Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

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My petition is to put more strength in the power of saving and being a powerful organization that would have over 50 -horse rescue and associated animal activist organizations from all over the U.S. and North American/ South American Continent, with affliliates in Europe, the Far East, Asia, and the continents as Australia!

I am Patti Jones the aunt to the Late Anthony Clayton Lester: TONY. Tony lost his life quite tragically on July 12, 2010 while in the custodial care of the Arizona Department. Tony was clinically diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, so SEVERALLY mentally ill that he had gone through a lengthy rule 11 court proceedings to restore him to a minimal level of competency The Arizona Department of Corrections ruled his death a "Highly Preventable Suicide". From the moment of Tony's tragic HORRIFIC death I have been on an incessant passion driven mission to expose the DEPLORABLE mental health care conditions within our Arizona Prisons. My sister had filed a Wrongful death lawsuit, which has recently been settled out of court to the sum of 100,000.00 dollars. With this settlement the State of Arizona and Arizona Department of Corrections allowed judgement to be taken, upon all claims made against it in this action, in favor of Plaintiff Eleanor Lester (Tony's Mom). If one would observe since Director Ryan has been appointed as Director the suicide rate within the Arizona Department of Corrections has doubled the national average. Last July of 2013 Arizona House Minority Leader Rep. Chad Campbell COURAGEOUSLY stepped forward after he viewed a series of COMPELLING investigative reports done by KPNX 12 News, seasoned investigative journalist Ms. Wendy Halloran: " Watching Tony Die". It was Ms. Halloran's compelling reports that truly exposed the DEPLORABLE mental health care conditions that have been allowed to exist for decades. It was several of Ms. Halloran's reports that initiated the filing of the ACLU, National Prison Project's along with the Prison Law Offices Class Action Law Suit. Rep. Campbell has asked for his fellow legislators to support his call for the Immediate Resignation of Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan with very little support from Arizona Legislators. With the signing of this petition the people can and will send a POWERFUL message that can and will speak volumes! Here is support as to WHY Director Ryan MUST be removed from his appointed position: Reasons to call for Director Ryan’s resignation 1. Security failures. A recent audit by the State Auditor General found disturbing security violations at state prisons, including broken perimeter alarm systems that staff ignored and a failure to keep an inventory of keys. 2. Personnel problems. News reports have indicated that there is low morale at state prisons and that employee turnover is very high. The Arizona Correctional Peace Officers Association submitted a letter of “no confidence” regarding Director Charles Ryan. 3. Criminal behavior. The Arizona Department of Corrections Inspector General has documented hundreds of acts of criminal conduct by DOC employees, including DUI and domestic violence. 4. Pattern of mismanagement and lack of leadership. One examples of mismanagement is the awarding of the medical care contract to Wexford, then rescinding that contract and re-awarding it to Corizon. Both companies have faced controversy and accusations of poor medical services. 5. Conflict of interest. The Department of Corrections has close ties to the private prison industry as well as private health care providers. One example is Chuck Coughlin’s relationship with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which has a contract with the state to provide private prisons. Coughlin has a well-known relationship with the governor, who appointed Director Ryan to his position. Another example is Director Ryan’s ties to Terry Stewart who works with Advanced Correctional Management, which lobbies for private prison expansion, as well as Stewart’s work with Corizon, which was eventually awarded the statewide contract to provide health care to inmates. 6. High suicide rates. Suicide rates at state prisons were 60 percent higher than the national average between 2010 and 2012. 7. Poor medical care. Inmate medical care has been severely neglected. Egregious examples of inmates being given grossly inadequate health care have been outlined in the class action lawsuit against DOC. 8. Abuse and neglect of inmates. There has been a pattern of abuse and neglect of inmates, including Marcia Powell who died after being left outside in the sun for many hours and Tony Lester who was allowed to bleed to death in prison while correctional officers watched and did nothing to help him. 9. Private prison problems. In addition to the conflict of interest noted above, Director Ryan has also failed to properly manage private prison contracts and supervise the private prisons. The inmates escaping from Kingman is one example of his failure to oversee the private prisons. Additionally, private prisons often cost more than state-run prisons, and DOC has failed to hold the private prison companies accountable for the terms of their contracts with the state. With the signing of this petition MANY more LIVES can and will be saved!! The PEOPLE will have their VOICES heard. This is AMERICA we MUST not and WILL not let another AMERICAN life be treated as such!! http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20130222tony-lester-doc-video.html http://www.azcentral.com/video/2183395260001 http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/News/Rep.+Chad+Campbell+calls+for+resignation+of+Arizona+Department+of+Corrections+Director+Charles+Ryan/40280768001/35150280001/2562549084001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRf2AvUu0QA Read the executive summary of “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey" and the full report on the TACReports.org website.

A quarter of everything we eat, from apples to watermelon, depends on bee pollination. But toxic pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, have been linked to the mass die-off of bees and other pollinators. This is a threat to our food supply and local businesses.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9506990 Thirteen years ago Mr Anderson committed a crime of armed robbery. The courts released him pending sentencing and instructed him to wait until they contacted him. Thirteen years later they realized that they never sent him to prison. In these thirteen years Mr Anderson has changed his life and been raising his children. Demand that he be released as the error was not his and he has been rehabilitated!

Religious freedom and due process of law are the cornerstones of American tradition, ideals, law and governance. Both are being violated in the indefinite, coercive imprisonment without trial, bail or visitors of Reverend Roger Christie. Every day that Roger remains imprisoned is an insult to the sacrifices made for our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" and the fundamental human right to trial before punishment.

My husband John was falsely accused of a horrible sexual crime with no evidence at all and only the say so of a troubled teen and after thousands of dollars spent and many lives being tortured thru this event the evidence will set him free but not without innumerable amounts of suffering to all family members involved.John is only 1 person among the 79% of the wrongfully accused of this horrible crime. The bad laws that allow this to happen needs to be changed.

As a part of the UCI club figure skating team it would make it much easier for our practices and I believe the revenue from the students as well as the public would be substantial. I also believe it would be something that makes UCI stand out from other UC'S. In addition to its revenue, the rink would provide a great opportunity for a wider range in work-study positions for UCI's students. There are many suggestions that ice rinks continue to be successful in revenue. For example, one news report for Tuscaloosa last winter stated that "a total of 13,031 tickets had been sold for an overall income of $130,607" in just one winter season. Although this would be an expensive project, UCI already has plans for future projects that could be replaced with this rink, some of these projects costing over $50 million, one of which is a student housing expansion project. The rink would be a great replacement, the students at UCI feel the current amount of student housing is sufficient and a rink would be much more beneficial. The funds are there, but UCI is spending it on renovations elsewhere. (Other future construction plans including a list of costs can be found here http://www.designandconstruction.uci.edu/documents/Capital_Projects.pdf ) As previously stated, students and alum of UC, Irvine believe that this rink would bring more national and regional recognition to our university and our community. The way in which the ice rink is capable of bringing this recognition is through tournaments, conventions, meetings, etc. With an ice rink on campus, we can excel in collegiate figure skating and will give the opportunity for those interested in ice hockey to re-start the ice hockey club sport here. Also, a national or regional USA hockey or US Figure Skating event will bring teams/contestants from across the nation to this facility. This will not only bring our community and school recognition, but will also help the other local entertainment businesses, restaurants, and hotels in our area.