Adlai E. Stevenson High School students have relied heavily on proceeds made from selling things like donuts and cookies that are not individually packaged to raise money for charity events such as Give-A-Thon and Project Dance. The recent ban on these types of products are detrimental to these charity events's funding. Please use your full name!

English teacher Linda Landels was recently given a "below expectations" review by Mr. Pizzo, the VP at Rodriguez High School due to “lack of rigor” and has been strongly encouraged to sit in other classrooms to “see what rigor looks like”. The goal of this petition is to demand that VP Pizzo and the rest of the Rodriguez High School administration retract this evaluation. Linda has inspired and challenged the best students of Rodriguez High School’s short past – sometimes singlehandedly helping students to be accepted to the country’s most prestigious institutions. Linda has not only inspired future writers and journalists, but scientists, doctors, engineers, sociologists, and more. She transcends the role of teacher for her students, she is mentor, guidance counselor, friend, and coach. Rigor cannot be measured in bureaucratic systems of evaluation nor cannot it be achieved arbitrary guidelines created by those who do not exist in the classroom. We ask you, as both friends and pupils, to write to Rodriguez High School administration and explain how Linda has challenged you, supported you, and helped you achieve your goals in life. This is not simply a letter for our esteemed friend and guide, but a message to those who continually diminish the invaluable role of the teacher in favor of test scores and guidelines. Remember, as Linda has taught us all, act with your heart and with your mind and “you will end up where you need to be.”

Renisha McBride got into a car accident at early last Saturday morning, in Dearborn Heights, MI. Since her cell phone battery had died, she knocked on a door to ask for help. She was shot in the face. Neighbors reported the shooting to the police, and the homeowner is saying that he felt threatened and that his gun went off by accident. [1] I guess the gun was accidentally pointed at her head, too? Her killer was arrested and released, while horrifyingly, the prosecutor is still deciding whether or not to press charges. Perhaps the prosecutors are trying to figure out if they can successfully bring a case since Michigan has a 'stand your ground' law, and the killer is claiming that he felt threatened because he thought she was breaking into his house. 'Stand your ground' is a law developed in 2005 by a National Rifle Association lobbyist [2] who decided that feeling threatened is enough reason to use deadly force. Considering how many millions of paranoid, white gun owners there are in the United States, these laws have been a recipe for disaster. 'Stand your ground' has inflamed gun culture fantasies about a coming 'race war,' emboldening a wave of crimes where white perpetrators saw a Black person taking out the trash, coming home from the store, resting by a river bank with their family, or approaching the police for help after being injured, and shot to kill. Treating yet another incident like this as anything but a crime is a public safety menace. It's for the prosecutor to decide what charges to bring. But either their office thinks it's some kind of crime to shoot a woman in the head or that it is, in practice, reasonable to assume that being startled by the presence of a Black person is a justifiable cause of mortal terror. Tell the prosecutor: keep American families safe from the scourge of racist vigilantes by treating Renisha McBride's death as a crime. [1] - "Renisha McBride's family asks for peace as they mourn her death" by Bill Laitner and Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, November 7, 2013. http://www.freep.com/article/20131107/NEWS05/311070119/Renisha-McBride-shot-in-face-not-back-of-head-Dearborn-Heights [2] - "Obama Uses a Teaching Moment to Challenge "Stand Your Ground' Laws," by John Nichols, The Nation, July 20, 2013. http://www.thenation.com/blog/175367/obama-uses-teaching-moment-challenge-stand-your-ground-laws

This pipeline will destroy the natural resources of the region. The Pinelands will see more air and water pollution as a result of the project and more spills that are inevitable and result in polluting of the aquifer. The Pinelands is too precious to put at risk for dirty fossil fuel infrastructure. This pipeline will cut a scar through the region, causing irreparable harm that cannot be mitigated.  Stop the expansion of fracked gas pipelines into one of New Jersey’s most ecologically important areas.

I am tired of the continuing trend of "keeping up with the Jones' at the expense and total disregard for the feelings of the floor level employee.

