On Friday, November 22, the Texas State Board of Education will take a final vote on science materials that will be in classrooms for the next decade. For years, an anti-science faction of that board has done all it can to undermine science by giving equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. Fortunately, because of the work of groups like the Texas Freedom Network, all 14 textbook publishers have stood up for science and refused to water down or compromise instruction on evolution and climate change in their proposed new biology books. We are on the brink of victory, but we can't take anything for granted. Join with Daily Kos and the Texas Freedom Network by signing our petition to the Texas State Board of Education: Adopt the books and stand up for science. The Texas Freedom Network will deliver the signatures before Friday's crucial meeting.

The addition of another 1000 cars daily on Waukegan Road is a safety, health and noise issue. The gateway to Northbrook should not be a gas station/car wash/convenience store. The site is surrounded by retirees who already must contend with a busy roadway. The addition of this kind of traffic would be creating a very dangerous situation.

Without the Affordable Health Care legislation, I would have not been able to find health care after having an operation for cancer and having my insurance company drop my coverage. This safeguard is so necessary.

This petition was created to get the attention needed to address the environmental and economic problems with the Port of New Hampshire. The port is in desperate need of repair and is currently underutilized for its attributes. Our hopes with this petition is to show state legislators the need for their intervention and oversight to make the Port something we all can be proud of.

I believe that the health epidemics that our country is facing are related to and influenced by the contents and nutritional value of our foods. It is the right of the consumer to know the contents of the foods he/she consumes and the responsibility of the companies that manufacture those foods to communicate those contents through transparent labeling of the products they sell.

Really, Can anyone justify not labeling GMO Content? We deserve the right to know what is in our food!

Every year the craze of the season is slowly cutting into the holidays which have been mostly preserved over the years. The goal of this petition is to collect as many signatures as possible between now and the holiday season of 2014. This petition will be sent to all business who choose to open the doors for business on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Please help preserve our holidays and share this with all your friends and family. Please only sign one time. The best ways you can help is: 1) Do not support these business until the day after Thanksgiving (no earlier then 5am). 2) Do not support these businesses on Christmas Day. 3) Sign this petition. Thank you for your support. Matthew 26:41 "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

The production and sale of animal skins is morally wrong and inhumane, causing millions of innocent animals to be slaughtered every year in the name of fashion in the most cruel of ways, even skinned alive. Animal skins should be banned from the United States completely and fur farms shut down for good. Animals should be protected and seen as creatures who suffer and feel instead of fashion items.

Americans need to make a stand against global corporations who play state-against-state to receive higher tax breaks, while paying workers as little as possible. Boeing, with stock at a record high and after giving CEO Jim McNerney a 20 percent salary increase to a package totaling $27.5 million last year, is not in need of corporate welfare. The future of skilled American jobs are at stake. Tell Boeing that we've had enough!

As a person with a child, I understand having responsibilities to someone other than myself. We have a right to know what we are feeding our children, not to mention ourselves. I demand disclosure on the presence of GMOs in my child's food. Let us join our voices in demanding this basic right to know.

Dear CEO's: This is to inform you that because of your actions of extending Black Friday onto Thanksgiving day, the below signers are pledging not to shop in your stores the whole Thanksgiving weekend! It is outrageous that people who are payed a low wage, some of whom do not get holiday pay, have to leave their families to work in department stores, so Black Friday madness can be extended to Thanksgiving day. (Will we now have people trampled to death on Thanksgiving day?) Thanksgiving should be a time for employees and for consumers to give thanks, not for corporations to squeeze out more profit. Enough of Greed!

We have a right to know if the foods we are buying have GMOs in them. In more than 60 countries around the world there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production and sale of GMOs. Tell the South Carolina legislature to give us freedom to know what we are putting in our bodies.