Senate Bill 491 will go in front of the Senate Committee on Monday April 22, 2013. If the committee decides to pass it on, then it would go to a vote by the whole senate. I am currently required to have a collaborative agreement with a MD or DO. Obamacare, which is managed care for Medi-Cal recipients run by a private organization, will currently not allow me to contract with them. Therefore, my medi-cal patients will either have to pay out of pocket to see me or go elsewhere for their care. Please contact your state senator and ask them to vote YES on SB 491. The committee members are: Senator Curren Price, JR. (Chair), Senator Bill Emmerson (Vice-Chair), Senator Marty Block, Senator Ellen Corbett, Senator Cathleen Galgiani, Senator Ed Hernandez, Senator Jerry Hill, Senator Alex Padilla, Senator Mark Wyland and Senator Leland Y. Yee. Please contact any or all of these fine senators as well. Thank you.

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Chi Rho Gamma Sorority Incorporated was founded on April 10th 2008 by six unique young ladies with aspirations of uniting all women into a sisterhood which upholds individuality, scholarship, true friendship, community awareness and service to others. Chi Rho Gamma is the first Greek lettered sorority founded and incorporated at Delaware State University. A plot area on the Greek yard will not only display Greek unity, but allow the organization to socially connect with the student body.

Over 95,000 Californians (that's over sixty people a day!) have been deported under Secure Communities, a federal immigration program designed to meet a federal deportation quota. In order to meet the deportation quota, federal ICE Agents target anybody who they can - including food street vendors and victims of domestic abuse. Why We Want the TRUST ACT to Pass: ­–The TRUST Act will help stop our family members from being deported. –The TRUST Act will help improve public safety. –The TRUST Act will be a spur for meaningful immigration reform at the national level. –The TRUST Act will help us save valuable local resources. Let’s rebuild trust in our community members and stop police from becoming immigration agents. Let’s keep our families together. Sign the petition and demand Jerry Brown sign the TRUST Act into law. Click here for more background on the TRUST ACT: http://dreamteamla.org/trust-act/ And click here for personal stories of deportations and what to do if a family or community member is put in deportation proceedings: http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/

ASL, or American Sign Language, is a great language that is used by people to communicate with the Deaf. This is a form of speech, and with that said is undoubtedly considered a language. Many students are learning ASL in our high school, West Valley at this time. In-fact West Valley is the only school to offer it in our District. However seeing as how the year is wrapping up, the school has been reviewing schedules and what they can cut. Unfortunately they saw American Sign Language as unimportant, and now are not offering it next year. For the students who are taking it (50 and up), they were infuriated. That is why these students are asking you to sign this form, so that ASL isn't taken away from our School.

Having failed to close the loophole allowing no background checks for people buying guns online and at gun shows, Congress needs to try a little harder. 90% of Americans want background checks for ALL gun sales. The signers of this petition believe that your job, Congress, is to MAKE THAT HAPPEN

ASWSU President Elect Taylor Hennessey and Vice President Elect Kevin Massimino disregarded the voice of the Multicultural Community when chosing the Director of Multicultural Affairs position for 2013-2014. Although we were included in the interview process, and many wrote letters of recommendations our voice was silenced with the executive position being offered to a person that we, the Multicultural Community, feel is least fit for a representation of who we are, and our purpose at large.

Four Democrats just voted against universal background checks for gun purchases -- a policy supported by more than 90% of Americans. Three of them are up for re-election in 2014. We're the people who donate in elections, knock on doors, and get out the vote in tight elections. We will not allow our work and voices be forgotten this election season. The DNC and DSCC rely on individual donors to get Senators elected. If they know they're going to be left high and dry by donors like you, they have a major problem. We have just as much financial power as the NRA and we refuse to allow our voice to be silenced.

Representative Bennie Thompson voted YES to defend marriage as between a man and a woman. Mississippi demands marriage equality for all of its citizens, and Mississippi's representatives should reflect the voice of the people.

My brother Charles Brooks "Chuck" was given an unfair bond of $750,000.00 bond for a fortify of a residence charge by Judge Ronald White in Rockford, Illinois. I ask that this petition is signed urging him to reconsider his bond. The fortify of the residence is a chain on the door which was raided and there wasn't any drugs or firearms found."

We need to find new ways to improve public safety and take reasonable measures to keep people who should not have easy access to weapons from doing so. Targeting the sale of ammunition is another point at which safety measures may be enforced.

Please demand an end to the Filibuster forever - it's well past due! Extremist minority in politics should no longer be able to hi-jack America.