Safeway, Starbucks and Target have something in common: They’re all dues-paying members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a group that is determined to deny you the right to know if your food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Last year, the GMA spent $2 million to help defeat California’s Prop 37, a citizens’ initiative that would have required mandatory labeling of GMOs in food products in California. (In all, GMA and its members contributed about half of the $46 million spent to defeat Prop 37). Now the GMA is at it again, pouring money into the campaign to defeat a similar initiative, I-522, in Washington State. By supporting the GMA, Safeway, Starbucks and Target are working to defeat your right to know. The battle in Washington State will have a huge impact on consumer rights. If I-522 passes, food manufacturers will likely reformulate their products, rather than label them. And if they reformulate their products in Washington State, they’ll likely reformulate them for all states – just as they’ve reformulated them in Europe and other countries that have GMO labeling laws. If we want the same right that consumers in 64 other countries have, we must demand that right. We must win in Washington State in November. We can start by making it clear to Safeway, Starbucks and Target that we won’t support their companies or their products, until they support our right to know and pressure the GMA to do the same.

Daylight Savings Time (DST) disrupts everyone's schedules, and, in turn, their lives. This has a negative impact on people's health and other vital aspects which constitute their happiness. Leave time alone; it does a fine job all by itself and does not need our help!

Lost in the story of Detroit's bankruptcy (the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history) were all the bankrupted dreams of the communities of color targeted for predatory home loans. Detroit had the highest foreclosure rate in the country at the peak of the housing crisis, and years later, homeowners like Rubbie McCoy, a single mother of four, are still dealing with the stress and fear of losing their home. Rubbie was the victim of predatory and discriminatory lending that devastated Black and Latino borrowers especially. And it wasn't just wrong--it was illegal. Now Rubbie is finally getting her day in court - as a plaintiff in an ACLU-backed lawsuit, by challenging Morgan Stanley for its instrumental role in racially discriminatory lending practices. But that's just the tip of the iceberg in Wall Street's role in discriminatory lending, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. What we need now is for the Department of Justice to do its part to stand up for all the Rubbies out there and finally hold all the big banks accountable for financing illegal and discriminatory lending practices. Sign the petition today urging Attorney General Eric Holder to take Wall Street banks to court for violating the Fair Housing Act.

With unemployment still around 7.6% Americans need to work America's jobs. I've recently been working in the oil fields of North Dakota, living in a man camp and surrounded by foreigners working in skilled trades. In Tioga North Dakota on the south end of town is a gasification plant being built by kiewit and MMR construction. This job site employs about 1,500 craftsmen of which 80% are foreign, most likely legally in the United States on work visas. I have recently been in touch with the department of homeland security to seek verification of their legal status in this country. The response I got from I.C.E. was without proof of illegal activity they would be unwilling to conduct an investigation. I'm here to tell the federal government put Americans to work! These migrant workers aren't doing the work we won't do, they are taking a high paying position from an American. Help me convince congress and Obama that Americans should hold American jobs!

In the past few years, the drilling industry has created tens of billions of gallons of fracking waste, which is often laced with cancer-causing and even radioactive material. Shockingly, fracking and drilling pollution is exempt from our cornerstone national hazardous waste laws. The result is simple and jaw-dropping: Fracking waste can be sprayed on our roads as a deicer, stored in open waste pits that overflow into our waterways -- and some Western communities are using it as water for livestock. We can fix this, thanks to Pennsylvania’s very own Rep. Matthew Cartwright’s CLEANER Act, which will finally regulate dangerous fracking and drilling waste. This toxic waste has already made its way into our streams, rivers and drinking water sources, putting our health and environment at risk. Consider: * Fracking waste discharged at a sewage treatment plant in Pittsburgh led to a drinking water advisory for nearby communities. * 44,000 barrels of drilling wastewater was discharged into Bucks County’s Neshaminy Creek through a local sewage plant. * And, just a few months ago, a wastewater hauler illegally dumped 250,000 gallons of fracking wastewater into the Mahoning River in Ohio. The CLEANER Act would help curb the toxic waste threat our communities face every day, such as these, by requiring the tracking of every gallon of fracking waste from the day it’s created at the drilling site and help ensure safer disposal.

Questions for which we never receive answers: Did Congress vote themselves their annual pay raise? What do they pay for Health Care? Are they paid after leaving these positions?

Why must we pay politicians until they die, and why must we fund their health care ? !

