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Prescription Drug LawI've been personally effected by this law & don't want to see others going through what I am11 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Patricia Wheeler
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Bring back Mr Bond!Mr Bond is the founder of #Bluehand - a political movement against politically correct speech. He is liked and respected by everyone but his account has been suspended because of a misunderstanding and because the trolls do not like him. We want him reinstated and with a promise he will not be suspended again.84 of 100 Signatures
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Justice for #WalterScottIt was one of the worst videos of police murder we have ever seen.[1] South Carolina police officer Michael Slager viciously killed 50-year-old Walter Scott by fatally shooting him eight times in the back. In a harrowing video, Officer Slager is also seen possibly planting evidence at the crime scene and violently handcuffing Mr. Scott as he lay dying. Officer Slager has been charged with first-degree murder. This is a good first step. But it’s only one step. No mother should have to fear that a loved one could face harm at the hands of those charged with protection. Join us in urging President Obama to sign an executive order enforcing and expanding bans on racial bias in policing. Sign on to MomsRising's petition and our message below, which we'll deliver to the White House. _________________________________________ Dear President Obama, A mother should never have to fear that her children could be killed or harmed at the hands of those sworn to protect them. But study after study is showing this happens every day. The national crisis of racially motivated and discriminatory policing requires your executive action. According to FBI statistics, law enforcement officers kill African Americans approximately every 3 days, and other estimates put this deadly number at almost every day. Studies show that in addition to causing deaths at disproportionate and inhumane rates, there is a pattern of unjust stops, abuse, and arrests of black and brown people in our nation. Every day, families are torn apart, children are robbed of their futures, and our democracy is weakened. We cannot afford to wait any longer for the concrete, structural reforms needed to keep communities safe. And the unacceptable non-indictment of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson highlights deep-seated, structural problems with the enforcement of civil rights protections that require your immediate intervention. I strongly urge you to issue an executive order enforcing and expanding federal bans on discriminatory policing, strengthening systems of police discipline, ordering the immediate collection of nationwide data on police use of force, ending federal anti-drug grants and the Defense Department's 1033 program, and massively re-investing in community controlled policing. Anything less is unacceptable. There are enough federal civil rights laws on the books to hold police officers and departments fully accountable when they discriminate, injure or kill civilians. But we need your leadership to ensure that they are enforced. A number of federal policies, such as the 1033 program, are responsible for creating these intolerable conditions of abuse and police brutality and must be terminated. Unless definitive action is taken to end these destructive polices and enforce federal civil rights law, our nation will continue to have an unequal, deadly, broken system of justice and policing that violate human rights and cannot be trusted by all. I hope you treat this matter with the utmost seriousness and do everything in your power to end the policies and practices that fuel militarized, abusive policing. Your latest initiatives are important steps in the right direction, Mr. President, but we need more. We need an executive order. [1] "South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder of Walter Scott," NYTimes 04-07-2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html148 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Monifa Bandele
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Paid Sick LeaveI have been personally affected by this and feel employers are wrong in not providing paid time off to recover from an illness. We shouldn't have to choose between loosing money or coming to work sick. This is morally wrong.93 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dahlia Magat
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Pass Nonpartisan Redistricting Reform in North CarolinaPartisan redistricting steals all of our votes and our voices. It is like the fox guarding the hen house.59 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jane P
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SAFETY FIRST -- Traffic Calming for the Silver TriangleThe Silver Triangle neighborhood, nestled between Studio City's busy Ventura Blvd. business district, Laurel Canyon, and the Santa Monica Mountains, wants to be restored to a safe school neighborhood where residents can move about safely, walk their children to school, cycle and drive. We have an adjacent elementary school with 900 students and a smaller elementary/secondary school within the Triangle. Wilacre/Fryman Canyon hiking is next door and brings hundreds of people daily to our streets. Recently, our residents have been suffering from the intrusive and damaging effects of Google Maps, Waze, GPS and other technologies that provide drivers with alternative traffic routes, resulting in thousands of non-local drivers cutting through our neighborhood daily. Further, due to the cumulative effects of major developments past and proposed, including recent and aggressive expansion of restaurants and "chain stores" along the Ventura Blvd. corridor between Whitsett and Colfax, increased high-density housing projects and the proposed development of Sportsman's Landing, we are now and will become increasingly overrun with vehicles, well beyond our street capacity. We want the City of Los Angeles to institute meaningful and effective traffic calming measures immediately, reducing air and noise pollution and protecting residents' safety from excessive, often unlawful and unhealthful traffic, which is degrading our quality of life.170 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Suellen Wagner
