I suffer from seasonal depression. Stopping this would make my life so much easier to live.

Across this country, police seem to be out-of-control, killing with impunity unarmed defenseless citizens. The government needs to do something to protect citizens from the police.

Stop the attempted murder of Mumia through medical neglect! Demand that Mumia be released to a hospital immediately! Keep the pressure on! APRIL 25, 2015 UPDATE: U R G E NT ►Mumia's Condition Grave Take Action NOW! On Friday, April 24, Mumia Abu-Jamal was visited by his spouse, Wadiya Jamal, who reported that his condition has worsened. She saw him again today and he appears even more gravely ill. Everyone is asked to call the prison and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections immediately. If they hang up, call again. Please continue to call on Sunday, Monday and throughout the coming week. Mumia was released from the prison infirmary three days ago even though he was in no condition to be in general population. His request to be seen by independent medical specialists was denied by the PA Department of Corrections. Yet he is in need of 24-hour care and supervision. He is too weak and in this state he may not be able ask for help. He may lose consciousness. This is what happened before he was rushed to the hospital on March 30 when another prisoner, Major George Tillery, complained to the guards that Mumia needed immediate medical attention. In retaliation the prison moved Tillery to another unit. Mumia has severe swelling in his neck, chest and legs. His skin rash is worse than ever with open sores. No longer in a wheelchair, he can only take baby steps. He was nodding off during the visits with his wife and unable to feed himself. These are symptoms that could be associated with hyper glucose levels, diabetic shock, diabetic coma, and with kidney stress and failure. Please call the numbers below, and any other numbers you have for the Prison and the Governor. Along with Mumia's name his prison number is AM 8335 Call local news sources in your area that would report on this crisis. Share this email with your contact lists. Get out the information via any social media you use especially Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #MumiaMustLive. Demand that prison officials call Mumia’s wife and his lawyer Bret Grote to discuss his condition. Demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal see a competent doctor immediately, that he be taken to the hospital for emergency care and not be left to go into a diabetic coma. It is clear that Pennsylvania prison officials are intent on carrying out their plans to murder Mumia through medical neglect. This situation is urgent. Every call matters Every action matters. We need to be in the streets. Call your friends, your neighbors. We must speak out now before it’s too late. 1) John Wetzel Secretary of the Deparment of Corrections [email protected] 717-728-4109 • 717-728-4178 Fax 1920 Technology Pkwy, Mechanicsburg PA 17050 2) John Kerestes, Superintendent SCI Mahanoy: 570-773-2158 x8102 570-783-2008 Fax 301 Morea Road, Frackville PA 17932 3) Tom Wolf, PA Governor: 717-787-2500 • [email protected] 508 Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg PA 17120 Susan McNaughton, Public Information Office PA DOC DOC Press secretary: 717-728-4025 PA DOC [email protected] [email protected] Department of Corrections Deputy Press Secretary 717-728-4109 • 717-728-4178 Fax 1920 Technology Pkwy, Mechanicsburg PA 17050 Public Information Officer, SCI Mahanoy, Jane Hinman 570-773-2158; then dial zero SCI Mahanoy: 570-773-2158 x8102 • 570-783-2008 Fax 301 Morea Road, Frackville PA 17932 Central Office by phone: (717) 728-2573 Michael Klopotoski, Deputy Secretary Eastern Region (717) 728-4122 or 4123 Theron Perez, Chief Counsel, PA Department of Corrections (717) 728-7763 Shirley Moore Smeal, Executive Deputy Secretary (717) 728-4110 PA Department of Corrections General, News, etc: [email protected]

According to Valerie Strauss writing in the Washington Post newspaper, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is an organization that writes model laws for state legislators. According to Strauss, "What it actually is is an organization that writes "model legislation" ...that... legislators use in state after state to make new laws that promote privatization in every part of American life: education, health care, the environment, voting rights, etc." and "its efforts to privatize public education, for example, have resulted in the expansion of voucher programs in a number of states." The purpose of the voucher systems, like the one pushed through by Louisiana Governor Jindal, is to gut public education institutions in order to produce profits at private for-profit schools and for their corporate owners. ALEC is an organization funded by large corporations which meets to produce legislation favorable to the profit-making interest of large corporations. ALEC is corporations dictating legislation to its legislative and gubernatorial dupes. It is voraciously greedy corporations trying to wring the last drop of profits from citizens by undermining state institutions and regulations. ALEC has an education task force that represents for-profit higher education corporations. This anti-public-higher-education task force dictates to state legislators, from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. According to Robert Mann, who has a great deal of experience in journalism and politics in Louisiana and who holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Manship School of Mass Communication, writing at his blog bobmannblog.com, "(Louisiana Governor Bobby) Jindal...is a committed ALEC disciple...(and) received a prominent award for his adherence to ALEC's principles." One of ALEC's principles is cutting taxes. Especially on corporations who run the show. No taxes, more profits. Jindal cut taxes so much for his corporate dictators that Louisiana can no longer afford a system of higher education. LSU, and its statewide system of universities, is about to declare bankruptcy. Gutting Louisiana's and other state's public higher education institutions will increase profits at for-profit colleges and universities and reap profits from students and their families who will have to pay through their noses. Students and their families will pay (in higher fees for education) the taxes that Jindal exempted his corporate dictators from paying. Tell Bobby Jindal, big corporations' majordomo in the Louisiana governor's mansion, to fund Louisiana's system of public higher education and prevent LSU from going bankrupt.

