The decision by the Obama Administration, giving employers an extra year to offer insurance coverage, is yet another time the President has caved in to Republican Party rhetoric and threats. President Obama needs to follow through with his campaign promises of change. After electing President Obama twice and with almost five years in office, I’m still waiting for this change to take place. President Obama needs to stop caving to Republican threats and intimidation and to push through with Democratic Party principles. I thought elections matter? As Governor Patrick Duval articulated while speaking at the 2008 Democratic Convention, "Democrats need to grow a backbone". Mr. President you need to listen to Governor Patrick and lead your party by example. We’re getting killed out here.

The City of Santa Fe currently has a minimum wage of $10.51 an hour. This wage helps working families to provide for themselves and their children and to be stronger parts of their communities. Now we have the chance to expand this $10.51 minimum wage to the rest of Santa Fe County. Will you sign the petition to the Santa Fe Commission now?

Congressman Daines recently accepted a $10,000 contribution from Citizens United for his 2014 campaign. Last November, in the same election that Montana voters sent Steve Daines to Congress, Montanans called on our elected officials to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision when we passed Initiative 166 with 75% of the vote. But instead of heeding the will of the voters, Daines is aligning himself with the very group leading the assault on our clean election laws. Please join me in demanding that Congressman Daines return the Citizens United money.

My son Jake was a victim of a drunk driver on Sunday, June 30, 2013 in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Jake is 9 years old and with the daughter (12 years old) of his father's girlfriend. Both children survived with minor injuries, thankfully! The man who struck them was a second offense drunk driver, thus making it his third offense. Additionally, he had illegal possession of narcotics, adding to his charges. News reports told the man stated in his video arraignment that he was not working in his career and only made so much a month 'as a referee for high school games'.

In this time of expansion and growth of Moab’s trail system, especially along the scenic highway 128, we must reexamine the name “Negro Bill Canyon” and rename this popular hiking trail and campsite. By renaming Negro Bill Canyon as Grandstaff Canyon (and correcting the spelling of the nearby Granstaff Campground), we still acknowledge its history, while respecting the man: William J. Grandstaff.

The Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United decision has been an unmitigated disaster for the American people. It is imperative that the Constitution be amended so that it clearly states that corporations are not people and should not have the same rights as people.

If we do not protect voting rights, who are we?

I have known this woman and her sons for 35 years and this conviction is insane! She has loved and cared for animals’ everyday of her life. She has been terrorized for five years and because she spoke up, she is now facing 25 years in prison for something she is innocent of doing.

Genetically modified food is controversial. Many scientists reveal multiple studies showing its harm. We demand the right to choose which food we eat by demanding that the Maryland General Assembly pass a labeling law. Los comestibles genéticamente modificados son polémicos. Muchos científicos han revelado múltiples estudios que demuestran su peligro. Exigimos el derecho a elegir lo que comamos exigiéndole a la Asamblea General de Maryland que aprueben una ley de etiquetación.

