It is a need in Chicago.

I'M TIRED OF SEEING THE SAME DEATHS, TORTURE, AND MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I'M TIRED OF SEEING THE SAME-OLD NOT MAKING IT TOUGH AND ROUGH ON KILLERS AND ABUSERS AND STOPPING -- NOT ADDRESSING OVER AND OVER AGAIN -- THE SAME ISSUES, BUT STOPPING THEM. WHEN ALL OF OUR STATES HERE IN THE USA SEE AND ADDRESS AND JOIN TOGETHER IN MAKING IT A BETTER WORLD FOR THE ABUSE AND DEATHS OF ANIMALS, THAT IS WHEN WE KNOW WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING. YEARS AND YEARS PASS. SLOW-- VERY SLOW ARE PEOPLE TO SEE, ADDRESS AND JUST STOP THIS MADNESS. THIS IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE WAY TO LIVE. BUT NO ONE IS STOPPING THIS OR FINDING THIS ISSUE VERY IMPORTANT, OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED LONG AGO, AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE LONG AGO STOPPED THIS ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT IS GOING ON. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE AND WAY, WAY TOO SLOWLY ARE STRIDES MADE FOR THE VOICELESS ANIMALS. THERE ARE PROGRAMS TO PLAN AND METHODS TO USE WITH ISSUES OF ANIMALS IN THE USA. I'M SICK OF BLM GETTING AWAY WITH UNLAWFUL TREATMENT AND KILLING OF HORSES. I'M SICK OF PEOPLE FINDING ANIMALS IN THE WAY. I'M SICK OF GAS CHAMBERS -- PUTTING THE DEAR LITTLE PUPPIES AND KITTIES INTO THEM AND SUFFOCATING THE DEAR GENTLE ANIMALS, WHICH IS A PAINFUL DEATH -- KILLING THEM IN SUCH A MEAN AND CRUEL MANNER. WHY IS THIS NOT DONE WITH? WHY IS THIS A WAY TO KILL AN ANIMAL WHO HAS NO HOME AND PUT IT TO DEATH? WHY IS THIS STILL ALLOWED? IT IS BARBARIC, A NO-BRAINER. JUST STOP IT! PUT THE PAPERWORK AND LAWS INTO EFFECT AND END IT -- END IT. BUT THIS IS NOT BEING DONE. ABUSERS, WHY IS THIS DONE OVER AND OVER AGAIN? BECAUSE IN MOST STATES THEY GET AWAY WITH IT. THEY GET AWAY WITH IT WITH LITTLE REPERCUSSION. THEY GET A SLAP ON THE WRIST OR A SMALL FINE. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. WHY IS WASHINGTON NOT DOING THEIR JOB, TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT ANIMALS? WHY ARE THE STATES NOT HERE -- ALL OF US -- WITH THE SAME THINKING AND PROTECTING OF THE ANIMALS? I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BEG TO DO THE RIGHT THING. ANYONE CAN SEE WHEN AWFUL THINGS ARE HAPPENING. IT IS TIME TO STOP ACCEPTING THIS -- ALL OF THE USA. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING THIS. GET OFF YOUR BUTTS, PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT. JOIN TOGETHER AND, ALL OF THE STATES IN THE USA, THINK ALIKE AND RESPECT LIFE AND THE PROPER TREATMENT OF ANIMALS.

We do not want our community clinic to close.

To get the case re-opened and any evidence (if any) evaluated and the killer to Justice..

Although Luis Muñoz Marín Elementary School has been stripped of staff and resources during Philadelphia’s ongoing budget crisis, this year there was good news: The school is making a comeback under the guidance of a new, much-loved principal. But now the school district has targeted Muñoz Marín for a charter school takeover by ASPIRA of PA—and local parents are crying foul. ASPIRA of PA, a charter organization, is currently under scrutiny for suspicious financial practices and misuse of funds that never made it to the classroom. ASPIRA of PA is also engaged in an ugly anti-union fight at another Philly school, pitting its expensive lawyers against its own teachers who are seeking a voice and a union. The National Labor Relations Board has filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against the charter operator; in every case, ASPIRA of PA has been forced to concede, settle and correct its practices. Sadly, ASPIRA of PA has a powerful advocate in Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez, who was once its executive director. She pledged to support unions and workers’ right to organize, but was quick to endorse ASPIRA of PA, a union-busting organization, in its takeover attempt of our public school. We, the parents of Muñoz Marín students, do not want our children’s destiny in the hands of ASPIRA of PA—with its financial problems and anti-union values. We call on Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez to stay true to her constituents, to request a City Council investigation into the troubling allegations around ASPIRA of PA, and to protect our children from the School Reform Commission’s apparent strategy of abandoning our public school system. Rather than declaring our school a failure, we ask Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez to advocate for our school’s funding, staff and resources to be restored. That loss of resources is the real plague at Muñoz Marín. Our school deserves a fair chance.

