Our democracy has been hijacked by the powerful elite. Citizen's United has created the legality of corporations to function as though they are citizens. Overturning this legal abomination would restore some sanity to our "democracy".

The decision-making executives of corporations are not legally liable for any of the damages their decisions have caused -- whether it is polluting the air we breathe or cleaning up their oil spills. The corporations themselves may be liable, but the executives who knowingly direct their corporations to engage in illegal acts in order to make an extra profit can do so with 100% impunity. Let's change that and make both the corporate executives and the board of directors legally liable for all of their corporation's activities.

Election Reform and public office holder anti corruption bill.. The system in the USA has this process to fix issues of corruption and special interest control of what is supposed to be a governing body that is "FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE" We need to take our government back from those who control it now.

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Republicans refuse to put forth in a bipartisian way, job creation for the unemployed, yet they mistakenly insist that the Democrats are not doing just that. It is time we called on the House and Senate Republicans and asked them to tell the American people why they are holding them hostage to an economy that can only be overcome with the Republicans being part of the solution. Right now they are part of the problem.

Earlier this year, a Federal Advisory Committee appointed by the Departments of Interior and Agriculture commenced work on creating a set of recommendations to establish and implement a 21st century Conservation Service Corps modeled after the Great Depression era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/new-conservation-service-corps-will-combat-unemployment.html#ixzz205lfEuHl

The mesoamerican rain forest stretches from Panama to the five southern states of Mexico. It contains about 10% of the worlds biodiversity. In the last 20 years, almost 40% of the forest land has been burned for pasturing cattle and logging. We are calling on state and federal governments to purchase sustainable organic shade-grown coffee from the forest

NAFTA should be amended to allow workers and unions the same rights of mobility that it extends to corporations.

Yes. Watching my mother die and having advance directive, but she did not have enough power to end it. Made me think about me being next.

My name is Victoria, and I’m 13 years old. I recently found out that girls as young as me are being sold for sex by people using a classifieds website called Backpage.com. You can buy and sell stuff on Backpage.com, look for an apartment, or find a job. That is all cool. But pimps are using Backpage.com to advertise girls my age to men twice their age and older, and that’s not okay. It makes me so upset to think that every night while I sleep safely in my bed, there are other girls who are spending the night being raped and abused. Backpage.com is owned by Village Voice Media. They read the news – they know that pimps have advertised girls for sex in the adult section of their website, but so far Village Voice Media has refused to take down the section. That's why, with the help of my mom, I started a petition to tell Backpage.com to close the adult section so that girls aren’t bought and sold for sex by sick people using the site. I recently became friends with a girl who was advertised by her pimp on Backpage.com. She's 13 years old just like me. What happened to her is so scary. I don’t want any other girl to experience that. Kids deserve to play, to be free, and to go to bed each night and have sweet dreams. Let’s help them do that. Please sign my petition and share it with all your friends. --Victoria, age 13 (and Mary Pannell, my mom)

Obama Care has benefited my Son by enabling him to reinsure his Sons' health care until age twenty-six. The passing of my Son's wife leave him to as the sole provider of his young childern. Without that benefit we would be in dire financial position.

Even though the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect in 1990, too many employable Americans with disabilities are still out of work. The outrageously high number of employable Americans with disabilities is unacceptable in a modern economy. It's clear that people with disabilities have the highest unemployment rate among any group, and have been left behind in the economic expansions since the ADA became law. We must work to make the dream of our nation's 41st President, George H.W. Bush, of people with even minor disabilities to become part of the economic mainstream of the United States, come true. Strengthening the ADA to ensure more employable people with disabilities obtain good-paying professional jobs should include the following: 1) Adding those with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, such as Asperger's Syndrome, to the list of people protected from discrimination in employment and accommodations, under the ADA. This sub-group has the highest unemployment rate among the group of employable people with disabilities. 2) Deny employers who discriminate against people with disabilities in employment the right to bid on federal government contracts. 3) Encourage employers to hire people with disabilities, especially those whose only source of income is disability benefits from Social Security, who have college degrees, for professional jobs, and pay them competitive wages. 4) Institute a minimum $1,000 fine (up to as much as $10 million, depending on the company's size) if a company is found to have discriminated against an applicant with a disability in employment and/or accommodations. 5) Make it easier for a person with a disability suing a would-be or former employer to prove discrimination on the basis of disability by taking into consideration the economic damage done to that person due to that particular act of discrimination rather than the damage done to the company. 6) Make it illegal for the agencies charged with administering Vocational Rehabilitation programs to place persons with disabilities with college degrees in low-paying stereotypical jobs, such as supermarket courtesy clerks (grocery baggers), janitors, and working in sheltered workshops. 7) Increase the tax credits for hiring people with disabilities, especially in professional employment, and raise taxes on employers who won't hire people with disabilities. People with disabilities who are employable can, and must, work. Stronger disability rights laws will ensure the dignity of the employable person with a disability, and secure his or her future, both socially and economically.