It is time for a national day commemorating the accomplishments of Rosa Parks in the United States of America. Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Rosa Parks embodies the values of non-violent, peaceful protest and individualism that are synonymous with what it means to be a leader in the United States of America. It is time to celebrate this great American's service to her country with a national day of commemoration on the 60th anniversary of her refusing to give up her seat on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

I was arrested for simply wearing a mask on an OWS march. I spent several hours in jail for simply exercising my constitutional rights. I am one of about 1,000 people from OWS alone who had interactions with the criminal justice system for non-criminal activity. The NYPD must stop criminalizing our youth, our activities, our sons and daughters. Bratton is the wrong choice

Background: When people make mistakes, they should make amends. But once they have, they should be treated no differently than anyone else. But too often individuals with convictions in their past are discriminated against when it comes to hiring. This is particularly problematic because young men of color are far more likely to be convicted of a crime. Recently Kennard Ray was hand picked for a prominent position in the Mayor of Hartford's administration. But when it was revealed that he had convictions far in his past, he was forced to withdraw his appointment. This shouldn't happen to anyone. Especially because Hartford has a policy called 'ban the box' that is designed to stop this type of discrimination by prohibiting the city from asking about past convictions during the hiring process. It clearly isn't working. When qualified applicants are denied jobs because of prior mistakes they made, something is wrong, and we should fix it. Kennard's story is just one example a widespread problem that prevents thousands of people, overwhelmingly from low-income communities, from being able to re-enter the workforce. They are unjustly prevented from making a living, supporting their families, and contributing to their communities. Tell Mayor Segarra and the Hartford City Council to strengthen Hartford's 'ban the box' policy now!

My son has a little 9 month old baby at home with his wife. He gets by on his salary. He counts on his employer to pay in for part of his pension for when he retires. With some cities and states looking to use these pension funds to help run their municipalities, workers like my son will have a very difficult time when they retire. Please do not use pensions as a source of municipal income. Big corporations can handle an extra fee much more easily than the individual working man.

This petition hopes to solve the problem of gridlock in the House of Representatives today. I am a long-time political activist, and I've fought, for forty years, to elect a president from the progressive wing of the Democratic party. In 2008 I finally achieved that goal. And yet, when progressives lost the House in 2010, that was the start of three long years of gridlock and inaction. My hopes were dashed, those of my fellow progressive Democrats were dashed, the hopes of immigration reformers were dashed, the hopes of gun violence reformers were dashed, etc. etc. The shutdown just concluded definitively demonstrated that Tea Party Republicans are at the root of the problem. A Speaker needs to be elected by a majority of the House who will lead us away from Tea Party-style governing by crisis. It is time to form consensus. It is time to achieve.

Imagine dropping off your child to go overseas on an opportunity of a lifetime? Imagine how you would feel if your child never comes home. My son Ravi Thackurdeen died a 100% preventable death on a school sponsored surprised trip to the beach while on study abroad, two days prior to coming home on April 29, 2012. There was no beach trip not on the very stringent itinerary, however this was the 3rd year it had been done. Duke University and Organization for Tropical Studies took the students to a beach not advised for swimming due to its rip currents and the severe turbulence .caused by the four rivers that pour into it; one of them being the largest in Costa Rica. Duke/OTS took no safety devices, no communication devices, no lifeguards. The leaders and everyone watched for 40 minutes as my son was in the struggle for his life till he won't under. They then left the beach...they told us he was missing. The program continues and they tell me they are not responsible.

I want to prevent illegal overcharging.

The U.S. Supreme Court is gutting federal and state campaign finance laws and paving the way for a complete corporate takeover of our democracy. We need to fight back, and the first step is for CT to join other states in demanding a Constitutional Amendment protecting our ability at both the federal and state level to set limits on campaign contributions and spending by outside groups.

President Obama's administration has reached an interim nuclear deal with Iran which will prevent war and relieve any fears that Iran might build a nuclear weapon. The people of Massachusetts don't want more sanctions or war, they want diplomacy to succeed. We need Senators Markey and Warren to speak out in favor of diplomacy and against more sanctions.

I am disgusted by the amount of plastic and paper waste that is produced by Starbucks coffee shops, with no consistent recycling being offered. Stop making a profit off trashing my kids' planet!

To: Automatic Finance/ Rafael Financial Group MD Assessment & Taxation Number #W11459013 410-415-0100 300 Red Brook Blvd Suite 104 Owings Mills, MD 21117 Flora Ceona Nudelman 2830 Quarry Heights Way 410-602-8385 Baltimore, Maryland 21209 Rafael Financial Group 10733 Hewitt Road Owning Mills, MD 21117 From: Mr. Jackson & Mr. Williams Any Credit Auto, LLC 5561 Thomaston Road 478-476-0496 Macon, Georgia 31220 I am extremely desolated regarding this unfortunate situation with Automatic Finance, and Mr. Serge Uson. I have travelled against my business associates who had cautioned me concerning Mr. Serge Uson boorish, and ill-mannered methods. My employee, Mrs. L. Williams persuaded me to reach out to this company, and sadly, she is the one he denigrated and lied to concerning this turbulent situation. My company had one single buy back from Automatic Finance since our business relationship begun. We paid the recourse fee and he still requested certified funds for duplicate payments. However, the check we had sent him cleared our bank account, and we became apprehension regarding his selfish tactics. I began to feel like he tried to pilfer money from Automatic Finance because of his erratic conducts. Why would he harass my employees when his company has been reimbursed? Furthermore, he personally upheld funding from my company, and Mr. Uson refused to pay open deals. We had installed three global positioning systems on cars his buyers bought under the guise of Mr. Serge Uson. My company had to pay one hundred and fifty dollars per installation. Really? Those customers are collateral damage from a ticking time bomb named, Mr. Serge Uson! His behavior is very abusive, and also, this is a, 'purely' unsatisfying working relationships between my employees and Mr. Serge Uson. The question is, what is now and what is next. All the while, it has been tempting to go on offense with exploitative sacrilege strategies. Better yet, I have focused my attention on alerting other dealerships in a control way against Automatic Finance. I have prayed to God, and begged Him not to allow His death’s angels to ride, and take me away until I see Mr. Serge Uson terminated from Automatic Finance. I overheard him make a slandered statement to Ms. L. Williams that he would break my company. It would be remiss on my part not to indicate that Any Credit Auto Sales is an African-American dealership in a market that is battering other dealerships in this area from a competitive standpoint. Mr. Serge Uson is very superficial and slick with his choice of words concerning breaking our company. That type of vulgar language is detestable with his vernacular terminologies that slave owners once used. “Breaking” is what the slave owner called Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831which is the most prominent slave revolts in American history. Sadly, this event happened on the very day we lost one of the world greatest icons, Nelson Mandela. I supposed this type of racist behaviors was far behind us in this great country. The ghost of Jim Crow is alive and well, and now, we have to deal with his great-grandson, James C. Crow Esquire! Please help support this boycott against Automatic Finance, and Serge Uson!

We need to do something abut this in our country we need to make sure that our people reviser the best of treatment in Saudi Arabia as Saudis want to reviser from us in our country , and we need to be totally clear with the Saudi government and their people ,that we will not tolerant any level or kind of injustices to our people in there country, they will not get one single thing more in our country then we get in their country.