My son Corey is being denied privileges that are beneficial to his physical, mental, spiritual, education and over all well being. He is not being given the opportunity to complete the needed groups to work towards his chance at Clemency/Parole. There can be no rehabilitation if a person is denied the chance to have goals, hopes and dreams and working to better themselves, if they are not rewarded with what was promised.

Despite the drastic increase in rent in the Crown Heights neighborhood, the proposed rezoning for Crown Heights West offers no guarantees that new housing will be affordable to existing residents. The rezoning only includes a voluntary incentive, called Inclusionary Zoning, for developers to build some affordable units within market-rate developments. This incentive has a track record in NYC of resulting in few affordable units, and a vast array of luxury housing. Regardless of whether developers take the affordable housing incentive, they would be allowed to build larger buildings, which would increase the property value. This could mean: • Rents could increase. • Existing housing and retail space could be demolished. • Tenants could face increased harassment to leave their apartments. We need your help to tell the New York City Council to include protections for affordable housing and increased penalties for harassing tenants in the proposed Crown Heights West rezoning. We're asking NYC to: 1. Adopt Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning, a policy that guarantees a certain percentage of affordable units in new developments under a rezoning. 2. Establish an anti-harassment area, which requires the City to look into whether harassment occurred when it receives demolition requests and penalizes landlords who harass tenants. This petition is sponsored by the Crown Heights Assembly, a coalition of long-term residents and newcomers working for affordable and harassment-free housing in Crown Heights.

'Stand Your Ground" self-defense law is cruel and unjust. La ley "Defiende tu posición” derecho de autodefensa" es cruel e injusta.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed HB 589, a needlessly restrictive bill designed to make voting more difficult for everyone in our state. We need the Governor to show real leadership and veto this bill before it becomes law. Nothing less the future of democracy in North Carolina is at stake. The bill cuts the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, although counties would still be required to provide the same number of hours for early voting. It also prohibits counties from extending early voting hours on the Saturday before Election Day to accommodate crowds and eliminates same-day voter registration during early voting. Other provisions in the revamped bill include: - Eliminate pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, who currently can register to vote before they turn 18. - Outlaw paid voter registration drives. - Eliminate straight-ticket voting. - Eliminate provisional voting if someone shows up at the wrong precinct. - Prohibit counties from extending poll hours by one hour on Election Day in extraordinary circumstances, such as in response to long lines. Those in line at closing time would still be allowed to vote. - Allow any registered voter of a county to challenge the eligibility of a voter rather than just a voter of the precinct in which the suspect voter is registered. - Move the presidential primary to first Tuesday after South Carolina's primary if that state holds its primary before March 15. That would mean North Carolina would have two primaries during presidential elections. - Study electronic filing for campaign returns. - Increase the maximum allowed campaign contribution per election from $4,000 to $5,000. - Loosen disclosure requirements in campaign ads paid for by independent committees. - Repeal the publicly funded election program for appellate court judges. - Repeal the requirement that candidates endorse ads run by their campaigns. The voter ID requirement is more restrictive than the proposal the House passed in April by prohibiting university students from using their college IDs.

I am concerned with the lack of recognition of Licensed Professional Counselor as Licensed Independent Practitioner. The Federal government only acknowledges Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Psychologist as being able to provide mental health services, especially to military.

A little 3 year old girl was hit and run and killed last year the white young man hit her left the scene and a tip was given of his identitiy and the next day he turned himself in they sentenced him to 2-7 years for killing her. He ran a stop sign and killed her. Many of my friends and family are in prison for more than 5 years for Drug cases. How do you take a innocent life and get a slap on the wrist but sell a drug and get a big chunk of time. Not fair at all. We have to take action and stop the judical system.

In WILLIAMS v. FLORIDA, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), it was ruled that a 6 person jury was sufficient under the 6th Amendment. Defendants are constitutionally entitled to a fair cross-section of potential jurors and smaller juries lessen the likelihood of diversity. The people of Florida deserve fair, balanced, and diversified juries.

