Like the majority of Americans, New Yorkers want to know what is in the food we're eating and feeding our families. But right now, genetically engineered (GMO) food isn't labeled, so it's hard to make informed decisions about the food we eat. Whether we want to avoid GMOs for environmental, ethical, religious or other reasons, without labels there is no clear way to know whether a food contains GMO ingredients. We label calories, fat and sodium, so why not GMOs? Please urge your legislator to support our right to know by co-sponsoring the Assembly bill to require the labeling of GMO foods.

Some RI lawmakers responded to a protest on a freeway against police abuses by proposing misguided laws on "interference with traffic"(S129, H5192). These bills apply not just to freeways but to many streets as well, can be used against someone inadvertently standing in the road as well as peaceful picketers or homeless people, propose an extended jail sentence as a penalty, and permit the threat of felony charges against those who have caused little or no harm. Whether last year's freeway protest against police abuses was right or wrong, it's a bad idea to respond by just giving the police more excessive power. http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText15/SenateText15/S0129.pdf

In every state except Mississippi and West Virginia, parents can legally choose to not vaccinate their children against common illnesses before enrolling them in school. The consequence of these vaccination loopholes has been the re-emergence of diseases like the measles—an illness that had all but been eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are over 100 reported cases in more than a dozen states, and the U.S. is "likely to see more cases." Mississippi hasn’t seen a measles outbreak since 1992 and West Virginia, not since 1994. That’s because neither state permits children to enroll in kindergarten without getting their full roster of vaccines—no matter their parents’ personal or spiritual beliefs. The anti-vaccine movement puts our most vulnerable populations at risk, including children under 12 months who simply cannot get vaccinated. Public health must trump parental choice. Tell your governor to introduce legislation to ban all belief-based vaccination exemptions.

Because the University of Wisconsin College system is one of the best in our nation, and also because the funds that will be cut from that system will also lead to firings, loss of students, and the online programs at these schools will be handed out to for-profit colleges. Our education should be our top priority and these cuts should be stopped.

It is outrageous that hard working people like James Robertson must walk 21 miles a day just to get to work! Southeast Michigan transit has failed Mr. Robertson AND thousands of others who struggle every day struggle just to get around. This is a crisis that has continued for far too long! It is time for our region's leaders to solve it!

Products containing PFOA or any of its derivatives have proven to be deadly to avian life and linked to human cancers. Thousands, perhaps millions of domestic birds have suffered horrific, suffocating deaths due to PFOA toxicity. On 01/11/2015 I witnessed my three parrots suffocate in their own blood after using a product made with PFOA or its derivative. Stop poisoining our innocent avian life. We, the consumers demand to be WARNED of the presence of such toxic chemical in any product sold to us.

Our entire country has been and is continuously affected, harmed and ill informed by virtue of NEWS CORP consistently and willfully misrepresenting opinions, obfuscations, half-truths and probably blatant lies, as fact. This has led most recently to a most embarrassing international incident tarnishing the very reputation of the entire United States in the eyes of the rest of the world, including some of our very close allies, causing them to question our veracity, understanding and discrimination of Fact versus Fiction.

This petition has been started in opposition to the people in Madison who have felt the need to villainize and discriminate against others simply on the basis of a personal lifestyle choice. Ultimately the opposition to this business is not about the business, it is about the people who keep the doors open. We live in a free country where everyone's rights and choices should be respected.

Our community members deserve to be heard, and gas stations should not be built adjacent to residential neighborhoods! Such an establishment will affect the health, safety, comfort, and general welfare of all our residents.

Gerawan workers are excited. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board (LAUSD), who contracts to purchase Gerawan’s products, is taking a stand for their rights. On February 10, the LAUSD Board will vote on a resolution asking its procurement office to inform the board about Gerawan Farming’s compliance with fair labor practices before any contracts with this vendor are brought to the board for approval. Can you sign the Gerawan workers’ petition in support of this resolution? Gerawan workers will deliver the signed petition when they testify in Los Angeles on February 10th. This vote will be held while an administrative judge in Fresno continues to preside over the months long state hearing regarding alleged flagrant labor law violations by Gerawan Farming Inc. The school board resolution “calls upon Gerawan Farming to comply with state and federal laws, including labor relations…and to immediately implement the agreement issued by the neutral mediator and the state of California.” The proposed LAUSD resolution vows to ensure “that agricultural vendors and suppliers be in compliance with all local, state and federal laws, including the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.” It also requests that the district’s “Procurement Services Division report back to the board updating Gerawan Farming’s compliance with fair labor practices before any contracts with this vendor are brought to the board for approval.” The Los Angeles City Council and Berkeley City Council both passed similar resolutions.

Exporting coal off the coast of Washington is a bad idea, period. But right now, there’s a proposal on the table to build a coal export terminal in the Salish Sea. Not only would this terminal threaten our health and contribute to climate change, it would also threaten fisheries that the Lummi Nation have used for over a thousand years. Earlier this month, the Lummi sent a powerful message to the Army Corps of Engineers, asking them to deny the permit and honor the Lummi’s treaty rights. We stand with the Lummi Nation and join them in asking the Army Corps to honor these treaty rights and stop this destructive project. Please email your representatives today and ask them to call on the Army Corps to oppose this project.

I am Caylee's maternal grandmother and I have been fighting for months to have my only granddaughter placed with me, a fit and willing relative caregiver. Caylee should not be separated from her entire biological family due to the act of her father. This is very punitive to Caylee.