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Watch the video to see how you can help! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Pc8xtfqOI The Great Pacific Garbage patch is essentially an area of plastic and debris in the ocean between California and Hawaii. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre captures plastic and other debris. A gyre is a large system of rotating currents, essentially like a toilet. A common misconception about the garbage patch is that it is literally an island made of trash floating on the surface of the water. In reality, it is like a galaxy, made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastics that can be deep underwater or on the surface, spread out over many miles. Even though this giant garbage patch is not visible through satellite imagery, many tests have been done to determine it to be around twice the size of Texas, and growing. The volume of plastic debris has increased by 100 times over the past 40 years, according to a study from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The debris concentrated in this area causes a multitude of long and short-term problems, harming the marine life and releasing chemicals into the ocean. Many fish and other organisms mistake the colorful bits of plastic for food. Researchers estimate that fish living at intermediate ocean depths in that region ingest between 12,000 and 24,000 tons of plastic each year. Once ingested, the plastic travels through the food chain, harmfully affecting ocean birds and other large marine wildlife. The debris ingested causes starvation, choking, and other impairments. In the Great Pacific Ocean Gyre there is 6 times more plastic than plankton, which the main food for many ocean animals The trash we produce on land accounts for around 80 percent of debris found in the Garbage Patch. Around 65 percent of that is “consumer used plastics that has not been disposed of properly”. The rest comes from recreational boaters, offshore oil rigs, and large cargo ships. Start taking steps to reduce ocean pollution TODAY!

As Founder of Katrina’s Dream (www.KatrinasDream.org), an organization established in memory of my mother-in-law, the Rev. Katrina Martha Van Alstyne Welles Swanson, one of the first women priests to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, I represent an organization deeply invested in this issue and focused on achieving true equality, critical to your constituency. Recently widowed and having to navigate society has brought home the obstacles placed by oppressive societal forces facing women in America. I have lost my home, business, and am starting over. I am one of the 70% of those 100 million living in poverty and much of that has to do simply with my gender. While women are Equal in every aspect we are not treated the same under the law. The only only right guaranteed women is the right to vote. I am hoping that you will not only sign this petition but you will show you support of my pilgrimage across America from San Francisco to Washington DC covering all 15 states that have not ratified the ERA,to promote the full inclusion of women in society and join me in spirit on our Facebook event page. https://www.facebook.com/events/370467279764897/ Thank you in advance. I look forward to your continued support and prayers. Love and Light in Christ, Helene

"I am unsympathetic about people trying to use this courtroom as some sort of place to make public statement about their problems." "So here’s the point. 'Environmental Necessity.' If there is somebody leaking oil on a piece of property and you race out in the yard, and you go in and you stop it, and they charge you with trespassing, I’d throw that case out in a heartbeat. That’s what I think of as 'Environmental Necessity.' I don’t think of coming in and chaining yourselves to somebody else’s construction equipment, in order to make sure that TV cameras come out and see you, for whatever purpose, is that type of thing I’m talking about. That doesn’t work. So no, I can’t allow that." -Judge William Collette's statements in court regarding MI CATS community defenders We need to show Judge William Collette and the jurors that the actions of MI CATS "felons" and the like are necessary and just the beginning.

Merck's business practices & lobbying priorities pit the global company against members of the Rahway community and all working class Americans. Merck's actions reduced corporate tax contributions by increasing the share of government expenses paid for by working people, homeowners and other segments of society. Merck is turning its back on the obligations of citizenship, from stashing $55 billion in profits overseas to skirt federal tax obligations to support America, to knocking down buildings at the Rahway plant -- which Merck called its global headquarters for a century -- to reduce by one-third local tax payments funding police, fire and sanitation services in the company's hometown. These actions may be legal, but they are morally wrong and we call for corrective action: 1) Take pride in being American; 2) Come back home to Rahway; 3) Pay your fair share in taxes!

Public education in New York State and across this land is being subjected to a movement that demands the acceptance of an arbitrary set of common core standards and the use of one-size-fit-all standardized tests. In spite of claims to the contrary, these standards and tests do not address the higher level cognitive processes of synthesizing and critically/creatively evaluating required for problem solving in today’s world. (Bloom et.al.) The products created by these higher level intellectual processes are unique to every individual; therefore, they are not measurable with a standardized test. Using the legislative process, decision makers responsible for this movement have deliberately prevented effective alternative assessment and evaluation strategies from being demonstrated in our public schools. There are examples of tested alternatives available that accurately measure higher level thinking such as The Constructive Assessment, Recordkeeping and Evaluation System (CARES) prepared and field tested by Robert L. Arnold, SUNY Professor Emeritus of Education. The common core and an arbitrary version of standards must be challenged to enable our citizens to make intelligent judgments about the most effective strategies available for their schools, before any further damage by current versions of standardization is done to the lives of our young citizens. Alternative assessment and evaluation strategies must be allowed to demonstrate their superiority over the existing strategies of testing, testing and more testing. For further elaboration, access on-line: AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com, January 7, 2014, “Guest Commentary” by Robert L. Arnold, SUNY Professor Emeritus of Education.

