• Bring our loves ones home
    They have family to take care.
    95 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Teresa Tomany
  • Demand Secretary Mnuchin suspend sanctions on Iran for 120 days
    The coronavirus doesn’t see borders. It doesn’t discriminate who it targets. If this tragic moment teaches us anything, it is that we are all connected — and in fighting this pandemic, we must all come together to survive. There are at least 18,000 people infected with COVID-19 in Iran and over 1,100 have already passed away – there’s good reason to think those numbers could be higher given the rate of the virus’ spread and the Iranian government’s tight censorship. As a community that cares about progressive foreign policy, we must reach across borders to push for sanctions on Iran to be suspended for at least 120 days. Steve Mnuchin, as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has the authority to suspend devastating sanctions on Iran that are impeding Iranian people’s ability to respond in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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    Created by Win Without War Picture
  • Ban Trump's Harmful News Conferences
    Our very lives depend on muzzling this individual. If Mr. Trump suddenly disappeared from all media, as he well should have long before this crisis, we might have a shot at our lives returning to some semblance of normalcy.
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    Created by Allene Swienckowski
  • Covid 19 and REAL student loan relief
    The problem with the federal student loan program is long-standing and well documented including massive complaints and many lawsuits against lenders. I will reiterate a few main problems: Many students, including myself, have been victims of aggressive and predatory lending practices that started in college and continue throughout loan repayment periods. The interest rate at 6.5% - set by congress - is much too high and contributes to borrowers' inability to pay down loan principals. The so-called benefits of various repayment plans is part of the scam that benefits lenders the most: they extend the life of loans while continuing to charge interest daily at 6.5%. In effect, these so-called benefits create a situation in which borrowers are making monthly payments that may not even cover the monthly interest on their loan. Subsequently, it is next to impossible to pay off the loan and any small principal payment that a borrower might eke out is not enough to substantially decrease the interest calculation; this assures lenders a steady stream of interest income with no end in sight. Many student loan borrowers cannot move on with their lives or fully participate in the economy because they are strapped with debt. I am an older, self-employed mental health counselor, losing earnings because of Covid 19, I - like most Americans - am concerned about my financial well-being. I should be planning for retirement, but having gone back to school in mid-life, I am concerned about my student loans instead. Interestingly, the repayment program in which I participate (IBR) contains a loan write-off provision if I die! Most of us would prefer help while we're still alive! Juts like 2008 when the economy almost crashed, I hear plans of incentives, and bailouts for large corporations. I realize, for example, that airlines are hard hit today, but what about the little person? Where are the breaks and bailouts for those of us who work hard in this country every day and who bought into the American dream by furthering our education and now find ourselves paying the highest price for it? We appeal to all branches of government to do their part to drastically and permanently cut student loan interest rates now! Thank you!
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    Created by Mona W
  • Legalization of marijuana in Tennessee
    Compounds like THC and CBD play a role in helping the brain to build new neurons and then protect them from neurodegenerative diseases or injuries caused by stroke, concussions or head trauma.  It will also give a great revenue for the state.
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    Created by dameion raspberry
  • Take Homes for Everyone
    With the virus going around it's very important to limit the contact of people as much as possible. The less people have to go to the clinic, the less chance there is of it spreading.
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    Created by Vincent Gonzalez
  • DONALD TRUMP: Please Guarantee the November, 2020 Election Will Proceed
    Nothing is more sacred to American democracy that our right to free and fair elections. A major dialogue is under way as to how to conduct this fall's election even if the Pandemic still rages (see www.solartopia.org. Please join us. Thank you.
