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Mr President and First Lady Obama, please read Shalefield Stories.There are hundreds of families living without potable water in PA for over 4 years. Our mission is to STOP all hydraulic slick water hydrofracking and correct the problems it has caused. Shalefield Stories educates the public as to what people living near drilling have had to deal with across the US.973 of 1,000 SignaturesCreated by Briget Shields
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Stop the Keystone PipelineOur sacred national properties are at risk. The environment is also going to be adversely affected. Farmlands, water, and climate are at risk.137 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Susan Mathews
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Bring The Brown Children HomeSubject: Bring The Brown Children Home Hi, Despite our best and relentless efforts to adopt and reintegrate my grandchildren back with this family the State of Kansas is trying to steal my grandchildren (niece and nephews) without regards for us. A Facebook pages has been created to bring awareness and to shed light on their lies and system manipulation antics. Thanks!81 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Beverly Smith
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Universal Breakfast, Universal Lunch: Every kid, every day.Universal breakfast and universal lunch are needed in U.S. schools. Currently 1 in 5 children in the United States faces hunger. The undersigned demand that child nutrition programs in U.S. schools be expanded to provide universal breakfast and universal lunch for all school children. Every child in every school should eat every day--no questions, no stigma, no accounts, and no separate meal lines for children from low-income households. --In response to recent news that the Salt Lake City school district in Utah publicly dumped children's meals into the trash in front of them because they did not have money in their lunch accounts--the district having made a decision to humiliate children with money problems, and publicly throw untouched food away rather than allow the children to be fed with it; --in response to our congress voting to cut 9 billion in food aid to needy families, while families across the nation are still reeling from a financial crisis they did not create; --in response to the story of a Georgia bus driver, Johnny Cook, losing his job over publicly expressing outrage at a child going hungry in school, while the Georgia Congressional representative Jack Kingston publicly proposed child labor for impoverished children in Georgia schools; --in response to stories like Massachusetts' Coelho Middle School cafeteria workers, who made children dump out the food from their trays without eating, because they had no money on their lunch accounts, and many similar stories springing up across the country recently-- The undersigned are disgusted and outraged. We see an alarming public trend of brutal contempt toward child hunger. We demand swift action by our representatives to condemn and counter such trends from overtaking institutions like public schools where our children are cared for and taught common values. Most of us do not know a single American family, rich or poor, who would take food from a hungry child to throw it in the trash. Many of us are old enough to have been told that wasting food was shameful and ungrateful when there were starving children in the world. Those who sign here will not allow our children or our neighbors' children to be treated with such abuse and contempt. We will not allow one-fifth of the nation's children to go hungry. Those who sign here refuse to accept the United States as a nation of children facing starvation. We will not accept that our common taxes support the profits of agricultural corporations, yet neglect the needs of the generation we are trying to raise.180 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Rachel Kubie
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Culture Factory PolymerFor over ten years, Culture Factory Polymer has been one of the most prominent centers for the production and dissemination of alternative art and culture in Estonia. The Estonian government must acknowledge their contribution to the country and mediate to find a fair solution.106 of 200 Signatures
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Betrayed by Kerry, will Obama step up to the plate?I've been in northern Alberta before the demand from US & multinational oil companies made it feasible for the oil barons to rape the land. I've seen the pictures since. Not pretty. But it is DRIVEN BY CORPORATE GREED. The State Dept report says: "Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project ... is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States." But that is UNTRUE. Not only would a denial send a strong message to Big Oil, it would protect OUR farms, OUR communities, OUR water, OUR air, OUR children. If Obama REALLY wants to lead our country against global warming, he will REFUSE to approve this pipeline.125 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Liz Amsden
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Stop Dark Money Non-Profits from Hiding Their Funders!Last election secretive out-of-state non-profits connected to the Koch brothers funneled $15 million of dark money into California. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Californians deserve to know who is influencing their elections. SB 27 will make sure billionaires and corporations can't hide behind secretive non-profits. It requires any group spending $50,000 in California elections to reveal exactly who gave the money. It is a key step before passage of the California DISCLOSE Act (SB 52). The final Assembly vote on SB 27 could come any day. Join Progressives United and the California Clean Money Campaign and sign our petition today demanding that Assembly members vote YES to close the dark money loophole.2,479 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Erin Wagner, Progressives United
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Investors in Herakles Farms: Stop Funding Destruction in AfricaHerakles Farms is a US agribusiness company who wants to plow through swaths of natural forest in Cameroon’s South west province and convert the area into a palm oil plantation. They have little regard for local laws, the local environment and - least of all - local communities, who have depended on the land for generations. The palm oil plantation be bad news for people. It also threatens the habitat of the chimpanzee. This forest is worth more to the people of Africa and future generations if it is left standing. Tell the people behind this reckless project to walk away and put their money somewhere else.3,083 of 4,000 SignaturesCreated by Ben Kroetz
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Union County Parents: Support Public School ChoiceRezoning the Union County school district may provide a temporary solution to the overcrowding in our community schools, however, it is just a temporary solution with continued population growth. Help support school choice and tuition free charter schools in Union County. Ballancrest Charter Academy will be strategically located to alleviate overcrowding and offer parents another choice for their children's education. Please sign this petition to support school choice in Union County and forward this petition to your friends and families!66 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jennifer Lucas
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Prevent Another Parking Meters DisasterChicagoans deserve to know who controls our city services. We don’t want to make the same mistakes as we did when we outsourced our parking meters. Now parking meter rates have skyrocketed and taxpayers have no say in our own parking policies for 75 years. And despite this experience, the city continues to privatize services – from clinics to call centers. The PTAO will make sure the parking meter fiasco doesn’t happen again. The PTAO will give decision makers and the public all the information they need before a service is outsourced and ensure that the city of Chicago and Chicago residents benefit with better services and a more accountable government. Tell Mayor Emanuel that we support passage of the PTAO.2,405 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Andre Delattre
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SIGN THE PETITION to Senator Collins to Raise the Minimum WageIn his State of the Union, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 – an idea popular among many Republican, Independent, and Democratic voters. Shenna Bellows will deliver this petition to Rep. Susan Collins demanding she give 96,000 Maine residents a raise by supporting a minimum-wage increase. Can you sign this petition?1,889 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Bellows for Senate
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Our City, Our SchoolsThis petition is about the future of public education in Philadelphia884 of 1,000 SignaturesCreated by Ronald Whitehorne, on Behalf of Progressive Philly Rising