Innocent people have been held prisoner at the Guantanamo facility for over a decade even though world leaders and U.S. administration already knows they are innocent. We need to correct this immediately. Prisoners are presently exercising their right to refuse food and are being brutally force-fed with large tubes and this needs to stop.

Stop subsidizing establishements who do not pay real salaries to their waitresses and waiters but depend on cutormers tipping them. Why should we subsidize restaurants when it is their responsibility to pay a fair day wage to their employees including benefits? The clients responsibility is to pay for the meal and not the service. We don't tip nurses, bus drivers, drycleaners, grocery clerks because they receive salaries from their employers.

It has ruined the music industry by stiffling region artists and pushing medocrity upon the listener.

Elected officials should be paid at the median household income of US families so they are not insulated from the impacts of their decisions.

Elected officials should be paid at the median household income of US families so they are not insulated from the impacts of their decisions.

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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.