Comprehensive immigration reform is dying a slow death in Congress because House Speaker Boehner—who has the power to demand an up-or-down vote on the reform bill—refuses to get out of the way. But there is a simple way that Democrats can bypass Boehner and save immigration reform. They can introduce the Senate bill, which passed with broad bipartisan support, then use a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives. A discharge petition is the most viable option to pass comprehensive immigration reform this fall. It only takes 218 votes to file a discharge petition—that's every Democrat in Congress and 17 Republicans. Support for the discharge petition is growing in the media and among members of Congress.

We need Congress to by pass John Boehner to get comprehensive immigration reform passed. The means to that end is to file a discharge petition. This petition is asking Michigan Representative Dan Kildee to support and file a discharge petition. 11 million Dreamers are counting on us to get this done yesterday.

Government employees who share information with journalists in the public interest should never face charges of "aiding the enemy" under the Espionage Act of 1917. Urge Congress to fix the law so it can't be used to intimidate whistle-blowers and journalists with the charge of "aiding the enemy."

"Gov Jerry Brown signed AB1266, The School Bathroon Bill, into Law. This law requires California public schools to allow students to use bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and other facilities based on their 'gender identity' and not biological sex."

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Comprehensive immigration reform is dying a slow death in Congress because House Speaker Boehner—who has the power to demand an up-or-down vote on the reform bill—refuses to get out of the way. There is, however, a simple way that Democrats can bypass Boehner and save immigration reform. They can introduce the Senate bill, which passed with broad bipartisan support, then use a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives. A discharge petition is the most viable option to pass comprehensive immigration reform this fall. It only takes 218 votes to file a discharge petition—that's every Democrat in Congress and 17 Republicans. Support for the discharge petition has increased in the media and appears to be growing among members of Congress. Will you sign this petition asking Representative George Miller to support a discharge petition for comprehensive immigration reform?

