With viruses always being spread shouldn't employers be required to provide sick leave to their employees? This past winter and early spring I noticed so many people getting sick: strep throat, the flu(multiple different strains), the norovirus, and the list goes on; many don't take work off because they don't receive any kind of paid sick time and really can't afford it. This just causes the diseases to spread that much easier and faster, with commutes to work and being around your co-workers, then going home to family...; some kind of law needs to be mandated requiring employers to provide at least 40 hours of sick time to their employees.

All of the false scandals & tax dollars wasted by the congress .The right wing flank is destroying democracy.The abuse the filibuster, cater to NRA and all the lobbyists money.They are public servants payed by our tax dollars, who work part time at best.One goal to destroy our President Obama.Free speech yes ,slander no more.I am feeling at some point it crosses the line from unamerican to treason.Needs to stop.Rand Paul just defended Apple today for being so clever , they pay virtually zero taxes in USA , while making billions in profits.Jobs need to come home or we need to organize boycott & inform.The left has to play the game, stop being quiet.We are telling the truth.Time for action.This hurts our economy, our children, reputation in the world.Which weakens us leaving us vulnerable.ENOUGH TIME FOR ACTION.SOCIAL MEDIA USED FOR GOOD IS A POWERFUL TOOL.EVEN LIES WITHOUT BEING COUNTERED BY TRUTH BECOME BELIEVED.ADULTS LIKE CHILDREN LEARN BY REPITITION.TIME TO START TALKING PEOPLE.THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ALL WE STOOD FOR AS AMERICANS.NOW IS THE TIME!!!!

Congress is representing corporations and lobbyist rather then the constituents who elected them. We need to put them to the test of competency by voting mid term, that our Congress is competent. This will keep them representing us rather then lobbyist and large corporations.

Twenty million people live within fifty miles of Indian Point, and the risks are very real: 1. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) told Americans living 50 miles from Fukushima to evacuate, yet Indian Point has an inadequate evacuation plan of only 10 miles. 2. Indian Point is located near a fault line. In the event of an earthquake of a possible magnitude of 7, Indian Point is totally vulnerable. 3. Indian Point operates without an approved fire prevention plan and has been exempted from countless safety rules. 4. Indian Point lacks an adequate protection plan in a world of real terrorist threats. 5. Indian Point does not have a plan to repay the potential loss of lives, homes, livelihood, and irreparable damage to drinking water and the environment for the residents of the historic Hudson Valley. Replaceable energy is not worth the enormous safety risk that Indian Point poses. Please, sign the petition to close Indian Point today!

Santa Clara is not only the new location of the 49ers stadium, it's also home to the 49ers headquarters. Santa Clara is roughly 44 miles from San Francisco. I started this petition because as a Santa Clara resident, I feel it's a slap in the face the 49ers would remain the San Francisco 49ers once the move to Santa Clara is complete. Why not name the team the Santa Clara 49ers, Bay Area 49ers, California 49ers, etc. After all, if the 49ers organization wanted to keep the San Francisco 49ers name intact, they should have stayed in the San Francisco area.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas should be investigated in suspect of using tax exempt funds from their Non-Profit Status 501(c)3 , to promote hate and discrimination.

The short film "This Is Water," adapted from David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, was a beautiful, moving, even life-changing illumination of a profound piece of writing. And it has personal meaning to me: an excerpt from that speech was read at my friend Aaron Swartz's memorial service. The video, and the speech it draws upon, articulated a way of looking at the world—fully present, generous with imaginative empathy—that I aspire to live by. But an hour and a half ago, the video was removed from YouTube and Vimeo because of an alleged copyright infringement, at the request of the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust. This video has already inspired millions of people. And in the decades to come, it could—should—inspire millions more. It's a video I've imagined showing to my own son, now a baby, once he's old enough to understand it. There is no public interest served in removing it from the Internet. I can't even think of an interest that this could serve for the DFW Literary Trust: the video is making more people aware of his work, drawing people to his legacy. And at a personal level, there's a particular irony for me. Aaron fought against the abuse of copyright law. He and Larry Lessig argued that everyone benefits when pieces of culture can be remixed into new works of art—this video; Aaron's own eulogy. Now, one of those works of art has been removed from public view, based on the very laws Aaron sought to change. Please sign on this petition and help spread the word. We can hope that the DFW Literary Trust will change its mind. If it doesn't, let's change the law.

Have we reached the limit yet in seeing our cities overtaken by gun toting thugs? How many more 'drive-by" shootings and inner city gun battles are we willing to put up with?

My petition is to demand that Microsoft include current Xbox live games that we the Xbox live consumers have paid for Exp: If you have purchased "Castle Crashers" you should have a right to bring this game with your account to Xbox one. We do not just pay 60$ membership to just connect to the internet and a gamer tag but for access to these digital games they offer us and to keep them. Please get sign my petition if you believe that you should be able to keep what you paid for.

To all Hotels in the U.S. asking THEM TO REPLACE ONE OF THE EXTREMELY HIGH BEDS WITH A CONVERTABLE/ADJUSTABLE BED. allowing the disabled traveler to be able to be more independent instead of feeling trapped in a flat bed

The city of Tucson is moving forward with selling over 100 acres of urban green space to a private institution that will destroy the city-owned El Rio Golf Course. We want to stop them and protect the interests of the neighborhoods.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaBI-FRMkDA Elizabeth Warren grilled Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on the Obama administration's opposition to breaking up the big Wall Street banks that are "too big to fail." As a solution, Warren endorsed the bipartisan bill by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) to break up the big banks and prevent future bailouts. Join Elizabeth Warren in urging President Obama and Congress to end "too big to fail."