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Mack Long Police Killing Investigation Demands TransparencyPlease sign this petition now!! Your signature can make a difference. Chief Hite has publicly stated there will be transparency concerning the justice system's handling of the Mack Long killing. Transparency means : 1. The police report will be completed and released to the public. IMPD's literature says it takes at the most 7 days to release the report. We are now more than a month after Mack's killing. How can this delay be interpreted as transparent? 2. Release the videos. If IMPD has nothing to hide then release the videos so the people can see what the cameras saw. 3. Instead of putting evidence out in secrecy have a public coroner inquest instead of a grand jury.393 of 400 SignaturesCreated by Rev. Mmoja Ajabu
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Raise Louisiana's minimum wage!Low wages are detrimental to people struggling in poverty. We need to raise our minimum wages so families don't have to struggle so hard feeding themselves and their children.27 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jeannie fritter
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End Childhood HomelessnessChild homelessness in San Francisco is the most severe it has been since the 1906 earthquake. Enough public schoolchildren are homeless to fill 70 classrooms. Throughout the city, there are children who live in cars with their parents, in residential hotels, crowded on mats in church basements, in shelters, or in tents. This MUST END! The change has been rapid and dramatic: A decade ago, waits for shelter were no more than a week, and a family could generally expect to find a place to live in San Francisco by the time their shelter stay ended. Today, not only are more San Franciscans losing their housing due to displacement, but also the likelihood of finding housing at the end of a shelter stay in San Francisco has faded to the vanishing point. In San Francisco, we are fortunate to have the resources and know-how to end this crisis. We are calling on the Mayor to address the housing needs of all those families with minor children who meet the City’s definition of homelessness including those in shelters, in cars, in residential hotels, doubled up and in garages. Each of these forms of existence have negative impacts on the development of children that can be addressed by ensuring dignified housing. Our goals are not modest, but they are achievable: • By housing all currently homeless children, we will halt an accumulated backlog that has been driving lengthy episodes of homelessness. • We will return our emergency system to the role it was designed to play, an emergency system that can quickly shelter families without waiting for a bed to open. • We will prevent homelessness through dynamic interventions that capture families before they lose their housing for those for which there is a remedy. For those instances there is no preventing, such as domestic violence or fires, we will be able to quickly shelter and rapidly re-house.633 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Lisa
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Online registration makes it easierWe need to remove barriers to voting. Online registration would make it easier to register for all eligible Wisconsin citizens.76 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Allison Sorg
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Stop the Illegal Injection of Oil Industry Wastewater into California AquifersWe’re facing a clean water emergency in California. Regulators recently admitted that for years the oil industry has been illegally dumping millions of gallons of wastewater, including waste from fracking, into our state’s protected aquifers. Yet—in an outrageous move—the state is allowing the contamination to continue. Join thousands of other Californians who are telling Governor Brown to put an immediate stop to this illegal water pollution. The oil and gas industry has been injecting wastewater and other fluids into protected aquifers through about 2,500 injection wells, in direct violation of federal and state law. Yet despite acknowledging the threat to our water supplies, the state has shut down only 23 of the wells. And now, in order to avoid “inconvenience” to the industry, the state is giving drillers up to nearly two more years to contaminate aquifers that could be used for drinking water. Earthjustice is challenging this outrageous action in state court, but we need your help to put additional pressure on the governor. Tell Governor Brown to put the public first and protect our aquifers from further contamination now. In the midst of a massive drought, we should not be catering to the oil industry at the expense of our dwindling fresh water supplies.51 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Stacey Geis
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Ban fracking in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania is my home state. Its natural beauty and resources have historically been abused for much too long. We must fight for what is left is for us to preserve, protect and revere. Please join me in my love for Pennsylvania's nature, and help to protect its integrity!4 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Daniel James Hallacy
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Boycott Florida Sugar ProducersBig Sugar, as it is known in Florida, has contributed big money throughout Florida government, and resident leverage is lacking to force the state legislators to do their job in accordance with the Constitutional amendment recently passed, against the influence of these monetary contributions. Big Politics and Big Sugar have gotten into bed with each other, and boycotting Big Sugar seems to be the only measure left capable of supporting our state constitution in this matter, since the Legislators appear to be immune to our constitutional guidance.400 of 500 SignaturesCreated by James David
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BREAKING NOW: NY FAST-FOOD WORKERS POISED TO MAKE HISTORYGAME CHANGER: Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to dramatically raise pay for hundreds of thousands of fast-food workers across New York state. This is what happens when workers join together, go on strike, and demand $15. Our two and a half year movement for $15 and union rights has changed the politics of the country, and made $15 a baseline for what working people need to support themselves and their families. In response, the governor of New York has convened a three-person Wage Board to decide on a substantial increase in fast-food worker pay. What happens next is up to us. Let’s make New York the first state in the union with a $15 wage for fast-food workers. Sign the petition and tell the Wage Board it is time for $15 in New York. Help the Fight for $15 win fast-food workers’ most important victory yet by signing on right now.545 of 600 SignaturesCreated by Flavia Cabral, Fight for $15
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Tell the NY Wage Board: Fast-food Workers Deserve $15 an Hour!New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a plan to dramatically raise pay for hundreds of thousands of fast-food workers across New York state. This is what happens when workers join together, go on strike, and demand $15. The two and a half year movement for $15 and union rights has changed the politics of the country, and made $15 a baseline for what working people need to support themselves and their families. In response, Gov. Cuomo has convened a three-person Wage Board to decide on a substantial increase in fast-food worker pay. Let's make New York the first state in the union with a $15 wage for fast-food workers! Add your name below and tell the Wage Board: It's time for $15 in New York.32 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Joe Dinkin, Working Families
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Keep Concealed Weapon Permit on the BooksLegitimate reasons to carry a concealed weapon exist, but it seems common sense to require a permit to do so.65 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Tom
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For Our Health's Sake: Ban Fracking in PennsylvaniaDespite the fracking industry's assurances that their processes are completely safe, fracking fluid is now showing up in drinking water in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Fracking companies can only be trusted to protect their bottom line. The health of our citizens should ALWAYS take precedence over corporate profits. It's time our legislators acted accordingly.41 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Roy Trierweiler
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HO'OPAU HO'OPILIWe are a small island that depends too much on imported food when we have prime agricultural-land that can provide us fresh and locally-grown fruits and vegetables, affording our Island O'ahu to be self-sustainable! Also, we're against the obvious effects of traffic and pollution with this development because with 11,000 plus homes comes tens of thousands of more cars! "#CARmageddon" EVERYDAY!1,604 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by John Nakasone