Reduce carbon footprint and wasted natural resources. Lower the entry barrier to candidates and committees who don't have a lot of money. The most basic color glossy mailers cost 50 cents each to mail. For Oakland with 60,000 highly likely voter unique households, that's a minimum of $30,000 to communicate with voters. You need three or more because most mailing pieces get thrown out. $90K is a lot of favors you'll owe to well to do supporters or you have to be rich to run.

My father, Ali Mahmood Awad Irsan, my mother Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh and my sister Nadia Irsan, have been in jail since May 2014 for a crime they never committed.

The unlimited hidden money unleashed by Citizens United is taking over our democracy. It’s one of the most important issues of our times, because every governmental decision is distorted by money from wealthy interests. Candidates and elected officials need to know that voters are watching what they do about it. That’s why the California Clean Money Action Fund has a candidate questionnaire for candidates to answer whether they would support legislation for true disclosure on political ads and for public financing of election campaigns. Please sign the petition to tell all California candidates for Assembly, Senate, and statewide office that you care about the California DISCLOSE Act and the questions on the California Clean Money Action Fund survey -- and that you’ll be looking for their answers when you vote. We’ll send you their answers on the candidate questionnaire!

I have a smart student who is now frustrated and not doing well with the common core method. Why fix something that wasn't broken in OPUSD schools? Go back to the old way of teaching.

The threat of employment discrimination is too prevalent for job seekers who are forced to have their credit history pulled in order to get hired. But right now, the New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio are negotiating a bill—the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act—that could protect millions of people from being burned by this practice. After months of grassroots outcry, New York City lawmakers are on the verge of finalizing what could become the strongest bill in the country that bans employment credit checks. Too many qualified job applicants suffer when their credit is used as a hiring filter. Privacy is invaded. Jobs are lost. Bills don’t get paid. Savings don’t grow. People of color, who are already susceptible to other forms of employment discrimination, are especially vulnerable to the prejudices that employment credit checks may cause. The truth is, credit reports—a tool originally developed for lenders determining who to lend to and on what terms—have no relevance for hiring or employment. No research has ever shown that reviewing job applicants’ credit history successfully produces a reliable workforce. A recent New York Times editorial was unequivocal: “the [New York City] Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio should unite behind this worthwhile bill” to ban the discriminatory practice of employment credit checks. As the Mayor and City Council negotiate the final content of this bill, a strong show of force is vital to ensure that it will protect all New Yorkers. Join the effort to stand against this system of employment discrimination. Sign this petition to support the New York City Stop Credit Checks in Employment Act today!

Étant donné que chaque joueur paie son uniforme en totalité et que les commanditaires n'apparaissent plus sur les uniformes, chaque équipe du secteur compétitif devrait pouvoir ajouter le nom des joueurs sur les chandails, si elle en assume les frais supplémentaires.

Majority of my peers spend their leisure time in school, participating in athletics, or establishing a social life; they are not plotting, executing, and contemplating the consequences of criminal activity. These are the primary reasons why adolescents should be given alternative trials and consequences; they do not share the same mental capabilities as adults, so they should be regarded as one.

Democracy in America and Maryland is being corrupted by big moneyed interests. Legislative leaders should help create a more level political playing field for all Americans, rich and poor, by allowing a floor vote in the Maryland General Assembly on the Democracy Amendment. This proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution would declare that: • Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights. They do not have First Amendment rights such as free speech. • Money is not speech. The right to spend vast sums of money on elections is not protected as freedom of speech. • Federal, state and local governments have the right to regulate campaign finance, to assure free and fair elections. That should include how money is raised, how money is spent, public disclosure and public financing. • Natural persons who are U.S. citizens have the right to vote and to have their vote counted. The amendment this resolution supports will overturn the deeply flawed Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. FEC, and similar court decisions. Why do we call for a constitutional amendment, given how hard it is to pass an amendment? Because it’s the only way to reverse the Supreme Court when it goes in the wrong direction. For example, after the Supreme Court in the 1857 Dred Scott case declared that slaves are property who cannot become citizens and have virtually no rights, the United States in 1865-66 passed the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments. These abolished slavery and gave former slaves full citizenship rights.

A great University should be a force for fairness, but that has not been the case with the treatment of the 14,000 Teamsters whose hard work makes the University of California function. The University is all too happy to accept our members’ contribution to its success. But when it comes time to hand out well-earned incentive and bonus awards, the University excludes administrative support workers. To make matters worse, managers dishonestly blame the Union for the University’s decision to exclude our members, falsely claiming that the Union Contract prevents them from including the Teamsters in incentive and bonus programs. The truth is that the Teamsters Contract clearly permits our members to be included in incentive awards. Yet the University has systematically excluded administrative support wrokers from receiving incentive and bonus awards it gives to other employees. Such insidious discrimination has no place at the University of California.

Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave more than half our streams—and the drinking water for over 4.5 million North Carolinians—at greater risk of pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.

2014 is on track to be the hottest year on record. That's why it's time to get serious about cutting carbon pollution, and the EPA's clean power plan is an important first step. We need to get this plan over the finish line so that we can ensure a safer climate for future generations.

Our group feels that many people in the city of Buffalo would love to have an NBA team in our city and the Buffalo Braves back home. Not only would many people like to have the team back, but Buffalo is on the rise economically right now. Bringing the Braves back to an already flourishing city would be a great idea.