Because I know what kind of Hell it is when there are no jobs, and to have insult added to injury by having wicked people call you lazy. And when I think that those unemployed people have children that will go hungry, it makes my blood boil.

The Obama administration has for years pushed a dangerous “All of the Above” energy plan focused on more drilling, more fracking, and more pipelines and handouts for dirty fuels. In President Obama's election night victory speech last fall, he said to large applause: "We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” But unfortunately an “All of the Above” energy plan that includes drilling for more oil, fracking for more gas, and pursuing the myth of “clean coal” virtually guarantees increasing climate change, and a dangerous world left for our children. Even the International Energy Agency has said we have more carbon than we can afford to burn and the US oil boom won't lead to energy independence, in its World Energy Outlook. The investments the oil industry alone is making right now, in line with an “All of the Above” approach, will put us on a path of climate change that goes well beyond the limits for a safe planet. Promoting an All of the Above energy plan that includes increased drilling for oil and gas, while also pushing forward much-needed policies to address greenhouse gas emissions simply won't work. That’s like trying to climb out of a hole with one hand while digging yourself deeper in with the other. We need to stop digging. Ahead of the anticipated announcment of new plans to tackle climate change by the Obama administration, President Obama has an important opportunity to reevaluate the “All of the Above” energy plans and design a new plan that can live up to his own aim: "an America that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."

The potential impact is dangerous when we look at the lack of regulation, oversight and willingness to put safety over profits. The negative track record of oil companies to put human and environmental safety over profits needs to stop. Sign this petition to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and send it to as many people as you can.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working on reforms to the outdated and flawed regulations governing oil spill dispersants for more than 13 years, but the Office of Management and Budget has yet to take up its required review. It’s time to move this process along and publish the rule! The systemic flaws in the existing dispersant regulations became tragically clear during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Because the existing regulations do not require adequate testing and disclosure of information about the dispersants that are allowed to be used, responders authorized the spraying of 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico with no knowledge of those chemicals’ long-term impacts and effectiveness underwater. Those impacts are still reverberating through the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem today, as studies raise troubling concerns about the damage the dispersants have done to underwater marine life. The need for reform of the flawed dispersant regulations is well-established and widely-accepted. The national commission on the Deepwater Horizon incident recommended a revision of the dispersant regulations in its Report to the President. The EPA itself has acknowledged the need for, and sense of urgency around, a reform of the current dispersant regulations. Yet, nearly four years after the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon, the government is still dragging its heels in reforming the dispersant regulations to require more testing and information submission. This delay puts coastal communities at risk. Tell the EPA and OMB to hurry up already and publish revisions to the dispersant regulations.

I do not want Congress to give Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a blank check to draw America into another senseless - and in this case unnecessary - war in the Middle East. America cannot afford another war and war with Iran would be far more disastrous than Iraq and Afghanistan combined with unforeseeable consequences.

Following a court ruling, a handful of major corporations — Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable — now have total control over what we're able to see and do online. The free and open Internet is critical is to our communities' ability to access and share information without a corporate filter, and to effectively organize for racial and social justice. And as the FCC's National Broadband Plan acknowledges, high-speed Internet is an essential service that all Americans need in order to perform basic tasks, from applying for a job, to doing schoolwork, finding a home, and running a business.

I'm am just a young man who believes that the world must stand as one against the oppression and extermination against people all over the world. Recognizing these acts as exactly what they are, genocide, is a vital first step in ending them once and for all.

We live in Colorado because it’s a beautiful, special place. We love our mountains. We love to be outdoors. None of that is worth much if you can’t breathe the air.

I am a ten year duel Military Veterans wife. Due to the limited government funds my husband has not been able to reenlist in the Military even though he is fully qualified. He has applied for hundreds of jobs, yet still has none. It took the Army 6 months to inform my husband who was waiting on a contract that he could not reenlist because he had been serving in the Marine Corps and was out of his Army MOS too long. During these six my family was homeless and living in tents. We now have a place to live, but due to the cut of extended unemployment will be soon be homeless again. My husband is still applying for jobs, anything and everything, yet he has only had one interview. We do NOT qualify for most of the state programs and I am permanetly disabled and my SSDI is just a few dollars too high.We have a handicap child that is suffering because of the negligence of Army recruiters not knowing the policy and having us wait six months to ship. My husband is trying to enroll in school, however he is on the MGIB and this does not allow for income to survive for our family of five, and even if he does there won't be a penny until March, by then we will have lost our home, our belongings and even our car. Our incident is not an isolated situation. Please sign this petition so honest families like ours who are actually trying to find work can keep a stable environment and be able to actually work when a job is found.

After months of international negotiations and hard-fought diplomacy, Iran agreed to not only limit its uranium enrichment to 5 percent, the grade commonly used to power reactors, but to neutralize its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium, which could be used to create weapons-grade material. Additionally, Iran has agreed to open its doors to daily inspections by the international nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This unprecedented agreement will last for six months and lays the groundwork for a final deal that could permanently end the impasse. Right now, a misguided effort for harsh new sanctions -- led by Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) -- threatens to permanently derail the negotiations. These next six months are critical, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive plan that could verifiably end the nuclear crisis. With reckless disregard for the magnitude of the opportunity and the complexity of the diplomacy involved, Sen. Menendez is leading the Senate’s charge to needlessly expand sanctions and drive Iran from the negotiating table. If diplomacy fails, the likely alternatives are a nuclear-armed Iran or a march to war. Our voices matter in foreign policy issues. Now is your chance to tell the Senate to oppose the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act ( S.1881). We can’t afford to take diplomacy off the table.

John Kiriakou has been denied a release to serve the last 9 months of his sentence in a halfway house. He still hopes to be released to a halfway house before the end of 2014. John stepped forward to provide information on an illegal CIA torture program knowing that he might put his freedom at risk by doing this. Faced with charges that could have resulted in a very long prison sentence he accepted a deal that resulted in a 30 month sentence. He has set a good example for all of us by risking his own freedom to reveal extremely serious violations of human rights. I believe that John very much deservers our support for his request to be released to a halfway house.

Because it is affects relatives and friends of mine who are still looking for stable employment in Nevada, especially Las Vegas which has an unemployment rate of 9%...also I am certain Americans are sick and tired of hearing that the economy is getting better; but are still underemployed/laid-off/& unemployed.