I have experienced false allegations from and perjury of felonies from individuals and organizations that receive our money to protect the public. Nothing was ever done about it. I am the only one I know who has survived. Unless this is seriously looked into we really do not have a justice system.

Break the Wall Street control of our government with HR1579. We need a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street … and a movement that forces the legislators to care about our communities… Economic Justice for every American. $350 Billion annually that can be spent on Human needs - not Billionaire or Corporation needs. It is the game changer for a better funded, fairer, more democratic, humane, balanced, and moral American Tax System. It begins in our town, with you …

I, Jesse Collens, had a mountain biking accident in 2009 that left me paralyzed from my neck down and completely dependent on a ventilator. At the time I was 21 years old, going to college for a BS in biology and chemistry, the assistant kitchen manager of a very popular restaurant, and a very athletic and outgoing person. Currently I live in a private residence with my elderly mother and because I cannot be left alone she takes care of me when there are no other caregivers around. When my mother or a single nurse is taking care of me it's nearly impossible for me to leave the house; my mother cannot physically do it and the nurse is not allowed to drive me anywhere although they may accompany me if someone else is driving. If and when my mother is no longer able to take care me at all the only option for me would be to go into a skilled nursing facility where my independence and ability to live life every person is entitled to would be taken away. As a 25-year-old male I am continuing my college education and I still have goals and aspirations as much as anyone else and I would like to see them through.

Threats are not protected speech under the First Amendment, and as a bicyclist, it scares me that we let people publicly post such threatening speech. This sign must be investigated properly, and removed if it is not protected free speech. Furthermore, a "Bikes May Use Full Lane" sign should be erected to replace the "Share The Road" sign currently at this intersection. Since "Share The Road" is unclear, and is apparently interpreted to by some to mean that drivers don't have to slow down and wait to safely pass bicyclists, the sign should be replaced by one that more clearly explains the traffic laws as they are currently in effect.

Over the years Congress has voted itself lifetime health care and its own lucrative pension fund. No more! Thy should be participating in the same programs that average American citizens participate in.

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This case presents legal issues of extraordinary national significance and contains questions of first impression for which the input of “WE” the People is necessary. This case challenges the legal significance of the Fiduciary duty of the Judiciary System of the State of New Jersey towards its fellow residents and American citizens. Let's not forget that among these citizens are many American soldiers who have served, suffered, bled and died to defend the Freedom, Liberty, Justice and the Pursuit of Happiness for all the American People who believe and trust in the rules of law of Our Land and in the integrity of our Legal Justice. The Constitution of the United States of America is the “Supreme Law of the Land", as per Article VI, clause 2. Thereon, today, I invite all, "WE" the People, to Sign this Petition on such matter in order to bring my Complaint of “Crime” to the attention of the Federal and State authorities, so that it can provide an Empanelment of Special Grand Juries for organized crime under Title (18 U.S.C. § 3331) and (18 U.S.C. § 3332). My family and I are victims of Local Government "Corruption," a Domestic enemy of "WE the People". Herein, for your information, are my two recent videos that shows some of the “criminal” actions inflicted on Petitioner’s family that must be investigated by Special Grand Juries. For a better understanding of this petition, you must watch both videos Please go to link: youtube Tyranny exposed in Somerset County, NJ. (Gage vs. Warren Twp.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2Eaw_28yo&feature=youtu.be And Judiciary Corruption exposed in Trenton, New Jersey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsCvf6i9pm8 Whose duty is it to help and protect the “Rights” of a US Citizen if not a Government? "Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy." It is the duty of “WE” the People to be watchful of the actions of our elected Government Officers, so that they will not become lawbreakers, but they will abide by their duty to protect the Constitutional Rights of the Citizens and void any stealthy encroachments that violate these Rights. In this case, “WE” the People must protect the dignity and integrity of our judicial court system of the United States, as well as that of New Jersey. The judicial court system of the United States must serve the unprotected and the powerless, like myself, a Pro-se in this case, in the achievement of justice and in the preservation of human rights. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Respectfully, Thomas Gage