Parents requesting freedom of choice for their children for lunchtime seating for Holmes School 4th & 5th graders.

Fracking puts chemicals into the ground that are likely to leach into our drinking water. The chemicals used are not disclosed to the public. California must prevent this potential danger to plant, animal and human life. Fracking must be banned!

Stop fracking in California. We are asking assembly members to support a ban on the dangerous drilling practice. This type of drilling is a method which deploys a potent arsenal of chemicals so hazardous they defy known waste treatment methods. It produces Radon. Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S., the radon present in the shale will readily mix with the gas and travel with it via pipeline into the homes and businesses of its end users. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and contributes to global warming.

Fracking is a danger to all of us and our children and grancchilren.

Fracking involves injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach otherwise inaccessible oil and which is an extreme process, with catastrophic results. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and contributes to global warming.2 2. "California's Fracked Up Oil: Nearly As Bad As Keystone XL?" Daily Kos, February 18, 2013 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=289224&id=68307-25236708-2%3DKGXhx&t=5

Fracking—injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach otherwise inaccessible oil and gas—is an extreme process, with catastrophic results.

For over a decade, Cape Wind’s promise of clean, renewable energy and new jobs for Massachusetts has been held captive by dirty energy-backed opposition. Enough is enough: Cape Wind can and should be built – but we have to stand together. Multi-billionaire dirty energy magnate Bill Koch – brother of Charles Koch and David Koch—has pumped millions into opposing Cape Wind. In his campaign against Cape Wind, Koch has used lobbyists, flimsy lawsuits, and funded a pseudo-environmental group to drag out the process of approving Cape Wind. So far, nothing has worked: Cape Wind has passed every federal and state environmental review and received all of its permits. But with billions at his disposal, Koch continues to try to “delay, delay, delay” Cape Wind – apparently in hopes that we’ll give up and quit. Koch insists that “getting alternative energy that’s going to save the earth is not consistent with what people want.” If that’s not the message you want deciding Cape Wind’s fate in Washington, tell your representatives in Congress to put an end to Bill Koch’s campaign of delay and support building Cape Wind now.

Petitions about social issues like gun control or immigration policies I can understand, but where is the line drawn? I literally laugh out loud at some of the meaningless petitions on the web: Change the Use of the Word "Illegal" to "Undocumented," or Give Homeless Shelters Steel Silverware Instead of Plastic. Only petition things that actually matter, that really will make a difference, because petitions like these hurt your credibility more than they help your cause.

President of El Camino Community College Thomas Fallo has for the third time in his twenty five year presidency threatened to retire then been offered a raise to stay like a Cronyism would behave like. This amid many budget constraints and program budget cuts for students, whole programs and semesters done away with, no raise for faculty and staff for at least five years, many layoffs, and a gaggle of union busting behavior. Let me state Fallo’s salary was $277,000.00 raised to $313,000.00 with another $3,500.00a year in expenses. The President of the Compton campus makes only $188,000.00 for the exact same job and the exact same duties. Moreover the Board of Trustees voted on this 4 t o 1 raise right after going from Trustees at large to answer to the whole community to district which makes them far accountable to all of the constituents.

The root of the financial crisis lied in the repeal of Glass–Steagall. This law must be reinstated.

WE NEED TO LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY NOT A CAPITALIST COUNTRY!

As consumers, we have a right to know if our food has been genetically modified, and this should be labeled on our food. End of story. "A genetically engineered food is a plant or meat product that has had its DNA artificially altered in a laboratory by genes from other plants, animals, viruses, or bacteria, in order to produce foreign compounds in that food. This type of genetic alteration is not found in nature, and is experimental. The correct scientific term is "transgenics," and is also often referred to as (GE) genetically engineered. The Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Are Unclear. Unlike the strict safety evaluations required for the approval of new drugs, the safety of genetically engineered foods for human consumption is not adequately tested. There have been NO long-term studies conducted on the safety of genetically engineered foods on humans." From http://www.labelgmos.org/ Additionally, there are significant restrictions or outright bans on GMO's in more than 50 countries including Germany, UK, Spain, Denmark, France, China, Russia, Poland, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea.