My son, Jonas, suffers from seizures brought on by a genetic condition called Angelman Syndrome. His medications are not working to control the seizures, but do cause debilitating side effects including impaired balance, motor skills, and speech. An oil extract from a strain of medical marijuana that produces no "high" has been found to help children in states where it is legal, and with an 85% success rate. Oklahoma children deserve the opportunity to live seizure free.

I'm simply sickened and disturbed about the unnecessary use of deadly force by individual police officers against innocent civilians nationwide. Often these attacks are a product of racial bias, anger issues, or ineffective training. This is one of the most important civil rights issues of our generation.

The way streaming services pay royalties represents a major shift in the economic gears that have been underlying the industry for a decade. On a 99-cent download, a typical artist might earn 7 to 10 cents after deductions for the retailer, the record company and the songwriter. One industry joke calls the flow of these royalties a “river of nickels.” In the new economics of streaming music, however, the river of nickels looks more like a torrent of micropennies. Spotify, Pandora and others like them pay fractions of a cent to record companies and publishers each time a song is played, some portion of which goes to performers and songwriters as royalties. Unlike the royalties from a sale, these payments accrue every time a listener clicks on a song, year after year. The question dogging the music industry is whether these micropayments can add up to anything substantial. Complicating the issue, each type of service pays different rates. Pandora’s are set by law. Spotify generally pays 0.5 to 0.7 cents per stream for its paid tier, and as much as 90 percent less for its free tier. At this very moment, lobbyists for these streaming services are trying to set the amount paid per play to even lower amounts. This unjust and self-serving move is forcing songwriters of even the most popular and highly spun songs to see dismal amounts of return for their hard work and investment into their craft. Although there are many songwriters and music artists expressing their views on various online news outlets and Facebook, not enough attention is being brought to this issue on the national news stage. Congress is currently reviewing this matter, but with the financing power and lobbying of these streaming services being heavily implemented, the real losers of this battle are the artist, songwriters and music fans. Songwriters have helped create the most memorable music for decades and now people in this profession are seeking employment elsewhere or seek multiple jobs to sustain themselves and their families. Please sign and share this petition if you love music and want to see your artist and songwriters be paid fairly for their contribution to society. We hope that with enough attention, this issue could be brought to light on a national level.

The reason: impropieties in the school and operators selection and violations of The Renaissance Charter Initiative Year V Community Engagement and Voting Policies and Procedures Manual created by the SDP Renaissance Charter Office on April 2, 2014, such as: Violation of Year V Timeline when Voting Day was change on April 28, 2014 No Clear Procedures or Guidelines delineating the possible change of Voting Day

Children in the state of California need to have institutions of higher learning available to them at an affordable cost. These seats should not be sold to the highest bidder. The state budget needs to address this issue and the UCs need to be scrutinized for their spending practices. Taxpayers will not bear the burden of funding a system that does not accept their qualified children. Facebook page: www.facebook.com/UCs4CA News Article link: http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25669089/uc-admission-harder-than-ever-californians Second article: http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25731300/uc-nonresident-students-increase-californians-admissions-slow

