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.

I have had the opportunity to volunteer at the Illinois State Museum and see firsthand what a vital role it plays in the education of our citizens. More importantly, I've had a chance to work with the amazing staff of the ISM, both on the public side and the research side, and I know they take their mission to heart. Closing the ISM would leave a void in the culture of the state, and these passionate and hard-working people will be caught in the crossfire of the dangerous game Mr. Rauner is playing. Join me in making him understand that people's lives matter. For more information about the work of the Museum, please follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Illinois-State-Museum/917517601639564?fref=ts

One of the most controversial aspects of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is that it’s secret from the public. If the proponents of the agreement have their way, the text will still be secret from the public when the House votes on Fast Track trade negotiating authority, essentially a vote to pre-approve the agreement. Members of Congress, individually and collectively, could do something about this. For example, - The House and Senate intelligence committees have the power to declassify any document in their possession if they believe that doing so would serve the public interest. [1] - Any individual Member of Congress could publish—e.g., by entering into the Congressional Record—a portion of the draft TPP negotiating text, as Republican Congressman Darrel Issa did when he published the intellectual property chapter. [2] - Members of the House who have not yet committed to vote no on Fast Track could pledge to vote no on Fast Track if the text of the TPP is not made public before the vote. Urge Congress to use its power to force publication of the TPP text by signing our petition. Sources: 1. "Congress Can—and Should—Declassify the TPP," Foreign Policy in Focus, May 27, 2015 http://fpif.org/congress-can-and-should-declassify-the-tpp/ 2. "Issa Releases the Trans Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property Rights Chapter on KeeptheWebOPEN.com," Congressman Darrell Issa's website, May 15, 2012 http://issa.house.gov/press-releases/2012/05/issa-releases-the-trans-pacific-partnership-intellectual-property-rights-chapter-on-keepthewebopencom/

Real education educates the whole person. Cutting funding for music education robs our children of a precious part of their school and learning experience. Georgia spends the least of any state on music and other art education. We can and must insist on whole education for the whole child.

I am personally affected because I could try this cure, except the law prevents my doctor from assisting me. So I have to "do it myself" or go to a foreign country (where it's allowed) to get assistance. Thousands of people are affected by this rule and many are desperate to try FMT but cannot. My hope is that all of those who suffer from IBS, Chron's, UC, and a myriad other diseases that fecal transplant may help cure will sign this petition.