Last year JPMorgan Chase agreed to a $13 billion settlement for their actions that helped create the Great Recession and enabled them to steal thousands of homes from struggling homeowners. $600 million of that goes to New York State and it’s supposed to be used for direct relief for homeowners. But not if Gov. Cuomo has his way. Instead of helping homeowners, the Governor wants to use that money to pay for a major cut to corporate taxes, including something called The Bank Tax. That’s right. Gov. Cuomo wants to steal the settlement money from struggling homeowners and give it back to Wall Street criminals. The foreclosure and underwater crisis is still devastating our communities and the families and communities hardest hit are exactly the ones from which Gov. Cuomo proposes stealing. Recently, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was able to use $136 million from a previous settlement to help thousands of families stave off foreclosure. We need the $600 million to alleviate the continuing pain. This pain, which has affected almost every neighborhood, has not, however, been spread around evenly. Communities of color lost the most when Chase and other Wall Street bankers pushed us into the Great Recession – the median black household lost almost 84% of its household wealth in the recession. Latinos lost 66%, while white households lost some 34%. Now Gov. Cuomo wants to keep it that way. I know by now that nothing related to Wall Street and elected officials should shock me. But the pure callousness behind this proposal caught me off guard. And if we let Gov. Cuomo get away with this, then Governors across the United States will think they can use this money for their pet projects or to pay off Wall Street criminals too. We can’t let that happen. Tell Gov. Cuomo: Don’t steal the Chase settlement money from struggling New York families and give it back to Wall Street criminals.

The great news is that Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley said the Pennsylvania Voter ID bill is unconstitutional. He ruled that the law is "invalid and unconstitutional on its face as the provision and issuance of compliant identification does not comport with liberal access and unreasonably burdens the right to vote. “Voting laws are designed to assure a free and fair election; the Voter ID Law does not further this goal.” Now the bad news. It is still possible for the law to be appealed. PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane defended the Voter ID law before Commonwealth Court. She may appeal the ruling to PA's Supreme Court. If she does appeal, the Voter ID law may be reinstated. Tell Attorney General Kane that we agree with Judge McGinley. Voter ID is “invalid and unconstitutional on its face.” Do not appeal Voter ID to the Supreme Court.

As a local resident that would be directly affected, I believe this location is not the best choice and that there are several land options in West Dundee that would be better suited for development. The density and architectural design of this project is not suited for West Dundee nor the neighboring community. We have serious concerns about how this overcrowd the current school system. We understand that more household brings more businesses, which is needed. But a focus on townhouses or single family homes with less density would be much better suited for West Dundee. This would fit the future of our small town and also accomplish a higher revenue of tax dollars.

Unemployment benefits need to be extended ASAP. People are going to lose what little things they have. Congress has forgotten who they work for. American do not desert each other. Anyone who calls the unemployed lazy needs to be better informed, & I urge them to take the time to talk to people who are unemployed. I'm unemployed, for 6 months now, in the State of NY. I put 10+ years of my hard earned $ and have never once regretted my taxes helping others. In my case my medical conditions caused my dismissal at work. New employers DO NOT want the problem of the disabled. Unemployment isn't supposed to last forever, But 3 months is better than 0 months. We are only as strong as those around us.

Since 2011, the FCC’s net neutrality rule ensured that Americans could access internet content equally, no matter how they access the internet. For example, if your internet service provider was Comcast, (which owns NBC content) they could not control your internet usage, even on competitor’s websites, like watching “Modern Family” on ABC.com. However, on January 14, a federal court struck down net neutrality, opening the door for internet service providers to slow down or completely block any website they choose. In addition, they could charge additional fees to access some of your favorite sites like Netflix and YouTube. This is harmful to the American consumer as well as our economy – the internet’s open and level playing field enables the growth of tech startups. Would Amazon and Twitter have emerged in a restricted, filtered internet? All that it takes is for the FCC to garner the political willpower to appeal this disastrous decision, or re-write their internet polices. With regards with redoing FCC internet policies, internet service providers are regulated like phone companies, but if the FCC reclassified them as “common carriers,” they could regain oversight. Either way, net neutrality can be reinstituted if the FCC fights back. Please sign this petition and forward it to others, and we’ll deliver it to the FCC to urge them to preserve the internet as we know it. Joe Sestak is a former 3-Star Admiral and U.S. Congressman. He is seeking to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate in 2016. Visit his website at http://JoeSestak.com TWEET THIS PETITION: The end of the internet as we know it? Sign the petition asking FCC to fight for #NetNeutrality http://bit.ly/KaeTMG #IWantMyInternetBack

Our son Robby as a penniless law student was forced to wait until gravely ill to seek ER care. As a consequence, the infections were way out of control and forced him to resign from law school. There are more than 242,000 others in the same boat due to Jindal's gap created by his stubborn refusal to expand Medicaid.