HB 2036 bans abortions after 20 weeks, well actually 18 weeks becuase the bill states that the gestational age of the fetus should be "calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman" (2 weeks before the egg and sperm actually meet up). Additionally, under this law, if a doctor performs an abortion after that 18-weeks, he or she can be charged with a crime, have his or her license revoked or suspended, and can be held liable for civil penalties if the father of the fetus decides to pursue legal action. The bill also requires a mandatory ultrasound for anyone seeking an abortion at any stage of pregnancy (hello, transvaginal probes) and mandates that a doctor offer to show a pregnant woman the ultrasound, describe it to her verbally and provide her with a photo of "the unborn child." It would also require a woman to wait 24 hours after the ultrasound before she can obtain an abortion. This bill has already passed the Arizona Senate. We need to let the Arizona House and Gov. Jan Brewer know that the people oppose this bill.

The end of seniority based layoffs; let teacher evaluations determine.

Let's leave religion and politics as separate issues. We do NOT all have the same religious beliefs. Leave planned parenthood alone. Women should be able to seek health care where they want. If it is a Catholic hospital then they should have the right not to be forced to do things that violate their beliefs. We will remember

Governor "Bobby" Jindal has a long history of draconian, heartless cuts to funding to education & social services as DHH Sectetary & now as Governor, while dogmatically rejecting means of increasing revenue for the state budget, e.g. increase in cigarette tax, as well as rejecting federal funds for unemployment compensation. He is an embarrassment to the thinking people of the state of Louisiana. Demand rational fiscal responsibility and and an end to politically motivated, self-serving budget cuts to much needed services & the subsequent lay off of social services staff & educators.