Please sign by August 20, 2013 AT&T wants to put a permanent set of cellular 4G antennas at Wilkie’s Inn, (1038 Lighthouse Avenue) next to the butterfly sanctuary. This is one of the few monarch habitats the butterflies rely on. This project needs to be halted immediately. Pacific Grove is an overwintering area for the monarch butterfly. Each year, these butterflies migrate thousands of miles from Canada to Pacific Grove and other special places in the Western Hemisphere. They arrive and stay through several reproductive cycles, and then continue their travels. These butterflies are huge pollinators helping in the process of making oxygen that we breathe. PG has an ordinance specifically protecting monarch butterflies. It has a small area set aside for the butterflies as a sanctuary, but the butterflies roost and feed in trees in the surrounding area. Many travel books feature this sanctuary to attract visitors from all around the world. The monarchs’ numbers have diminished, due to a variety of factors. Butterfly populations have declined by more than 90% in many areas, including along the Central Coast of California. Wireless radiation has known health impacts to humans, animals, insects, and plants. These include DNA and genetic damage, breaches to the blood-brain barrier (yes, butterflies have brains) which allows toxins and myelin-destroying white blood cells into the brain, cancers and tumors, cognitive and learning impacts, immune system damage, chemical disruption in the body, interference with magnetite (important for navigation in migrating creatures), changes in the blood, and more. There are cancer clusters around cell towers, up to 1/4 mile away. In 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer declared this a possible carcinogen – Class 2B – in the same category as DDT. In Feb 2011, AT&T and the Pacific Grove Unified School District put a temporary cell tower next to the butterfly sanctuary. Despite local opposition, it was there through two overwintering cycles, and was not removed until Feb 2013. The City of Pacific Grove actually sued to keep it there, until a temporary tower was constructed several blocks away at the city cemetery, adjacent to additional butterfly habitat. That has also been opposed by local residents. An extremely flawed report was written by the Pacific Grove Planning Department Staff, regarding the effects these AT&T cell phone antennas on Wilkie’s Inn could pose. The city did not require an environmental impact report (EIR). The city’s report did not once mention the monarch butterfly sanctuary, and stated there would be no significant adverse effects to the environment, humans included, directly or indirectly. It also stated there would be NO IMPACT, regarding this project conflicting with any local ordinance. There was no change in the city’s position when formal comments were submitted which pointed out the obvious flaws, and the planning department’s recommendations were submitted to the Planning Commission for approval. The Planning Commission approved the AT&T project on July 18, 2013. Thankfully, an appeal was submitted, but we weren’t given much time. The appeal date, when it will be heard by the Pacific Grove City Council, is August 21, 2013. An extension has been requested which would push the hearing on the appeal to September 7, 2013. We won’t know if this request is granted until the August 21 city council meeting. The monarchs rely on this sanctuary and this area. These butterflies migrate more than 2,000 miles and do not need any more obstacles to survive. By federal law, once a carrier is in an area, other carriers must be allowed to build towers or antennas as well so that AT&T does not have a monopoly. There could be a proliferation of antennas in this one area. The butterflies will be long gone if we don’t do something about this. Please take action to stop these antennas in Pacific Grove, California. Please sign this petition TODAY. Deadline for signing before the city council meeting is Tuesday, August 20. It is up to monarch lovers nationally and internationally to protect this threatened butterfly. For updates visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/savepg.butterflies Sources: http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=269&Itemid=136 The Birds, the Bees and Electromagnetic Pollution, by Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy, May 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/3973887/Documentation-about-cancer-clusters-and-other-illnesses-around-mobile-phone-masts Documented cancer cluster cases nearby cell phone towers/antennas http://www.biolmedonline.com/Articles/Vol4_4_2012/Vol4_4_202-216_BM-8.pdf Impacts of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem – a review, S Sivani, D Sudarsanam Biology and Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 202–216, Published: 6th Jan 2013 http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.com/2012/07/sense-of-smell-and-sight-perturbed-in.html?spref=fb http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=22268919 http://www.teslabel.be/antennes/254-etude-a-lulb-odorat-et-vue-perturbes-chez-des-fourmis-soumises-au-rayonnement-gsm Sense of Smell and Sight Perturbed in Ants Exposed to GSM Radiation: Study at Université Libre, Brussels http://broschuerenreihe.net/britannien-uk/brochure/bees-birds-and-mankind/index.html Bees, Birds and Mankind – Destroying Nature by Electrosmog, Ulrich Warnke. Kompetenz Initiative If You Care, Do Something. Ask your kids what they’d rather have, “Cell phone reception or the butterflies!” The answer is easy.

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The end of the fiscal year is September 30th; when elected officials get back from the August recess they will either have to pass a budget or a continuing resolution to keep the gov't running. Talk of Grand Bargains-- more cuts to both corporate taxes and vital government services-- are starting to move again in D.C. Corporations and their front groups like Fix the Debt put forward a public face of bipartisan concern and cooperation for the country and our budget crisis, but their real agenda - cut earned benefits and our human and physical infrastructure to pay for massive corporate tax breaks - is clear. They are swarming Capitol Hill pushing their agenda, and some of our elected officials are picking it up. "Fix the Debt" uses terms like "tax reform" and advocates for a territorial tax system, which would exempt every penny of offshore profits from US taxation – a $134 billion windfall annually. They say "entitlement reform" and mean cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They say "balance" and they mean lowering corporate tax rates. Our economy continues to be sluggish, income inequality is rising and our communities are struggling. A decades-long campaign by corporate interests and the 1% has discredited government, starved revenues, and concentrate wealth and political power in the hands of the few. We’re facing high unemployment and stagnant wages, while corporations and the wealthy are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash and demanding our elected officials grant them more tax breaks paid for with cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and our human and physical infrastructure. Wall Street corporations who spend their money lobbying instead of paying their fair share can't be allowed to keep rigging out system according to their economic interest.

I would like legislators to stand up on the right side of history, and support the majority of Americans who favor comprehensive immigration reform now.

My family will be affected if the immigration reform is not passed. It is imperitive the government fixes this broken immigration system an stop splitting families!

The Senate passed a strong comprehensive immigration reform bill. Immigration reform will strengthen our economy, keep families together, and offer a clear roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million tax-paying, aspiring Americans. As an American citizen, and the child of immigrant parents, I want legislators to stand up on the right side of history, and side with the majority of Americans that need comprehensive immigration reform NOW.