through. my brother has a big house and a car and all these nice things yet he is an abusive jerk who still gets away with it. and holds my family hostage. many people like me have been through pure hell and have nothing to show for the torture our abusers put us through and pure abusers have money and cars and houses and good jobs that we don't have and we still are stuck. Let's take their jobs and car and houses from them.
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    Created by brian maldonado
  • DePaul Stadium Naming Rights
    In light of the budget crisis in Chicago, we feel it is reasonable to ask for a portion of the money made on this stadium deal to be given back to Chicago Public Schools to help fund our students' education so that someday they will be able to get into a wonderful University, such as DePaul.
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    Created by Erika Wozniak
  • Congressional Reform Act of 2015
    1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present, and future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/15. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work.
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    Created by Lise Brown
  • Banned the use of the N-word
    Certain words on Facebook such as Faggot has been banned because it may promote hate and seen as offensive even if it's between two friends. The word N****r and its variation should be banned for the same reasons. Even with today's hip hop culture throwing the word around like its nothing, it is still offensive and derives from hate.
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    Created by ICisco
  • Defend Planned Parenthood
    Remember the people who dressed up as a pimp and a whore to try to wrongfully entrap ACORN a number of years ago and also did a parallel sting on Planned Parenthood? The SAME basic people are behind the elaborate multi-year sting operation which surfaced the other day as a deceptively edited video that so many Republican presidential contenders are going all demagogue about. The costumed entrappers were lucky to have been granted immunity from prosecution for their various illegal recordings before. And we hear the Justice Department is not taking these new incidents lightly.
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    Created by Ron Mills
  • Delete Carted off social media
    He has been let off too easily by the law.
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    Created by Alana
  • To Health Workers and Academics About Alcoholics Anonymous
    I care about this issue because AA is not what it appears to be. It sooner or later fails for 95% of the people who try it. AA and NA also foster cultures of sexual and emotional abuse. Part of the problem with the misconstruction of AA and 12 Step Program in the larger culture is that AA misrepresents itself to the media and also to newer members. However, all those that understand 12 Step Program know that AA in particular is based on a very literal interpretation of its texts. This is especially true for what is known as the Big Book. Thus, working the “steps” means following verbatim directions laid out in this text. This methodology is more religious than scientific, and is more cult-like even than religious. True, at times AA espouses most if not all of the various Christian virtues. However, the core principal of the Step program is forcing the “alcoholic/addict” to realize that any pain the “alcoholic/addict” has ever felt is the “alcoholic/addict’s” own fault. While this idea runs throughout the steps, it is most obviously presented on p.62 "Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt" (p.62). If this idea were applied carefully and with exceptions, it might be a reasonable code of ethics--assuming that one considers being void of “self” a useful therapeutic objective. However, the use of “invariably" serves as a universal endorsement of abuse, not for a therapeutic coming to terms with the past. Thus, at the most obvious level anyone who enters AA with trauma, abuse, especially sexual trauma and childhood abuse, is almost certainly going to be further traumatized in AA and NA. Those that do well in AA tend to be narcissist abusers or sociopaths and many of their victims are newer members. Of course current AA members, increasingly aware of the growing Anti-AA movement, insist that anyone who complains of ill-treatment in AA is inferior in one way or another. AA argues that AA critics didn’t “work a good Program,” but outside of AA a more accurate term for AA’s tactics is not surprisingly “blaming the victim.” Thus, for those paying attention, the Pro AA attacks on Anti-AA dissenters prove the core claims of Anti-AA, whether AA acknowledges this as valid or not.
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    Created by Silver Damsen
  • Passage of S.133 (KBRA) Equals Klamath River Fish Extinction
    Stop the federal water giveaway, save the Klamath and Trinity River salmon from extinction. (Klamath coho salmon listed under ESA). Please help protect our future generations.
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    Created by Save Klamath Trinity Salmon
  • Unleash RICO and Patriot Act on Crooked, Racist US Police Departments
    My state of Ohio is rife with violent crimes and murders of People of Color by the law enforcement officials paid by our taxes. This execrable situation cannot be allowed to continue.
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    Created by Ken Duerksen