San Franciscans have a right to redeem their bottles and cans for the California Redemption Value they pay at the store. Without the recycling centers that Safeway hosts, San Franciscans will lose a convenient way to get their money back.

Join us to call on the US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power to do the following: take a strong role in pushing for a ceasefire and a negotiated solution for Syria during the Geneva II Convention, push for an increase in US aid to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, and urge the United Nations to ban the use of killer drones.

As a first year Ph.D. student in the chemistry department at the University at Buffalo, the impending negative ramifications of federal budget sequestration as a result of Public Law 112-25 are of paramount interest to me. This issue directly impacts all fields of science, including my profession. Being an entry level scientist in an academic setting, I am deeply concerned about the longevity and availability of governmental scientific funding for public universities and national laboratories.

Because our school district can not even afford paper to print classroom assignments but prisoners can go to college free in most states. When budgets are cut education always goes first and in the same vote government officials are given pay raises. WHY NOT MAKE PRISONS USE BOX TOPS AND LET SCHOOLS BE FULLY FUNDED?!?!?!!!

Multiple business owners, employees & patrons feel unsafe at Carmel’s Clay Terrace Shopping Mall. A recent assault on a 17-year-old girl is the work of a man who’s been lurking around the mall for some time. The perpetrator had 3 other males in his white car & got away. Clay Terrace Partners & Carmel Police Department cannot do anything to protect citizens without proper Security Surveillance Cameras on Property to see & catch perpetrators or thieves.

Adult Education has been serving California for over 150 years, but in the last five years it's been cut to the bone. The Local Control Funding Formula puts Adult Schools at risk for further school closures because it does not provide designated funding for Adult Education. Adult Education empowers marginalized communities and creates a ripple effect that includes better community health, greater school success for children, stronger families, and reduced recidivism. It provides job training to put Californians back to work. The new Local Control Funding Formula for K-12 Public Education can safeguard Adult Education if it includes Adult Ed as one of the non-flexible categoricals - and then Adult Education can safeguard our state. Your signature supports this effort and tells our elected officials that Adult Education Matters!

Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet at Pearl High School is one of only two academic magnet high schools in our city (the other being Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet). Due to recent overcrowding trends, the Metro Nashville Public Schools director has recommended dropping the seventh and eighth grades in coming years. We believe that it is necessary to keep 7th and 8th grades intact at MLK because these grades prepare students with the critical academic skills necessary for 9th through 12th grade attendance at a nationally ranked Top 100 high school. Key reasons why we believe it is important to keep the 7th and 8th grades intact at MLK: • Every single ZIP code (with the exception of Downtown Business District) in Davidson County is represented at MLK. • MLK 7th and 8th students are exposed to unique opportunities and advantages unavailable in a middle school; these include the ability to later access a record 22 AP and other advanced honors courses, cohesive 6-year pathways in key subjects such as math, science, and foreign languages, mentoring by older high school students, and lower transition stress to high school. • Students who don’t arrive until 9th grade often struggle and face challenges with MLK’s rigorous academic curriculum due to lack of adequate preparation from non-academic magnet middle school feeder schools. • The general solution for overcrowding in Metro Schools is to find more space through both temporary portables and/or more permanent additions. We never hear of other high schools removing their 9th grade class due to overcrowding. • Other potential solutions to overcrowding exist and will require changes in pathway policies and/or academic qualifying criteria.

Imagine if your husband is risking his life for his country fighting overseas, but your home state says that if something happens to him, you won't be entitled to equal access to health and death benefits. That's happening. Even though the Department of Justice and Department of Defense issued directives to provide benefits to same-sex spouses, Texas announced that it intends to deny equal access to military benefits for National Guard families. Most states are already allowing federal coverage for health and death benefits to be processed for same-sex spouses the same way that they are processed for everyone else - even if state constitutions ban marriage for same-sex couples. However, Texas is putting needless, discriminatory roadblocks in the way by forcing service members’ spouses to travel miles out of the way to a separate federal facility to access the benefits they are legally entitled to. The Department of Defense deserves great credit for updating their policy to provide equal access to benefits regardless of sexual orientation. Now it's up to the governor to use his authority over the National Guard to provide equal care for all Texas service member families. American service members risk their lives every day to protect liberty and equality all over the world. It's time to show them the same basic fairness when it comes to protecting their own families in their home state.

Our mission is to ensure the protection of the residents of Camillus from toxic gaseous emissions released during Honeywell’s remediation of the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site. Dredging is being done to remove toxic material from Onondaga lake to Wastebed 13 in Camillus. The process is creating toxic gaseous emissions in the surrounding Camillus neighborhoods. This process is going to continue for years and these toxic emissions need to be stopped! Wastebed 13 in Camillus is where the toxic material ends up. The dredging process and wastebed storage methods are producing toxic gaseous emissions that are making their way to surrounding neighborhoods. Current air quality measuring is inadequate. A safer and more reliable method (TO-16) needs to be implemented as soon as possible to improve safety and to accurately measure effects the SCA is having on our air!

Being a podcaster is a culmination of producing, engineering audio, editing audio, marketing, research, and social media. Most podcasters will tell you we do it for the love of the "art" and making significant money is unlikely and, quite honestly, unattainable. Our reward comes in the form of downloads and listener interaction. Competing for rankings with well established celebrities and well known personalities makes it extremely difficult to grow a listenership that ,quite frankly, we sacrifice so much time and money to gain.

Workers at the Embassy Suites hotel in Irvine, CA, have been standing up against management. Albertina Solorio, who has been a vocal supporter of the organizing effort at the Embassy Suites, was recently fired after working there for 12 years as a housekeeper. The hotel is owned through investments from public pensions, including the pension system for thousands of public employees in Los Angeles County, known as LACERA. It makes no sense that a worker's investment fund is being used to hurt other workers! It's time to tell LACERA and MassMutual, the parent company of the investment manager, to stop the abuse and do what's right for the workers, and it's time for the Embassy Suites to give Albertina her job back.
 Please read the article, "L.A. County pension fund is taking heat over hotel investment", published on Sept 16, 2013, in the LA Times: http://lat.ms/151kBEl

By failing to expand Medicaid, the Republican majority turned their backs on 70,000 uninsured Montanans. They turned away $1.5 billion in federal funds and more than 12,000 jobs across Montana. They refused to throw a much-needed lifeline to the rural and critical access hospitals and clinics that struggle to provide care to the uninsured. They ignored the voices of thousands of Montanans who spoke up in support of Medicaid expansion. Now is the time for special session to expand Medicaid.