We work at Guitar Center and we are organizing across the country to improve wages and working conditions for all Guitar Center employees. We love our jobs and our passion is helping our customers achieve their musical dreams. But we often have trouble making ends meet, thanks to low wages and fluctuating hours. We are asked to do many non-selling tasks which hurt our commissions. Sales workers do not receive sick days, health benefits are expensive and part timers are not even offered health benefits. It’s been an exciting year for the Guitar Center campaign: workers in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas have successfully organized a union at their workplaces, over 100 bands and artists have endorse the campaign, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting us. However, the company has responded by refusing to give us a fair contract and has launched an aggressive campaign to bust the union. The company’s last offer is worse than non-union stores. It is meant to punish us for standing up for ourselves. Our union has been forced to file charges detailing the company’s bad faith negotiating and union busting. We now say: Enough is Enough. We are asking the public to support us as we enter the final stages of negotiations! Sign the petition below to help us get a fair contract and a support our union. Artist Endorsees: Tom Morello Kathleen Hanna Roger Waters Ted Leo A Wilhelm Scream Activator Alan Cage (Quicksand) Aloe Blacc Alvvays And We Danced Andy Nelson (Paint it Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue) Anoraak Anti-Flag ¡Aparato! Arms Aloft The Attic Ends B. Dolan Beast Patrol Beneath Acacia The Bennies Bent Shapes Bevel Summers Bigger Thomas Billy Bragg B*tch Bluffing Bones Jugs N Harmony Bonesetters Boots Riley (The Coup) Born in a Cent Brass Messengers Breedloves Burn Everything Cambalache Canasta The Cell Phones Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Chicano Batman Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) Chris Frasco Chumped Chunkie Soup Circa '95 Claudio Rivera (Motion City Soundtrack) Computer at Sea Cory Johnson (Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant) Curtis McMurtry Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawamba) David Rovics Dead Leaf Echo Dean Wareham Devon Kay & The Solutions DJ Torch Downtown Boys Due North East of the Wall Elway Empty Lungs Eric Ayotte Et Tu Brute Evan Greer & Friends Ezra Furman and the Harpoons The Fatty Acids The Fever Haze Flaccid French Horn Rebellion F*cked Up Gameday Regulars The Gashers Gay Panic Glue Gun GoldBoot Gravity A The Grim The Grizzled Mighty Hold Tight! Homewreckers The Hood Internet Hostage Calm The Hoteliers I See Hawks in LA Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) Jasiri X JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN) Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) Jesse Malin John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) John Wright (Railroad Music) Jonny Rumble Karen and the Sorrows Katastrophe Krill L Train Las Cafeteras Las Vegas Gangstaz Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Leda Leftover Crack Local 802 AFM (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) Los Rakas Lyrically Illz Ma Jolie Matt Cross (Orange 9mm and ex-Guitar Center worker) Matt Pantelis Matt Reilly (Japanther) Max Bernstein (Ke$ha) Mike Golden & Friends Mike Park (Asian Man Records) The Molotov Mother Falcon The Muggs Murdoc My Body Sings Electric The New Diet Non Exotic On Your Marx The People's Whiskey The Remedies Paint it Black Painted Saints Paper Holland Pet Tigers Plague of Pilgrims Prawn Propagandhi P.Y.M.P. Quetzal Random Rab Ray Korona Rebel Diaz Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Rise Against Robot Death Kites Rocky Rivera Roger Harvey & The Wildlife Rosetta Rude Mechanical Orchestra RVIVR Saintseneca Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter) Sean Daley (Atmosphere) Sergio Vega (Deftones, Quicksand) The Sights Ski Lodge Slavic Soul Party! Slonk Donkerson Small Reactions Smalls So So Glos Sons of an Illustrious Father Sorrows Spiritchild Spoonboy Spring Heeled Jack Starlight Girls Stephanie Johnstone Steve Earle Street Dogs STRFKR The Taxpayers The Thermals Thee Oh Sees This City Called Earth Thollem Electric Tommy Siegel (Jukebox the Ghost) The Underground Railroad to Candyland Unicorn Fukr Vincent Cross Violent Bullsh#t Voodoo Visionary Vulture Sh*t War on Women Water Borders The Way Down Wanderers We Are All Savages We Are the Union Who Needs You Wilder Maker The Wood Brothers Zelienople Zuzuka Poderosa

In America we believe that everyone is equal, period. But that's not how our current immigration system works. Under our current immigration laws, immigrants currently living in the US without papers have no way to fix their immigration status and pursue the rights obtained through citizenship. These immigrants -- many of whom are American in every way but on paper -- are doomed to a life in shadows. They are prevented from doing things many US citizens take for granted, like driving, working, applying for credit cards, and even from visiting sick family members overseas. The Senate just passed an immigration bill that will would fix this tragedy by creating a pathway to citizenship for these 11 million Americans without papers. Through this pathway, students, workers, family members, and even some immigrants with deportation orders under the previous broken system would finally be allowed to pursue their American dream and eventual citizenship. Advocates have been fighting for these reforms for years, and we have never seen a better chance for making these dreams a reality. But some anti-immigrant members of Congress -- lead by legislators like Rep. Steve King -- are trying to kill reform by destroying the path to citizenship and promoting inhumane policies that would keep these 11 million people in the shadows so they "self-deport." Our movement has reached a tipping point and we need your help to finish the job. We need you to tell Rep. Darrell Issa to support immigration reform with the pathway to citizenship, now more than ever. It's time for Congress to pass this bill. Please tell your representative to vote YES on immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans without papers.

In America we believe that everyone is equal, period. But that's not how our current immigration system works. Under our current immigration laws, immigrants currently living in the US without papers have no way to fix their immigration status and pursue the rights obtained through citizenship. These immigrants -- many of whom are American in every way but on paper -- are doomed to a life in shadows. They are prevented from doing things many US citizens take for granted, like driving, working, applying for credit cards, and even from visiting sick family members overseas. The Senate just passed an immigration bill that will would fix this tragedy by creating a pathway to citizenship for these 11 million Americans without papers. Through this pathway, students, workers, family members, and even some immigrants with deportation orders under the previous broken system would finally be allowed to pursue their American dream and eventual citizenship. Advocates have been fighting for these reforms for years, and we have never seen a better chance for making these dreams a reality. But some anti-immigrant members of Congress -- lead by legislators like Rep. Steve King -- are trying to kill reform by destroying the path to citizenship and promoting inhumane policies that would keep these 11 million people in the shadows so they "self-deport." Our movement has reached a tipping point and we need your help to finish the job. We need you to tell Rep. Howard McKeon to support immigration reform with the pathway to citizenship, now more than ever. It's time for Congress to pass this bill. Please tell your representative to vote YES on immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans without papers.