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Stop Chris Christie's corporate giveaways!Over the last 5 years Governor Christie's Economic Development Authority has given $5.4 BILLION to the wealthiest and most politically connected .01 percent of New Jersey corporations – at a cost to our underfunded schools, crumbling roads and bridges, the state pension fund and struggling property taxpayers. Enough! J.P. Morgan. Lockheed Martin. Prudential. Panasonic. Citibank – all of them have received tens of millions in public dollars from Chris Christie. In exchange for tax cuts, they are supposedly creating jobs. But we have no idea whether they are actually doing so, because Chris Christie has never even bothered to ask them, despite being required to by law. In many cases we know for a fact that corporations just moved jobs from town to town. The worst, like Citibank and Campbell’s Soup, took the tax breaks and laid people off anyway. Here’s the worst part: every dollar doled out to Prudential is a dollar that can’t be spent fixing a bridge, paying a schoolteacher, or making college more affordable. While giving out billions in subsidies with one hand, Governor Christie has cut property tax credits for middle-class families and the Earned Income Tax Credit for people struggling on the brink with the other. These reckless subsidies have skewed our state budgets out of balance and put the interests of NJ’s richest residents and corporations ahead of the rest. Enough is enough.1 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Analilia Mejia
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Stop Chris Christie's corporate giveaways!Over the last 5 years Governor Christie's Economic Development Authority has given $5.4 BILLION to the wealthiest and most politically connected .01 percent of New Jersey corporations – at a cost to our underfunded schools, our crumbling roads and bridges, and our state pension fund. Enough! J.P. Morgan. Lockheed Martin. Prudential. Panasonic. Citibank – all of them have received tens of millions in public dollars from Chris Christie. In exchange for tax cuts, they are supposedly creating jobs. But we have no idea whether they are actually doing so, because Chris Christie has never even bothered to ask them, despite being required to by law. In many cases we know for a fact that corporations just moved jobs from town to town. The worst, like Citibank and Campbell’s Soup, took the tax breaks and laid people off anyway. Here’s the worst part: every dollar doled out to Prudential is a dollar that can’t be spent fixing a bridge, paying a schoolteacher, or making college more affordable. While giving out billions in subsidies with one hand, Governor Christie has cut property tax credits for middle-class families and the Earned Income Tax Credit for people struggling on the brink with the other. These reckless subsidies have skewed our state budgets out of balance and put the interests of NJ’s richest residents and corporations ahead of the rest. Enough is enough.1,011 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Analilia Mejia
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Grandparents Rights in State of FloridaGrandparents having rights to grandchildren and yes I have been effected both parents to my grandchildren have failed their children, I am paternal grandmother and now trying taking my visitation away. this is not best interest of children I have been rock solid with my grandchildren for over 16 years, and been a major part of their lives....32 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Sheila Johnson
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It's Time to Get Rid of RoundUp!If RoundUp "probably" causes cancer, it's time to get rid of it! In light of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer findings that glyphosate, commonly sold as RoundUp, is a "probable human carcinogen" (Group 2A), the EPA should reconsider its current Group E designation for the herbicide. Hundreds of millions of pounds of this herbicide are used on farmland across America every year, and the U.S. Geological Survey has detected glyphosate in rain, streams and air near agricultural areas. Americans are exposed to this "probable human carcinogen" in their food, air and water every day, and the EPA and FDA are not doing enough to protect us from these exposures and potential health problems. It's time for the EPA to suspend the use of glyphosate until a meaningful evaluation of the herbicide's carcinogenicity is done as a part of the EPA's ongoing registration review. The FDA should also begin monitoring and enforcing tolerance levels for glyphosate residues set by the EPA immediately.41,455 of 45,000 SignaturesCreated by Sarah Alexander
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Governor Brown: Stop Nestlé's Water GrabNestlé has been pushing for a water bottling facility in the Columbia River Gorge for over five years now. Despite widespread opposition from tens of thousands of Oregonians, the proposal is still in the works. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recently submitted a water rights transfer application that would expedite Nestlé's water bottling scheme in the Gorge, and would throw out the public interest review. At the same time, Oregon is experiencing a drought, and it's more important than ever that we protect our water resources. We NEED leadership from Gov. Brown. Sign this petition to send a message directly to Governor Brown to protect Oregon's water and keep Nestlé out!16,443 of 20,000 SignaturesCreated by Sarah Alexander
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Illinois: Don't Support Israeli Annexation of the West BankThe Illinois House and Illinois Senate may vote by April 24 on HB4011 [1] and SB1761.[2] These bills would legitimize the de-facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank by cutting off state contracts with companies that boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Boycotting Israeli settlements in the West Bank as a means of protesting the Israeli occupation has wide political support in the US and internationally, including by Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) in Israel and Americans for Peace Now in the US [3], and the Presbyterian Church [5], and United Methodist Church [6] in the US. Any private Israeli entity that wants to receive funding from the European Union must demonstrate that it has no links to the West Bank. [7] Urge your Representative and Senator in the Illinois legislature to oppose HB4011 and SB1761 by signing our petition at MoveOn. References: 1. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=88&GA=99&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=4011&GAID=13 2. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1761&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=88517&SessionID=88 3. http://archive.peacenow.org/entries/apn_joins_peace_nows_call_for_boycotting_settlements 4. http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/content/jvp-issues 5. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html 6. http://umc-gbcs.org/resolutions/opposition-to-israeli-settlements-in-palestinian-land 7. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.536155585 of 600 SignaturesCreated by Robert Naiman