• Governmental Benefits
    To eliminate excessive benefits of Congress & Senate written & voted on by themselves. To cut the cost of government operation , & to keep their benefits in-align with average benefits of the working people. 100% Elimination of life time pensions, (they may pay into a 401 type plan if they choose) Medical health & Insurance to be given only well they are actively in a public held position. & possible addition of co-pays.
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    Created by Ken Briggs
  • Special Interest Lobbying payoffs-bribes
    Purpose: To criminalize the payout & receiving of any monies, gratuities or any benefits by all members of Government & corporations. To make it a felony with immediate removal from public office & mandatory imprisonment Help stop the special interest of corporations & others in getting around laws & stop them from changing the laws for their interest. & most of all to keep our politicians honest!
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    Created by Ken Briggs
  • Genetic Engineering - containment of
    Genetically altered plants & seeds have crossed into the natural environment crossing with & disseminating natural crops. Killing off natural species & many varieties of them, yet when these plants are found on a farmers land government has sided with the genetic patent holders & will destroy his crops or fine him into bankruptcy. Genetically altered plants should only be allowed to be grown in contained areas.
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    Created by Ken Briggs
  • Boycott the Republican Party
    Let's see how compelling their message is without the money that backs them.
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    Created by Hunter John
  • I WANT MY JEM-TV!!
    This is a petition to get JEM to be aired on The Hub Network 5 days a week at a reasonable time during the day or evening and not at a time where most of the world is sleeping!!!
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    Created by Gina
  • College student discount fare on B.A.R.T. (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
    Vote yes for discounted tickets for college students to ride to and from school on B.A.R.T. College students are a part of the community that deserves it, they are the core of the community, and our future. Don't kick students while their down and make them pay high tuition and book fees and now full price transportation. They are already in debt. Students don't have money because they don't have a job yet. That is why they are still in school, they are trying to better themselves by going to college. They are doing the right thing, they are staying out of trouble and hopefully give back to the community after they graduate. Possibly buy a discount fare to clipper card at the colleges themselves to verify school status. Lets all work together.
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    Created by Jeremiah Pinguelo
  • SCHOOL ZONES
    Cities of Albany and El Cerrito do not have school zones in their municipal codes, so there is currently a huge lack of funding, safety and attention to the schools and their community... School zones are here to ensure the safety of our kids while walking or biking to and from school. School Zones help build a healthier community by encouraging families to bike or walk safely to and from school using suggested "Safe Routes To School" using Crossing Guards and "Complete Sidewalks" During School hours speed limit 15 MPH because we are trying to make it safer, any speed faster would be too fast to slow or stop resulting in running over your kid. Speed bumps on School streets. Double fine in school zones helps raise $ for the city and makes it safer for our kids crossing the street, cost mutual solution. High visibility school signs are a very efficient way to spend money. School zones will be funded by the state as soon as School Zones" are put in the city "municipal code book" school zones will create jobs by funding the hiring of many "crossing guards" and hundreds of thousands of dollars for high visible signs. School zones also makes guns drugs and tobacco illegal on school property oup to 1000 feet away. all this is here to protect our kids & our future, safer routes to school, slower traffic around schools, allows proper street signs for school to be put in place, for high visibility crosswalks and bike lanes. I wrote a letter to Jerry Brown last year and he wrote back and said there is money waiting for the city if they add the school zone in their code book, and this is probably something that was just overlooked not realizing they don't exist in the code book. the city hall told me they don't have money to put up signs or to hire additional crossing guards, I shared with them that if they add them the state will fund all of that.. the city is missing out and also new this year the "Pedestrian Safety Act California" came out and I am probably the most excited person on the planet right now. soon it will be safer for all pedestrians to feel safe crossing the street, because not one crosswalk is any more important than another! It also creates a better local economy if more people feel safer to walk around the city to eat or shop, which in turn creates a healthier, and greener community by walking or biking instead of driving. I am a male with no kids in the school system, so I am not a powerful voice at the city hall, need all your help to make this possible.
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    Created by Jeremiah Pinguelo
  • Autism Education Reform
    Update the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) as it pertains to Autism spectrum disorder today.
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    Created by Karla Anderson
  • Students in Opposition of Florida Atlantic University Course Cuts
    Due to recent financial cuts, the university has decided to cut courses immediately, starting this SUMMER. The university has cut all graduate level courses with enrollments of less than eleven students, last summer. A similar decision has been made for undergraduate level courses with enrollments of less than twenty-four students. Some of these courses are apart of critical shortage areas within education. Some are only offered one semester a year. Cutting these classes will prevent many students from graduating on time or at all. We are simply asking the university to reconsider their decision and implement cuts only after listening to suggestions from department leaders and identifying each departments specific needs. Students please sign and explain your specific situation. If you have any suggestions to assist the university with solving this problem please comment as well.
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    Created by Monique Paramore
  • Save Detroit Day School for the Deaf
    Saved from closure for good cause by Emergency Financial Manager, Robert Bobb, DDSD is now slated for closure by new EFM, Roy Roberts. His plan calls for removing the deaf and hard of hearing students from the school built with federal, state and local funds specifically to provide full ADA accommodations and enhanced learning environment to meet their unique language and communication needs, so the building can be "repurposed" as administrators see fit. Students will be scattered to other schools that cannot provide such an environment or the critical mass of same language peers recommended by current research and best practices in the field. DDSD needs to remain the anchor of placements for deaf children and parents need to be allowed to choose it as an option. (http://detroitdayschoolforthedeaf.com)
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    Created by Margaret A. Collrin
  • Mayor Vincent Gray: Don't sacrifice Brahms and Beyonce!
    D.C. can't rock without music education in public schools. Tell Mayor Vincent Gray to stop cutting music program funding in our city schools.
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    Created by Nicole
  • Chicago: World Class Democracy
    We are asking Mayor Emanuel to respect the rights of protesters to the freedom of peaceful assembly. Interference with peaceful protests in cities across America has been well documented over the past year. We request that the guidelines recommended by UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur, Mr. Maina Kiai, be followed in Chicago. 1Press release concerning new laws to interfere with protests in Geneva, Switzerland (3/9/12): http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11931&LangID=E 2SR Kiai report on his visit to the Republic of Georgia & protest observations (2/13/12): http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11816&LangID=E 3SR Kiai press release expressing concern over new laws in Malaysia (12/7/11): http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40647&Cr=peaceful%20assembly&Cr1= 4Country visits: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/AssemblyAssociation/Pages/CountryVisits.aspx 5Mr. Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, [email protected]
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    Created by Nancy Wade