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    Created by Harvey Wasserman
  • Healthcare Workers Need Protective Equipment Now
    I’m a nurse in Alaska. Nurses and other healthcare professionals are on the frontlines of fighting the COVID-19 outbreak and caring for our patients, but we're running out of personal protective equipment (PPE) in states across the nation. We don’t have the right kind of N95 respirator masks to keep us and you safe. We don’t have enough ventilators to keep the very sickest patients alive. We don’t have the ear or the attention of the president, who make promises and then walks away does nothing. This is scary. Our job is to treat and care for people, and we will not leave our patients behind. If we run out of equipment, healthcare providers and the patients we care for will die. Let's be clear: If we get sick and if people die, it’s because policies that go all the way to the top have failed us. We should have been producing the needed respirators, masks and ventilators long before this. The administration should have taken the outbreak seriously when it started three months ago. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps lowering the guidelines for healthcare workers to be safe; the CDC just said that we can use bandanas as masks. The CDC is putting my life and the lives of other nurses at risk by telling us to use scarves rather than producing enough masks that will keep us safe. And it’s not just respirators, masks and ventilators we’re running low on. Hospitals are reporting shortages of gowns, gloves and other PPE that we need to keep ourselves safe as we care for the sick. Trump has said he’ll use the Defense Production Act to make masks and tests, after weeks of us pressuring him, but he has not said he’ll use it to ensure there are enough ventilators to keep patients from dying. And he’s still not releasing the stockpile of PPE that he has, which could fill the gap until enough n95 masks are made. Here's what we need right now: • The administration must make the production of N95 respirators and other PPE a top priority. • The President must use the Defense Production Act to make ventilators for patients. • The federal government has a stockpile of personal protective equipment, but has released less than 10 percent of the stockpile: We’re still running low. The federal government must release more of it immediately to keep us safe. • All healthcare workers should have immediate, free access to being tested to ensure that we are safe and not endangering non-infected patients. • The federal government needs to stop watering down guidelines that keep us safe. The minimum standard should be N95 respirators. Telling us to use bandanas puts our lives at risk. Will you please help us by telling the administration that we need this now.
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    Created by AFT Union Picture
  • Mandatory testing for cooks, preps and all drive thru's employees preparing food for to go orders.
    IMAGINE One cook, prep cook or any employee in the facility having the Corona Virus and sending it out that to go window/restaurant. Sending it home to you, your family... your children. REMEMBER this is a PANDEMIC!!! Who gives anyone the right Nation Wide to cook for the ENTIRE PUBLIC during a LIFE THREATENING PANDEMIC WITHOUT BEING TESTED AND CLEARED ALLOW THIS KIND OF CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC!??? IT'S NOT RIGHT AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!! IN FACT LIFE THREATENING! PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION. It's all about money. (Think about it) The restaurant owner would be making huge amounts of money "IF" they were smart. They would have enormous amounts of people WANTING to get their food from their establishment KNOWING all the employees preparing the food (To Go's) have been TESTED and CLEARED. #BESMART #SIGN #SHARE
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    Created by Cindy Martinez
  • bring home our Chromebooks
    so we can have a better education while we are stuck at home
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    Created by Sydnie Peluso
  • 90 day mortgage relief for CA
    We are currently experiencing a worldwide crisis leaving a huge percent of the workforce out of work. Small businesses are suffering and facing bankruptcy. For the majority, their ability to bring in money has been forcefully removed. A large part of our population have no options to bring in compensation during this time of forced isolation. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Now is the time for Governor Newsom to follow his wise ‘stay at home’ order with a wise ‘90 day mortgage relief’ order.
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    Created by Jolie Downs
  • Relief for independent businesses during crisis
    Most commercial real estate in most cities is held by holding companies and very wealthy individuals that can more easily weather economic instability than their tenants, who are usually so busy creating jobs and providing goods and services they don't have time to accumulate cash reserves. BOMA represents building owners, and includes a PAC with lobbyists and is better organized than tenants, and more able to apply for and receive federal dollars. They have it in their strength to organize their members to suspend rent payments for April, 2020, and allow small businesses across America to survive. Without relief to small businesses, many will close, and the unique and resilient culture that they bring to their communities will die as well.
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    Created by Shay Leonard