VICTORY! Governor Brown has now signed SB 27, the bill to force Dark Money non-profits to reveal their secret funders in California elections! To their credit, after bill author Senator Lou Correa made a reasonable amendment to ensure that people who made donations before SB 27 goes into effect on July 1st aren't surprised by being disclosed, three Senate Republicans voted Yes, adding to the 25 Democrats who voted Yes and giving it the margin of victory it needed to get to Governor Brown's desk. The three Republican Senators who deserve praise for voting Yes on SB 27 are Senator Anthony Cannella (R-Ceres), Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), and Andy Vidak (R-Hanford). Other Republicans voted No or didn't vote. As California Clean Money Campaign President Trent Lange said afterwards in the Sacramento Bee: “Governor Brown’s signature of SB 27 marks a turning point in the fight to reveal secret funders of political campaigns. It starts to shed light on dark money in California and serves as an example for the entire nation." Your petitions and calls worked! SB 27 became law after more than 40,000 people like you signed petitions. More than a thousand people applied extra pressure by calling their legislator. SB 27 was a great coalition effort in which the California Clean Money Action Fund worked with not only the bill author Senator Lou Correa, the sponsor FPPC, and our CA campaign finance friends at California Common Cause, California Forward, and the League of Women Voters of California; but also with national organizations like Public Citizen, CREDO Mobile, Courage Campaign, Progressives United, Represent.Us, causes.com, MoveOn.org, Money Out Voters In Coalition, MapLight, Label GMOs: California's Grassroots, Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California, Moms Across America, and others. Thanks to everybody who signed and helped us achieve this historic victory! PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE PETITION and we'll tell you how you can help pass other crucial bills to end the dominance of Big Money in politics, like SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act and SB 1272, the Overturn Citizens United Act. -- Your friends at the California Clean Money Campaign (www.CAdisclose.org)

Cheyney University was founded 177 years ago and is the first institution established to educate persons of African heritage who had been held in bondage in the United States. Cheyney University has been the institution where marginalized students could develop their potential and acquire the knowledge and skills to strengthen Pennsylvania. Graduates are educators, legislators, diplomats, doctors, lawyers, chefs, and the list goes on. Many of these highly successful alumni might not have attended university had Cheyney University not been available to them. Cheyney University provides an irreplaceable resource to Pennsylvania. It is a state and national historic treasure. For years, Pennsylvania has failed to fund Cheyney equitably. The school has not received the support provided for the other thirteen Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools. In 1999 an agreement between the Commonwealth and the Office for Civil Rights was reached wherein Pennsylvania promised to equitably equip this University. The state has yet to fulfill the 1999 agreement and the draconian budget cuts to higher education under the current administration has created an extremely debilitating financial situation for this school. At a time when all of Pennsylvania’s youth must pursue some manner of continued or higher education, law makers must maintain our university system. Pennsylvania’s public funds are used to support 40 prisons at twice the cost of supporting higher education. This is wrong for the future of the commonwealth. Do the right thing for Pennsylvania, for our young people, and for persons who might otherwise not seek to change their relationship with society by attending college. Meet the standards set forth in the 1999 civil rights agreement. Preserve, support and maintain Cheyney University.

The weak and outdated Toxic Substances Control Act does next to nothing to keep you and I safe from toxic chemicals. In fact, the scary truth is that there are about 80,000 chemicals approved for use in everyday products and very few have been tested to see if they are harmful. Many are linked to reproductive disorders, learning disabilities, diabetes, and cancer. That’s a whole plethora of chemicals that Americans are exposed to on a daily basis! We need you to call on your senators to make sure that reform of our toxic chemical laws is substantive and real. Chemical reform must protect pregnant women, workers, children and overburdened communities, and the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (S. 1009)—as drafted—does NOT pass the test.

My 85yr old Mom with Adv. Alz. that is progressing. She has taken at least 7 falls in 6mo. They were to implement it fully in Jan 2014. But to this date the protocol isn't consistant. As the residents are suffering. She fell the first time in Oct 2013 on an Alarm ( On the BATHROOM FLOOR ). She told them to get rid of-And they did. WE asked for them to put it back in. They said no-Because they were going to be Alarm Free as of Jan 2014. She could've had 2 1/2 mo of a program IN PLACE to help get her started. They refused her Xrays or Cts. At least 2-3 she was unresponsive. She had a hip replacement over 2yrs ago. Feisty as she was, didn't cooperate with Physical Therapy, she just wanted to walk. Therapy gave orders to staff for 15min. twice a day for restorative walking. Most included the time she did walk to the bathroom. She has 2 torn rotaor cuffs with bone spurs, fractures in her back also. With this program she is now mostly independent for everything, she helps with ADLS. They give Meds, Baths, Meals, Treats, & suppose to provide proper hygeine care twice a day. With some help by some compassionate CNAS & Nurses to get into bed & cover her, as she can't. I was told, she has to learn to do all this herself. There are 2 alarms left. In her chair & on her door. She is killing herself trying to accomodate this program. And maybe the 1st Stastic for this home that I believe is trying to be the 1st in the state of Wi, that will be totally Alarm Free by Apx July 2014. Protocol was suppose to be checks every 15min, now changed to every hour. Noone knows proper protocoI. know their are advantages to this program. I also know theor exceptions to this program like my Mom. But independently walking on Pcyhotrpic drugs (Risperdal, Adavant, ect), & opieds as well as getting into anything such as Sanitizers & Soap dispensers.ECT will only compound this situation. And we have been refused to even sign a new Residents Rights. PLEASE HELP MY MOM ASAP!!! Before she breaks again or worse this program takes her life. Thank You

President Obama has nominated Dr. Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General, but the NRA has declared war on him—even though the Surgeon General has nothing to do with gun control. The NRA is threatening senators who have tough re-election battles in November, and it is working. Ten Democrats have refused to support Murthy, and one plans to vote “no.” Sign the petition to Senate Democrats: Don’t cave to the NRA, and give Dr. Vivek Murthy a fair vote on issues that matter to the Surgeon General.

