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The Valley Hospital’s policy to allow religious imagery for Hanukkah but to forbid the religious imagery for Christmas is inconsistent and insensitive. Both Hanukkah and Christmas are distinctly religious holidays replete with their own rich history of religious imagery. To reduce Hanukkah and Christmas to mere secular symbolic reminders is disrespectful to those who celebrate each. Hanukkah is a Jewish celebration of the preservation of Judaism during a time of forced religious assimilation. It is a celebration of the miracle of light in the midst of darkness. Christmas is the distinctly Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is the celebration of God born as a child in the city of Bethlehem as written in Holy Scripture. The Valley Hospital has determined that Christmas is accurately represented with a decorated tree, wreathes and poinsettias. These secular symbols do not remind us of the birth of a person, Jesus Christ. Depictions of this holy event, such as nativity scenes and other Christian imagery, are not authorized by the Valley Hospital. On the other hand, Hanukkah is accurately represented at the Valley Hospital with a purely religious motif, the Hanukiah or Hanukkah Menorah. Why is it that Christians cannot also observe their holiday according to Holy Scripture while at the Valley Hospital? It is our wish that the Valley Hospital give equal representation to all of the faiths in our community. While we welcome Jewish religious symbolism at the hospital, the clear omission of Christian imagery is insensitive. The decorations for Christmas and Hanukkah in public spaces at the Valley Hospital should be faithful to the religions they represent. To emphasize one faith tradition by accurately representing it, while minimizing another by turning it into a secular cultural holiday is an injustice to all people of faith. We ask that the Valley Hospital, its administration, its trustees and staff permit the display of Christian religious imagery depicting the Nativity of Christ, which Christians celebrate on Christmas. Please sign this petition to end unequal religious expression at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Dear Mayor Walsh, I am a member of the Fairmount/Indigo Corridor Network — a growing group of community, business and institutional stakeholders from Newmarket to Hyde Park. As our mayor and a long-time resident who understands and cares about issues of equity and fairness, we want to work with you to shape and influence the future of our communities. The network is urging you to include, in your first State of the City address, a commitment to working with community stakeholders to realize the vision of the Fairmount/Indigo Corridor as a ‘Corridor of Opportunity’ by ensuring: • Policies and sufficient funding to stop displacement of renters, homeowners and businesses. • Social and economic equity across incomes and race. • A Fairmount/Indigo line consistent with other MBTA lines with good bus connections. • Economic opportunity through job training, support for local businesses/entrepreneurs, asset development and wealth building. • Healthy, safe, vibrant neighborhoods with opportunities for arts, recreation, civic and cultural celebration. Please do not forget us in January!!! Warm wishes for the holidays, Your name Organization Address _____________________________________________________________ Here is how you can help us spread the word: 1. Share this website 2. Email the Mayor at [email protected] & Jerome Smith, Chief of City Engagement at [email protected] 3. Call the Mayor’s Office 617.635.4500 4. Mail in your support: Mayor Martin J. Walsh 1 City Hall Square, Suite 500 Boston, MA 02201-2013 5. Share this with your friends, neighbors and email lists!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SUPPORT!!

I started this petition to show solidarity with our mayor.

Tired of all the shit. Replace bad "leaders" with people who actually want to do the right thing.

In Santa Cruz County, California, many people are refused their prescribed medication when they go to Santa Cruz County Jail. The prescribed medication that they take regularly, under the direction of their doctor. It can be very dangerous and even life threatening, to be suddenly cut off of a prescribed medication, especially when it is against the advice and direction of the doctor who knows them and prescribed the medication! But this hasn't stopped the medical director at this jail, Dr. Terry B. Lapid, from behaving so recklessly... This is why I'm hoping this petition might bring change to how things are done when it comes to inmates receiving their important, prescription medications... I know firsthand how dangerous this can be, because my boyfriend recently went to jail. He is prescribed methadone. When he got to the jail, they were very eager to take a urine sample. After many attempts to find out what they wanted the sample for, he found out... They told him that if he tested dirty for ANYTHING else, he would not be given his prescribed medication. That includes testing "dirty" for marijuana, alcohol, or any other prescription medications that he couldn't show proof of having at the time, etc... ANYTHING ELSE!! My boyfriend smokes pot, and had a prescription for it, but it expired a few months previously. This meant he was cut off, suddenly, from methadone, which is a very important medication for some people to take! It causes complete chaos, cutting someone off of a medication like that suddenly! And not only that, but his doctor who prescribes him methadone wanted him to continue taking it! Dr. Lapid went against his doctors advice, and had complete disregard for my boyfriend's wellbeing, health and LIFE! People's lives are NOT a game to be played with! Like my boyfriend, many people in jail are waiting for their guilt or innocence to be determined in court. So this means that someone who may not even be guilty of a crime, are having their lives thrown into upheaval, being denied their prescription medication, for no reason! They are being punished for nothing! It is NOT justice, it is completely unethical and recklace for Dr. Lapid to ignore the advice and direction of a person's regular doctor. These are people's LIVES! If Dr. Lapid refuses to give EVERYONE their prescribed medication, when the prescribing doctor is advising that they continue taking it, he needs to lose his job, and be replaced with someone who can do the job properly.

