• We demand that Sarah Silverman host the Oscars in 2014!
    Seth MacFarlane’s performance at the Academy Awards ceremony this year was not only misogynistic and sexist, it was not very funny. It’s clear that, at least when it comes to seeing women primarily in terms of their appearance, and especially their boobs, there are no limits to what a host of the Oscar show may say. So, we demand that next year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ask a woman and feminist to host the show, while giving her free reign to present a feminist take on Hollywood. And since it might make for a better show if the host is actually funny, we strongly suggest the Academy ask Sarah Silverman to host.
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    Created by Marc Stier
  • Measure H: Are Pets Worth Saving?
    Animal education is also a top priority in our communtiy and funding will support the awareness. More pets and animals are dying due to lack of funds.
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    Created by Jessika Zaragoza
  • Gov. Quinn
    Stop messing around with medicare & medicade for seniors or disable people.
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    Created by Berny
  • Stop Wal Mart from ruining America
    I want to jointhemovement to get our government to stop the global devistation that this horrid corporation is causing
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    Created by Shelley Turner
  • Homework pushed me!
    Homework effecting kids
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    Created by Bob
  • Congress: Stop the minimum wage freeze on tipped workers
    Federal and state minimum wages are supposed to protect workers from poverty -- that's why when the cost of living increases, the minimum wage is raised. We raised it in 1991, in 2009, and President Obama has proposed another increase to help the thousands of families whose minimum wage incomes aren't enough to pay for food and shelter. But because of a deal lobbyists made with Congress decades ago, the minimum wage for waitresses and other workers who are tipped is still frozen at only $2.13 an hour. As a result, restaurant servers have 3 times the poverty rate of the rest of the US workforce. More than 70% of servers are women, and many are single mothers. This needs to stop. In any plan to raise the minimum wage, we demand a promise not to cut out tipped workers.
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    Created by Jen
  • Teach Science Not Religion
    This petition is to bring science and not religion into the Louisiana public school curriculum. Allowing arguments based on opinion and faith, and a basic disregard for acknowledged science harms our children's ability to compete in biology, medicine and genetics, when it comes to their future college studies and careers.
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    Created by Marsha Millard
  • End Special Interest and Supporting Money
    Nothing gets done in Congress because the elected body maintains support politcally to the money not the PEOPLE's welfare. Money=Power whereas moral values and truth = doing what is right for America.
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    Created by John H Bohm
  • Saratoga Springs, NY: Reusable Bag Initiative
    On average, plastic bags are used for 12 minutes, yet they will stick around for thousands of years as trash, polluting our waterways and harming animals. You have a choice. Let's join together to stop this disposable consumer culture that is destroying our planet. It's time to bring your own bag, Saratoga.
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    Created by Alex Chaucer
  • Citizens for Voting Rights
    Protect the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965/64 The Coalition for A Better Macon Thomas E. Perez c/o Jennifer Assistant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Main Washington, D.C. 20530 Our organization stands in opposition to the Georgia General Assembly passed SB 25, 26, 30 and 31, which effectively made all municipal elections in Macon-Bibb nonpartisan. This county is now facing a totally new form of government; whereas the Republican led legislature (Sponsored Legislation) - Rep. Allen Peake, Senator Cecil Staton, Rep. Nikki Randall, Rep. James Beverly, and former Senator Miriam Paris, under HB 1171 Consolidation and redistricting plan drawn by these individuals and approved by the State legislature shall discriminate and retrogressively impact against minorities as affirmed by the maps drawn – the Congressional, State House of Representatives, and the State Senate – are in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These legislators in a hurry rushed referendum to the voters for consolidation without informing the people what they were actually voting on and pushed through the Georgia General Assembly which effectively makes the majority (African American) voters in this county a minority. The Republican led legislators took districts with low voter turnout in Primary elections and specifically abridged voter turnout to effectively dilute African American voting strength whereas lower voter turnout among African American precincts is expected in a Primary July election with expected high voter turnout among whites in now predominately white precincts, based on data from the Municipal Elections 2011, Special Election and General Election 2012, which on paper shows a likely AA district. In reality this shall lead to a higher voter turnout among white voters in support of white candidates winning the seat once held by African American candidates. Furthermore, it is the expressed desire of the Republican led legislator to willfully and knowingly subvert the will of the people through this process, whereby we as a community want to elect candidate(s), we choose to represent our interest(s). As demonstrated by the Republican led legislature their express desire and now law forces those same constituents that make up this community to adhere to nonpartisan elections as a local voting law, which was not voted on by the people. Essentially, by will of the State and Republican led Legislature to subvert and abridgment of the people that choses to exercise one of the basic freedoms afforded to us by the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, and particularly Section 5, Voting Rights Act of 1965 whereby people of color, Negro, Black, and/or African American have the right to vote and be represented accordingly. This master-plan as represented by the aforementioned requires your immediate attention. Under Section 5 and as an Officer of the Court, elected by the people you have a duty and responsibility to act; Section 5 enforcement demands an immediate investigation…. 1. Consider whether a covered voting change has occurred; 2. If so, whether the requirements of Section 5 have been met, preclearance has been obtained; and 3. If not, what relief by the court is appropriate 4. Consider whether or not the State has violated Section 5, by not enforcing the 14th Amendment; The framers of Section 5, considered this to be a tool to enable “Congress, in case the States shall enact laws in conflict with the principles of the Amendment, to correct that legislation by a formal congressional enactment.” Lopez v. Monterey County, 519 U.S. 9, 23 (1996). The only court that can make the determination that change is not discriminatory is purpose or effect is the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Upon finding non-compliance with Section 5, the Local Federal Court shall consider an appropriate equitable remedy. The general objective of such remedies is to restore the situation that existed before the implementation of the change. Thus, the typical remedy includes issuance of an INJUNCTION against further use of the change. In certain circumstances, other remedies have included voiding illegally-conducted elections, enjoining upcoming elections unless and until the jurisdiction complies with Section 5, or ordering a special election; in some cases courts have also issued orders directing the jurisdiction to seek Section 5, review of the change from the Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Respectfully, The Coalition for A Better Macon And Mr. Stanley Phillip Brown, Jr. (Citizen and African American Candidate for Office) Cc: Attorney General Eric Holder, United States Washington DC Michael J. Moore, US State of Georgia Attorney Representing Sam Olsen
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    Created by Stanley Phillip Brown Jr
  • Repeal NY Gun Law
    Gov Cuomo's gun law is unlawful and unconstitutional.It affects noone but lawful responsible people.We must defend the constitution of this country.Would never had passed if it wasnt forced through.
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    Created by George Becker
  • stop the r word
    The R-Word is a word used to belittle people but it is used on the backs of our friends that have little or now way of defending them selves.
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    Created by Jasmine Campbell