I awoke one morning with the sun shining through the window as I listened to the early morning dj give the morning news and I heard words that were tantamount to a declaration of war against the residents of the State of New York. "During the night while Registered Voters and Tax Payers slept, Albany took away the Peoples Right to Referendum."

It has long been illegal to send spam to fax machines because the recipient pays for the fax phone line and its minutes, and for the electricity to run the machine, and for the fax paper and ink or toner; and so sending fax spam steals those things from the recipient. Whenever one lands on a web page which contains streaming audio and/or video media that auto-starts playing (or that auto-buffers in anticipation of starting to play), the precious and limited bandwidth for which the site visitor pays his/her ISP is being similarly stolen. Only if the site visitor gives permission to use said bandwidth by clicking on a "Play" button to begin the playing of the streaming media content should any bandwidth be used for it; and so it should be illegal, just as it is with fax spam, for a website to steal bandwidth from site visitors by auto-starting/auto-buffering streaming media content. NOTE: Flash or Java/Javascript or Silverlight or other similar content which simply makes interactive the graphical elements of a website, while annoying, are nevertheless not the subjects of this petition. It is only music (background or otherwise), or either advertising or news videos, which auto-play/auto-buffer, and so use-up precious bandwidth for which the site visitor pays, that are the subjects of this petition.

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Women are lawfully entitled to equal wages.

We must STOP this ridiculous changing of our clocks twice every year. The costs in terms of serious errors in judgment that lead to myriad accidents involving motor vehicles, medical care, machine-operators, etc. as well as lost productivity (including groggy students) affect all of us and DO NOT justify whatever benefits Daylight Savings Time might offer. Please contact your State and/or federal legislators and encourage them to bring this issue to their respective legislative Congresses for a vote. If pursued at the federal level, ALL states would be affected by the change. However, individual states can also choose (and some have) to opt-out of this archaic, useless and dangerous practice of Daylight Savings Time and the havoc it wreaks.

We want the voter`s in the town of Chester to have the all the budget info in front of them when it comes time to vote on the school budget!

It's time to value REAL health care and stop accepting that pharmaceutical companies are too big to fail. People are dying and the criminals are getting rich. Health for all Americans is what this petition is for. Take back the FDA and stop profiting off the suffering of American citizens.

For years, inmates have been emotionally abused and tortured by being put in segregation for months and years, which is against the DOC's own regulations of a maximum of 30 days. Administrative Segregation, being made to stay in ones cell for 23 hours a day for months, is also counterproductive to rehabilitation, inhumane, and illegal. It is used, among other times, for the first 6 months of arriving in any facility. The sensory deprivation and degradation worsens the mental and physical condition of the individual who is supposed to be receiving services to return to society a healthier person.

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Toree Walker enrolled with Erie Community College to better herself. Her goal was to receive an education while using her athletic abilities in the process. Now because of a disorganized police filing, as well as erroneous reporting by the Erie Community College this child is being treated as a felon and in jeopardy of losing her athletic scholarship. More than that, my greatest fear is that her self-esteem and desire to want more may be tarnished because of how she has been neglected by school officials. To these detrimental outcomes we say shame! Shame on the Erie Community College for not doing enough to protect the rights and interests of one of their own students. The happy photograph Toree took with her Erie Community College teammates now has an accompanying mug shot to go along with it. She came to you, Erie, to be an athletic champion for your program, you at least owe it to her to be her defender. We are writing this letter to express our disdain for how Toree Walker is being treated and are asking that you as a school do more to protect this child’s best interests. I have been in touch with the National Action Network, Inc., and am continuing to build a broad coalition of support. We will continue to build avenues of support for her here locally as well as in the Buffalo area.

Just like many of us, I have been deeply affected by the tragedy in Newtown, CT. After Governor Cuomo passed the NY SAFE Act, I was incredibly proud to be a resident of NY state. However, recently, I was troubled to learn that many of our Rockland County Legislators have voted in favor of a memorializing resolution to repeal the NY SAFE Act. Please join me in letting them know that we support the NY SAFE Act. In a March 11, 2013 the NY SAFE Act was supported by 61% of New Yorkers.

Parents and Guardians of persons with Developmental Disabilities. My son, Omar lives in a HeartShare residence and he attends a HeartShare Day Program. He is 41 years old , non verbal young man with Down's Syndrome. All agencies who provide services for persons who have developmental disbilities will be impacted by the over fifity million dollar budget reduction to the NYS O.P.W.D.D. Please add your voice in support of our most defenseless citizens who certainly need more services not less. Tell our elected officials Not to cut the budget.