The elephants are going to disappear in the world if we dont act swiftly. They are being poached for the Chinese consumer for wealth and status show off. This must be stopped by world condemnation and sanctions. Stop buying all goods made in China. If even a small percentage of drop off of the west buying cheaper chinese goods were made it could cause a change in Chinese government policy to remove and prohibit the selling of all ivory. Its the greed and ignorance that is fueling this tragedy. Lets do something as a people/human world wide movement and save the defenseless elephant. Please realize that soon the only elephants left will be in animal parks and zoos. 70% of the ivory bought currently according to todays NYT article (1/6/13) is bought by the growing Chinese wealthy to bring them luck and show off their prosperity to each other. This is an absurd reason to kill an animal especially one that is becoming extinct. In fact it is beyond shameful if we do not act successfully; this should be a war to save the elephant. Please spread the word to the new secretary of state John Kerry, President Obama, your senators, all your friends, the Chinese government, and anyone else you can think of. This could be a people movement if we make it by each of us of thinking about our memories of elephants and their importance in this world. Do we want a world without the elephant?

In the last 25 years and especially after the implementation of the ADA, People are still dying and losing body parts or their scenes like Sight or touch. I have trouble feeling things and my eye after the surgeries is just as bad as not doing anything. All due to the total Lack of PROPER AND TIMELY CARE.

On Friday, Jan 4, 2013, San Diego EarthWorks was notified by an official in office of Mayor Bob Filner that the City of San Diego will not issue a park use permit for EarthFair in Balboa Park in 2013.

The wealth disparity has reached incidious conditions. Patent and copyright oversight regarding reaping economic award has trashed the founding principles and constitutional provisions regarding equality. Over shadowed by this form and inception of racism, tainted moral clarity and reduced the neutrality of both the Criminal Justice and Judicial System ( in it's entirety) to tyrannical jacktations -via the plea aggreement. Similarly militarization designed for promoting advantage seeking corporatization that continues to trash and overstep originating boundaries, seeks untouchable international empericism yet remains for a tiny powerful fraction of benfactors crazed by an apparently coy and detached two party monopoly rigging the justice system...

Hold Sen. Pat Toomey accountable for his unconscionable vote to block disaster relief money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. This aid is absolutely needed by the residents of New Jersey and New Yorkt to rebuild their homes and businesses. Sen. Toomey displayed total calousness and disregard for the health, well-being, and safety of devestated Americans!!

A ban on concealed carried weapons has negatively impacted people who only sought to protect themselves against known impending threats. Banning a person's right to carry a weapon assumes that the only dangers threatening him will fall at his doorstep. I have been personally affected by this ban because my nineteen year old son was shot at last year while he was in his car. The offenders shot out the back windshield. My son escaped, terrified. These same guys had beaten his friend the week before with a pistol. The police told us there was nothing they could do and for my son to lay low. Every time my son left home, the assailants attempted to harm him and he got away each time; the last time he called the police who came just in time to save my son's life. My son was afraid for his life and purchased a gun because all he had before was his feet to run away, which are not much good against a flying bullet. During an unlawful traffic stop for tinted windows in the city of Chicago, my son's weapon was found in the car. He admitted it was his. It was never used. And now my nineteen year old son is in jail with a felony conviction that will ruin him for the rest of his life because he was trying to save his life from aggressors. He was in college at the time of the shooting. He flunked out the second semester because he was scared to go to school every day and was suffering from post-traumatic stress. He was paranoid and could no longer focus on school. My son should have had the right to arm himself against a known threat since the police, in their own words, could not protect him. A ban on concealed carried weapons protects criminals, not victims. And now my son went from college student to felony criminal. The ban has been deemed unconstitutional by the 7th circuit court of appeals and Illinois has been given 180 days to enact a new law. That is proof positive that my son should not be in jail. He was jailed after this ruling.

A ban on concealed carried weapons negatively impact people who only sought to protect themselves against known impending threats. Banning a person's right to carry a weapon assumes that the only dangers threatening him will fall at his doorstep. I have been personally affected by this ban because my nineteen year old son was shot at last year while he was in his car. The offenders shot out the back windshield. My son escaped, terrified. These same guys had beaten his friend the week before with a pistol. The police told us there was nothing they could do and for my son to lay low. Every time my son left home, the assailants attempted to harm him and he got away each time; the last time he called the police who came just in time to save my son's life. My son was afraid for his life and purchased a gun because all he had before was his feet to run away, which are not much good against a flying bullet. During an unlawful traffic stop for tinted windows in the city of Chicago, my son's weapon was found in the car. He admitted it was his. It was never used. And now my nineteen year old son is in jail with a felony conviction that will ruin him for the rest of his life because he was trying to save his life from aggressors. He was in college at the time of the shooting. He flunked out the second semester because he was scared to go to school every day and was suffering from post-traumatic stress. He was paranoid and could no longer focus on school. My son should have had the right to arm himself against a known threat since the police, in their own words, could not protect him. A ban on concealed protects criminals, not victims. And now my son went from college student to felony criminal.

In the state of New Mexico, an unfair tax (Gross Receipts Tax) is levied on all professionals who serve populations (such as Native Americans, minorities, and those living in the culture of poverty) who receive state Medicaid and Medicare monies disbursed federally.

My son & daughter-in-law and two grandsons live in Maplewood, NJ and suffered through Hurrican Sandy, but not anywhere near as badly as many many others. Why was a vote on the relief bill cancelled?

Rumors that entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security will be considered as a negotiation tool in the debt ceiling and to reduce the deficit. Even the President has mentioned it being on the table. Please sign this petition, warning Congress and the White House to leave Medicare and Social Security alone.

State testing should not be used to dictate curricula nor deprive struggling schools with needed funding. Rather, it should be a tool to identify a student's academic strengths and natural proclivities. The discouraging results of the punitive policies of "NCLB" have led to: increased class sizes, school closures and furthermore, have reduced educators to "teaching to the test"; thereby defining a limiting notion of academic success. End the proliferation of "high stakes testing" mandates beleaguering our public schools. Cease and desist the promotion of unqualified tests which serve to benefit the test makers but not the test takers. Stem the flow of tax dollars away from for-profit corporations. Halt the march towards de-professionalization of educators. Acknowledge that the corporate model does not produce positive results in the classroom. Channel resources back into the classroom in order to compensate dedicated teachers, hire new teachers (who have invested in classical training), provide class materials, and support programming which enhances public education. It is crucial that we invigorate the public education system with well-rounded curricula which strongly supports the arts, foreign languages, science, technology, crafts, appropriate training in a broad range of physical education and good citizenship opportunities, as well as the three Rs. In this way, we would be enabled to invest in successful individuals who are well-primed to makes valuable contributions to our social fabric.

We need a safer more eco friendly materials and fuel. And, its too hard to keep denying the positive and healthier uses of cannabis.