Many people are appalled at the proliferation of hydraulic fracturing wells across the country. Although some people are not particularly concerned about what goes on in other localities, no people, including oil company executives, want fracking in their own neighborhood. Taking that fact of human nature into account and, as current Louisiana state law makes it a matter between the company seeking the rights to extraction and the property owner of the drill site, the best hope to stop the dangerous practice of hydraulic fracturing is on the parish level. People who would not even consider themselves "environmentalists" don't want their property values lowered and are offended by materials being extracted from underneath their property through wells drilled on neighboring properties. Meanwhile, serious environmental concerns over fracking are quite numerous. A Duke University study found unacceptable levels of radio-activity in streams after fracking had occurred. http://www.businessinsider.com/fracking-leaving-radioactive-pollution-in-pa-2013-10 Another Duke University study published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found methane and other fracking materials in well water within a kilometer of frack drilling sites. http://nicholas.duke.edu/cgc/pnas2011.pdf At a recent meeting at the St. Tammany Community Center, when asked if he could guarantee that there would be no spillage of contaminants or environmental damage, a representative of the drilling company answered that, "There are no guarantees." That makes it official then that the proposed extraction process is an EXPERIMENT, an experiment on our lives, health, and water supply and on the lives health and water supply of future generations. Another gentleman from the team of frackers who showed up to face hundreds of angry citizens from across the political spectrum tried to reassure the crowd that, where contamination occurs, it moves very slowly because it's the nature of ground water to move very slowly as opposed to surface water. The operative word in that statement is "move". If there are people living in St. Tammany Parish 500 years from now condemning our stupidity for ruining their aquifer, they are not going to be very much impressed with this notion that ground water contaminants move slowly. 61 townships in New York and the nation of France count themselves amongst the growing number of localities who have banned the dangerous practice of hydraulic fracturing. If the majority of citizens of St. Tammany Parish can't stop a few land owners and a powerful corporation from endangering one of the best aquifers in the country then our democracy is long gone.

We the people will not back down and we feel that this officer should be held for his actions....

Antibiotics are a miracle of modern medicine, and are designed to be given in precise doses, to treat specific illnesses and infections. However, 80% of antibiotics are used on farms, and the bulk of that on healthy animals, administered through the animals’ feed. It’s done to promote growth and prevent illness, allowing animals to be kept in confined spaces that fall short on cleanliness. The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and other leading medical groups all warn that the routine use of antibiotics in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health. The FDA has the authority to stop this misuse of antibiotics on factory farms to protect our health.

People will die without this expansion. Hospitals will be better able to serve us and it will cost us nothing. It is immoral for people who already have excellent healthcare coverage to deny healthcare coverage to those who need it.

After months of negotiations, a broad coalition recommended raising Seattle's minimum wage to $15 per hour. This is a historic moment for the working people of Seattle and will help build momentum for raising the minimum wage across the country. Now it's up to the Seattle City Council to adopt this proposal. Tell the Seattle City Council to vote YES on a $15 minimum wage!

I am starting this petition because secondhand smoke is making life harder for asthmatics such as myself that have cigarette smoke as an irritant. Have you ever stayed under water too long and then at the last second you come up from the water and your trying to catch your breath? When I have an asthma attack and that happens every time people smoke near people with asthma. It is an irritant not an allergy thus no medicine to protect against it. Smoking should be banned in any common area that people travel. Designated smoking areas are not enough. I have had to go through cigarette smoke to enter the Sinai Emergency room for treatment. I am doing a presentation on May 8th at Mount ST. Joseph High School and will be including a signed petition in my presentation. Please respond.

Many non-governmental and human right organizations were reporting about the brutality of the Ethiopian government for the last 23 years. But still the Ethiopian government is one of the major recipients of not only of financial aid but also military training and hardware from United States Government, which the regime does not hesitate to use against our people. The killings of thousands of Oromo students and civilians suspected of being supporters of opposition groups in the last two decades, genocide in Gambella and Ogaden can witness this. The financial aid given to this regime is not being used to construct schools and hospitals but to buy weapons, to construct prisons and buy technologies to spy on its own citizen at home and in diaspora. In the last decade, millions of hectares of land were and are being snatched off poor peasants and sold to wealthy investors in the name of development. The farmers and their families are left for destitution and absolute poverty while TPLF officials and peoples arround them are building luxurious Villas with the aid money at the same spot were the farmers are displaced . Opposing this land grab and injustice, millions of Oromo students and civilians are demonstrating peacefully. But the response from the government side is as usual so brutal that over 50 high school and University students were killed just on one day, and the killing is still underway. With this petition we would like to ask you: 1) To urge the Ethiopian government to stop killing unarmed Oromo civilians and students. 2) To stop giving both financial and military aid to this regime, who use your tax payers' money to buy weapons which end up killing our people.