• We Support Public Transportation in NWI
    ON 10-29-14 NIRPC WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC MTG. ON TRANSPORTATION ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 29TH AT THE WICKER PARK SOCIAL CENTER 2215 RIDGE ROAD IN HIGHLAND. WE HAVE CREATED AN ONLINE PETITION FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC TRANS IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF LAKE COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERS.
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    Created by Steve Segura
  • RECALL Judge Nick Kuntz #ProtectParentsChildren
    Judge Nick Kuntz is making unlawful decisions and assaulting our Rights as Parents and the Rights of our Children in order to appease his Campaign donors and serve his own personal advocacy. If he does not serve the interests and rights of the voters, he must be removed.
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    Created by David Armentrout
  • END Israel's Nuclear Deceptions FREE Vanunu 2014
    [TYPO correction to sentence above- corroborate not collaborate] On 21 April 2004, Vanunu was released from 18 years behind bars [convicted of treason and espionage for providing photographic proof of Israel's WMD Facility to London's SUNDAY TIMES in 1986] to 24/7 surveillance and ten years of struggle through the Supreme Court appealing for his right to leave Israel. Vanunu said, “When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. “Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.” https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363 In April 1999, thirty-six members of the US House of Representatives signed a letter calling for Mordechai Vanunu's release from prison because they believed "we have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity." President Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards. http://www.eileenfleming.org/index.php/vanunus-freedom-of-speech A few weeks after his Freedom of Speech Trial began in March 2006, Vanunu taped this message to then Senator Hillary Clinton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Omq-QG7isA In September 2014, TNT’s Petition To Israel: “We are not free until Vanunu is FREE” was mailed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Rivlin, Supreme Court President, Interior Minister and enshrined in “The Vanunu Legend Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom” https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363 We encourage you, your staff, FBI, CIA, NSA for reading it in hope for audacious leadership. "HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine END Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions Free Vanunu 2014! Petition ENDS and will be delivered to President Obama on November 4--- election day in the USA. The Petition to World Media and Israel: We are not free, until Vanunu is FREE remains open for signatures: https://www.causes.com/actions/1765266-a-petition-to-world-media-and-israel-we-are-not-free-until-vanunu-is-free
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    Created by TNT/Telling Nuclear Truths
  • Justice for the 43 Disappeared Mexican Students
    We, the undersigned, are writing in support of the demands of Mexican protesters and to express our indignation about the horrible events of Friday, September 26, 2014, when six people, three of them students, were assassinated and 43 other students were disappeared from the Rural Normal School “Raul Isidro Burgos” in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, and when two teachers two teachers from the State Coordinators of Workers of the Education of Guerrero were mortally wounded. The persecution and assassinations of the students by the Municipal Police of Iguala and by groups dressed in civil uniforms is extremely alarming to the international community - especially those of us who stand with these students and teachers who were organizing to defend their right to public education - and provides concrete evidence of the lack of guarantees for anyone to exercise their basic human rights, such as those of to petition, demonstrate, and organize. We demand that your government act immediately to guarantee that the 43 students who were disappeared return alive. We also demand that those responsible for the assassinations and the persecutions, be punished to the fullest extent for their heinous crimes. We believe that the fight to defend public education and the human and political rights of all the people in our countries is a righteous and just fight, and we demand that you use your positions to bring about justice for these murdered and disappeared freedom fighters. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: (Fact Report from Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan) On September 26, 2014, at 9 pm, 80 students from the Rural Normal School (teacher training college), “Raul Isidro Burgos,” were headed by bus to the city of Chilpancingo from the city of Iguala. As they were leaving the bus station, police cars suddenly blocked the exit of the station and began firing their weapons intermittently without any warning whatsoever. One student was wounded and still remains in a hospital in a “vegetative state.” The students who were in the back of the bus were violently removed by the police, who forced them to lie in the street by a store. The rest of the students ran in different directions, while the municipal police continued to fire their weapons for almost 40 minutes. At midnight, as the students were informing other organizations about the attacks, a van arrived and a number of armed people jumped out and started randomly and indiscriminately firing their assault weapons. Two students, Daniel Solis Gallardo and a first year student, were killed; five students and two professors were gravely wounded. This second armed aggression lasted about 15 minutes. On