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This is a petition from Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Later this month, the Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations for recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border and admittance as the 194th member of the UN. For over 60 years the Palestinians have lived as exiles or under a brutal occupation, with their land in the West Bank increasingly settled by Jews from Israel and other countries and their homes and olive trees often bulldozed. Israel’s callous blockade has created inhumane conditions for the people of Gaza. Virtually all nations other than Israel regard the Israeli settlements and these behaviors as illegal under international law. As PA president Mahmoud Abbas has made clear, the Palestinians are seeking UN admission to help them “secure the right to live free in the remaining 22 percent of our historic homeland because we have been negotiating with the State of Israel for 20 years without coming any closer to realizing a state of our own.” This Palestinian UN effort in no way threatens the existence or welfare of the State of Israel. The PLO and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have long accepted the state of Israel, and Hamas has on a number of occasions openly declared its willingness to abide by any agreement between the PA and Israel that is approved by the Palestinian people in an open and free referendum. I am urging you to support this Palestinian request for statehood recognition. Israel itself in 1948 unilaterally declared its statehood and received UN membership. What they could do then, the Palestinians should be entitled to do today. It is fair. It is time.

Lubbock is poised to become the largest city in the United States without a health dept. Mayor Martin and others in the city government want to close the Health Dept and fragment services. We are asking the citizens of Lubbock to stand up for keeping this essential service that protects the public health and safety.

Since Americans have already tightened our belts at home, it's time for Congress to do the same. The American people will have to sacrifice when services and programs are cut, and therefore Congress should also.

Allow everyone the opportunity to know who they really are by encouraging legislation toward mandatory DNA paternity testing. Millions of people suffer, most assuredly children born into obscure existences, because one parent balks about confirming family origin through DNA testing.

Members of the United States Congress are involved with budget issues. This involves balancing revenue and spending. Budget issues cannot always be addressed by simply cutting taxes and spending. From time to time it is necessary to raise taxes, for example, during times when we go to war. However, some members of Congress have taken oaths never to raise taxes. Their plan is to always look for spending cuts instead. There are times when it is necessary to raise taxes, for example, to make sure our country can protect ourselves, and to handle the costs of natural disasters. This oath has caused some members of Congress to not even consider reducing oil subsidies when some oil companies are making tens of billions of dollars of profit per quarter. Anyone who has taken an oath to never raise taxes, cannot effectively do their job. Therefore, anyone who has taken an oath to never raise taxes, should be disqualified from Congress. This would apply to both new and existing members.

In order for the Game of Darts to grow in the United States, it is obvious that communications need to improve. I think the best way to do this is to move and revamp the day to day operations of the ADO. Moving the office will reduce expenses and improve operations.

To start a movement of interest for bringing back basketball to Valencia Community College in Orlando, FL

The huge majority of individual workers must pay Social Security tax on all of their income, while the wealthiest wage earners pay Social Security tax on only a fraction of their income. Call on Congress and the President to require everybody, even the wealthy, to pay the same rate.

Eden Roc Subdivision of Mountain View, Hawaii is zoned agricultural land. It has become a highly residential zone with minimal agriculture going on due to heavy rain and lack of soil. Due to the zoning, there is a 70 decibel maximum level for noise, day and night. For day time this may be acceptable but the acceptable night time decibel levels need to be lowered. Everybody has a right to peace and quiet and a good nights sleep. When generators are ran all night long next door to you, not only can you not sleep but it is not an environmentally sound idea when there are other options available and more affordable. Why is this important to you? Because excessive noise is a serious hazard to human health and welfare and if you live on Agricultural Zoned land, you could be the next victim. Let's change this law before YOU have to lose sleep over it.

The Peace Pentagon is a proposed interfaith and social justice center to be built by The Oracle Institute (a 501(c)(3) educational charity) in Independence, Virginia. The Grayson County Board of Supervisors denied Oracle’s permit due to intense opposition from local Evangelical churches. If built, the Peace Pentagon will be first and only interfaith center in this rural Appalachian community, which currently supports only Christian churches. Oracle filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Grayson County with the aid of The Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville (trial is set for November 16, 2011).

The American Jobs Act proposed by President Obama is a step in the right direction to our country's economic recovery. No matter if you are Democrat or Republican, everyone benefits from a prosperous America! Signing this petition will send a message to State Legislators that we, the American people are tired of them not doing what we elected them to do. To work for us! Sign the petition and tell our legislators we want jobs now!