As public school parents and concerned New York residents, we are in full support of the Teachers College students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are speaking out against the decision of Susan Fuhrman, Teachers College President, to award NY State Chancellor Merryl Tisch the “Medal for Distinguished Service.” This act raises two concerns about the ethics of the College. That's why I created a petition to Teachers College Board of Trustees, Susan Fuhrman, which says:

Lobbyists, Big Business, Energy Conglomerates, Corporations, Contractors, Advanced Technology Specialists, Real Estate, Media Outlets, Wallstreet, Big Banks, Loan Companies, Insurance Firms, Food and Drug Administration, Treasury Department, Tax Structure, Foreign and in many cases enemy countries, Transportation, etc. and the Top 2% are dictating how our country and constitution should be run. The money being donated, how it is being used, where it is coming from, and what purposes it is being used for needs to be made 100% Transparent. It will help explain how a nation of great abundance has become a nation of bankruptcy. It will also explain how politicians made hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in personal profits while the areas they swore to uphold and protect went completely bankrupt. The rein of the illegal, immoral, unethical, corrupt, abuse of advanced technology (to steal personal information/ money/ resources), and self declared super elite undermining the middle class and country for personal benefit- held above all laws legal and constitutional; has to come to an end for our country to survive and future generations to prosper!

Walmart uses sweatshops to make their products. They also buy from companies that use sweatshops. Sign this pettition to help walmart stop this unfair treatment

Stop Mountaintop Removal Invest in renewables

I do not mind paying my bills for services on my cell phone. However more and more companies are getting Greedy and they are reducing services yet charging consumers more and more. This is Greed and this is what Cricket cell phone is doing. I have had them for several year paying the same amount each month. Now they have removed my directory assistance and now say I have to Pay more for the same services. In other words pay more for less. I say it is time us consumers stand up and stop the GREED. They are bleeding us dry. Greed is making us all poor.

Did our overseas Embassies have the proper security and if not what were the main reasons why not. Was it lack of resources(money), and if so, who or why was it cut.

My daughter, who is deaf and has MS, has worked at O.T.C. since 1996 as part of the Sheltered Workshop program. The Division of Developmental Disabilities is planning to eliminate funding for this program in the fall of 2013.

25% of the world's population now lives in areas with bans or fees on plastic bags. We do not live in such a place at this moment. Sadly, Plastic bags aren't biodegrade, they photodegrade - breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest them. A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment. Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food. Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation. Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic.

Cruz is a McCarthy look-alike, a grandstander, a buffoon—even more dangerous than McCarthy—to America, and Americans—and even if a Recall Petition failed—it sends a message.

Bees are essential for one out of three bites of food we eat. But last winter, beekeepers reported losses of 50-70 percent of their hives -- the worst year yet since the global bee die-off began! A growing body of scientific evidence is pointing to neonicotinoids (neonics) as the key factor in this crisis and the European Union has just imposed a two year ban on these toxic pesticides. These neonics are everywhere -- in commercial agriculture, on the shelf of your local garden stores, and in the plants and seeds we buy from nurseries. Bee part of the solution! Tell Home Depot, Lowe’s and others to stop selling neonics.

The Immigration system in this country is a mess. In Florida, we've seen forced slave labor camps, people separated from their families because they are forced to leave their homes seeking living wages, only to find terrible working conditions, low-wage servitude, sub-human living conditions, human trafficking, and mistreatment by abusive employers. What we don't need in this country is a designated third-class population that by all standards, has no legal protections and are freely exploited by thoughtless employers. We need a compassionate, family-based immigration plan that encourages undocumented workers to come out of the shadows and allows them to work legally, and with full rights of American citizens. We believe DREAMers, who came to this country as minor children should be processed into the system quickly because this is the only country they know. 21st century immigrants, just like our immigrant parents and grandparents, have come to this country to escape conditions that have made it impossible to support their families. Imposed free trade agreements and other violent political environments have created conditions in other countries that have forced people who otherwise would be gainfully employed in their countries of origin, to risk life and limb coming to a country where they might be able to work hard, contribute to the fiber of this country, and hopefully, earn a living while elevating economic and social possibilities for their children and grandchildren. Its time we stop being border hypocrites and vote for comprehensive immigration reform. We heartily disagree with the provision in the current bill that border militarization and drones will be increased by an additional $3 billion- on top of the $11 billion already spent on border enforcement in 2012 by the Obama administration. We feel this amount of money for border patrol and prisons, spent on a branch of security that spends more than all other law enforcement agencies combined is ridiculous, and a waste of taxpayer money and has very little accountability. We further disagree that there should be some kind of arbitrary quantitative border security attained before the over 11 million will be eligible to apply for citizenship. We also believe border communities should have citizen commissions, local police, faith and other local groups set up to advise the border patrol, ensuring accountability, which is so lacking in border communities today.

People in the United States should have an opportunity to pursue the American Dream. Without a more even distribution of wealth, this is impossible, especially when we consider the fact that the average CEO earns 275 times the average employee in that company. Financial and social ascension begins with the people, it will assist with ending poverty and most importantly, provide a better starting point for every American to manifest their destiny.