My petition is about a mentally challenged person that had got hurt on a job at California University as a semi skilled laborer cutting grass while it was raining, the kabuta cut off, slid down the hill and he smacked into a tree in May of 2009. He has been discriminated against, wrongfully fired and his reputation was slandered in the process. and I have been affected by this also because I was suppose to go back to work at the University as a part time custodial work with the opportunity of getting full time employment in 6 months but the University retaliated against me for helping Mr. Durant. I am a single parent trying to raise my son, which is getting ready to graduate and go to college and a fifteen year old daughter. We had to move this man in our home to take care of him because he didn't have anyone to help him. We filed with the EEOC and the PHRC, and we have a 90 day right to sue letter at the Federal Level but we have been blacked balled from obtaining a attorney. A great injustice has been done to this man and myself. He is bleeding from his rectum, urinating on himself and not to mention the spasms he gets in his back that go down his legs. Mr. Durant is going through postmatic stress and major depression.

We attend Spokane Community College, which is about to lose the labyrinth and possible other tools on campus. The student body's health and well being should be priority, and this decision should be stopped.

When Eden Foods' CEO Michael Potter first joined the federal lawsuit in opposition to the new requirement to provide birth control for female employees in any company health plan, he claimed it was a religious objection. Now, according to a recent interview in Salon [1], he's revealed that he doesn't want to cover it because he's a man. For private companies to claim that they should be legally treated like churches is bad enough, but to claim that they should be able to discriminate against their employees because the CEO is a different gender? Ridiculous. And reading through his comments, the more Potter talks, the worse it sounds. From Salon: “I’ve got more interest in good quality long underwear than I have in birth control pills, … Because I’m a man, number one and it’s really none of my business what women do,” Potter said. So, then, why bother suing? “Because I don’t care if the federal government is telling me to buy my employees Jack Daniel’s or birth control." Birth control is like long underwear? Like whiskey? No, Mr. Potter, birth control is healthcare. No company's employees should go without routine healthcare that they work hard to earn just because their boss thinks it's silly. Sign today to tell Mr. Potter and Eden Foods that birth control is an important healthcare service that should be covered by every health insurance plan. [1] - "Eden foods doubles down in birth control flap" by Irin Carmon, Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2013/04/15/eden_foods_ceo_digs_himself_deeper_in_birth_control_outrage/

This is effecting the air we breathe and the environment we live in. All of nature in involved in this experiment. We deserve to know what's going on.

Bob Davis, a radio host on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 in Minneapolis, a Clear Channel station, said that he'd like to tell the parents of Sandy Hook victims to "go to hell" for infringing on his Second Amendment rights. Davis said, "I'm sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out, given rides on Air Force One, hauled into the Senate well, and everyone is just afraid -- they're terrified of these victims. ... I would stand in front of them and tell them, 'Go to hell.'" He also stated, "I'm sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don't force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss."* To compare one's political views to the brutal and violent loss of a child is disrepectful and inhuman. This hate-filled talk is unimaginably painful for victims' families. Enough is enough: we have to start standing up against hate speech perpetrated by radio hosts and return to a landscape of decent speech and behavior toward our fellow Americans. Sensationalism, while it sells lots of advertisements, appeals to our worst selves and has no place in a time when deep divisions in our country require us to find common ground. (*as reported by Cavan Sieczkowski for the Huffington Post; April 18, 2013)

Senate Bill 48 is a good government bill. It would create an independent state redistricting commission that would conduct its business in public, end gerrymandering, and make redistricting a rational, independent process for balancing voting populations.

The lack of Empathy by law makers has no place in the American way of life

Coverage for eating disorders including Anorexia Nervosa is often restricted by health plans via strict medical necessity criteria, pre-authorization requirements, benefit limitations, or lack of coverage for residential care. Please sign our petition to health plans requesting fair and effective coverage of eating disorders including Anorexia …

With Austerity (AKA 'sequester') measures being imposed on the American public in an effort to reduce public debt, we as citizens must demand that those responsible for cutting or eliminating basic social and human services are themselves required to participate in cost-cutting measures. Nobody should be exempt.

Thank you pointless, ineffective Congress. You can't even pass background checks on gun ownership? Well okay then. The 90% of us that want it now have a plan. We, the undersigned, want background checks, we want assault weapons banned and we want Walmart, the largest seller of guns in the country, to help us make it happen. Cause if you don't - we won't be shopping at Walmart anymore. So give you a taste of what we, the majority mean, we will be boycotting Walmart this Saturday, April 20th. Go to Target, go to Kmart, to Costco, to Publix, to anywhere else for just this one day. Get a taste of who Walmart's actual client base is....Walmart can help us fix the gun issue in this country - or we will shop elsewhere....

Linda Serafini-Gale is a bilingual/ESL teacher in a suburb of Houston, TX and worked with parents to help their children succeed. Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA Linda grew up noticing how her Latino friends were treated: directed to homemaking and shop classes in school, and called names like "stupid" and worse. In those days, none of her Latino friends dreamed of going to college—it felt beyond their reach. Yesterday, thanks to people power across the country, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill for comprehensive immigration reform. This is a major moment to celebrate—and it is a moment to act!

My appeal is for compassion for a choice for a peaceful death when options have run out or pain has become unbearable in a hopeless situation. I implore the people of Florida to take a look at the laws passed in Oregon and Washington State that I have included in this petition.