I am tired of paying twice as much for gas in California than other states

Too often people are busy working or cannot get away from their job to vote or volunteer on Election Day. Giving them a paid day off for this purpose will encourage them to take the time to make sure their opinion gets counted at the polls.

My friend, TransconJohn Seattle, has had his account suspended because Facebook can't handle his ingenious creativity. Find another way to link his real name to his account versus making him change it altogether.

We are sending you this petition so you can hear our voices and approve the recent agreement with Iran.

I believe war has not worked but made things worse and it is insane to keep trying the same thing and expect a different outcome. I am a Jew and I believe this is the best chance for the long-term security of Israel .

As a physician, I have become aware of the terrible rate of incarceration and the ridiculous lengths of sentences - and the horrific human toll on prisoners and their families, as well as the monstrous waste of resources that could go to solving our nation's many problems, including the poverty, mental illness, and addiction illnesses that fuel the prison industrial complex. Please join me in calling for massive change in the way we think about and treat non-violent offenses.

For the last 18 months South Sudan has been devastated by a brutal civil war, the risk of widespread famine and the threat of genocide. On July 24, that can change. President Obama heads to Africa on July 24th and will be visiting several of South Sudan’s neighbors who are leading peace negotiations. The U.S. was instrumental in helping South Sudan forge its independence and has been a strong voice for peace in South Sudan since the fighting broke out in December 2013. Now, it’s time for the President to take the next step and use his time face-to-face with regional leaders to demand an agreement After 18 months of war, tens of thousands killed and the threat of famine looming, the people of South Sudan can wait no longer.

We want recall rights in the state of Florida.

Since Obama can't be reelected for a third term, America needs to grab his moment and commit to overruling on warmongering positions to sustain our greater-good momentum MOVING FORWARD on peace. Otherwise, the miracle of somehow avoiding a great depression might elude us the next time we choose NOT to learn from history's mistakes costing trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives.

I'm starting this petition because it is time for you to stop allowing yourself to be influenced and controlled by special interest groups that push warfare as the only solution. We think this is the correct, moral, and ethical thing for you to do.

On March 25, 2015, a Saudi-led coalition began an airstrike campaign in Yemen to defeat the Houthi rebels who have effectively overthrown the government backed by Saudi Arabia and the US. The Obama administration is openly providing “logistical and intelligence support” to the offensive. [1] The Yemeni civil war has claimed the lives of over 1,500 civilians [2] The coalition declared the entire city of Saada a military target, which Human Rights Watch labeled a war crime. [3] Amnesty International’s deputy director for the Middle East has said that the Saudi-led, US-supported coalition is “turning a blind eye to civilian deaths and suffering caused by its military intervention”. [4] The US public must not do the same. Yet the coverage of civilian deaths in Yemen by major US media outlets, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, has been cursory and superficial. The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald [5] foretold the coverage of an airstrike by the US-backed coalition that killed at least 45 civilians in Fayoush, Yemen. [6] None of the victims will be profiled in American media; it’ll be very surprising if any of their names are even mentioned. No major American television outlet will interview their grieving families. Americans will never learn about their extinguished life aspirations, or the children turned into orphans, or the parents who will now bury their infants. Coverage in the Times and Post bore out Greenwald's predictions: The Times website ran a Reuters wire story [7] and the Post online had an AP piece [8], neither of which included any details about the victims. Neither paper appeared to cover the airstrike in their print editions. Urge these media outlets to provide serious coverage of the civilian bloodshed resulting from an offensive the US government is supporting. References: 1. http://news.yahoo.com/us-logistical-intelligence-support-yemen-offensive-021512580.html 2. http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/08/middleeast/yemen-conflict/ 3. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rights-group-airstrikes-yemen-killed-civilians-32132375 4. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/31/disturbing-reports-civilian-deaths-yemen-warn-international-aid-groups 5. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/06/civilian-deaths-yemen-will-ignored/ 6. http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-yemen-market-explosion-20150706-story.html 7. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/07/07/world/middleeast/07reuters-yemen-security.html 8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/airstrike-hits-market-north-of-yemens-aden-over-45-killed/2015/07/06/7cd06f6a-23e7-11e5-b621-b55e495e9b78_story.html

The U.S., Iran, and the international community have reached a historic agreement to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, hopefully putting us on a path to ending decades of hostility. Unfortunately, war hawks in Congress are committed to undermining diplomacy. Over the next 60 days, we're going to have to campaign hard to make sure Congress doesn't squander this opportunity. But for right now, it's worth celebrating what a historic achievement this is for diplomacy. And we can be thankful that Al Franken is working to avoid another massively destructive and costly US war in the Middle East. Now that it is clear that diplomacy can work, we need to show that Minnesotans stand with Senator Franken and will do everything in their power to give this agreement a chance to succeed and become a model for resolving other conflicts. But with opponents of diplomacy about to go all out to stop this, we have to be out there right away, visibly and loudly.