In support of PA Senate Bill 719, we seek to bring marriage equality for the LGBT community to Pennsylvania. The relationships of LGBT Pennsylvanians deserve to be treated equally and fairly under the law.

Juveniles are sentenced to life without parole for class A felonies in our state. This gives them no hope for their futures no matter if they rehabilitate themselves or not. The judicial system does not take into consideration their culpability factors or what role they may have taken in the crime. Now our Gov. wants to keep them in for life by forcing them to serve many years with no credit for time served before giving them the chance at parole. What sort of meaningful opportunity is that considering most people don't make it past their 60s or 70s. The Gov. is still handing down life sentences. We must end this NOW! Juveniles are NOT adults, give them a chance to prove individually that they are worth a 2nd chance in life. Someone very close to my heart has been serving a life sentence since the age of 15. He is now 34 years old. He was at the scene of a murder though did not partake in the murder what so ever. He is currently working toward his business degree and is a model inmate. He has so much to offer society. He certainly deserves a 2nd chance at his life.

Since the late 70's Miami Mayors and Commissioners have barely given lip service to parks and green space. While 50,000 persons have been added to our population since 2000, no significant park land has been added. Residents know parks are necessary. Developers love to show any public space as green space on their brochures. This petition is to get the Miami Mayor and Commission to actually use one time impact fees on new construction to build new parks and to stop leasing away our scarce parks and water front with nothing tangible in return. Do not expect to see more parks overnight. We must drag Miami leaders into the 21st Century. Stay informed by joining the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MoreParksForMiamiNow/ Please ask your youth and adult friends to sign this petition to be delivered to the Mayor and Commissioners. Below are more detailed facts about this petition: Miami has the least amount of park space per resident of any high density city in the entire United States and 4 of 5 Commission Districts have little or no park space. Over the years, taxpayers from all Commission districts have paid taxes to create the parks which are mainly in District Two. During the building boom of 2000-2008 our park situation became much worse because under Mayor Diaz only two acres of parks were added when 155 acres should have been added to serve the over 50,000 new residents added by developers. Under Florida law, municipalities can hold developers responsible for paying one time Impact Fees to pay for additional classroom space, police and fire department needs and new park land, but the fees collected for parks were not enough and to make the matter worse the Miami Commission used the park fee money for improvement projects, but not to buy the needed park land. Also during the recent building boom, many developers escaped paying the new higher Impact Fees because the Commission failed to enact the new fees in time to apply to the new, mostly luxury high rise condos. A review of the Impact Fees by the Commission was due in 2008, but that review did not take place until 2013 and there were no significant changes. The City still charged Park Impact Fees on a modest single family home at a rate three times that of a luxury condo and affordable housing apartments pay no fees, while those developer are guaranteed a 15% return on their investment. A massive development, south of the Miami River, which the Commission has approved has been granted a building permit which will add over two thousand new residents, plus hotel rooms, office space and commercial space. This development by the Swire Company is paying the same old low fees. In progressive cities, impact fees for parks are collected not just on residential units, but also on hotel, commercial and office space because visitors, shoppers and office workers respectively also create a need for more park space. If Miami Impact Fees for parks had been revised in time and if they had been made commensurate with the actual cost of Miami land, then the funds collected on the Swire project alone could have created up to eight neighborhood size parks instead of perhaps one new park. Beyond Impact Fees, Miami 21, the new zoning code, allows 25% of any park to automatically be covered with buildings with no limit on the additional space allowed for parking. It is easy to see 50% of any park being covered with buildings and parking. Miami Parks need protections similar to County Parks. Miami 21 must be revised so no more than 25% of any park can be covered with a combination of buildings, parking and other hard surfaces. If more space in a park is needed for a public building, then there needs to be public process and the green park land to be covered over should be replaced in the neighborhood. This petition means Mayor Regalado and the Commission need to adjust our Level of Service for Parks from 1.3 acres per thousand residents to 3.1, where our actual park acreage was several years ago and that the Impact Fees for parks be raised to provide for the purchase and development of 3.1 acres per thousand new residents, paid for by developers who add population to our city, that these new Impact Fees be in place by March 2012 and that Miami 21 be revised to provide protections for Miami parks.

The time has come to insist on clean energy for the future of the South Jersey area; in particular, for the old B.L. England facility. We cannot support the building a 22-mile long pipeline through protected lands in order to continue to use fossil fuels for energy. "Fracking" is dangerous to our air and water.

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