• Protect Sebago Lake
    Canadian oil giant Enbridge has applied for fast-track approval of the first stage of a proposed project to bring tar sands oil from eastern Canada to Portland, using a 1950s oil pipeline that passes next to Sebago Lake. Sign our petition to the Canadian National Energy Board to protect Sebago Lake from dirty tar sands oil.
    161 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Emily Figdor
  • Eliminate "Handling Charges" on Shipped Purchases
    Most on-line purchases, and almost all TV commercial product orders, add on a charge in addition to shipping charges. These can be called "handling charges" or something similar, but they have nothing to do with the cost of getting the product shipped, and are arbitrarily applied based on how much the seller believes consumers will pay. We want a law that will restrict all shipped purchases to charging consumers only the true cost the seller pays to a shipping company for getting the product shipped.
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    Created by Doug Longden
  • GMO on Kauai
    There was never a public discussion nor a VOTE on the events that initiated the ALTERATION of our FARMLANDS to GMO crops. This ISLAND of KAUAI has been DUPED! OUR health, and the health of our CHILDREN have been DISCARDED as if we were just experimental TRASH! Of all places on EARTH! this is, and has been such a ....(can't find a strong enough word)....as if (and I'm not discounting the idea) that an ALIEN RACE has decided to change us by OUR FOOD! Or, to eliminate us altogether. Sounds pretty nutty doesn't it! KAUAI , at present , is still one of the most beautiful places on our planet....and because a group of obscenely rich industrialists want to "play GOD" with the UNPROVEN chemical genetics of our FOOD....they BOUGHT our local GOVERNMENT, and perhaps more. THIS IS NOT A HUMANE THING, and needs to be STOPPED and REVERSED! ( Why didn't they do this in THEIR BACKYARD) I bet their wives and children would think them CRAZY, and end up in divorce!
    17 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Marc Grabinsky
  • Equal Rights for Women
    Recently, Democrats have accused Republicans of a conducting a war on women. Reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment via this petition would either make it clear that Republicans are supportive of women or are not. Action on this petition would be a win-win for women and would help women to decide which candidates they might wish to support in 2012 and future elections. If Republican candidates for office support the amendment, more women would realize that Republicans will act in their interests; if these same Republican candidates do not support the amendment, then women would understand that their interests would be protected more effectively by Democrats.
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    Created by Richard Nelson
  • Help Non-White Youth By Endorsing Our Store Idea!!!
    We are starting a store to help develop better values and social behavior in our Black and Latin youth, as well as poor White youth as well... Other ethnic groups welcomed as well...
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    Created by Brother Tracy Gibson
  • BAN LEAF BLOWERS IN LOS ANGELES
    THE USE OF LEAF BLOWERS BRINGS IN NOXIOUS FUMES AND A BARRAGE OF OTHER TOXINS INTO OUR HOMES, APTS, LAWNS, CHILDREN AND PETS, BIRDS, BABY BIRD NESTS, TREES AND THE GARDENS THEY ARE "CLEANING -UP" ALL END UP IN DANGEROUS TERRITORY - WE CAN USE SOMETHING INSTEAD TO CLEAN UP LEAVES - RAKES AND BROOMS - BRING BACK THE BROOM
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    Created by LAURA DENAHY
  • Anti-Lying Law
    Canadian television has a law against lying over the air. It's illegal to knowingly lie on news broadcasts in Canada. Canada’s Radio Act requires that “a licenser may not broadcast … any false or misleading news. Ask Congress to pass a law in the United States with simiiar provisions.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Peter Hain
  • South Carolina laws currently don't consider strangulation and smothering a felony in domestic vi...
    SENATE BILL AMMENDMENT-S.744: Adds "strangulation” and “smothering” to language for felony offenses (CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OF A HIGH AND AGGRAVATED NATURE).
    106 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Lisa Miller
  • Justice For Derrick Devon Bland
    Derrick Devon Bland was murdered on April 10, 2010. He suffered two fatal gunshot wound once in da head and once in the chest, He was pronounced dead on the scene and and he was also unarmed. The purpose of this petition is to show people they can't get away with taking innocent people lives. The assailant is also connected to another murder that he also commited.
    124 of 200 Signatures
    Created by The Bland and Mcgriggs Family
  • A Profoundly Simple Question Bears Asking...
    If Republican policies are so good for the Nation, then why are the Republican administered States the poorest, least educated, and most lacking in health care in the Nation? It's a profoundly simple question that bears asking.
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Michael P Haluska
  • Congressional Leaders Fact Check Statements
    Today, elected officials repeat for political indoctrination purposes statements that are often unproven or untrue. For example, lowering of taxes on high bracket taxpayers create jobs. It is disrespectful to the public for leaders of our country to misrepresent facts so blatantly and without remorse or recourse.
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    Created by Robert Mercer
  • Education for the Disabled
    Did you know that those who are living with disabilities are given an opportunity to receive additional income by working part time? The catch is that you cannot make more than $2000 a year. Wow; that's a month's worth a bills so; how can the disabled attempt to do better? Bottom Line.... 1.The disabled should have an option of receiving adequate continuing education/training prior to attempting to gain additional income. 2. The disabled should be allotted $25,000.00 the max gross amount for 4 to 6 years before support termination 3. Adequate Legal Aid should be appointed counsel for the disabled who are seeking independence. What to add something to the list?
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    Created by Center for Children Watch