Seeking fairness and justice for my husband Dontre Johnson.

As clearly documented in the new short web video “Hearts on the Ground,” by Sundance award-winning director Kalyanee Mam (just released at www.LakotaLaw.org/action), the epidemic of child taking by the State of South Dakota is tearing thousands of Lakota Sioux families apart. Every day, Lakota grandmothers are illegally denied their right to foster their own grandchildren. The South Dakota Dept. of Social Services rejects grandmothers for such trivial reasons as too few rooms in a home, too small of a home, too old, decades old crimes, and even rumors. " South Dakota continues to violate the federal law by placing 90% of the 750 Lakota foster children it seizes each year into non-Native homes and facilities, instead of with relatives or tribal homes. Both federal law and the United Nations define this behavior as genocide. Only tribal programs are placing foster children with their relatives. President Obama has the authority to order three federal agencies (the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services), to provide resources to train and develop tribal family service programs and foster care systems for the nine Lakota Sioux tribal Councils. Within a short time, the $60 million in federal funds that currently go to the State of South Dakota’s Department of Social Services to illegally remove Indian children and force them into foster care can instead be spent and managed by the tribes, as they work to keep children with relatives, while restoring tribal sovereignty. Lakota children are more than ten times more likely to be forcibly removed from their parents than Caucasian children, and now comprise about 60% of all foster children in the state. In more than 90% of the cases, simply alleged “neglect,” as opposed to sexual or physical abuse, is given as the reason for the forced taking, sometimes at gunpoint, sometimes while at school, or in the middle of the night. Poverty equals “neglect' in the mind of the State workers. What is happening to Lakota children and families in South Dakota today is precisely the sort of activity that Congress intended to stop when it passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (“ICWA”) of 1978. The Act mandates that when states remove Native American children from their parents, they must be placed with relatives from their extended family, or with other members of their tribe, or with members of other tribes. Only when an active effort for such placements fail are states allowed to place Native Americans in White foster homes, or state run foster care facilities. The Department of Social Services in South Dakota continues to deny child placements to willing and capable relatives, while “stripping” parents of all parental rights to ever see their children again, for “violations” as trivial as failing to show up at parenting classes. South Dakota designates every Native child in its foster care system as “special needs,” receiving up to $79,000 from the federal government for their care annually, and then forcing many to take mind-altering drugs, even some as young at 18 months of age. Medicare spending for foster care child prescriptions in South Dakota increased more than 1,000 percent in the recent decade, while suicide rates for young Lakota children are 12 times the national average, and among the highest in the world. Some of the suicides are clearly related to the forced medications. More than a century after being forced from their ancestral lands onto reservations, the 70,000 members of the Lakota Sioux nation remain the poorest, most oppressed people in the United States. Let's turn around 150 years of cruel abuse to Lakota families. Please sign this petition and tell President Obama to instruct his agencies to help the tribes bring the Lakota children home!

After learning that Freedom Enterprises, (responsible for W. Virginia's massive chemical spill, leaving at risk more than 300 thousand Americans) has filed for bankruptcy protection long before the impacts are even known -- this was my final straw. While it's not shocking that a known dangerous company is attempting to shore-up its losses and duck financial responsibility after a catastrophe, what is shocking: is that American taxpayers will pickup the costs after the defunct company's immediate assets are exhausted. But the truth is: too many corporate protections block Americans from reaching the source of very deep and untrustworthy pockets. As a result: the injured; the taxpayer; the creditor; the worker; the investor; -all one in the same - without political divide - suffer while the same offenders launch another potentially deadly enterprise with impunity. This American urges you to exercise your constitutional right to petition our government. It's time to act responsibly and close the financial-escape-hatch for corporate wrongdoing.

A democracy can only be successful if most of its citizens vote. The Supreme Court last year weakened critical provisions that protected citizens right to vote. Rep. Issa should support the effort in Congress to restore these voting protections by co-sponsoring the bill to amend the Voting Rights Act.

THIS GUY BROKE THE BOND WITH GOD AND NATURE WHEN HE MURDERED THOSE PRECIOUS KITTENS FROM GOD. HE DESTROYED THE KING OF KINGS BEAUTIFUL LIVING, BREATHING BOUNTY. HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. NO PLEA BARGAINS, NO MENTAL ILLNESS DEFENSE, PRISON FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS. JUSTICE FOR THE KITTENS. GODSPEED TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, POLICE, JUDGE AND COURTS IN ATHENS, ALABAMA.....A PLACE WERE GOD REIGNS AS KING IN THE HEARTS/SOULS OF SO MANY WONDERFUL CHRISTIANS. PEACE+LOVE, RICK JOHNSTON, NEW [email protected] MAY GOD'S LAW REIGN IN THIS CASE. FOR THE KITTENS.

We need to strengthen the Voting Rights Act.

The Voting Rights Act is an extremely important piece of legislation that was passed during the Civil Rights era, but was unfortunately weakened significantly by last year's Supreme Court decision. Right now, Congress can improve and restore the protections which this legislation once served, by passing this important bill. Rep. Frelinghuysen should support this effort by co-sponsoring this bill.

My Church has used Soul To The Polls on the two (2) sundays of Early Voting after Church Service , using vans and church bus to get to polls

The Private Option is a vitally important program to the working poor in our state. It covers people who are starting their own businesses, the self-employed, as well as students who are over 27 and looking to further their careers. It assists 215,000 low-income Arkansans who could not previously afford or were deemed "ineligible" due to pre-existing conditions to finally have health coverage, provide much-needed annual checkups, immunizations, mental health services, as well as saving an estimated 1,100 lives every year in our state. The program will also save the state money while injecting nearly a billion dollars to local health providers. As of February 26, there are 127,051 Arkansans who are currently enrolled and benefiting from the program, with a total of 189,000 applications submitted. The Private Option helps to lower the median age of the Arkansas Insurance Marketplace, which will help keep insurance rates on the exchange lower. As you may have heard, the Private Option is under attack by some in the legislature. Some of the more conservative members of the House of Representatives and Senate would like to derail the Private Option. This would kick these hard working Arkansans off their new plans, as well as cost the state money. Arkansas has a provision for a balanced budget. In 2014 alone Arkansas will save $89 million by implementing the Private Option. If the legislature successfully defunds the Private Option these savings will go away and one of two things will happen: 1) The legislature will have to repeal tax cuts, raising taxes on Arkansas families. 2) The state's budget will have to cut vital services to replace the money that the state is losing in lieu of defunding the Private Option, further harming our state. Please help to ensure that the Private Option stays available to our state by signing and SHARING this petition and urge our lawmakers to re-authorize the Private Option!

I am appalled by the efforts of the right wing of Congress to deny citizens the right to vote if they do not have a drivers license or passport. Many older citizens do not have these documents.

This bill would effectively eliminate airsoft in California. A Hobby which Includes many service members,business owners,veterans and re-enactors. The change would require all airsoft replicas (a hobby in which realistic-looking replica guns are used to propel BBs at participants to tag one another as "out") to be painted entirely bright colors. While aimed to prevent law enforcement from mistaking "toy" guns as real weapons, this further endangers law enforcement officers as real guns could easily be painted to deter an officer from protecting his or herself."

Every person's right to vote must be protected. Too many have sacrificed their lives protecting this freedom. It's a matter of honor, whether you agree with the person who suffers disenfranchisement or not. Protect the vote. Protect the majority.