Once home to the CA grizzly and CA condor, the Santa Ana Mountain range is severely threatened by urban sprawl, pollution, altered fire regime, abuse and neglect. Currently, there are multiple landowners, including US Forest Service, OC Parks, Riverside County Parks, Rancho Mission Viejo, CA State Parks, military, NGOs, private individuals and investment groups. The US Forest Service owns one of the largest portions, but lacks the budget and staff to adequately manage for natural and cultural resource value.

Have you felt the shift within the Democratic Party? Not long ago, in fact as recently as 2013, many Democrats including President Obama indicated a willingness to cut Social Security benefits. But things are changing quickly in Washington. Just before Congress left on their holiday recess, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined forces with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to introduce a budget amendment to expand Social Security benefits for millions of Americans. And guess what? Expansion received support from 42 Senate Democrats. That’s over 90% of the Democratic caucus! Expanding and protecting Social Security is quickly becoming one of the hottest issues in the country and a mainstream Democratic plank. But what happens if the Democratic nominee for President doesn’t embrace expansion? With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton having announced her candidacy, and other Democrats potentially jumping into the race this month, it is time to get all Democratic presidential candidates on the record supporting expansion. Call on all Democratic presidential candidates to make Social Security expansion a cornerstone of their campaign platforms. We already know where Republican presidential candidates stand. Thanks to their votes opposing the Warren/Manchin amendment Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are all firmly opposed to expanding earned benefits and even favor cuts for millions of future retirees as well as children, veterans and disabled workers. If Democrats want to win the White House in 2016 and take back Congress they must inspire the American people. They must demonstrate a sharp contrast to the right-wing ideology being offered by the Republican Party. And with 79% of likely voters – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – supporting Social Security expansion, Democrats have THE ISSUE to run on. We are in position to make Social Security expansion a driving issue in the next presidential election. Stand with us today!

• The City should also move toward Food Justice Certification for all food suppliers and food service contractors. • The City should likewise increase the percentage of Minority- and Women-Owned Enterprises for all food-related contracts. • The Good Food Procurement Policy can be the means by which to satisfy the City’s goals of supporting businesses and social enterprises that produce and distribute healthy food, as put forth in the City’s “Healthy Chicago” program. • Work with the Chicago Food Policy Action Council to establish a technical committee to create the GFPP implementation process, including setting required guidelines to be met by food suppliers and service contractors in the areas of Environmental Sustainability, Valued Workforce, Animal Welfare and Nutrition. • Assign the Chicago Food Policy Action Council the authority to monitor City food contractors for compliance and provide the information needed for the City of Chicago to remove contractors for non-compliance.

Discrimination in any form is wrong-headed and wrong-hearted. This outrageous bill should be stopped in its tracks.

We need to legalize medicinal cannabis! Too many Hoosiers are suffering from cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and other illnesses. We need to stop spending $150 million in taxpayer money on sending innocent cannabis consumers to jail and make room for more serious offenses. Look at the facts, Indiana! Do research on the studies that come from outside the United States. Throw away all bias and look at the facts and statistics with a clean slate. 13,198 men and women, from our great Hoosier state, died from cancer in 2013. Cannabis can lower these numbers! (And we all know Indiana isn't a petition state but WE THE PEOPLE can change that too!) Also, we want the state to hear our voices and RECOGNIZE our petitions. We should have a say in our government, and voting for governor isn't what I'm talking about. We should be able to have a say when it comes to enacting a new law or changing a law. Our state wants to make laws solely based on what they (the people in office) believe is right, but what they believe isn't always right and people get hurt, lose families, and lose jobs. Currently they are trying to make possession of 1/4 of an ounce of dried cannabis flower a felony. This is outrageous and backward! Come on Indiana, sign your name, and if you want, call the governor's office or your representative and spread the enlightenment about cannabis!

I am starting this petition because Hawaiians Introduced the sheep and animals to the island for food. Now the environmentalists just use our tax money to fly a helicopter 2-5 times a month slaughtering these animals and letting them rot in the mountain. we have to think about our future and hunters and gatherers love to use the Aina to put food on the table for their families. Help speak for the animals

Harmful Proposed Major Changes would: 1. prevent myself, and many other Aged & Disabled West Virginians, from being able to acquire (from our own budgets) necessary items (like wheelchair tires/parts, special mobility devices allowing safe winter travel, adaptive bathroom and emergency evacuation safety devices, etc) that are approved and needed but are NOT covered by traditional medicaid. 2. would force myself and many others to accept and pay for costly and intrusive 'Case Management' Services we neither want nor need. 3. would leave over 25% of participants with less mileage allotments then they require to meet their needs, taking away their 'life line' to the community, and disproportionately negatively affecting citizens in more rural areas. 4. Because the WV DHHR - Home Community Based Services Office misrepresented, under-reported, and then took no actions to resolve concerns reported to them during the official public comment period. Full Details are available here: http://tinyurl.com/StopHarmful2015WV-ADWchanges

Breland has been away from his family and friends, for over 11 years. Breland is very remorseful of his past and would like the opportunity to show the world the man he has become. Breland feels strongly about giving back to the community and wants to be a role model to others: showing them there is more to life then getting in trouble.

Anthony L. Massey has been in prison for a crime he did not commit for over 15 years, because he was un-wavering in his innocence and would not admit to the crime by accepting a plea bargain. He was a victim of a trail without appropriate due process: - Lack of proper investigation - Telephone records were never subpoena - DNA test findings withheld as evidence - Local Judge gave mis-leading instructions to the jury leading to a weapons charge - He was accused of breaking and entering with no evidence of force entry - Prosecution withheld a witness that would have proven Anthony Massey's innocents with a viable alibi - Witnesses/character witnesses were never called to trial - Police submitted a tainted report that was typed by a second officer. - Police interrogation videotaped interview went missing - Anthony was denied access to a lawyer and was immediately forced to consider a plea for lesser time as an intimidation tactic - The child identified in the case was said to be slapped by Anthony Massey who has two sons of his own and don't believe in spankings. After throwing out the child endangerment charge because the child exhibited years of abuse, incidentally child protection services was never called. Please sign this petition to Free Anthony L. Massey of all charges and make PLEA BARGAINING A FEDERAL OFFENSE without the support of a lie detector device. We have too many innocent Americans in jail and prison for crimes they did not commit but agreed to take a plea for a lesser sentence. We would also like all cases of 1st time offenders that took a plea bargain to be further investigated by appropriate jurisdictions and given a lie detectors to insure justice and the possibility of innocence. Our judicial system is designed to boost the careers of lawyers, prosecutors and judges by covering up their mistakes and allowing innocent citizens to suffer instead of upholding justice.

These proposed budget cuts will affect my grandchildren's educations and must be stopped.

This petition requests that President Barack Obama issue an Executive Order -- to remove any and all legal charges made against members of the Organization "99Rise" --for their verbal statements made in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The actions of the members of "99Rise" in the Supreme Court should be formally noted to be acts of true heroism-- taken in the spirit of the original American Revolution which founded the United States of America. Had it not been for the heroism of people capable of acting in such a spirit -- long ago -- the United States of America would not exist.

Alex and Ani has failed to recognize that there are over 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide and about 6 million in the United States. Alex and Ani products include products with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. symbols but the company does not sell one product symbolizing Islam (a moon and star and/or an eight point star).