Lions for sale: big game hunting combines with lion bone trade to threaten endangered cats. Stop hunting of lions now!

The U.S. Senate recently failed to pass legislation that would have closed most of the loopholes in the present background check system. It appears that many senators were pressured to vote negatively by the gun lobby and other organizations. Considering the outrage expressed by the American people, who are overwhelming in favor of this legislation, we want new universal background legislation to be considered as soon as possible.

Say no to President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment for current and future retirees.

Bay Area commuter trains keep killing, as they speed through our communities on old, unfenced railroad tracks. Stop the the madness of this loss of human life, and all for the sake of a relatively few commuters. Tracks of high speed commuter trains must be secure!

Every few weeks another person dies when they get struck by a commuter train, traveling at high speeds through our densely populated communities, on old and unsecured railroad tracks. These tracks must be made secure, or the commuter trains must slow down, or stop running altogether. The benefit to the few commuters that use these fossil fueled trains is not worth the cost of human lives.

America needs to provide a timely path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants. As a teacher of many students learning English as a second language, I have witnessed the suffering of their families, many of whom have struggled for over a decade to become full fledged participants in our society.

We are slowly being poisoned by big business through our food. We are all entitled to know what we are eating. The choice should be ours. We want you to rescind the Monsanto Protection Act and put mandatory labeling on all GMO foods.

Physical education leads to learning, leads to decreasing obesity and other related diseases, and rising health care cost.

Yesterday we and watched in dismay as our Senate voted against sensible gun control measures that the vast majority of the people in this country want and reasonably expected to pass. If you feel fed up with the gun lobby as well as the stranglehold the NRA seems to have on the Republican Party, please sign this petition calling for publication of all Senators who voted against gun control as well as the amount of campaign contributions taken from the gun lobby.

We, the public, are affronted that some state legislators think that ambiguous bill titles and last-minute amendments are an appropriate way to evade basic, procedural safeguards established by our State Constitution. We are calling on the current Hawaii State Legislature to REJECT all bills which were substantively amended in a manner which evades the Constitutional public right to testify on proposed legislation. We are petitioning the legislative bodies to defeat the following bills that were subject to “gut and replace” procedures, and we are petitioning that the following “Frankenstein” bills, that had non-germane material added to them after the opportunity for review in a publicly-noticed hearing, be defeated or be amended to remove the non-germane material prior to a final vote. See filed petition, including bill numbers: http://bit.ly/FrankenSteinPetition We condemn these tactics and strongly oppose these misleading practices which keep the public in the dark.

Corporate money in politics is one of the biggest threats to our democracy. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision threatens the basic nature of our democratic system, allowing corporations to spend unlimited sums of money to influence the outcomes of elections. Because candidates with the most money win more than 85 percent of the time, corporations and corporate lobbyists now wield incredible power over the election of our country’s leaders. Congress should serve ALL of the people of this nation, not primarily corporations. Congress must act to ensure we have a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people—not corporations.

, I especialy think that these children who were brought here when they were babies or todlers should be given a chance at citizenship and schools. I also think in the debate about imagration NAFTA has to be renegotiated. If American companies go to other countries they should pay the workers a fair wage, so they have more of a incentive to stay in thier own countries.