We are being led down a money trail that makes politicians wealthy, and they may not back the corporations with the best products and services.

The state of DC schools are appalling. Many of the schools in the poorest communities are rundown and dilapidated. Despite all the increases in revenue the DC Council fails to add additional revenue to our failing schools that are 100% located in low income communities. How can DC benefit from a ten fold increase in revenue from traffic tickets, tourism, and proposed Internet taxes and not dedicate all that money to our public schools. It is embarrassing and shameful that all the good DC schools are located in the most affluent DC neighborhoods. Enough is enough. We are one city and we have to act like it! Join me in demanding the best schools in the country for all our residents including the poor, the just making it, and the middle class.

The NRA and many other special interest groups lead Congress by the “nose“. Under current rules, politicians will go for the big campaign donations that special interest groups can easily award to either or both main parties. Special interest groups know that, in return for big campaign donations, they can get any legislation they want or can kill any legislation they do not want.

We the people once had a great meaning....it seems the only thing that gets attetion today is two fold, MONEY and LAW !! I believe that we need to reinstall common sense as a great power driven by the people... everyone would know they are responsible and NOT just the government !!!

On March 5, 2013, the East Ramapo Central School District School Board Attorney, Mr. D’Agostino, approached Nicholas, a senior and AP honor student at Ramapo High School, and called him a despicable profanity and offered to fight him physically. The students of East Ramapo Central School District are frightened by Mr. D’Agostino. He is in direct violation of the ERCSD Code of Conduct, the NYS Dignity for All Students Act, and he has not behaved in accordance with the values stipulated by the East Ramapo School District that employs him. He should be dismissed immediately.

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My petition is about stopping the drone attacks.

I walked off my job at McDonald's this morning because I can’t survive on the poverty wages I make. And I’m not alone. Together we're launching the D15 campaign – for workers, for families, and for Detroit – and standing up to the enormous corporations we work for to make sure they get a simple message: Workers like us should be paid a fair wage that lets us make ends meet. Most of us make $7.40 an hour – or just barely more. That means our average salary is less than $19,000 per year, which just isn’t enough to cover basic needs like rent, food, health care, transportation, and often times a family to support. A lot of us are forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. It’s downright shameful that someone who works full time is forced to rely on public assistance because their employers aren’t paying them enough. Paying fast food workers a livable wage will not only help us support our families, but it will also help strengthen Detroit's entire economy. When we’re paid a fair wage, we’ll have money to buy the everyday items we need, keeping the money in our community and making our neighborhoods safer. I've had it with food and retail chains who are not paying workers in Detroit enough to survive. I’m outraged that full-time workers can’t afford rent, food, transportation, or health care. I believe that, here in America, everyone who works hard should be able to afford basic necessities like groceries, rent, and transportation for themselves and their families. I stand with Detroit’s food and retail workers in demanding they get the respect, and living wage, they deserve.

Violated citizens need your help now! This issue really hits home with us at Scott Cole & Associates. We represent employees in wage disputes with large corporate employers. It's an uphill battle, all the more so because so many workers are required to sign arbitration clauses when they take a job. This bill would help level the playing field at a time when workers need all the help they can get. So please support, share, like, tweet and write your Congressmen about this!

"For me, Mother's Day is a day of grief. Every day is a day of grief. My son Abdurahman Shabati is a prisoner at Guantánamo, and has been cleared for release since January of 2007. The United State’s government has stolen my son’s youth, and stolen our family’s peace and happiness. Don’t they realize we are human beings, not stones? That we suffer just like they would if they had lost their children? This Mother’s Day, you can help me and other mothers reunite with our sons by appealing to the First Lady of the United States: Tell Michelle Obama to urge her husband to close Guantánamo now." -Om Abdurahman, mother of Guantánamo detainee Abdurahman Shabati, who has been held for 12 years and cleared for release for over 6 years. This Mothers Day, CODEPINK is helping Om Abdurahman and the other mothers of Guantanmo prisoners reunite with their sons by telling Michelle Obama to tell her husband to close Guantanamo Bay Prison immediately. Join us.

Congress takes money from our treasury for self-interests every day.

35 hour work-week Tools were/are invented and used to save time and energy. They allow us to do more things, including having more “free” time to engage in other perhaps more enjoyable aspects of life. Industrialization did that to a great extent for civilization. So is our continuing advances in automation. The idea behind these advances is, or should be, to reduce the number of hours an average worker must put in on the job to accomplish the same feat. The average workweek in America did decline over the decades to reach 40 hours a week around World war II. Since then, automation and efficiency have increased dramatically, but we are still stuck with a 40-hour workweek. This has been one of the reasons that we currently have such high unemployment-people still working 40 hours + a week while others are completely unemployed. We are long overdue for a legal reduction to a 35-hour workweek. If we did this, employers, especially corporations employing a large number of people, will be encouraged to hire more people to fill the gap rather then pay current employees time and a half overtime for that extra 5 hours needed to do the job. This would save parents some money reducing the amount of after school day care needed. The ultimate goal (in America) would be the 30-hour week. This would match America’s current school day. Some parents could then eliminate after school daycare altogether and allow some other families to become 2 earner families.