In 1995, Dustin Turner and Billy Joe Brown were in the final weeks of 15 months of training to become U.S. Navy SEALs. Handsome and athletic, Turner and Brown were paired first as “swim buddies” (a SEAL term), later as roommates and best friends. At 20-years-old, Turner was a blond-haired, blue-eyed former high school swimmer from Bloomington, IN, widely regarded as a polite, popular kid. Brown, then 23, was a former Coast Guard drop-out from Huber Heights, OH, who had been raised in a broken home and at times seemed aloof and distant from his SEAL teammates. Jennifer Evans was a petite, sweet-natured 21-year-old from Tucker, GA, the only child of Al and Delores Evans. She was a gifted student at Emory University in Atlanta approaching graduation, and was in Virginia Beach for summer vacation. On the evening of June 18, 1995, Jennifer Evans was with her girlfriends at a popular Virginia Beach bar when she met Dustin Turner. She was seen holding hands with Turner at 1 a.m., and had arranged to meet her friends one hour later in the bar’s parking lot. When her friends returned at 2 a.m., both Evans and Turner were gone. Her girlfriends searched the parking lot, rattled by their friend’s uncharacteristic disappearance. In the span of one hour, a harmless evening out had become a living nightmare. An intense missing person investigation was launched as Virginia Beach police scoured streets, homes, beaches and bars, seeking leads. A missing tourist in a community driven by hospitality increased the stakes; reputation and commerce were potentially on the line. Turner and Brown were interrogated separately but police lacked solid evidence linking them to Evans, until increased pressure led Turner to crack, giving police the confession they were seeking. According to Turner, he, Brown and Evans sat in his car waiting for Evans’ friends to return. Brown, who was extremely drunk, suddenly attacked Evans from the back seat in an inexplicable rage. Turner claimed he panicked and drove away. He eventually led police to Evans’ abandoned body, half-buried in the woods and badly decomposed from eight days in the humid Virginia weather. Turner was released; Brown was arrested. When confronted with Turner’s version of events, Brown angrily countered and gave police a confession that put the blame on Turner as the perpetrator. Turner was quickly arrested. Now police had two alleged killers, once loyal friends, each man claiming he had merely assisted in disposing of the body and concealing the crime. Virginia Beach police charged Billy Joe Brown and Dustin Turner for the abduction and felony murder of Jennifer Evans. They alleged that Brown and Turner had acted in a “concert of action” to commit the crime, and which man actually murdered Evans was irrelevant under Virginia law. They portrayed the SEAL trainees as sexual predators in search of a target, and alleged the crime occurred when Evans did not cooperate. Despite intense local media coverage and community outrage over the Evans murder, defense attorneys for both Brown and Turner were unable to move their trials to an alternate jurisdiction. Brown was tried first, and he maintained he did not murder Evans. He now claimed, “she was dead when I got to the car,” and that all he had done was protect his swim buddy Turner, whom he “loved like a brother.” Brown was convicted and sentenced to 72 years in prison. In a separate, televised trial, Turner faced the daunting task of proving his innocence after his co-defendant had been found guilty. Jurors did not believe his version of events, and three months later, Turner was convicted and sentenced to 82 years in prison. In May 2002, Brown made an audiotape confession and signed an affidavit stating that he alone had killed Jennifer Evans in a drunken rage after he had entered the car, where Turner and Evans sat. Rebuffed after a sexual advance, Brown reacted by snapping Evans neck from the backseat. Shockingly, he also revealed that he had attempted to sexually assault her corpse, before Turner stopped him. David Hargett, Turner’s attorney, spent the next six years trying to enter Brown’s confession into evidence and overturn Turner’s conviction. In May 2008, Turner was granted an evidentiary hearing by the Commonwealth of Virginia to evaluate Brown’s credibility. Brown took the stand, explained his lifelong issues with anger and lack of conscience, and exonerated Dustin Turner of everything but hiding the crime. In a landmark ruling in August 2009, the Virginia State Court of Appeals 3-judge panel overturned Dustin Turner’s murder conviction, making him the first convicted killer to be declared innocent without DNA evidence. However, the Commonwealth of Virginia State Attorney General’s office quickly filed an appeal to keep Turner incarcerated. The “en banc” Court of Appeals on which the former prosecutor of this case, Robert Humphries, now sits, ruled that the panel was wrong and that a jury could have still found Turner guilty even with Brown’s credible confession to committing the murder without Turner’s acting in concert. The case went to the Supreme Court of Virginia, however they denied him and did not honor the Writ of Actual Innocence. It is an outrageous attempt to maintain a monstrous miscarriage of justice against a brave and dedicated young man that was willing to give his life in defense of his country in the most dangerous and elite fighting force in the world. When faced with exposing his friend and swim buddy to criminal charges for what he perceived as drunken act of rage, he panicked and hid the crime for 8 days. When police explained to him that Evans family needed to know where she was, he took police to the body without consulting a lawyer. For this he is spending 82 years in prison without the possibility of parole. Why? Because the Commonwealth of Virginia does not want to admit that they made a mistake. Please sign our petition to let the Commonwealth of Virgi...

Contact: Governor Chris Gregoire Phone: 360-902-4111 | FAX: 360-753-4110 During the early morning of March, 2009 at Charlie's Bar &Grill in Olympia, Washington. 20-year old Alfred Joseph Sanchez Jr. was in the wrong place at the wrong time. With 37 reasons to doubt that he was not guilty. Video tapes that had shown a cellphone in his hand. Judge Christine Pomeroy throughout all credible evidence that would clearly show he was innocent and sentenced him to 10-years for aggravated assault in December,2011. Judge Pomeroy has now retired and 22-year old Army Ranger Joseph Alfred Sanchez Jr. is now behind bars for a crime he did not commit. For more information you may read this link. http://aevans.hubpages.com/hub/Wrongfully-Accused-Alfred-Joseph-Sanchez-Jr Please help us petition the courts to free an innocent young man who served our Country. 10-years is a long time for a crime he did not commit.

Nebraska is very fortunate to have a pristine environment, without huge scars from industrial development and building. Please let's keep it this way, without chance of oil spills or leakage and the damage to our environment and our health.

