At an Ohio PR Firm, I witnessed the efforts of a Corporation to provide palliative health care to a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to the Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The suffering of townsfolk was hidden under layers of non-disclosure agreements. Frak America and poison your children.

At an Ohio PR Firm, I witnessed the efforts of a Corporation to provide palliative health care to a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to the Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The suffering of townsfolk was hidden under layers of non-disclosure agreements. Frak America and poison your children.

Dear The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, We are pleased to present you with this petition affirming one simple statement: "Women enjoy most of the freedoms today that men enjoy, and have joined the American work force in droves to work as doctors, lawyers, teachers, designers, truck drivers and in many other professions. Discrimination against women still exists in various forms, particularly in the workplace. Women should know their rights as U.S. workers and take responsibility for helping to stop rights violations in the workplace Women have worked in some capacity in the U.S. since its inception, but only in menial jobs for very low pay. During World War I, women entered the work force in higher numbers due to the shortage of men. It wasn’t until World War II that they went to work in the armed forces and design. During this period, women took positions formerly open only to men; 7 million women entered the workforce, 2 million of those in heavy industry. They still had no formal workplace rights until the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act states that employers may not discriminate against people on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.Title VII makes it illegal for employers to exclude qualified women from any available position. Employers would often hire less qualified men for positions to which women had applied. This law empowers women to sue if they feel a potential employer has excluded them from a position based on gender. President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, which states that employers must pay women the same amount they would pay a man in the same position. In the past, companies paid women far less than their male counterparts for the same position. Women can sue their employers if they can prove that a male in the same position earns higher wages. Both of these laws significantly increase the status of women in the workforce. Women’s rights in the workplace include many facets, such as the right to work if pregnant. An employer cannot exclude a woman from a position due to pregnancy as long as she can perform satisfactorily. Employers cannot refuse to hire any person due to marital status, gender or age. In addition, an employee of any company where a woman works may not sexually harass the woman in any way. This includes a hostile work environment where the woman must endure sexual comments, touching or materials, as well as unwanted sexual advances that put her in fear of losing her job if she does not comply. Women should report all advances of this sort to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or a supervisor.Because of workplace rights, women enjoy freedom to work in almost any position they choose. They join the armed forces, work as cab drivers, own businesses and become executives in large corporations. As the financial status of women increases, so does the welfare of their families, children and the nation.According to Sexual Harassment Support, a nonprofit support group for victims of sexual harassment, only 5 percent to 15 percent of victims of workplace sexual harassment report these violations to their employers or proper authorities for fear of ridicule, losing their jobs or not being believed. All victims of sexual harassment should seriously consider reporting it. Taking this step protects America’s workforce from workplace rights violations." Attached is a list of individuals who have added their names to this petition, as well as additional comments written by the petition signers themselves. Sincerely, Treanakay Bostwick

We strongly urge Assemblyman Brian Dahle to support a ban on fracking in California. The BLM has already auctioned off 1,750 sq.miles for fracking and plans to auction off even more this May. Fracking has contaminated drinking water with extremely toxic chemicals all over the U.S., causing illness in humans and livestock, and rendering public and private land uninhabitable. Protect California's groundwater!

Inconvenienced by the cutback in air controllers Congress hastily passed a bipartisan bill so they wouldn't be affected. Meanwhile vital issues of national concern languish while our elected officials wait to hear what lobbyists have to say about each issue.

Drilling for Oil is an awful thing. You have to reach down into several layers of the Earth, and where spills are horrible for Marine lifeforms, think of how bad that is for the Earth!

As a Designer in an Ohio PR Firm, I was witness to the half-hearted efforts of one International Corporation to provide palliative health care to residents of a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to said Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The legal issues and suffering of said townsfolk was hidden under a pile of non- disclosure agreements,which is all I can legally disclose. Frak Illinois and poison your children.

San Onofre Whistleblower Cites "Potentially Catastrophic" Design Flaw with nuclear power plant. Inside source tells local news channel that cracked generator pipes at nuclear power plant could cause a full or partial meltdown. A former safety engineer with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is blowing the whistle on a "potentially catastrophic problem" at the currently offline Southern California Edison plan. According to a report by San Diego's Channel 10 News, the unnamed source—who has 25 years working in the field of nuclear safety—said that a faulty redesign of the plant's steam generators has put the system at risk of a "full or partial meltdown." "There is something grossly wrong," he told the news station. Since Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) undertook a redesign of the generators in 2010 and 2011, the tubes that carry scalding water and steam from the generator have been crashing into one another creating cracks and "unprecedented tube failure." Of 19,400 tubes, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report found more than 17 percent were damaged. Dr. Joe Hopenfeld, a former employee of the NRC, explained to Channel 10 that "the worst case scenario is a main steam line break," which could be caused by tubes cracking, the tube walls thinning or metal fatigue. Both the unnamed safety engineer and Hopenfeld agree that if such a thing occurs, "there is potential for the reactor core to overheat—which could mean a full or partial meltdown." "Many tubes, and I don't know how many, have exhausted their fatigue life—they have no fatigue life left," Hopenfeld added. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a very serious risk." Earlier this month, Southern California Edison announced intentions to fire up the plant, after nearly a year spent offline, by June 1. Though the NRC has not committed to meet their target date, they are expected to make a decision about the possible restart within the coming weeks. Both the anonymous source and Hopenfeld said that "no one can predict what will happen if the plant restarts." "If an accident like this happens, (an) emergency plan is not geared to handle such a public safety devastation," added the inside source. "Those things have never been practiced or demonstrated in a drill scenario."

Voters are not represented by their elected officials as long as the NRA buys their votes. The American people should be able to raise money to outbid the lobbyists, since just voting is not enough to influence their elected officials.

Angelsoft toilet paper (among many other things) is a product of Koch Industries (Georgia Pacific) If you don't like big money in politics, and our media, please stop buying Angel Soft until the Koch brothers and other big money influences don't get to use their money to bypass the American voter. Since we can't vote lobbyists out, we can vote with our pocketbooks! Tell the Koch brothers to vote at the polls like everyone else! Because big money in politics should be flushed down the toilet.

Eliminate costly salaries of Congressional members and staff until they pass a budget as required by law.

Our country's infrastructure, education, and putting the masses of unemployed back to work should be a top priority of our elected officials.