On-call scheduling is now used by many retailers, and it is unfair and treats retail workers as commodities rather than human beings. If you are only able to get 15 - 20 hours at one retailer then you have to get a second job to break even and fill in the gaps that food stamps and housing grants don't pay. That is impossible the way that retailers use on-call scheduling.

Education should be a priority in the U.S.

We support keeping the Tucson, Arizona, mail processing plant open and maintaining the strongest public post office in Arizona.

Au Gouvernement du Mali et ses partenaires

There are so many important things that our Congress should be tackling for our country. I don't think I have to spell it out for our representatives that they are lacking in getting important issues solved, as in Infrastructure, climate change, raising the minimum wage, removing subsidies for large corporations, stopping the toxic oil spills & poisoning of our citizens from fracking. The Republicans make up stories about this and that, (Benghazi) 501(c)4 that should NOT be used for political contributions, and you know it. The IRS investigation is and was a waste of time & money. We, the American people, want our money back that has been wasted. Ted Cruz needs to pay back all the money wasted with his government shutdown and Darrell Issa needs to payback the American people for the monies he has wasted. And, NO funds from the taxpayers should be used for any lawsuit against our president! A lawsuit against our president is un-American and is treason.

Neil Abercrombie was elected Governor of Hawaii with the help of the environmental community. Once elected, he abandoned good environmental principles and pushed things like the Public Lands Development Corporation. He angrily called environmentalists the "left-wing Tea Party." He went down to the largest defeat ever in the 2014 election, when environmentalists turned their backs on him. Don't let Abercrombie's actions threaten good land use in Hawai'i.

There is a need for a disabled resident to be able to safely navigate to neighbors housing without the fear of becoming stuck in her travels or even isolated.

I am a nurse with 35 years experience. I work at Christus St. Vincent hospital. I am a member of District 1199NM National Health Care Union of Hospital and Heath Care Employees. Parts of the hospital are chronically understaffed. This is a health and safety issue for both the patients and the staff. As part of contract negotiations 1199NM has asked for a guaranteed minimum level of staffing. The hospital administration is refusing to negotiate this. This is possible to do. California currently has a law mandating staffing levels. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded “staffing of RNs below target levels was associated with increased mortality.” The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania had the same finding.

In 2003, Ezekiel Iwarimie and his wife, Chioma, purchased their little piece of the “American Dream”– a home in the South Ward of Newark. Like many hard-working families trapped in inflated mortgages with predatory lending schemes the Iwarimies struggled, especially after Ezekiel lost his job as a social worker in 2009 and the family had to rely on Chioma’s income as a nurse. Unfortunately, predatory lending practices also sprouted a new bottom feeder industry of profiteers. Last year Garside Homes bought the Iwarimie family’s loan from an online scratch and dent site at a huge discount. Garside knew the family had already gone into foreclosure, but they saw dollar signs and moved quickly to make a profit from Ezekiel’s misfortune. The Iwarimies tried in good faith to negotiate a modification with Garside to save their home, but Garside refused. Instead, Garside sent two men to the home to threaten the family and demand that they turn over the original note to their home. Now, Garside has scheduled a sheriff’s sale of the Iwarimie’s home in the South Ward of Newark. Garside paid pennies on the dollar for the Iwarimie’s home…now they’re demanding the family pay them $418,000 or they lose their home! Please stand with the Iwarimie family and sign this petition!

The brutality of this Officer must not be condoned or permitted. The Sheriff's Department must hold this Officer accountable. The citizens of Montgomery County will not accept brutality by those sworn to serve and protect.

Back in the Cold War days, people were terrified that there would be a nuclear war. Guess what? The danger is still here and it is growing. We are living on borrowed time. Over the next few weeks, President Obama will be making a decision about whether the United States will participate in a historic summit on nuclear weapons that will include delegations from countries around the globe. In 2009 and several times since, President Obama has said that America is committed "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” But since actions speak louder than words, this petition asks Obama to be a leader in reducing the danger of nuclear weapons. There are more than 16,000 nuclear warheads still left in the world, most of them much more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 93% are in the arsenals of the US and Russia. For decades we've been told that we don't have to worry about them--that the US and Russia would never get into a war. It's hard to take those assurances seriously in light of the Ukraine crisis where Russian and U.S. allies are fighting a hot war in the middle of Europe. Even if the US and Russia don't stumble into a war through some crisis like Ukraine, there is always the danger of an accident triggering a nuclear conflict. Plus, recent research has shown that even a very "limited" war, such as between India and Pakistan, involving less than 1% of the world's nuclear arsenals, would trigger global climate disruption, cut food production across the world and lead to a "nuclear famine" that would put 2 billion people at risk. Fortunately, a new, global movement is underway to ban nuclear weapons on the basis of their unacceptable humanitarian impacts. In February, 2014, representatives of 146 nations, 3/4 of the world, met in Mexico to discuss what will happen if these weapons are used and what we can do to prevent that. But the United States BOYCOTTED the meeting! The well-entrenched military-industrial complex plans to spend a trillion dollars over the next 30 years on “modernizing” the American arsenal. There will be a follow-up Humanitarian Impact Conference this December, in Vienna. This time, the U.S. should take the high road, constructively attend, and provide leadership to this urgent campaign to rid the world of the greatest threat to human survival.

It is hard for convicted felons to move on with their lives when the society we live limits us from living in positive neighborhoods and does not allow us to clean our records. Living in recovery is hard enough, and being forced to live in the same neighborhoods that we grew up in makes it even harder. Finding jobs is also an issue. If we had the ability to prove our recovery in order to expunge records it would make our lives more successful and reduce recidivism.