In 2006, I started Kid's Count Pediatrics in Elkin, North Carolina. Because the patients we care for are the children of struggling families and chronically ill children, 85% of our practice is Medicaid compared to the National average of 22% for primary care providers. Because we do not turn away kids with Medicaid as their primary insurance, our practice makes 40-50% less than a traditional practice. The poor reimbursement rates plus the recent 20% pay cut (causing us to lose $3,000 a week in revenue since January 1st) leave us struggling to keep our doors open. If we close, where will these kids go? Kids don't choose their insurance, and all children deserve the same access to life saving treatments. Practices like Kid's Count Pediatrics offer a service to the community, but, by accepting government funded health insurance, we struggle to keep our doors open. Since the expiration of Medicaid Pay Parity on January 1st of 2015, our practice has so far lost $32,000. Please join us and the American Academy of Pediatrics in asking our government to reinstate Medicaid pay parity with back payment to January 1st so we can keep taking care of our kids.

Present rules prevent disabled people from seeing our doctors. We must tweak the rules!

Fracking in Oklahoma is causing man-made earthquakes and countless other problems.

We believe it is wrong to spend $84 M+ to create a 6- or 7-lane highway amidst Emerald Necklace parklands, add up to 5 new traffic lights, impair vehicle, bus, bike and foot travel, and disenfranchise Boston’s least affluent neighborhoods to relieve MassDOT of bridge maintenance at Forest Hills. The Casey Overpass was built to alleviate gridlock due to mixing of local and regional traffic in this already busy transportation hub. MassDOT’s at-grade plan reverses that. It’s not only a bad idea, but also tragic, maybe criminal, lethal, and at minimum a gross disservice to tens of thousands of citizens impacted by this decision.

YEMEN-ANOTHER DISASTER FOR CIVILIANS The conflict in Yemen is a civil war that can only be resolved by political negotiations. Since the start of Saudi bombing, supported by the US, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced and hundreds have been killed. The United Nations, The European Union, Iran and Pakistan are calling for a diplomatic solution. Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen, killing and displacing innocent people and cutting off food supplies, water, and access to medicine. The United States is providing arms and bombs to Saudi Arabia. This must be stopped. Call President Obama at (202)456-1111. Tell him to: 1-Join with the UN, European Union and Pakistan to negotiate a political solution; 2-Call for an end to military intervention, and an arms embargo; 3-Assist with humanitarian help to the people of Yemen

I saw the result of my 14-year-old son's suicide 13 years ago. My first reaction was to run to him and pick him up. A twenty six minute hell ensued and the result was crushed vertebrae in my neck that hurt from morning to night. Now, I am American Strong so I built a swimming business because being in the pool helps but I am only one little story and there are a million of them more than mine. If it is a Medical Doctor, why would you not allow them to prescribe a natural plant that works equal to many pain and PTSD drugs, just to name a few?

Many of us are very concerned about the future development of our Neighborhood. Many of us bought homes in this neighborhood under the premise that it would only have 200 homes in it. Many of us bought premium lots and were told that no homes would be built behind our premium lots. Many of us are concerned about the safety of our children with the increase traffic that this new development will bring down our roads. If you have any of these concerns we need YOU to sign this petition to help protect our neighborhood. We need them to see that our neighborhood is collectively in agreement and we are not backing down! Below is our alternative proposal: 1.Create new traffic patterns to decrease traffic flow away from Ranchester Rd and Hauser Lake. 2.Move the CBU's (mailboxes) out of the pool parking lot and into Phases 2B & 3. 3.No apartments! 4.Tree buffer for those who paid for premium lots.

Chris Matthews asked only rhetorical questions meant to give President Obama a platform to deliberately tear down Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has come out strongly against Fast Track and the TPP, especially the Investor State Dispute Settlement process or ISDS. Matthews never asked the president why hundreds of civic organizations, faith groups and every single Union, have come out strongly against the TPP. Chris Matthews just said they’re all wrong and the president is right, despite the statistics that show NAFTA-style free trade agreements have devastated the economy and wages, as workers must compete with low foreign wages. Chris Matthews could have thrown hardballs at Obama, but he didn’t, instead giving the president a platform to just say, “Trust me.” Chris Matthews never asked hard questions like, “Why is the text of the TPP classified,” or won’t extending patents raise medicine prices under Medicare and Medicaid and to the public? Why won’t you release the text now for the public to see? There are lots of hardballs Chris Matthews could have thrown, but instead, he chose to lob softballs at a time when the Public needs to know what is being negotiated in their name. Perhaps the Chris Matthews Show should be renamed “Softball.” Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfxv2XQoPg http://www.c-span.org/video/?323650-1/news-conference-opposition-fast-track-authority http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/president-obama-defends-tpp-deal-431711811768