Supporting Full Marriage Rights for all our LGBT couples in Hawaii so that we can follow suit after the Repeal of DOMA by the US Supreme Court.

I belong to Food and Water Watch. I have going to ban fracking events and speaking against fracking at city councils, for a few years. I pass out papers informing the public about the dangers of fracking and refer them to watch "Gasland: Can you Light your Water on fire?" and You Tube videos about fracking: Fracking Hell: The Untold Story from Link TV and on You Tube. Fracking also brings up radiation, besides poisoning the water and air with chemicals. This will cause food and water shortages globally. The cement in many of the fracking wells on farms have failed and poisoned aquifers. The wars of the world will be fought over water and food. My relatives live in Penn. and Youngstown Ohio, where the fracking has contaminated the water. My uncle Steve, owned a farm in West Virginia and leased it to the gas drillers. When the least was up, he could not get them to leave his property. He fought them in court for many years. He could not afford to fight them, but did until his death 2 years ago. He tried to get his property back and failed.

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.