Seigneurie, a subsidiary of PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-headquartered company is manufacturing paint in Cameroon that they know contains unsafe lead limits. According to a paint sample study done in Cameroon last year, nine of 24 Seigneurie paints bought in stores contained lead concentrations of more than 300 parts per million and eight of those had lead concentrations above 1,800 parts per million. One Seigneurie paint, for metal application, contained 500,000 parts per million of lead, or half its volume, according to the paint survey by CREPD, a Cameroon-based nonprofit. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml#ixzz1lekfAgjr

The Koch Brothers are oil baron billionaires who have committed millions of dollars to fund climate denial propaganda groups & extreme right wing candidates who push for environmental deregulation. All in the name of making more money at the expense of our environment! We're sending them a message to stop poisoning our air, our water and our political process and until they do we are boycotting their products indefinitely.

President Obama, should provide real assistance to lower working middle class to refinance/modify their loans. The lower middle class - people who work and gross 69,000 and net 35,000 a year- who do not qualify for anything- ie food stamps and fuel assistance-b/c they work and earn 150.00 over the federal guidelines. The lower middle class are caught in this vicisious cycle. Stop this madness-help the lower working middle class

It has been reported in the Mount Vernon Patch that Safeway plans to tear down the 19,947-square-foot store at Fort Hunt Road and build a new 51,000-square-foot store with underground parking and outdoor seating available.

Monsanto is the largest Agricultural Corporation in the US. They have a monopoly on over 90% of our vegetable seeds. Obama has appointed an ex VP of Monsanto to serve as senior advisor for the FDA. Such a decision will allow even more dangers into our food industry, such as GMO's. we're asking President Obama to reverse his decision for the safety of American Consumers.

SC has cut more from education (24.1%) than any other state. Now we are running a budget surplus of almost a billion dollars. For the last four years, teachers have not been paid the salaries they were promised when they accepted their positions. Gov. Haley wants to cut education by $80 million, leave salaries frozen, and use $62 million of the surplus for a corporate tax cut. SC House of Reps has agreed to leave us two years behind on our salary schedules. Meanwhile, we'll pay 4.6% more for health premiums, and lose 1% of salary to correct decades of pension mismanagement. Tell the Legislature to do more to honor SC's commitment to its teachers. Also contact them directly at scstatehouse.gov. Be sure to contact both House and Senate. For more tools and resources, contact [email protected]

It’s healthy! It’s hydrating! It gives a natural sugar rush in the afternoon and prevents binging on cookies! It provides daily doses of Vitamin C (both OJ and Apple juice give 100%) keeping ClimateWorkers (and maybe even CPI-ers) happy and healthy. Save the juice! Don't let the Big-Soda lobby have their way with us!

Unlike transit systems such as New York's or Chicago's, Atlanta's MARTA system can be unreliable and mostly limits its service to Fulton and DeKalb counties. In addition, MARTA has to keep raising its fares to stay in business. This could smear Atlanta's reputation as one of the top cities to live.

The decision to place any corporate executive into a cabinet position is a poor one, but the idea of allowing a Monsanto employee, former or current to sit in leadership of the Department of Agriculture's FDA is tantamount to not only letting the fox guard the henhouse but actually frying the chickens and hand-feeding them to Renard with a silver spoon!

Cut FDA ties to Monsanto

Four years ago, we rallied around the idea of real change for America. A lot of people were bright eyed and hopeful. What Obama delivered was more of the same, showing us that, democrat or republican, politicians work for corporations. Now as the 2012 election gears up, we have a chance to take our candidate back. Join me in demanding Barack Obama to stand with the people, give back his corporate interest money and not take a single penny more that doesn't come from the people. We need a conduit for the people. With this petition, the message is clear. If he will not give us the change we need, he will not have our support. Obama already has gotten the majority of his funding from the people. All we are asking is for him to make a stand for the people and cut out the special interests. Imagine how many more people would support him if he made a stand like that? Look at his top contributors here: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00009638

PPG Industries has been selling house paint high in lead content in the African nation of Cameroon for years, and although it says it stopped production of that paint late last year, it has rejected a request that it recall or accurately label its lead paints now selling in stores there. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm#ixzz1ldJDcWdU http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm