Alabama's public schools are poised to lose funding for teachers, librarians, extended day programs, and other popular programs because of potential budget cuts from the Education Trust Fund. Governor Robert Bentley has a chance to reverse these cuts in his upcoming budget. We're calling on him to stand for students, and education and stop the terrible funding cuts to our public schools.

For far too long, Kansans have not been able to organize and really obtain living wages. Rules need to be changed ( no more of this fantasy RIGHT-TO-WORK state nonsense when there are no jobs and not enough being paid.) Practices in the state need to expand wealth, savings, jobs and investment in future and present needs--health care, environment, alternative energy, education, social services.

The new leadership in the NC General Assembly is pushing legislation to make voting harder for working people, senior citizens, people of color, and students. They want to shorten Early Voting, end Same-Day Registration during Early Voting, and require registered voters to show a government photo ID when they vote. Safeguards against voter impersonation are working - we don't need to suppress voter turnout in NC.

Countless rappers across the country have talent but always lack a certain trait. Whether it's stage presence, Humbleness, the right voice, or the right lyrics. Lucky for you C*star a native Allentown PA Rap Artist has all that and much more. Experience on stages big and small has molded him into a much bigger diverse artist. So get C*star on the radio, in your college, and in your town! sign the petition!

H.R. 347 was recently passed by both houses making it a federal offense to "disrupt" an event where a person covered by the secret service is in attendance. This disruption doesn't even have to be located on the actual property, the amendment extends the reach to "or within such proximity to." It extends the scope of situations where our rights to peaceful assembly are already restricted, "is or will be temporarily visiting." We want our freedom of speech! We want our right to peaceably assemble! Don't let our government take those rights away from us. Ask your president to veto H.R. 347. You can read the bill yourself here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr347enr.pdf Here is the amendment: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347rh/pdf/BILLS-112hr347rh.pdf And the amended amendment: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20120227/BILLS-112hr347-SUS.pdf

When a person is charged with criminal acts against a child, and the State has the evidence to convict if it goes to trial. and the accused perputrator takes the plea bargain....that perputrator should not ever be allowed to plea under the Alford Plea, either they did it or the didn"t....no in betweens, when it involved a child. People in positions of trust even more so. When they plea under the Alford, it is like violating the child all over again. Be the first State to stop this violation against children.....Leave no child behind. My child, Kelly Rae Sowell got left behind........more than once by the system, by the Alford Plea...Kelly's Law.....NO Alford Plea when it involves a child.

During the Minner administration, sweetheart land deals between the DE Dept. of Transportation and select businessman occurred behind closed doors. Recently,Smyrna decided to stop the web broadcast of city government meetings. The University of Delaware does not allow the public at its upper level decision making meetings. More transparency is needed in state and local government and public organizations which receive state funds.

Stop the pending agreement between Virginia and The Department of Justice. Governor McDonnell has over reached in his move to virtually close all institutional facilities and to privatize the care of the most profoundly intellectually and physically disabled.

Hadi Alshammaa, a 16 year old US citizen was abducted by Syrian Intelligence on February 27, 2012 and we have not heard from him since. We are requesting everyone's support to get this information out there so that we can ensure his safe return.

Chellie Pingree is the leader Maine needs in the U.S. Senate. For years, Chellie has been a champion for Maine values in the U.S. Congress. She's a leader on health care for all, clean energy, local farming, jobs, and making the economy more fair for all. With the sudden retirement of Olympia Snowe, Maine needs Chellie's leadership now more than ever.

The Portsmouth School Board is poised to name the football field at the original site of Manor High School. The Board has the potential to name individual sporting areas and the entire complex rather than asking several groups to unnecessarily battle over one name for the football field. I am calling on all citizens affiliated with Portsmouth Public Schools to support this effort that will recognize Portsmouth's past, present and future without pitting its citizens against one another.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a recently exposed hidden instrument of the largest corporations in America, used to craft state legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. The people want our laws to be written by those we have elected to serve the needs of the people, not the corporations. www.alecexposed.org