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Change starting times for high schools to a later timeAs parent of a High school student, I think this change will make a difference to all students' health and academic achievement. It can be done: please see http://www.startschoollater.net/success-stories.html152 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Atul
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Don't punish US Citizens with Foreign Spouses trying to stay together lawfully with delays caused...I followed the rules. I spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours studying how the immigration system works. I wrote a 500 page application. Like many others, I want my family to stay together. I am a US Citizen. Why is forgiving illegals with DACA so much more important than keeping my family together? Why am I being punished for following the rules? Why should legal immigrants who jump through so many hoops suffer to give way to illegal immigrants who openly violated those same laws?14 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Brian
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N.H. Citizens are for Campaign Finance ReformCorruption in our political system is not the only issue facing our nation but it is, by and large, THE FIRST! We can fix the ongoing corruption at the federal level, but the states MUST ACT. Let's make New Hampshire the 4th in the nation to pass a resolution calling for an Article V Convention of the States. Let's get money out of politics, one state at a time! For more information: https://legiscan.com/NH/drafts/HCR2/201598 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Nikki Dussault
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Stop Field Sobriety Testing - Police are not DoctorsCurrently, Florida law enforcement officers are taught they can determine drunk driving and illegal drug driving based on a set of three medical tests that you many of you will fail for over 500 medical reasons. It you fail these tests you are going to jail. Period. Street drunk and drug testing or "field sobriety testing" (FST) is actually advanced brain or neurologist physician testing. So If your are tired, a poor learner, scared, dehydrated, in pain, a diabetic, suffering with a headache, or even a poor skater or gymnast, you are going to jail. Why? Because you have no practice doing these complex medical tests or you have a medical problem that limits your skill at field testing. If you fail this testing fully sober and drug-free, you are still going to jail. You will be arrested, handcuffed with sharp steel rings tight on your wrists, your car will be searched as you wait, and you will spend many hours or days in jail, after you are aggressively searched, put in inmate clothing, fingerprinted, photographed for the morning news and fed food fit for dogs. Even if you are able to pay what a judge eventually determines is your bail, and are released until a hearing or trial, you will lose a good deal of money, time, and you will suffer. You can lose items of value in your care after your car is taken. You have to "bail out" your towed car. You need to hire a lawyer. You have misc. legal and court fees to pay. You will have to explain to your boss or clients, why you are in the paper and why you have been gone one or more days. This is simply law officers playing doctor who will never be skilled enough to understand the hundreds of variables that effect the three field sobriety tests. Hundreds of physical limitations or diseases undermine your ability to perform these field sobriety tests (FST) and these illnesses can be found in the free book, Sobriety Testing, by James Schaller, MD and Kim Mountjoy, MS at www.personalconsult.com, or in a hard copy at your favorite book store. Years ago a tired, dehydrated neurologist left an educational conference in Tampa, because a seizure patient became angry at him and was acting psychotic. To protect the rest of Hotel and patrons, he told the patient he was leaving, and talked to over ten people as he loaded his many files, books and clothing as a local police woman talked with him over thirty minutes. Video shows him driving and loading perfectly. Ninety seconds after leaving the hotel he was stopped and told to reverse in a complex manner which he did perfectly. He produced his ID materials quickly, and yet after he failed field sobriety testing after sitting handcuffed a long time in boiling Tampa blacktop, he was arrested. The arresting officer refused to talk to the hotel police officer who assisted the physician in moving his car closer for loading. The neurologist was speaking and writing at the conference, and had hundreds of books with him--so many it took him an hour to load his car at times feet away from this hotel officer. After the arrest, the officer lied and said the neurologist was slurring words and mumbling, when from taped messages left minutes before he drove, it is clear his voice was perfect. The field sobriety test trouble gave the officer confidence to "load the report" with items consistent with a drunk person. All charges were eventually dropped as they waited weeks for the drug testing to return. No alcohol or illegal drugs were found. Yet the entire process cost over 7,000 and the neurologist reports he will never trust law enforcement again. This arrest is eternal even if the charges are dropped, and in some counties, the prosecution will almost never drop a charge due to the prosecution ideology. The attorney general office can have the goal of justice, balance, high convictions at any cost or income earning plea deals. Just remember, this may all happen because of an old rear light or you did not fully stop three seconds at a stop sign. A smart law officer can usually find some reason to full you over. Most of you will fear law enforcement the rest of your life. You will likely stop assisting good law enforcement with tips or help them fight crime based on this unjust experience. That attitude is a massive loss to ethical and high quality law officers who need citizens to help them oppose serious crime. It also undermines the dangers of impaired drivers, who must be stopped from causing dangerous crashes.15 of 100 SignaturesCreated by James Schaller, MD, MAR