September 27, Normalista students appeared at the “Fiscalía de la zona Norte de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Guerrero (PGJE) (government judicial state offices), where they were told that no students had been detained. During the second armed attack many of the students had run away to escape the gunfire. Fifty-seven of them were now considered disappeared, including those who were detained by the municipal authorities in the first attacks. After the 27th, 14 students came out of hiding but 43 students still remain missing. At 4:00 pm, the students at the government judicial state offices (PGJE), the Public Minister informed the students who were at the state office that just three blocks away from the site of the attacks the corpse of one of the students had been found who had visible signs of torture. His eyes had been gouged out and his face had completely skinned. After being identified by his classmates, it was confirmed that it was the body of Julio Cesar Fuentes Mondragon. On these grounds, a legal complaint was lodged on September 28,2014 denouncing the crimes related to the dangerous disappearance of, of the 57 students (now 43), which was filed under the prior investigation VRA/03/2385/2014 in the State Office(PGJE) of Chilpancingo. A legal complaint has also been filed with the “Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Guerrero,” the State Commission for Human Rights of the State of Guerrero. The assassination of the three students, the situation of those who were gravely wounded and the disappeared students all constitute grave and serious violations of human rights that cannot remain unpunished. These acts are evidence that the Municipal Police used excessive force in and that there was a failure by the state and federal authorities to implement appropriate preventive and security measures to avoid the second armed aggression, as well as to stop the disappearance of the students.
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    Created by Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education - USA
  • Increase waitress pay in Alabama from $2.13 an hour to $5.00 an hour
    Waitresses.. . We need them -- we love our jobs, but we need more money... It's $2.13 an HOUR. Please help your favorite Waitresses get at least $5.00 an hour.
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    Created by Regina Minor
  • Push Back High School Start Times
    Starting during puberty and continuing through early adulthood, the circadian rhythm in our bodies shifts, making it almost impossible for young adults to fall asleep before eleven P.M. High school start times are not allowing students to get the full nine hours of sleep they need to be alert and aware. By changing start times, we can increase knowledge retention, while also decreasing the risk of sleep-induced car accidents.
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    Created by Sophie Honeyman
  • Lake Shore Winter Homecoming!
    Lake Shore Senior High School has had a number of failed dances, but this year our Homecoming Dance was most favorable among students. I believe our past dances, such as the Valentines Day Dance, have failed due to things as simple as its corny name. As a way to fund-raise and promote school spirit, Lake Shore should throw a Winter Homecoming.
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    Created by Saige Flickinger
  • Concerned Citizens of Salmon River Central School District
    It is time for the district to take a new direction. The citizens of the district have a team of dedicated staff, and an excellent facility. We must expect better from our superintendent.
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    Created by Dean Francis
  • Stop Joni Ernst's radical attacks on women's rights
    Children deserve to be loved, cared for, and healthy. The Far Right isn't interested in children, just pandering to their base. These unwanted kids born to either incapable or uncaring parents end up on the streets, in prison, or worse. It has to stop.
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    Created by James P Moriarty
  • Cell Phone Age For Children
    Children under 14 should not have cell phones because kids now a days don't know how to communicate in person because they are all about their phones. They barely go outside like everyone used to. It's all about games with kids and it's ridiculous.
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    Created by Samantha McSkimming
  • A historic time for national policing reforms
    The tragic police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown hit home for millions across the country. The horror of losing a loved one, to senseless, racially-motivated police violence is a daily threat in the lives of Black people in America. Now, national leaders are paying more attention to racial profiling and police brutality than they have in years. Will you join us in calling on the federal government to implement critical reforms to end abusive, militarized, and biased policing targeting Black and brown communities?
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    Created by Rashad Robinson Picture
  • A historic time for national policing reforms
    The tragic police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown hit home for millions across the country. The horror of losing a loved one to senseless, racially-motivated police violence is a daily threat in the lives of Black people in America. Now, national leaders are paying more attention to racial profiling and police brutality than they have in years. Will you join us in calling on the federal government to implement critical reforms to end abusive, militarized, and biased policing targeting Black and brown communities?
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    Created by Rashad Robinson Picture