Bernie Sanders said it best when asked who owns the US Congress...he said special interests.

I want to make it clear to the Lone Star Rail District that its passenger rail service will not be successful if it forces people to rely on the public transit network in the cities it serves; in addition to information brochures, there needs to be the option for the passenger to transport his automobile on the train with him.

The tsunami-damaged nuclear power plants did not heal. In fact, they are dripping toxic waters which are being recirculated through and stored in a four story structure which, under normal circumstances , would have been torn down as a hazardous building. COSTS TOO MUCH TO REPAIR, says TEPCo... and guess what, the CEO resigned May 20 to "take the responsibility for the profit losses " with him. And they STILL are dragging their feet on restoring the structure as an ETERNAL GARBAGE CAN OF NUCLEAR WASTE...

When will it stop? Residents of public housing in Peekskill, NY face daily violation of their rights and harassment. Private and public appeals have been made for more than TWO YEARS yet Peekskill officials do nothing to guarantee the rights of residents nor protect those who have the courage to denounce the violations. Retaliation and suppression of the democratic process are the City's response. Peekskill's Housing Authority, Mayor and City Council are failing these citizens. We need your help!

It holds Congress accountable for authorizing MARTIAL LAW

The upcoming Wisconsin Recall Election is crucial to the betterment of the state and country. Scott Walker's agenda is destroying worker rights, the middle class, education, decent paying jobs, and the health care for the needy.

We moved forward by banning all nuclear explosions to protect the integrity of our atmosphere. The cat came back, through the back door, and it is even bigger and more dangerous. Fukushima for example has polluted the atmosphere, our lands and food chain more than multiple nuclear explosions -- and the pollution continues day by day. There are 400 nuclear reactors all over the world and most are old and prone to failure. They are constantly getting in trouble. Nuclear reactors can bring down our civilization faster than global warming. We need to dismantle them ASAP. A solar flare can interrupt electricity supply to hundred of this monsters. That could be the end, of the human specie. Solar flares like this come about every hundred years, and they are overdue. This type of risks to protect an industry are unacceptable. Nuclear energy is no more than 6% of all the energy we produce, and we can do well without it. Japan has 47 of its nuclear reactors in standby and still functions quite well. Let us stop this. Let us dismantle and decommission them completely.

Insted of going to China put on some work clothes and fix our streets.

This petition is to start the law making process to cap the ratio of corporate earnings to production worker earnings. Example a CEO should not earn 400:1 wages . To simply state a CEO doesn't produce 400 times the product and certainly doesn't work to live pay check to pay check.

Verizon, a Fortune 500 Company, has announced that they will end unlimited data coverage at the time of upgrade for those previously grandfathered in under this plan. In tough econonic times companies need to give consumers a break.

Its about raising the Minimum Wage from 7.25 hour to 9.80 hour

Thousands of low income families and homeless individuals have been displaced in New York City because of the lack of affordable housing. The city needs to come up with a viable plan to addresses this growing problem... more needs to be done and city officials need to be held accountable as to what they are doing about the problem and stop selling New York City families and New Yorkers down the drain to big real estate developers.