The Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission ruling granted corporations the right to unlimited spending on super pacs based on earlier decisions. First, corporations in a number of decisions have been granted 1st amendment free speech rights. Second, Buckley vs. Valejo has been interpreted to say money is equivalent to speech. The Court thus ruled that since free speech is not to be limited, neither is political spending. Long before the Citizens United decision, money played an excessive role in our government and in our lives. 94% of the time in California the candidate who raised the most money won the election. Corporations have been claiming constitutional rights for over 100 years. * Besides 1st amendment right of free speech, corporations have claimed and won 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 14th amendment rights. The right of privacy has been claimed, but not yet secured. *Claiming rights against search and seizure, corporations protect themselves from complying with worker safety regulations and requirements related to pollution. * Claiming right not to speak, the dairy industry sued and won against a law requiring labeling products from cows which were given BST, a bovine growth hormone. The precedence has implication for labeling GMO food. * Claiming 5th amendment taking rights, laws against drilling horizontally under people’s homes for coal were struck down, and entire towns in Pennsylvania sank in 1922. The precedence has implication for fracking. Big money manipulates all three branches of government—the legislative and executive branches though campaign financing, lobbying, and threats to harm the economy, the judicial branch through hiring the best lawyers to seize constitutional rights. While exhaustive grassroots work can successfully counter big money in elections, all future Supreme Court decisions will be determined by precedence and the constitution. Thus, the only recourse to return our democracy to We the People is a constitutional amendment. It is critical that an amendment address both constitutional rights only belonging to human beings and that money is not equivalent to speech. If corporations are curbed of rights, but money remains as speech, CEOs instead of their companies will fund campaigns. If money is ruled as not speech, corporations will continue to usurp rights meant for people to damage our planet, health, safety, and way of life. Given the difficult process of amending the constitution, it does not make sense to accomplish the goal with two or more amendments. There are bills which separate the two issues and bills which only address the single Citizens United decision as well as half measures which leave non-profit corporations alone. The NRA is a non-profit. The Nolan-Pocan We the People bill is the only one which is comprehensive.

To convince Congress, New York State and New York City to enact an investment tax credit to allow individuals and corporations to invest in a Natural Resilience Fund to help fund the gap for existing and proposed climate resilience efforts in New York City and State.

Millionhoodies is a multiracial alliance of concerned citizens, civil society organizations, and community leaders who are fed up with the unprecedented levels of unrestrained violence directed at young people of color in this country.

We are facing foreclosure like many homeowners. We must stop this bill from being enacted. This bill protects the banks not the homeowner. It would prevent the homeowner from suing the banks for any fraud, robo-signing, false affidavits .

It is about equal justice in Florida under the "stand your ground" law.

More than 1,230 young parents of many children have been killed in Bangladesh garment factories in the past 8 months due to extremely poor work conditions. Seven European fashion companies have signed a Workplace Safety Accord requesting standards for safe conditions. Please appeal to Walmart, Gap, and all of the U.S. firms to join in this action to save lives

Increase minimum wage to $35 dollars across the board, everyone will benefit, because you will have to raise prices on everything, milk could be as expensive as $20 dollars a gallon, but every service or enterprise would raise their prices so everyone even the lowly Americans barely bringing home $200 hundred dollars per week will benefit, the economy will rise

The purpose of this petition is to stop kids from being singled out in gym class. We need to eliminate the concept of being "picked last." A team should not be determined by its weakest or strongest player, but by how well they work together. When gym teachers select at random order each time, this will allow kids to make new friends and ensure greater self development. Schools should aspire to be safe havens. They should be about bringing students together and not spreading them apart. JOIN IN! SIGN ON!

It was recently reported that the Department of Economic and Community Development has been hiring children and other close relatives of employees for high paying summer jobs within the department. The child of one employee is being paid $14 an hour, and made over $12,000 last summer. There are a limited number of these jobs, just 13, and 3 of them went to family members this summer. These jobs were unadvertised, so locals that might have been interested and qualified didn't even have the chance to apply. This simply isn't right. The DECD should have to perform a fair and open search to fill these positions. Tell the DECD to stop giving out jobs to their employees relatives.

I was very bothered when I read the paper this morning. A author Amber Dee Parker wrote a book for little kids to explain to them why it's wrong to be gay and teaches little kids to pray for gay peoples sins. She is scheduled to speak at Barnes&Noble today in Lincoln, NE. This petition is not asking Barnes&Noble to stop selling this book. This petition is asking Barnes&Noble to STOP endorsing authors who marginalizes members of society. I want Barnes&Noble to cancel Amber Dee Parker's event. This is taken from the July, 20 2013 Lincoln Journal Star Online copy. The book in a nutshell Amber Dee Parker's “God Made Dad & Mom” tells the story of a biracial boy named Michael who asks his father why his friend Jimmy has two dads. The story follows Michael through the day as he learns about family at parochial school, including the Bible passage Genesis 1:27: “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." And later, on a surprise trip to the zoo, his father shows him even animals have fathers and mothers. Along the way, Michael learns that he, like his friend Jimmy, was adopted, but by a mother and a father. The storybook ends with Michael and his father praying for his friend’s dads -- and that they ask God for forgiveness of their sins.

Through the hottest days of the year, workers at the 27 West Lake Dunkin Donuts were forced to work long hours, through the heat of the day, without air conditioning. After days of feeling sick, tired and dizzy they had enough and went on strike until the unsafe conditions were resolved. Thousands of workers are experiencing the same unsafe conditions and Dunkin Donuts should make their safety their number one priority.

My son and his two uncles have been languishing behind bars in Maryland, USA, for 22 years for a crime they did not commit. We now have irrefutable evidence to prove this but we lack the financial resources to get it back into court. Please help us bring our family home.