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Not content with the power it holds over lawmakers in Washington, the American Petroleum Institute is now waging a battle against small towns. The powerful oil and gas lobbying group has weighed in on an important court case that will decide whether a town in rural, upstate New York has the right to ban oil and gas drilling activities – including the controversial fracking method – within its town borders. API, predictably, thinks that no town should have that right. Of the ten largest U.S. oil and gas companies, nine are API members. All nine of these companies have headquarters in Texas, Oklahoma, or California – states where courts or legislatures have determined that towns or cities have the right to ban oil or gas drilling within their borders. API members lost these battles on their home turf. Now they are trying to deny those rights in states where they want to open up large-scale oil and gas development. Towns that want to ban drilling and fracking shouldn’t have to worry about facing off in court against API, the most powerful lobbying group in the country. Will you tell the American Petroleum Institute to back off of communities that don’t want fracking and stop joining legal challenges against them? Sign the petition to support small towns standing up to the oil and gas industry.

free the guantanamo prisoners. we the people of the usofa have 166 people held in guantanamo prisons. the military admits over a 100 are on a hunger strike. over 80 of these men have never had any charges made against them. its time president obama releases them.

The imprisonment of innocents, the torture by oversized feeding tubes continues. Please pay attention - these men are preparing to die - to lose the one thing they have had for these 11 years - each other!

This petition is about the need to stop the practice of placing and keeping children and teenagers who are capable of learning at their full potential without special education in special education and to undo all the harm that is caused to a person of any age as a result of that person's having been a student in special education in even the slightest degree.

After serving in the Navy and honestly earning an advancement in rank, going through all the proper procedures. Because of transfer in duty. Advancement in rank was reneged. And to this day correction of military records still denied, even with accurate and vivid proof.

Dear Mr. President and distinguished members of the senate & house. We the People of the United States want you to reduce the retirement age to 50 & generate more revenue to support our great Social Security program. Please contribute all taxes collected from the lottery & all other gambling-gaming profits & winnings to our Social Security program so that ALL retiring Americans win.

US foreign policy must stop endangering the lives of innocent civilians to achieve its goals. The use of drones in foreign lands have killed thousands of non combatants including hundreds of women and children.

“The inside-the-beltway world of Washington, DC rarely deals with truly foundational economic issues. When they do, it is only because they are being forced to by crisis or a political movement forcing something onto center stage. Over the past few decades, we have watched the steady destruction of the American middle class by the massive expansion of the low wage worker economy – it’s time that we banded together to fight back. The first step in that fight legislatively is the introduction of Sherrod Brown and David Vitter’s bill taking on the Too Big To Fail banks. Brown and Vitter’s Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness (TBTF) Act puts serious pressure on “Too Big to Fail” banks in a variety of ways, and those banks are doing some serious squealing as a result. The bill would force the TBTF banks to stop playing some of their most egregious accounting games and make the TBTFers keep almost twice the percentage of capital reserves.”

Illinois is the ONLY state in which health authorities are required by law to notify school principals of the names of students that test HIV-positive. Principals can then disclose the information to any school personnel they like. A bill before the senate, HB 61, would repeal this invasive and unnecessary requirement. Please tell Illinois’ senate to pass HB 61! Read more about this dangerous law. http://www.hivhealthreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HIV-YES-on-HB-61-factsheet-4-18-2.docx

As a consumer I would rather pay more at Walmart than support subhuman working conditions and wages in other countries for cheaper products. I want people worldwide to have safe working conditions, and wages that pay the bills each month. I won't go back into Walmart until workers get wages at 75% cost of living, and a minimum 36 hour work week in both the US and abroad. I also won't go into the store, until worker safety is assured abroad as it is in the US.

I had surgery for my a birth defect in my brain, and I did not have anyone to help guide me through this confusing time. As a teenager, I just felt like I had to go along with everything the doctors told me and just accept my new life. I believe that if people who have traumatic Brain Injuries, had better advocacy, there would be less crime and suicides.