Obama you promised to back "GMO labeling on foods" What happened to that promise you made?

My husband, Cesar Chavez, and I made the decision to move back to Delano to begin organizing the United Farm Workers in 1962. Dolores Huerta and other leaders soon joined us. Then thousands more came to work with our movement. And millions of good people across North America supported us by boycotting grapes and other products. All these years, I chose to stay in the background. I walked picket lines, managed our credit union, and took care of our eight children. Cesar respected my privacy. I never spoke in public or did an interview with a reporter. But I’m speaking out now. Back in 1962, farm workers were treated as though we were agricultural tools. One grower called us “rented slaves.” Working in the fields, I remember we were called “wetbacks,” “dirty Mexicans”—and worse. It was common then in parts of our country for African Americans to also be degraded by those who called them the “n” word or used stereotypes because of their skin color or who they were. Our movement gave, and still gives, hope and pride to farm workers and millions of other people who never worked on a farm. Today, farm workers and many other immigrants still do important work other American workers won’t do, for low pay, and miserable conditions. We harvest the greatest bounty of food in the world. We spend our lives laboring in service jobs where we make beds, clean rooms, cook meals, and care for the young and the elderly. We work in construction and manufacturing. We serve our country in the military. But instead of thanking all these workers for their important work, they are often called names—like illegal immigrant. That’s not right. It is no longer acceptable to call people names or use stereotypes because of skin color or who people are. Why should we tolerate farm workers and other Latinos being treated this way? Some day not long from now people will look back and ask, “How could people call other people names like illegal?”

I have young male customers intersted in learning the barber trade and they often ask me how they can get started in the industry.Well they offer cosmetology to students here in Anne Arundel County but not barbering. We support and have employeed young girls from the program over the years. However, my concern is for the young men who want to be barbers. They have to wait to attend a barber school after high school whereas the girls have cosmetology training throughout high school and graduate high school as liscensed cosmotoligists. I think it is unfair and as a business owner could benefit from having a pool of young energetic barbers to choose from when necesarry.

The livelihoods of thousands of Kansans is impacted by the wind industry. We are citizens, landowners, construction workers, business owners, teachers and others from all across the state who have benefited from local wind energy projects. Kansans know that a job is a job is a job, and that ANY project that brings jobs to our state as well economic security and a brighter future for our communities, deserves support. Please join, the Climate + Energy Project, the Wind Coalition and KS Interfaith Power and Light, along with thousands of Kansans, in asking Congressmen Huelskamp, Pompeo, Yoder and Congresswoman Jenkins, to please join Governor Brownback, Senators Moran and Roberts in supporting extension of the PTC. Find the entire letter here, http://blog.climateandenergy.org/

It's outrageous that mainstream media is not reporting on the filibuster of the Veteran's Jobs Corp bill. This is a perfect example of what is wrong with our corporate owned media.

LAWS that effect OUR Children [black boys and men] in America and The State of Georgia Remember If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem

Despite piles of research suggesting that Monsanto's Roundup is dangerous, the Big Apple continues to douse its parks with the stuff—potentially exposing millions of New Yorkers to toxic effects.

Our people are under constant oppression from the Republic of Cameroon which is illegally occupying the land of Former British Southern Cameroon. Our land is exploited, citizens tortured and killed, others forced to go on exile. Our identity is under threats of extinction as a nation. (visit: www.ambazonia.org)

When the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11/01, Mohammad Salman Hamdani, a NYPD cadet was one of the first responders pulling people out of the rubble. Sadly, like many of the other first responders that day, he never returned home. His nation and his city first dishonored his legacy and his name when they actually suspected him to be a conspirator, then by misplacing his name on the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan they did it a second time. This is a slight that cannot be allowed to be forgotten and justice must be done. Mohammad's name deserves its rightful placement.

There is a constant issue with oil prices and the drilling for oil in the United States. It is my understanding approximately half of our oil is exported. The public should be aware of what is happening to our domestic oil before we open up our coasts and Alaska to more drilling. Oil companies should give a quarterly report on how many millions of barrels of our oil they are exporting.

A petition to protect our Hawaii Harbors from possible Black Oil pollution, during discharge operations. That every fuel barge discharging Black Oil at the harbor fuel docks, have a containment boom surrounding in case of a spill.

Recycling and sustainability have long been a great concern for me because it is a simple thing to do but it can make a huge difference. The facts are clear from the 10 states with bottle bills that many jobs are created (The Container Recycling Institute's documented study estimates a national bottle deposit law will create 100,000 jobs), litter is dramatically reduced (cuts costly taxpayer-funded roadside and waterway clean-ups), and recycling participation improves significantly with financial incentive (20% participation rate rises to 80% almost overnight with container deposit law and bag tax implementation). A National $.25 Single-use Use Bag Tax would give $.05 back to retailers to enable them to do free or low-cost reusable bag promotions. $.10 would go directly into a grant program established by local communities to fund community building but chronically underfunded programs for youth and others in mentoring, animal and nature therapy and education, sustainable community gardens, the arts, and a wide range of non-profit and school groups that are really making a difference and need to be expanded instead of cut. The final $.10 would go to land and sea plastic pollution clean-up efforts and awareness campaigns. Hundreds of tons of carbon are prevented from being released by using recycled over virgin materials in container production. Reduced consumption of bags is also a greenhouse gas saver. Taxing an industry that is creating a burden on society is not a new idea; adopting a nationwide bottle and bag bill is common sense. A federal law would require that all states have their own container deposit and single-use bag tax/grant programs in place by September, 2013. I will be riding my bike from Montana to Washington,D.C. to deliver the signatures on this petition (please follow Wren's Ride on Facebook and Share! ) I am hoping to create a happy Mother's Day for Mother Earth by having a groundswell of support and convincing our corporate and government leaders to take clear and swift action to set our nation on a more sustainable and peaceful path. (Please see the World Bank's new PSA "4 Degrees Hotter by 2100" urging immediate action regarding greenhouse gases and climate change) Thank you for your support, together we can make a difference!