On June 6, Bronx resident Kalief Browder committed suicide. Kalief spent three years —from age 16 to 19—on Riker’s Island, and over 400 days in solitary confinement, simply awaiting trial and because his family could not afford $3,000 in cash bail set by the judge. No one should ever be held in jail simply because they are too poor to put up an arbitrary amount set by the courts. Jail should be reserved for people who pose a danger to our communities, or are a flight risk. At 16, Kalief was accused of taking a backpack, and as a high school student with a bright future, certainly posed no risk of flight. Kalief remained jailed simply because his family was poor. Kalief himself told reporters before his suicide that he was “messed up” from his time in jail. Lawyer Paul V. Prestia says the trauma he experienced in jail led to his suicide. Kalief’s story is not unique. In 2013, homeless veteran Jerome Murdough died in an over-heated cell in Riker’s, detained because he couldn’t afford a $2500 cash bail. These cases are becoming too common: unnecessary detention causes damage to the lives of arrested people every day. Jail is meant for the most dangerous of individuals, not a place to house the poor and vulnerable. In American jails today, 6 in 10 people have not been convicted of their charges. Most are there because they can’t afford cash bail— and New York has an especially horrible record that leaves many behind bars for months and years awaiting trial. Public defenders say this is causing many innocent poor people to plead guilty— just to get out of jail. And once you have a conviction on your record, it is harder to get a job—and things can spiral downward from there. Gov Cuomo: You know our bail system is broken, and you have not yet taken action to fix it. End cash bail. New York doesn’t deserve to lose another Kalief Browder. -Cherise Fanno Burdeen of the Pretrial Justice Institute

People think that airport workers have a good job. But in reality, airport work means low pay, poor treatment and fear of speaking out. Service workers at Philadelphia Airport don’t get treated with the dignity and respect everyone deserves. I know, because I worked there. I was recently fired from my job as a bag handler by PrimeFlight Aviation Services after I publically spoke out for better working conditions. The Philadelphia City Council and the Mayor has the power to make sure big airlines employ responsible contractors that treat workers right and serve passengers well. And there’s a vote coming up this Thursday that can fix this. Please join me in calling on the Philadelphia City Council to vote yes on a bill that will make conditions at the city’s airport safer for workers, end the culture of fear and intimidation and give workers a voice on the job. A vote YES on Responsible Permitting is a vote YES for airport workers like me.

I have wanted to start a business for some time, my friends have tried to save the money to buy a car or a house. It's been nearly impossible to save for retirement, paying down student debt. Sometimes, it feels like it will never get better. It feels like you can just never catch up. Massachusetts needs a raise.

At a 201 board meeting, Mr Cronin acted in a very unprofessional way and attacked another board member verbally. He knew he was being recorded and acted this way in front of the BOE, parents and other public members. This type of behavior is unacceptable for our students (per student handbook) and should also be unacceptable for our BOE members. We are asking that the BOE ask Mr Cronin to resign from his position. We cannot trust someone who acts like this to be able to make rational and wise decisions for our children. You can watch what happened at the board meeting here - (copy and paste since it won't let me hyperlink it) http://youtu.be/V4yBypIWdrQ Mr. Cronin starts his attack around 47 min. Please start attending our board meetings and letting them know this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable in our district! We are taking this petition to the BOE meeting at the end of June. Please sign and forward to anyone else you know in 201.

Not only is this rider of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (signed into law as Public Law 113-291 by President Obama on 12/19/14) an insidious affront to (already besieged) tribal sovereignty, but it is a classic case of congressional corruption: Rio Tinto (Resolution Mining's parent company) affiliates have been McCain campaign contributors, and Senator Flake was formerly a paid lobbyist for Rio Tinto. Even the local miners' group opposes the land swap because it won’t help the local people or economy. Rio Tinto has been called out in the past for environmental devastation (info courtesy of Lydia Millet of the NYT: http://nyti.ms/1M1iMhi). This sacred land has been used by the Apache people for countless generations for coming-of-age ceremonies and gathering traditional foods. The Apache people have been hosting a protest on the land for the past several months. Let's support them in their efforts to save their land! Repeal Sec. 3003 of H.R. 3979!

Fredy Mencia was scheduled to be deported this Thursday June 25th, 2015. Through our collective efforts we have temporarily halted Fredy's deportation until September 15th. He is a father of three small U.S citizen children, has no criminal record, and is an active member of our community and a local church leader. Fredy is exactly the kind of person that should not be deported under president Obama’s new deportation guidelines. Please help us keep this family together.

Mountain Home has the potential to offer extensive recreation that promotes healthy living, keeps kids off the street, and encourages community togetherness with the money that has been collected over the years. Waiting longer could only mean there will be more money wasted on salaries, surveys, outrageously priced office supplies, and more. We have a chance to change lives of many by dissolving this Recreation District now and allotting the money to the "public recreation purposes within the County." Please stand with us! Action Petitioned For: We the undersigned are concerned citizens who urge our leaders to act now to dissolve the Western Elmore County Recreation District.

The NICE Bus public hearing is very inaccessible for working families and students attending their schools at the time of public hearing. Most of other transit public hearings spread out in various location and start around 5pm and end around 8-9pm. Please sign this petition.

My child was bullied and the girls are allowed to stay in school and my straight A student has bad grades and now wants to kill herself because nothing was done to the girls.

After seeing "Blackfish" and reading "Death at Sea World" and "Beneath the Surface", and doing my own research on killer whales, I strongly believe in this mission.

Idaho was recently ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau as the third worst state for working women in terms of the gender pay gap and gender poverty rate. We need to better enforce Idaho labor laws so that women, and in turn their families, receive fair compensation for their work.

Challenge: Set your kitchen timer for two minutes and then say out loud all of your concerns about the PennEast pipeline. If you're like me, you didn't get very far before the bell rang. And yet the Delaware River Basin Commission thinks that two minutes is enough time to share all of your concerns with them AND with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission! That's right! DRBC is proposing a combined DRBC/FERC hearing that would allow a mere two minutes to make your comment. And let’s be honest, while DRBC is making a decision about whether to allow PennEast to cut through our communities; FERC is just deciding how it is going to go about approving it. We need a full opportunity for DRBC to hear us – two minutes just isn’t enough. DRBC says they're thinking of you — they want to cut down on the number of hearings you have to attend. They don't understand that you need every second you can get to make the case to save your families, your property, your communities and your environment! Let’s take DRBC at their word — If it's your convenience they're so concerned with, we're urging you to say, "Come to me, DRBC!" Tell DRBC that you want separate hearings for DRBC and FERC and you want DRBC to schedule hearings in at least 7 towns along the pipeline route.