• Resignation of Elnardo Webster,General Counsel of Newark Watershed (NWCDC)
    "NEWARK, NJ Elnardo Webster has stated that he will petition the courts to cease an investigation in to the Newark Watershed, using tax payors monies. We are asking you to sign this petition, for our voices will not be silenced by our dollars. Overspending and Underaccountabilty has to stop!"
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    Created by NJmonitors
  • CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE
    Corporations are melting our democracy faster than Global Warming is melting the remainder of ice in this world! Its time to take the power away from the corporations!
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    Created by Marie Linder
  • Community Service and Public Housing
    I am being evicted from public housing because my son and daughter have not completed their community service. I pay $968 a month for rent and I'm being evicted. I have no extra money to move right now. I live from pay check to pay check. Don't get me wrong I am furious with my son for not completing it and I already forwarned him he would have to move if it comes to me being evicted. So he will be moving to Alabama with his dad. My daughter did make up most of her hours last year and then misplaced her paperwork. I can't put her out because she has a 2 yr old. I can't believe you can be put out for this. I rented this house not my kids and I pay my rent every month and their are a lot of problems with my house that have not been addressed but they get my rent every month.
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    Created by Linda Mayo
  • Community Service and Public Housing
    I am being evicted from public housing because my son and daughter have not completed their community service. I pay $968 a month for rent and I'm being evicted. I have no extra money to move right now. I live from pay check to pay check. Don't get me wrong I am furious with my son for not completing it and I already forwarned him he would have to move if it comes to me being evicted. So he will be moving to Alabama with his dad. My daughter did make up most of her hours last year and then misplaced her paperwork. I can't put her out because she has a 2 yr old. I can't believe you can be put out for this. I rented this house not my kids and I pay my rent every month and their are a lot of problems with my house that have not been addressed but they get my rent every month.
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    Created by Linda Mayo
  • Defend Climate Science Against Distortion
    Climate change has been described as a "critical concern" by Ronald Reagan, "destructive" by George Schultz, and "menacing" by Margaret Thatcher. John McCain has spoken of "all the endless trouble that global warming will bring," and warned that "time is short and the dangers are great." Yet Rush Limbaugh recklessly twists the truth and dismisses climate science as a leftist conspiracy. We owe it to all those who suffer the consequences now and in the future to condemn Mr. Limbaugh's distortions in the strongest possible terms.
    209 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Marc Anderson
  • Show Your Support for the Affordable Care Act!
    Counter the Republican petition to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Health care should not be a privilege but a right. Sign the petition to keep the GOP from taking that right away.
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    Created by Larry Adams
  • Save the US Postal Service
    The US Postal Service employs over a 500,000 Americans and has the ability to reach places that privatized companies can not. The United State's Constitution explicitly authorizes it's existence, yet Republican legislation from 2006 seeks to destroy this American institution. The Postal A&E Act requires the USPS to prefund 75-years' worth of future health care benefit payments to retirees. This Act is unconstitutional, in my opinion, and is a disgrace. Under these harsh regulations, no business can survive. The USPS has not received taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years, unlike the banking system. The USPS does not need our money, just our support.
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    Created by Anthony Dhandari
  • Stop Late Night Drilling!
    Loud drilling on the 2nd Ave subway is waking Upper East Side residents at all hours, including children and infants. This is happening around the 72nd and 96th street construction now, but will come to other areas soon. As long as the MTA is working "underground" it can drill 24 hours a day, no matter how loud or disruptive it is to residents. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. We have a right to the quiet enjoyment of our homes--a right to sleep. To PUT A STOP TO LATE NIGHT DRILLING we need to deliver a public outcry to the MTA, as well as our elected representatives, who have the power to make a difference. Action like this helped put a stop to late evening blasting and contain dust from blasting, so this can work. Even 50 signatures can have a big impact. If you want to go the extra mile, you can also contact one or more of your elected representatives directly: Council Members Jessica Lappin - District 5, Upper East Side [email protected] / (212) 980-1808 Dan Garodnick - District 4, Upper East Side [email protected] / (212) 818-0580 Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (212) 860-0606 / Use this link to email: http://1.usa.gov/zv3EeB NYS Assembly Members Dan Quart [email protected] / (212) 605-0937 Micah Kellner [email protected] / (212) 830-4906 State Senators Liz Krueger [email protected] / (212) 490-9535 Jose Serrano [email protected] / (212) 828-5829
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    Created by Mark Connelly
  • Drug testing for all elected officals.
    Kip Smith R of Georgia wants to drug test welfare recipients to receive benefits. Kip was just arrested for drunk driving. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/kip-smith-dui-arrest_n_1209365.html?ref=politics
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    Created by Roberta Diaz-Cobb
  • Hidden Agendas Hurt Average Americans
    Hidden agendas have caused aweful decisions to arise: the FDA approving GMO's as safe; SOPA being passed; congress deciding pizza is a "vegetable;" the supreme court deeming corporations as "individuals." We need to stop letting our politicians be bought, and instead let them work for PEOPLE'S rights, not corporate interests.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Krystian Bender
  • No Whittier 4th K Classroom
    This petition seeks to stop Seattle Public Schools from "repurposing" existing space at Whittier Elementary into a 4th Kindergarten Classroom. Whittier does not have room to accommodate another classroom through the grades.
    191 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Marrianne Holec
  • Apple Inc.: USE FAIR LABOR PRACTICES
    We are Apple consumers (and shareholders), some fairly loyal, some prospective buyers. iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. have captured our imaginations, and the general feel of Apple products has inspired us to think Apple is a special company that cares about people. Though, we are appalled and disturbed by the fact that these products are being manufactured, in some part, by children working 16-hour days, by workers living in factory farm or prison-like dormitories, working inhumanely long hours, under immense pressure to produce, being injured without medical attention, then fired. Meanwhile, Apple makes record profits and shareholders enjoy the freedom to not work at all if they so choose. As Apple consumers, we believe Apple Inc. must take responsibility for reforming its labor practices, committing to transparent and fair labor standards; standards acceptable within the borders of the United States. We enjoy Apple's technology, but if we don't see real, tangible, evident reform and transparency on the part of Apple Inc., each of us will have to decide whether Apple is a company we want to support at all - especially when its products are already more expensive than competing products, which grow more competitive and attractive each day. *Note that Tim Cook, whose net worth is estimated at $400 million, new CEO of Apple, recently received a $376 million signing bonus - just to accept the position.
    137 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Aaron Nichols