The artists of Westbeth are being harassed and forced out of their studios, many losing their livelihoods . No new artist applications are being accepted. Their art is being thrown into dumpsters. The low income tenants on Section 8 have had their rents tripled and the US government is paying the difference, although Westbeth legally is supposed to be low, affordable rents for artists. The hurricane Sandy is being used as an excuse to end Westbeth as affordable housing for artists, and a center for the arts. Artists live in fear for their homes and their art.

The governor is destroying our state. He needs to be stopped. He must be recalled.

Prostitution is a form of modern-day slavery. Every day over 15,000 women, men and children in Israel are exploited for sexual services against their will. They are victims of trafficking, fraud, debt manipulation, drug addiction, extreme emotion and physical violence, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. The average prostitute receives between 15 to 20 clients per day, creating approximately 1,000,000 sex transactions per month in Israel. No healthy, sane human being decides to work in prostitution out of free choice.

Equal Child Custody and Parenting time in Pennsylvania is currently considered "Normal" at just 30% for father's. Children need both parents in their lives and the U.S. Supreme Court agree's. Children and parents should not be used to generate cash for any county or state, nor used as leverage to harm another financially or emotionally. This disparity in child custody nearly cost me my life and has adversely affected my young children and thousands of other children and father's in Pennsylvania, including taxpayer's.

Harvey's makes your hamburger a beautiful thing. But not anymore!! Change it back, Harveys! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!

I am starting this petition because I feel that african pygmy hedgehogs should be legal as pets in Georgia due to the warm climate in the summer, and cool climate in the winter.

Obama has done a lot of good. Democrats need more time to fix what ails america. The republican solution to a recession is war and get rid of minimum wage. The republican southern states are a good example of destroyed economies. I hope kansas and wisconsin survive the gop voodoo economics. I think Reich is smart enough to beat the koch-gop tea party, who are he'll bent on creating a pretend christian oligarchy. I am old enough to have known more than a few john birch draft dodgers. The tea party is more of the same. Selfish, white supremist, warmongers, all the things that make u.s.a. look bad to the rest of the world. It embarrasses me that people vote for them. Reich would make a good sane, with no baggage like hillary, presidential candidate.

he will not be as mad or rage that will benefit humanity in tons of ways

because i'm hungry and i don't want to keep eating chicken and rice

In 1987 the Reagen administration initiated illicit interception of a summer resident of Maine depicted as Annie Wilkes in Misery by horror writer Stephen King. Given unlicensed and unfettered access to an individual for covert publicity mass media profited while their target was persecuted, deprived of court redress, and treated as a secret slave. It's time President Obama ended this misuse of US intelligence by ending interception of a citizen and electronic trafficking by press and media.

I am disabled and only 33 years old. I am a single mother of two beautiful children. Thanks to the IRIS Program, I am in my home with my children, though I am disabled from the middle of my back to my toes. The reason for this is because IRIS allowed me to choose a care giver, or they would have found me one, figured out a monthly amount I am allotted through the program and is paying my care giver to take care of me and my household. My care giver cooks meals, helps with my children, helps with my pets, does the yard work; he does everything I would and could do before I became disabled. Without this program, I would have to be in some type of nursing or rehabilitation facility for the rest of my life. I would no longer have my children. I would no longer have my life. And that is not all IRIS does! If I were to need a new bed or a repair on my house such as a ramp going up to my door, I would simply submit it to my IRIS case worker, who is available for me during all business hours by phone. She would submit the request, and they would allot me the extra money, as long as it is something I need due to my disability. Please help the weak and vulnerable in the state of Wisconsin. If we can stand up together and save this program in Wisconsin, maybe it can grow and help someone you love.

The practice of government-mandated high-stakes testing is harmful to our children, their teachers and our public education system and must be stopped in its tracks, because they are not scientifically based; foster test-driven education; foster coercion over cooperation; support complicity of corporate interests; promote a culture of lying, cheating and exploitation within the school community; present a racial and economic bias that is detrimental to second language students, impoverished students, and students of color; put at risk, by personal data collection, our children’s constitutional right to privacy, and blatantly manifest the over-reach of the federal government into the lives of our children, teachers and public education systems in Idaho.