We, the undersigned, do not condone the intense brainwashing by our media and congress to frame the current threat by government to take food away from the one in four American children who already suffer hunger, and the chronic disabling effects of hunger, as a notion that belongs in the domain of Republican-Democrat viewpoints. The threat of increasing hunger in populations who already don’t have enough food to eat, is not one of political viewpoint, but instead belongs in the domain of child abuse. When a parent neglects to feed her children, we do not consider this her ‘viewpoint’; we call the child abuse hotline and get the child into a setting where the child’s basic needs can be met. Were a parent to keep a child so hungry that the child suffered pain, headaches, nausea, and couldn’t concentrate in school, we would all be outraged at the sadistic level of abuse. Our government, knowing almost a quarter of American children are suffering this level hunger, taking away what little food these families have, is an act of child abuse of the most devastating and sinister order. Clearly, funds are not the issue, as we somehow have $50,000 per year per (healthy) inmate (more for those needing medical attention) to imprison individuals who resort to stealing, but somehow are supposed to buy the brainwashing that we don’t have monies to provide $4.50/day for our poorest persons for food stamps. In addition, economists estimate that every dollar of SNAP benefit, adds $1.79 of economic benefit to the community. More than 80% of SNAP households have one or more members employed, with 87% of recipients living in households with children, elderly, or disabled persons. The more children get sick from hunger the more the low-wage earner has to take off from work resulting in job loss. Due to the economic crash, between 2007 & 2011 unemployment increased by 96% & SNAP by 70%. The average time on SNAP is 9 months as families find their way out from beneath the poverty line. We will not participate in condoning cutting programs that feed those suffering hunger as one of political party affiliation, and here join in calling it out as the child abuse (also elder abuse and abuse of the disabled) it is. We demand and here petition that our Senate and House of Representatives immediately stop the abuse and treat the epidemic of hunger in this country caused by the economic recession, as the national emergency it is, and respond as we do with the national emergencies caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., by pouring funds into correcting the situation, including by creating jobs, including by using monies from our Defense/Homeland security coffers. That is, doing whatever it takes to fulfill our obligation as adults, our intrinsic role as guardians of the children, to see to it that our children have food to eat.

If the federal health care law is not changed to require coverage of an employee's spouse and family it will encourage other companies to eliminate this benefit. Already 70% of American are struggling everyday to make it and salaries have not kept up with inflation since 1973. Fewer companies then ever offer healthcare benefits or find a loophole around it by only hiring part time employees. Companies need to start paying their employees better and preserve the healthcare benefits provided to employees, spouses, children and retirees. We need to change the federal law to make companies do what is right because otherwise they will just do what is in their financial best interest their employees be damned. This is a loophole that needs to be closed. Let's close it. Please sign this petition to change the Federal healthcare law to require employers to cover the spouses of employees along with their children.

I am starting this petition because our cable companies are charging way too much money for us to be able to watch our television programs, have access to the internet and have phone service. Many of us are on a fixed income and cannot afford the rates these companies are charging....and the rates only keep going up. This needs to change and return to the way it was before the FCC ruled that we would have to have a cable box in order to have access to television channels that previously were free through a VCR.

I am against the Zero- Tolerance School Discipline Policy,too many of our children are being suspended, expelled and arrested for incidents that could have been prevented. I believe in prevention before Intervention. Lets find a better solution to make our Schools safe, and help our children graduate to success, not failure .

Mumtaz Qadri is the Aashiq e Rasool (Sallal Laho Alahe Wassalam). He is not involve in any murder case, All the actions he committed was just his inner lovinglesness with Prophet Peace be upon Him. The mercy petition we lodged is currently waiting to be determined by President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef.....

Is there a crime the Koch brothers have NOT committed? They have committed massive ecocide and have even killed people with pollution. They have bribed our politicians and corrupted politics so completely that we now live in a corrupt and fascist corporatocracy instead of a democracy.

NBC News reports, "the U.S. could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday." But the UN Weapons Inspectors -- commissioned by the United States -- have not finished assessing whether Syria used chemical weapons. The last time the US ignored weapons inspectors was in Iraq. The man they ignored, Hans Blix, is urging Congress and President Obama to wait. Join Hans Blix and add your name.

DPS is laying off/transferring Fine Arts teachers and eventually this will cause the dissolution of all Fine Arts programs in DPS schools. Fine Arts and academics go hand in hand and without the Fine Arts programs where will our children be? Fine Arts brings out the best in our children and motivate them to excel in all areas of education.

Medicaid expansion in Michigan has been half-passed. It only narrowly passed in the Senate thanks to reckless opposition from right-wing conservatives. But without immediate effect, Michigan stands to lose $7 million a day in federal funding until Medicaid expansion is implemented in April 2014. Senate Republicans not only delayed the Medicaid vote for months, they’ve put Michigan in a position where we’ll lose out on millions of dollars by half-passing Medicaid expansion. The time for immediate effect is now! If you want to save Michigan millions of dollars and help immediately improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow Michiganders, sign the petition and tell Senate Republicans to stop half-passing their jobs and give Medicaid expansion immediate effect.

Traffic on 6th Street is a problem, and many people have worked over the years to decrease traffic on this residential street. The traffic causes noise, air pollution, and unsafe conditions for children, adults, and pets, on a residential street. The current plans for a development at the Hospital Linen site and the Metropolitan State parking structure in Dayton's Bluff, Saint Paul and Beacon Bluff do not contain a way to direct traffic to 7th Street, a commercial street, and will increase traffic on residential 6th Street and adjacent side streets. To date, the lack of a plan to direct traffic towards 7th Street encourages drivers to use 6th Street as a highway ramp to Interstate 94, which has resulted in the loss of life and property. This is completely unacceptable in a residential neighborhood, and will no longer be tolerated by residents of 6th Street, or Dayton's Bluff, and a closure of 6th Street between Mounds and Maria is demanded. The more support the more likely officials will listen. We're hoping to reach 150 signatures to show we are serious. Thank you!

Ten years ago, MoveOn was part of leading the largest anti-war movement in the history of the world. None-the-less, in March 2003 the U.S. went to war. The war was promoted as low cost, short and necessary to protect our security. Few people would now argue that the U.S. made a good choice back in 2003. I can't believe that "precision bombing" is being considered as an appropriate response to the turmoil in Syria. That the U.S. could decide unilaterally to engage in the Syrian civil war. Let's stop this saber rattling amnesia in its tracks! Don't allow this delusional thinking to last one more day.

We request, no demand, that our 8 class periods (requiring an hour-long lunch as one class period) replace our current schedule. We assert that 30 minutes is not nearly enough time to get food and eat it before the allotted time is up. Kids are missing their meals, having to eat far too quickly ( which is very unhealthy), and it is destructive to the education of the students. The lines are too long, the people are too numerous. and the food is not being distributed quickly enough to fulfill the needs of your students, which should be the goal of the school board to begin with.