My name is Mateo Mares. Until early January of this year, my coworker Amilcar Cardona and I hauled Skechers shoes from the Port of Los Angeles to their national distribution center 80 miles/130 KM away. We were fired for trying to improve our working conditions and for standing up for our rights. Our job is like a sweatshop-on-wheels. We work long hours, face safety hazards, endure harassment, and have our wages stolen from us. Drivers like us are standing up for our rights by filing legal claims with the government for wage theft, wage violations, retaliation for union and protected concerted activities, and illegal harassment. We were fired by our Skechers' trucking contractor, Green Fleet Systems, after we exercised our rights to engage in union activities at our workplace and after we refused to withdraw our claims for wage theft when we were pressured to do so by our boss. Now our families are struggling to survive. We worked hard for many years hauling Skechers shoes and other foreign-made products from the docks to warehouses, but now we don't have any work and don't have any money to buy food or pay rent – much less help our kids get through college to make a better life for themselves. Our struggle is like the men and women who manufacture Skechers shoes in places like China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Like workers in Skechers' overseas factory, we are mistreated, deal with safety hazards, and don't get paid what we deserve. When we learned that Skechers has a record for bad treatment of its workers overseas, we realized that Skechers is spreading sweatshop conditions to America. Our children and wives are frightened about our future. It's time for Skechers to do the right thing, get us back to work, and end the sweatshop-on-wheels conditions for workers like us. Add your name and tell Skechers to end the spread of sweatshops in America. Skechers has the power to demand that its trucking contractor stop violating workers’ rights and U.S. labor laws. By signing, you are making a real difference in the lives of workers like me.

The signers of this petition believe that the Chinese Communist Party should act in accordance with their National Human Rights Action Plan for 2012–2015, whereby Chinese citizens are assured that they will enjoy rights to freedom of speech, freedom of information, freedom of religion, and a fair trial, and that the rights of ethnic minorities will be protected.

FOR ALL OF THE MAD PARENTS THAT HAVE SOMEONE GRADUATING AT CROCKETT HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN CROCKETT TX,

Voting is a right. For Natives living on reservations in Montana, however, voting might mean traveling 100 miles or more. There are no courthouses on Native reservations, or satellite voting stations. Traveling to distant white population centers to vote is difficult for some Natives – and impossible for others.

Yahoo is profiting from ads that mislead and lie to women, and it has to stop. As you read this, women are searching for "abortion clinics" on Yahoo. But the majority of the ads they'll get are for anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and groups that oppose abortion. In reality, CPCs are predatory organizations that lure women in to tell them dangerous lies--that they will get cancer or become suicidal if they get an abortion--or even to dissuade them from using birth control. Google just took down a slew of deceptive CPC ads. Yahoo has advertising policies to prevent this kind of deception, and they need to enforce them. Billions of people use Yahoo each month, and if Yahoo does nothing, the tens of thousands of women who search for abortion counseling will be subjected to lies and deception.

A close friend of mine attends Uplift North Hills Preparatory school in Texas. Students at that school, and others like it, are subjected to hours of busy work that gives them tremendous amounts of stress and only a few hours of sleep, if any. Stress has been proven to have lifelong affects, causing anxiety and depression. My friend has both of these. A simple stress survey would raise awareness of this problem. Tell the government to create a free stress survey for ALL schools to distribute to students, and make it mandatory that ALL schools participate and receive their results. That way schools will see the truth about stress and where it comes from, and start working to stop stress. SPREAD THE WORD!

While considering initiatives that reform education I fear that problems, such as massive and crippling student debt, are compounded rather than being solved. I believe a better academic system will result with foundational change of expanding universal public education. Further, I am convinced that the education system is in the foundation of culture, government and society. For the best creative thinking, research and leadership we need to relieve the burdens of debt that plague American students by forgiving all student debt. More, in behalf of creating the most democratic, secure and happy civilization, the best investment we can make is in expanding free public education. With free access to education for all, including higher education, literacy rates will soar and creative answers will begin to surface for numerous problems like corruption, inequality, injustice, environmental degradation and violence.