Petition to Stop the Heinous, Egregious Practices of Corrections Corporation of America State sponsored capitalism is fascism. Like the relationship, if you will, between governor Jan Brewer of Arizona and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Brewer's recent signing of Senate Bill1070 is and example of racist, classist, fascist immigration legislation passed in xenophobic, corrupt Arizona,. It's an example of closed door corporate kickback, pork barrel public betrayal, i.e. big money shaping constitutional heresy; fascism that favors corporate oligarchy and weakens ordinary citizens in a counterrevolutionary undermining of the democratic foundations of 1776. This petition asks you to confront and stop three abuses: 1) Fascist legislation like Arizona's SB 1070 2) Corporate prisons (including immigrant prisons) which leave devastated lives 3) Stop building the Corrections Corporation Prison in south San Diego County (Otay Mesa) immediately. Why not a hospital/school/college for immigrants and homeless people on the same 400 acre site instead of a prison where human beings are a commodity.Petition to Stop the Heinous, Egregious Practices of Corrections Corporation of America State sponsored capitalism is fascism. Like the relationship, if you will, between governor Jan Brewer of Arizona and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Brewer's recent signing of Senate Bill1070 is and example of racist, classist, fascist immigration legislation passed in xenophobic, corrupt Arizona,. It's an example of closed door corporate kickback, pork barrel public betrayal, i.e. big money shaping constitutional heresy; fascism that favors corporate oligarchy and weakens ordinary citizens in a counterrevolutionary undermining of the democratic foundations of 1776. This petition asks you to confront and stop three abuses: 1) Fascist legislation like Arizona's SB 1070 2) Corporate prisons (including immigrant prisons) which leave devastated lives 3) Stop building the Corrections Corporation Prison in south San Diego County (Otay Mesa) immediately. Why not a hospital/school/college for immigrants and homeless people on the same 400 acre site instead of a prison where human beings are a commodity.Petition to Stop the Heinous, Egregious Practices of Corrections Corporation of America State sponsored capitalism is fascism. Like the relationship, if you will, between governor Jan Brewer of Arizona and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Brewer's recent signing of Senate Bill1070 is and example of racist, classist, fascist immigration legislation passed in xenophobic, corrupt Arizona,. It's an example of closed door corporate kickback, pork barrel public betrayal, i.e. big money shaping constitutional heresy; fascism that favors corporate oligarchy and weakens ordinary citizens in a counterrevolutionary undermining of the democratic foundations of 1776. This petition asks you to confront and stop three abuses: 1) Fascist legislation like Arizona's SB 1070 2) Corporate prisons (including immigrant prisons) which leave devastated lives 3) Stop building the Corrections Corporation Prison in south San Diego County (Otay Mesa) immediately. Why not a hospital/school/college for immigrants and homeless people on the same 400 acre site instead of a prison where human beings are a commodity.

FAU is cutting our core required classes to graduate and blaming it on the Legislative budget cuts. We have tried communicating with President Saunders, Provost Claiborne, and Dean Carter and they have all dismissed our opinons. It is time to become organized and collaborate to save our futures and be able to graduate.

We believe that yellow is the wrong color for Bret and we humbly request that Hill Solomon sign legislation preventing Bret from wearing yellow shirts in the office.

This petition is to ensure that gov deal and all of our congressmen keep their hands off of our hope scholarship. Without college education our children do not have a chance in the future. College is not and should not only be for the wealthy. Keep your paws off of our scholarship program!

When, Sandra Fluke, Georgetown University law student, advocated for full medical coverage, including contraception, the exercise of her rights enraged Rush Limbaugh to the point where he called her names, misrepresented what she said and asked her to make sex tapes for him. Given Mr. Limbaugh's behavior, we ask that you remove his show from the air so that he can no longer spread the contagion of cruelty and anger toward those with whom he disagrees. Do not facilitate the spread of more hate from your radio station.