A gay couple who want to be buried together. One of the men has ALS

Commissioner Rowland has dismissed 2 1/2 years of work in developing a regulation that protects the health , welfare and property rights and property values of all Elbert County residents. Send him a message that he works for us, not his personal ideology.

Out-of-state and out-of-touch groups announced their plans to put a Texas-style abortion ban on our own city election ballot this October in a first in the nation test of a new strategy to ban abortions city-by-city. Even though the city attorney has said it’s unconstitutional, they have an agenda to shame and judge Albuquerque’s women and make it impossible for New Mexico women to access safe and legal abortions. Every pregnancy is different and making a decision to end a pregnancy is a deeply personal and often complex for a woman and her family. The government has no role in these deeply personal decisions, but that isn’t stopping these out-of-state groups from trying. We respect Albuquerque’s women and that’s why we’re fighting so hard to stop this measure.

"In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that cannabis damages the immune system, found instead that cannabinoids slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice - lung and breast cancer, and a virus induced leukemia." The results were censored and the rest is almost unbelievable! It wasn't until 2000 that Dr. Manuel Guzman of Complutense University in Madrid Spain rediscovered that cannabinoids do indeed shrink tumors. This information was also censored! However, many more studies now prove this incredible fact, but, we still don't hear about it! 1600 Americans die each and every day of cancer, many more suffer needlessly, and, the cost to our health care system is staggering. Cannabis is also proven to treat many, many other diseases yet the federal government still claims cannabis has no medicinal benefit even though before prohibition, cannabis was was the most widely prescribed medicine in the USA! Even colicky babies were treated with it! Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74 http://www.alternet.org/drugs/9257 The '74 study http://www.ukcia.org/research/AntineoplasticActivityOfCannabinoids/index.php Here is the 2000 study by Guzman, twenty six years later, over ten years ago, that proves the same. How sad! 1600 Americans a day!!! http://www.brainlife.org/reprint/2003/guzmán_m031000.pdf Or; http://herb.com/guzman.pdf And; "Cannabis destroys cancer cells... reveals research at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry" http://www.qmul.ac.uk/qmul/news/newsrelease.php?news_id=175 And; " Here, we review recent work that raises interest in the development and exploration of potent, nontoxic, and nonhabit forming cannabinoids for cancer therapy. http://m.cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/68/2/339.full Prior to becoming illegal in 1937, "cannabis tinctures, fluid extracts, and flowers" were the most commonly used medicines in the USA. Your great-grandparents would have used them! (This information was deleted from the pharmacopoeia in 1941) http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap4/Tincture.htm http://www.new-territory.net/cann_uses.txt There's so much more! Let's speak up! Kaneh bosm!

Rep. Steve King's (IA-R) ugly history of anti-immigrant rhetoric reached rock bottom this week after saying that some DREAMers have "calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert." Not only did he claim that for every valedictorian DREAMer there are 100 more carrying drugs across the border, but he then doubled-down by claiming that he didn't "yet know of anyone who has raised a logical argument against" his gross misstatement. Rep. King's attack is nothing new. Last year he compared immigrants to dogs, and then in an Univision interview claimed he meant it as a compliment. Last month he voted to defund DACA, called a group of DREAMers visiting his office "illegal aliens," compared it to an invasion, and then wondered why they hadn't been arrested yet. And now he's accusing those same young Americans of being drug runners. House leaders Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) quickly repudiated Rep. King's statements, but when pressed by a reporter about whether Rep. King would keep his seat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Speaker Boehner simply brushed off the question. We need House leaders who lead. Instead of elevating Republicans willing to engage in respectful debate, Speaker Boehner is giving Rep. King a platform to do nothing but spew his ugly views. We need Speaker Boehner to stand up to Rep. King and take control of his House. Tell Speaker Boehner that Rep. Steve King doesn't deserve a pedestal for hate. Remove Rep. Steve King from the powerful House Judiciary Committee now.