It is shocking that in the year 2012 our court system across the nation discriminates against the mentally disabled. The Americans with disabilities Act of 1990 clearly states that all public and private entities have a DUTY to grant Reasonable Accommodations for the disabled. The physically disabled are accommodated as SOP while the mentally disabled are ignored. The only useful accommodation in the courts would be Mandatory Appointment of Counsel!

Mr. Hawes was wrongfully arrested and charged with a murder that occurred on a West Baltimore street on July 21, 1993. After Mr. Hawes' conviction at trial, he filed a petition under the Maryland Public Information Act to get the homicide file for the deceased. Mr. Hawes discovered that exculpatory evidence in nature (negated Mr. Hawes from guilt) was never disclosed to him/attorney during the trial,and it stated in pertinent part that "The eyewitness recollection of the event is simply not credible. She describes as only seeing the shooter's back. The State's Attorney office violated the law (Brady Violation) by failing to disclosed this police report that negated Mr. Hawes from guilt. Since Mr. Hawes trial there have been several other convicted men who has gotten their sentences reversed, a new trial, due to errors committed by the same Judge who presided over Mr. Hawes case, Hon. Elizabeth Bothe. See: Anthony Brown v. State, case no.: 192321020, PCPA 9743; Damion Graham v. State, case no.: 28910321, 22, to name a few. THIS MAN HAS SPENT THE PAST 19 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT! Mr. Tracey Hawes #239770 can be contacted at: PO BOX 534 Jessup, Maryland 20794

Kettleman City is a tiny Latino farmworker community in California's San Joaquin Valley that is polluted by a gigantic toxic waste dump, pesticides, diesel pollution and toxic-contaminated drinking water. Its residents suffer from horrifying rates of birth defects, miscarriages, cancer, asthma, and other illnesses. The health crisis in Kettlemant City is a reflection of environmental injustice -- low-income communities of color like Kettleman City have been targeted for years for the siting of dirty industries and toxic waste. The State Department of Toxic Substances in California and the US Environmental Protection Agency are getting ready to approve permits for the expansion of the Chemical Waste Management hazardous waste and PCB landfill, despite the violations, health crisis and racial discrimination in the permitting process - and we need your help to stop the permits and protect the people of Kettleman City! Please sign this petition to the DTSC, the USEPA and California Governer Jerry Brown to demand they deny new permits for the hazardous waste landfill, and end environmental racism now. For more information contact Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected] 415-284-5600 www.facebook.com/Greenaction4EJ

Congress and the US Government have taken a stance of revoking the constitutional rights of individuals, in favor of detaining people without trial or access to legal rights. Essentially, anyone can be labeled a terror suspect. After being sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for challenging illegal oil company domestic land sales, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, an unidentified Congressman directed the Bureau of Prisons to place DeChristopher in isolation. In the United States, an unjust, unauthorized investigation of a patriot for exposing illegal land bids for corporate profit!

HB2199 allows companies to do audits and keep the information in it, including violations of law, secret. The information in the audit cannot be used to prosecute them for violations of law either. Please call the governor and ask her to veto it. Every now and then she pays attention to the number of calls that come in 1-(800) 253-0883. Prevent the governor and the state from protecting polluters. Ask the governor to VETO this bill, which does not serve our state in a positive manner!

make it illegal for a huge corporations to buy up a company, transfer a huge debt to that company (including the loan they took out to buy it in the first place), and then sell it or IPO it, having crippled it and laid off a lot of the employees and outsourced the work. This not only is devastating for the employees but also shareholders of the company (including employees) who see the value of their shares disappear to nothing. And the CEOs of the corporations get a big bonus and a huge profit then go and do it to some more companies.

Corprations can deduct the cost of entertainment such as sports, restaurants, and strip joints from their federal taxes. This is why football teams want tons of luxury suites and seats. Taxes which businesses don't pay must be paid by ordinary taxpayers, many of whom are really struggling. This will also end the economic distortions resulting from taxpayer subsides used for sports and other entertainment. End the corporate tax deduction for entertainment NOW!

There's a bill before the Vermont legislature (The Vermont Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, H. 722), that would require foods with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as containing GMOs, and would bar GMO foods from bearing an “all-natural” label. Monsanto has threatened to sue the entire state if the bill is passed! Help expose Monsanto as the bully it is: tell Monsanto to back off!

Wrongfull termanation in the work. Reason to sighn to get rights to be able to report upper management without have to worry about being seperated from the company

Next to each pump at any given station is a trash can. However there is no place to toss your recyclables like empty bottles and cans. By adding a recycling container next to the existing trash bin, or replacing them with dual trash/recycling bins, the amount of waste going to landfills with be reduced. This is a relatively cheap way to help the burden placed on the environment.

I propose that all large or very busy foodservice establishments give their surplus food to the local missions instead of rendering it inedible and throwing it away. All food given to local charities can be written off at full menu price with arrangements made for these charities to pick up the food on a daily or at least weekly basis. Special conditions should also be in place so there would be no liability against the foodservice establishments that the food came from if someone claims to have been made sick from it. Perhaps all who get some of this food will sign a waiver. Tons of perfectly edible food is ruined and thrown away every day and it is only to prevent lawsuits regarding the people who might eat this food and sue the establishment from whence it came. A proper waiver would eliminate this issue and hungry people would get fed as well as foodservice establishments getting tax write-offs. Logic suggests this is a win/win proposal with the right preparation.

Our pristine Arctic is about to be attacked by Shell Oil. The fragile Beaufort Sea, a critical habitat for whales and polar bears, has never been drilled for oil. This summer, unless we speak up, Shell Oil is preparing to do just that. Right now their drilling rig is getting towed up the Pacific Coast to the Arctic. Let's show Shell we are serious. Vow to cut up your Shell Oil credit card if it does not cease its destructive plan to drill in the Arctic.