While employed at Northville State Psy Hospital, I became allergic to Latex and envirmental substances which turned iinto "Asthma and allergies while working as a LPN on J-3 and had to go on "Duty Disability," It was "Court Ordered to receive Workers Compensation, which I had but . " The Duty Disability " They refuse to process that claim, while they have termernated Workers Compensation , and is stead fastly refused allow Duty Disability to go forth. Please Protect our "Rights, and Bridge any gaps from closure of Northville State Psy Hospital. I found it to be offensive that they have said short of Cancer nothing could/can make them leave Workers's Compensation alone which was stopped 2011 under present administration. We put our lives on line in good faith, Please Help Sign this petition and let's get it to those who signed off on State facility Closures, who I don't think intended for us to be left out in cold!

I reside in the community that is serviced by Harlem's Hellgate station post office. For years, this post office has been allowed to operate in a manner of gross disregard for acceptable customer service to the overall community at large. The post office staff creates an established culture of hostility, unprofessional behavior, disrespectful communication and a blatant attitude of refusal to perform their duties. There is no managerial level personnel that cares to correct this. They believe there is nothing the community can do to bring about change and so we are expected to endure. Let's put an end to the way this station has operated for years and demand a complete overhaul of Hellgate post office by bringing this to the attention of Mr. Richard P. Uluski, Vice President, Area Operations, North East Area for immediate action.

I'm starting this petition because I personally believe that the BSL-4 is completely safe and it will be very good for the city of Boston and the surrounding areas. This facility will attract the best and brightest from around the World and will make our great city a leader in the Biotech field. The facility has already gone through rigorous state and federal safety approvals and I believe Councillor Yancey is overreaching his mandate by trying to prevent the opening of this facility. Learn more at http://www.bu.edu/neidl/2014/03/17/bu-questions-claims-behind-proposed-ordinance/ http://www.bu.edu/neidl.

A Virginia-based corporation called Dominion Resources is seeking sign-off from Maryland regulators to build a massive fracked gas export facility on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland. Dominion wants to take nearly a billion cubic feet of fracked gas each day from drilling wells across Appalachia, pipe it across Maryland, liquefy it to 260 degrees below zero and then ship it to Asia -- at high costs to our climate and communities. If the Cove Point export terminal gets built, the increased pressure to frack throughout our region will be enormous, as will the pulse of new planet-heating pollution that wrecks our climate. In fact, the process of fracking, liquefying and exporting gas is so polluting, that Dominion’s plan could trigger as much or more greenhouse gas emissions than all seven of Maryland’s coal-fired power plants COMBINED. On top of it all, the U.S. Department of Energy itself concluded that exporting fracked gas would raise prices for Americans, harming every sector of the economy BUT the super-rich gas industry. They win big at our expense. People across Maryland and across the Mid-Atlantic region are rising up to stop Cove Point. You can join them today by submitting a comment to the Maryland Public Service Commission. Between now and April 2nd, the PSC is taking public input on whether a key permit Dominion needs to build its fracked gas export facility is in our public interest. Sign on to urge the Public Service Commission to put our health and climate above gas industry profits and deny Dominion’s Cove Point permit.

Maine has led the way in using federal grants to ensure the response by public safety will be effective and match the changing environmental conditions in the wake of climate change. Maine is no stranger to the challenges of extreme weather because of climate change, and we are a leader on climate change preparedness, but with superstorms like Sandy taking out the Northeast and droughts plaguing the Midwest, the American people deserve to know that our government is prepared for all possible scenarios.

Federal recognition has been denied or stripped from over 400 thousand native Americans in California alone. This is a systemic problem throughout the United States. The re-recognition or recognition process can take over 30 years and millions of dollars. Many times after years of litigation it results in denial for recognition. For many of us we have federal recognition through the '1972 California Judgment Fund Payment', we were Native enough to be paid but it does not signify federal recognition or membership in a "Federally Recognized Tribe". This is played out throughout the United States, Hawaii is the worst for recognition with California being second worst. Some of the so called "tribes" in California were Rancherias that was land set aside for homeless Indians, they were a consortium of many tribes. Because of their status of having a "land" base they were considered as a tribe. Any other Natives without a reservation, Rancheria or land in federal trust for Indians were taken from the recognition roles. That left an estimated 38 thousand Natives on the Federal recognition roles and stripped recognition of close to 500 thousand Native Californians. We are not allowed to participate in any discussion at the state or federal level concerning native needs or policies. It is time our voices are heard

The recent hunger strike by 750 of the 1,300 people being held in the Tacoma ICE Detention Center made it clear that the GEO Group is continuing their history of abuse and corruption here in Tacoma. These are headlines our city doesn't want. For-profit prisons create a demand for prisoners that the GEO Group helps create by lobbying for more strict laws that put more people in prison. This is wrong and needs to be stopped.