• Government Reform
    Privileges congress has voted for themselves, English as our National language, immigration and religion.
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    Created by Bill Alheim
  • End "At-Will Employment" Laws Now!
    "At-Will Employment" laws in most states give employers the right to layoff and/or fire people without valid and/or anti-discriminatory cause, thus circumventing U.S. constitutional laws prohibiting discrimination. Therefore, those laws should be declared federally unconstitutional, instead prescribing that employers must provide demonstrably valid reasons for all layoffs and firings. Furthermore, justice demands that since employers have means of retaliating (either through litigation or via negative references) against abrupt voluntarily departing employees while fired or laid-off ones have little or no lawful recourse in "At-Will" states, federal law should mandate employers' minimum reasonable advance notification of contemplated layoffs/firings, thus enabling employees to at least seek alternative means of income if not redress of grievances. We need to not only pressure each state to voluntarily overturn despicable "At-Will Employment" laws and replace them with laws requiring employers to validate layoffs/firings, but also petition our federal government to mandate employer accountability and declare "At-Will Employment" laws unconstitutional. (Exemptions should likely be built into such new legislation based on company size or other mitigating circumstances.) General examples of the harm of leaving existing laws in place include not only the negative effects on individuals, but also the enabling of demonstrably invalid corporate claims of financial hardship at times of massive layoffs. Specific legislation could require that valid layoffs only be permissable if average or lowest worker wages rise above a certain percentage in relation to the average executive salaries and the top salary at any so-regulated business (e.g., that the average worker salary must be not worse than 20 times lower than that of the average executive, and/or the lowest worker wage not be equivalent to less than 50 times lower than that of the average executive and not less than 100 times lower than that of the highest paid executive--or some other reasonable formula having a similar effect). Had such federal legislation been in place, our economy would likely be in much better shape because the pressure on businesses to act equitably would either cause workers to have higher earnings or help prevent the massive layoffs that have resulted in the severe loss of consumer spending which has characterized our troubled economy.
    282 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Barry Braunstein
  • La Plata Electric Association BAN (AMI) SMART METERS/AMI's
    WHEREAS significant and serious health, privacy, cost and other concerns have been identified regarding the installation of wireless Advanced Meter Infrastructure at the residence and business of La Plata Electric Association customers and members, and whereas LPEA has plans to proceed to install wireless AMIs although it recognizes there is active discussion and ongoing science debate into the possible health and environmental effects related to RF, and it is aware that on May 31, 2011, the World Health Organization classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a Class 2B, a possible human carcinogen, and called for further investigation. LPEA also recognizes that on January 19, 2012, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, publicly announced, “An immediate moratorium on smart meter installation until these serious public health issues are resolved. Continuing with their installation would be extremely irresponsible”. The below signed also does not give consent for Advanced Meter Infrastructure device(s) to be installed at their private residence or owned business, and does not give LPEA permission to obtain personal information beyond kilowatt(s) used read by any utility meters and anything more will be an “invasion of privacy”. The LPEA Board of Directors has authority to stop all contracts with Tantalus and abandon in total the installation of wireless metering devices/AMI’s, or modify for an opt-in option therefore making wireless metering devices an Opt In program. Those customers who choose not to participate shall automatically be opting out and not be charged a fee, since this is an optional program. THEREFORE, the customers and members signed below of La Plata Electric Association request LPEA Board of Directors give a directive for LPEA to abandon in total the installation of AMI’s, or any wireless communications device(s). If LPEA Board of Directors continues the with wireless meters/AMI’s installation plans, then LPEA Board of Directors are to make AMI’s to be installed upon the customers and members request, customers and members must opt into the program. Customers and members, who do not opt in, automatically are opting out and no extra fee(s) will be charged.
    167 of 200 Signatures
    Created by CCSMA Colorado Citizens Smart Meter Awareness
  • Stop the repeal of judicial foreclosures in Hawaii
    Thousands of homeowners have been illegally forced from their homes. Judicial foreclosure gives the homeowner time to make things right.
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    Created by Bruce Robert Travis
  • Transparency in the death of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. by the White Plains Police Department
    An outrageous attack resulting in death was made on a private citizen of these United States. Such brutality must be made public and the perperators must be publicly tried and brought to justice. If one of us is unsafe in this country, none of us is safe. It's hard to believe that such behavior comes from people paid to serve an protect.
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    Created by Jocelyn Caplan
  • Transparency in the death of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. by the White Plains Police Department
    An outrageous attack resulting in death was made on a private citizen of these United States. Such brutality must be made public and the perperators must be publicly tried and brought to justice. If one of us is unsafe in this country, none of us is safe. It's hard to believe that such behavior comes from people paid to serve an protect.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jocelyn Caplan
  • San Diego City Council: Please support a resolution to reverse Citizens United
    This petition is intended to urge San Diego City Council to pass a resolution telling Congress that we should not be controlled by big money.
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    Created by Alexandra Lane
  • support our troops send them home alive now
    its time for the afghanistan war to be over. enough is enough. now because the main export of afghanistan is heroin, our soldiers are overdosing and getting addicted and coming home addicted. And its time to for the people of america to know that this is also putting our troops at risk, not only to be killed and to kill but drug addiction is a really bad problem for our troops to be exposed to take it from one who knows. peace now.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Candace Conti
  • Why do politicians hate trade schools? Is it a class issue?
    Do politicians hate trade schools because their students are blue collar workers?
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    Created by Jane Griffin
  • Drop the cap on SS>deductions
    There is a cap on paying the megar weekly tax on social security the government witholds from our weekly paycheck. The cap is $1,080.00 (or there about) a year So the poor and a great deal of the middle class pay for the whole year and some pay for 3 months the few who can afford the payment would not miss the $ and it would put a great deal of funds into Social Security. Which ,by the way was supporting this country for a long time when we were flush with $ and the witheld SS$ was put into the general fund
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    Created by Helen Hazan-Cohen
  • COBRA Premium Reduction
    General Information: If you or a family member has lost employment, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) may make it possible for you to keep your employment-related health coverage....This expired when President Obama signed the new Health Care Legislation. My question is why is this not necessary anymore when unemployment continues to be high. This leaves the unemployed without a safety net since the government was paying 65% of the COBRA premium. COBRA premiums can be $500+ for a single person and in the thousands for a family that is unemployed. How did this happen? We keep talking about helping the unemployed and how Americans all need health care but the people who are unemployed through no fault of theirs find that health insurance is out of reach. We continue to assist countries overseas sending them billions but the American taxpayer is left behind. Sad...
    15 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Denise Neufeldt
  • Tax Relief for Disabled Veterans
    Disabled veterans who have their student loans discharged due to disabilty are currenlty charged income tax on that loan discharge. Disabled veterans should not have to pay income tax on their discharged student loans when that discharge is because of their service connected disabilty.
    3 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Daniel Sylvester