Anybody who knows the past of Al Sharpton should be concerned that he has become the go-to guy in matters dealing with race. Al Sharpton does nothing but divide this country and is of no benefit to President Obama. He is a self-appointed civil rights leader who only cares when the aggrieved are black. He does not show up protesting the police when the mentally disabled or mentally ill are the victims. He is a fraud who also evades paying his taxes while living a lavish lifestyle. Perception is reality and none of this benefits the President. There is a reason Al Sharpton has been called a racial arsonist. He poisons the atmosphere. Sharpton falsely accused a man of rape. Sharpton became famous by championing the cause of a black teenager named Tawana Brawley, who, it turned out, lied when she claimed that she'd been abducted and sexually assaulted by whites. A grand jury found that Tawana Brawley fabricated the whole thing. Sharpton not only refused to apologize, he dared white Asst. A.D. Pagones to sue him for defamation. Pagones obliged. A jury unanimously found Sharpton liable, and Pagones' lawyer spent years trying to get Sharpton to pay the judgment. To this day, Sharpton refuses to apologize to Pagones, who said he received death threats. Tawana Brawley had by 2013 only paid 1% of what she owed in punishment for the defamation. There is a FBI surveillance video of Sharpton arranging a cocaine/money laundering deal with a mobster-turned-informant. Nothing about Sharpton calling the first black mayor of New York a "n**er whore." Sharpton was a paid pitchman for LoanMax, a "predatory lender" that could not legally operate in New York. Crown Heights tells us everything one needs to know about Sharpton. A 7-year-old black child was accidentally struck and killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew in that section of Brooklyn, N.Y. It sparked three days of riots, resulting in a hundred people injured and the stabbing death of a young Jewish scholar, who was surrounded by a mob chanting, "Kill the Jew." Sharpton fanned the flames, leading some 400 protesters through a Jewish section of Crown Heights. Al Sharpton later said, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." He also defended the lying Duke Lacrosse accuser (and now murderer) with "There is a lot of racism that's in the air." There are more examples but this is a petition and not a book.

Consequences! This man truly believes he can do and say whatever the heck he wants because his wife and children are black, so that apparently in this country now means you hand the right to tell "my fellow black family: Go out and protest as you may, and may it stay peaceful. We have the police there to help you". Then why did you tell them to go against them? My family comes from an incredibly long line of service men and I have had enough! I will be the voice for you!

This is in opposition to annexation to the area known as HWY. 90 & LOOP 1604 .

The Governor's interference in education has cost our children in Detroit, unequal funding and quality education.

The Uintah Express Pipeline is proposed to travel through rural agricultural areas and fragile ecosystems. The Land is home to many endangered and rare wild life species as well as several human populations. The Pipeline puts the Kamas Valley aquifir at risk which provides drinking water to about 1/3 the population of Utah, and also connects to numerous other water reservoirs, rivers, lakes and other aquifer sources. The communities affected have limited resources and are ill equipped to handle the imminent danger of a spill. The oil which will travel through the pipeline is a waxy crude derived from Bitumen mined at the PR Springs tar sands mine. Bitumen crude is 20 times more corrosive than traditional crude oil and presents a more significant danger. The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a warning about the difference between Bitumen pipelines and Crude pipelines stating that Bitumen pipelines should be given higher concern given the corrosive nature of the substance it carries and the extent of damage caused in the event of a spill. Stop the Uintah Express Pipeline, there is too much risk.

It is sad to hear children say they can't share the bible in school and their teachers want let them.God is our foundation and always will be what are we doing?