Assault weapons and large quantity ammo clips are for the military.

This week, my 66-year-old mother was jailed. She attended a Senate hearing on immigration reform where not a single Latino undocumented worker was given an opportunity to testify. As Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano took the microphone, my mother stood up and called for an end to the deportations that tear apart our families. I am so proud of her bravery. But for this, my mother was detained for more than eight hours. Is this really what it takes for the voices of those most impacted by immigration reform to be heard? Sen. Schumer is responsible for pushing immigration reform through a Democrat-controlled Senate that is supposed to be on our side. He cares a lot about his image right now. Tell Sen. Schumer you want a Latino undocumented worker to testify at the next immigration hearing.

Please pass Illinois House bill “HB-5383 - PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY-FLUORIDE” which repeals a provision requiring the Department of Public Health to provide for the addition of fluoride to public water supplies.

President Obama's State of the Union highlighted fracking for gas and oil as a way to tackle climate change and deal with our energy problems. But, nothing could be further from the truth. In Pennsylvania, Texas and many other states, communities' drinking water has been poisoned by toxic chemicals used in the fracking process. Communities in Wyoming have severe smog problems, leading to more asthma and respiratory problems. And, now there is talk of fracking in the midst of our National Parks and Forests—some of the most beautiful and treasured parts of the US. If we allow fracking to continue to expand, we will imperil the future generations that President Obama so passionately invoked. And the same generations we are trying to protect from climate change, will be left with poisoned aquifers, devastated parks and forests, and more air pollution. That's why we urge President Obama to reverse course on fracking, focus on the significant environmental and health problems, and make sure our health and environment comes first.

The manufacture of the iPad is catastrophically bad for the world. From the manufacture of batteries that destroy our environment (and the burning of fossil fuels to supply them with power) to the Chinese slave labor that has to build them to the oceans that are destroyed by container ships, there is not one thing about this product that we consider to be environmentally or humanitarianly friendly. As a result, we are burying our iPads underground to give them back to the earth from whence they came and planting flowers over top of them. This will continue until congress forbids the import of this awful piece of "technology".

Move the canon into the center and make it bigger

Anti-depressants are illegal all over the world because of their close ties to both psychoses and suiciidality. Why are Colorado doctors and nurse practitioners still able to prescribe junk medicine (see e.g. Whitaker, Robert, Anatomy of an Epidemic, New York: Crown Publishers 2009).

HB 2787 needs to move out of committee and onto the House floor.

My father lived a full and vigorous life of 84 years, but he was not allowed to die in peace. Even in the excellent hospice facility he chose for his final days, he was forced to die in agony because the law didn't allow his doctor or care-givers to administer enough morphine to end his terrible suffering. Instead, very slowly, over a period of days, he drowned in his own body fluids. No-one should ever have to suffer that way. No family should ever have to watch helplessly as their loved one passes from this world in such pain. We don't even make our pets endure such needless anguish. Montanans must be given the option to die with dignity. Terminally ill patients must have the right to alleviate unnecessary suffering in their last days. We must pass SB220.

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Celebratory Gunfire is a reckless and Intrusive threat to human life in Georgia. Every year in Georgia Innocent people are wounded and or killed due to this activity. Marquel Peters and Sergio Martinez are just a small representation of people that lost their lives due to this activity in Georgia. This must stop.

We worry about violence in our country and across the world. Why can't we believe we can be inadvertantly causing it when Mutilation, Murder and Rape are all commonplace in our entertainment at any time of day. Can't we protect ourselves and our children's future?