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Become Worlds Ahead: Install Bike/ Skate lanes in and around FIU campusOn January 20, 2015, I was on my way home to my apartment across 8th from FIU when I was almost run over by an SUV. I was in the street because the sidewalk has been closed due to construction. In order to avoid being hit I moved closer to the construction fence and ended up falling on my face and breaking my nose. This is not the first dangerous encounter I have had with cars while walking to school. With enrollment at an all time high of near 54,000 students , walking on campus is a pain and skating unfathomable because it feels as though everyone is being corralled. FIU's MMC consists of 342.2 acres and 109 permanent buildings. All students, bikers, skaters, walkers and roller- bladers alike should be provided with safe passage to and from class.130 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Tatiana Torres
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Nipuni Obe: We Want Her to Stay!A wonderful girl who we all grew up with in the Whitman cluster is going to have to move schools, going to a (sometimes labeled "worse") school because she is not allowed to keep attending the same school she has been for her whole life. Is that really fair?44 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Lindsay Keiser
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Goucher DivestWe aim to join the movement to curb climate change through moving institutional investments from companies that support fossil fuel use and development to more sustainable options in an effort to uphold Goucher College's community principles to responsibility and sustainability.12 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Goucher Divestment Team
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TRIBECA PEDIATRICS: Protect Small Babies From Anti-Vaccinators At Your PracticeWe have a four month old son. We love Tribeca Pediatrics and are philosophically aligned with their approach to pediatric healthcare in many ways. However, it has come to our attention that over 100 active patients at the Fort Greene practice alone are anti-vaccinators. We are afraid of the risk posed to our baby by sharing space with these individuals, particularly in light of the fact that it is when babies are sick and vulnerable that they go to the doctor. Some important context: We have raised our concerns directly with the practice. They were extremely responsive, and sympathetic to our concerns, acknowledging that there is some risk involved, but they feel they have a better chance of educating anti-vaccinators if they continue to accept them. They also explained that the idea of separation is logistically difficult due to space constraints. We started this petition in the hopes that if enough people express interest in their doing so, they will consider creating some system for separation, despite the logistical difficulty in doing so. This petition was started by parents in Brooklyn, but it is an issue that affects us all. If you have a kid who goes to Tribeca Pediatrics, or simply think this issue is important and needs to be addressed, please sign.263 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Pariserakos
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Schain Mold and Engineering: Pay your workers a living wage!In the February 1, 2015 article that highlights the long and difficult commute to work that one of your employees takes each day, you celebrate his resilience and commitment to the job. You should be ashamed of yourselves for supposedly supporting this man, yet refusing to pay him a living wage that would allow him to commute to work easier and not commute for 8 hours a day. Commit to paying your workers a living wage now so that no employee has to spend 1/3 of their day commuting to work.28 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Chris Stergalas
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Preserving the architectural nature of CharlestownA real estate person seeks to level an historical home and construct a modern edifice not in keeping with the style of the neighborhood. If he is allowed to proceed others can follow and the historical nature of Charlestown would be distorted.233 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Nancy Nichols Kearns
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Let's Build a Skate Park!To celebrate and rekindle the relations between multicultures. Also, to give residents of west Jax a state of the art skate park.113 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Darian Moore
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Support Professor Steven Salaita Against CensorshipCondemn the heavy handed approach of University of Illinois against freedom of speech and bowing to the Zionist Pro Israelis who hide behind Judaism and shut any dissent by excuse of so called Anti-Antisemitism.104 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Hamoon Pooya