I've been discriminated against from employers and dealing with the struggles of knowing that my state really don't care about the LGBT community when it comes to job protections! We are people and we should be treated fairly across the board!

The recent U.S. Supreme Court's 5 to 4 majority decision in "Town of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway" (announced in early May, 2014) so radically ignores previous precedents and commonly understood interpretations of religious protections provided by the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that the predictable consequences of the majority's opinion may be to render them almost meaningless in any practical sense. The majority's decision is also extremely bad public policy because, by opening the doors of government to sectarian religious doctrines, it will almost certainly substantially increase the risks of religious disputes and strife developing in America. We are well served by maintaining a separation between church and state, as history has long shown.

Members of Congress are public servants, and should not receive special privileges at the expense of hard-working taxpayers.

"Without protecting confidentiality," says Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, "investigative journalism required for accountability and democracy will wither and disappear.”

Conservation work in the US and across the globe will never make an impact on Global warming until the amount of fossil fuel being produced by the gas oil and coal industries is reduced. The U.S. should be reducing the supply of these resources.

I'm starting this petition because I love Pandas and I am an animal person. I feel like we should take care of these beautiful pandas because if we don't, it will effect the animal kingdom as the result of pandas becoming extinct. In China they are killing pandas for their fur, and that's the reason why animals with fur like pandas are becoming more and more extinct.

We as a country should not bow down to the unnatural acts of our country men and women.

In his revised budget, Gov. Brown allocated no new money for early education and care, even though there are nearly 200,000 children on wait lists for these programs. The budget has to be finalized next month, so we need to show overwhelming support right now to fix this mistake and ensure all children get the strong start they deserve.

This week Gov. Brown neglected early learning again. In his revised budget, he allocated no new money for early education and care, even though there are nearly 200,000 children on wait lists for these programs. The budget must be finalized next month, so we need to deliver 1 million petition signatures to Gov. Brown to show him he's making a huge mistake.

Today is the biggest strike in fast food history and it’s phenomenal. The actions in support of $15/hour wages and the right to form a union without retaliation have spread across the globe. It’s time for McDonald’s and the whole fast food industry to recognize that they can’t keep paying poverty wages to their employees – men and women, moms and dads, people whose families are depending on them. Support the strike – then spread the word! Sign our petition to McDonald’s to pay $15 an hour and allow workers to form a union. Make sure everyone at McDonald’s May 22nd shareholder meeting knows that paying poverty wages is no longer an option.

$21.9 billion. That was Wells Fargo’s profit in 2013. It’s their highest earnings ever. [1] And it’s being made off the backs of foreclosure victims and underwater homeowners like me. My name is Yolanda Andrews and Wells Fargo bankers are trying to steal my home. On April 29th I went to San Antonio, Texas, armed with 6,000 signatures from Home Defenders like you to directly confront Wells CEO John Stumpf and ask him to work with me to keep me in my home. Then last week, on May 5th, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder uttered words I’ve been waiting for him to say since Wall Street bankers destroyed our economy, foreclosed on 5 million families and have kept 20% of homeowners underwater: “No bank is too big to jail.” [2] [3] Losing your home hurts the same whether you are African American, Latino, Asian or white. But Wells Fargo has been investigated and paid multi-million dollar settlements for racial discrimination in lending and how it deals with foreclosed homes. Here’s why Wells Fargo and its CEO John Stumpf should be the poster children for proving there is no such thing as “Too Big to Jail”. Just two years ago, it settled lawsuits by Memphis, TN, and Baltimore, MD for a combined total of $607 million. [4] In 2013, the New York Attorney General sued Wells Fargo systematically violating key servicing standards national $25 billion foreclosure settlement regarding loan modification practices. [5] Also in 2013, Wells Fargo settled a fair housing complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $39 million because it “maintained and marketed foreclosed properties in White areas are much better… than such properties … in African-American and Latino Neighborhoods.” [6] Two months ago, news reports show that in 2011 and 2012 Wells Fargo published an internal manual that shows how to forge proof of ownership documents in foreclosure files. [7] And just last month, a report from the University of Minnesota shows that Wells Fargo systematically denied credit and refinancing of subprime mortgages to communities of color in the Twin Cities. [8] I’ve been fighting for an affordable loan modification from Wells Fargo for 5 years now – Wells Fargo’s last offer was for a $49 reduction. I’ve been on the receiving end of every kind of abuse Wells Fargo has admitted to and pledged to stop. Stand with me and demand Eric Holder live up to his own words and start prosecuting Wells Fargo. [1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/wells-fargo-4th-quarter-profit-rose-10-slightly-ahead-of-estimates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 [2] http://diversity.berkeley.edu/underwater-america-report [3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/no-company-is-too-big-to-jail-holder-says-of-justice-dept-probes/2014/05/05/e133e49c-d45f-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html [4] http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/30/news/companies/wells-fargo-memphis/ and http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages [5] http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/NMS%20MOL.pdf [6] http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/News%20Release%20for%20NFHA%20Wells%20Fargo%20Complaint%20120410%20Pdf.pdf [7] http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/ [8] http://www.law.umn.edu/metro/index.html

It is about the 2012 NDAA , signed by President Obama in the closing hours of 2011, as the nation partied. The law allows the President to use the military to detain indefinitely anyone he/she suspects of being a terrorist. It butchers the sixth Amendment, along with half of the Bill of Rights. It was appealed by a group of journalists , led by Chris Hedges, and was struck down by federal judge Katherine Forrest. The law was then reinstated on appeal, and the Supreme Court recently refused to hear it. We must NOT allow this dangerous law to remain on the books! Please sign and pass on this petition!