This petition is about the future health of our species. We have become human guinea pigs thanks to Monsanto and the government looking the other way. It must stop.

I started this petition because after seeing the documentary Blackfish, and hearing about the abuse to the animals at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, I became inspired about wanting to help these defenseless animals. Because I live five minutes from Six Flags, I am constantly reminded of the horrors that are inflicted upon these beautiful creatures.

To qualify for SNAP in San Francisco, a family of one can make no more than $1,265 a month, and for that will only receive a maximum benefit of $194 in SNAP. To qualify you have to be considered in poverty, shouldn't SNAP be a preventative to poverty instead of a last resort? San Francisco has a very high cost of living and there are plenty of people who need public food assistance who earn more money than the maximum allowed a month to qualify for SNAP.

Freddie Gray was killed in Baltimore police custody. Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White, Ofc. William Porter, Garrett Miller, Edward Nero, and Caesar Goodson Jr. have been suspended as a result. These people should not be suspended with pay. The arresting officers should be arrested immediately and charged with the death of Freddie Gray.

My reasons for doing so should be self-evident. We common people need to wrest control of the Federal government from the hands of the one per cent wealthy on Wall Street and in the Pentagon who are hell-bent on turning the U.S. into a plutocratic oligarchy--something akin to Western Europe during the age of feudalism. We common people need and demand nothing less than full and pure democracy as classical Athens, Greece invented it.

To make a difference.

Oklahoma is not a state known for its seismic activity. However, Oklahoma has had a rapid and significant increase in earthquakes in the past six years, and in 2014 it topped the list as the state with the most earthquakes! The increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma is linked to the increase in oil and gas wastewater injection wells. These injection wells, where the oil and gas industry disposes of polluted water from fracking, disrupt the fault zones, which causes earthquakes. The earthquakes in Oklahoma are too serious to ignore. Governor Mary Fallin has the power to enact a moratorium on oil and gas wastewater injection wells and stop the earthquakes in Oklahoma.

Georgia hospitals need the funding allowed under the Affordable Care Act to care for sick and injured people. By not accepting the increased funding offered by Obamacare, millions of Georgians are negatively affected, hospitals are weakened, and many are closing or reducing services.

In some categories, it’s not good to be #1. It’s especially shameful to be #1 in school funding gaps. But it’s true that Pennsylvania has the most inequitable school funding in the country. Most of us know the problem already - school districts across the state have been underfunded for decades. More is being demanded of our children, but there are fewer and fewer resources to educate them. In some districts, we are losing arts, music, and reasonable class sizes. In other districts like Philadelphia, children have died during the school day without full-time nurses present. When we know there are enough resources to educate every child, our underfunded public school system indicates that Pennsylvania has a deep crisis of priorities. That’s why parents, students, teachers, and people of faith and conscience are standing up to say that enough is enough – our children can’t wait any longer for fully and fairly funding schools. Pennsylvanians are fed up with bare bones education spending. But after ousting former Governor Corbett and making promises to restore cuts, our newly elected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf is proposing just a small increase to school funding next year – only 15% of what experts say would fully fund our schools—and his plan perpetuates racial bias in the funding system from the previous administration. At the same time, he’s proposing major corporate tax cuts. Where, we ask, is Pennsylvania’s moral leadership? As the State Legislature deliberates about their own budget proposal, we are building a people-fueled movement that won’t settle for the myth of scarcity that there’s not enough money to fully fund schools. For decades in Pennsylvania, corporations have avoided paying billions in state taxes. We have one of the most regressive income tax systems in the country, with a corporate CEO paying the same income tax rate as a dishwasher. No – it’s not that there’s not enough money for schools. It’s that lawmakers across the aisle are catering to the greed and self-interest of the few instead of the needs of the many. Since March 23rd, clergy, parents, and whole faith communities across the state, across race, class, and religious lines, have been fasting to draw attention to the urgency of Pennsylvania’s ongoing school funding crisis. We’ll keep the fast up until June 30th, the deadline for the state budget. But we need your help too. Sign this petition to tell Governor Wolf and the Legislature to pass a moral budget that fully funds our schools, undoes racial inequities, and makes sure corporations pay their fair share. Let’s stop funding fund the 1% on the backs of our children. Our children and families are worth more.

1. Five years ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the marshes, fisheries and livelihood of the United Houma Nation. 2. The United Houma Nation is unable to collect damages from BP because they are not federally recognized. 3. The United Houma Nation is excluded from the decision making process that will affect future development on their lands. 4. Federal recognition will allow the United Houma Nation to realize the justice the deserve and inclusion in future decisions that affect their lands and way of life.

The misuse of antibiotics on factory farms - routinely feeding antibiotics to healthy animals to boost profits and compensate for filthy living conditions - is threatening our public health. The vast majority (80%) of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on factory farms, which makes these life-saving medicines less effective when we really need them. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 million people contract antibiotic-resistant infections each year, resulting in at least 23,000 deaths. Tell your council members to take a stand for public health by passing a resolution calling for a federal ban on the use of antibiotics for animals that are not sick!

The purpose of this petition is to adequately represent the concerns of neighbors in and around Lake Point, especially the neighbors who live on Adobe Ln. To that point, as a community, we are asking for a delay in the approval of the revised plat map for Lake Point Estates Phases 3-6 until further study can be done on the potential impact the revisions may pose to the community.