Mistreatment... forced labor unhumane treatment, Kidnapping murder, Rape,complete injustice! of people of color & Africans. this criminal grave acts went on for centuries, and continue to go on today in time. America has been found GUILTY ...THE TIME FOR JUSTICE IS NOW! WE ARE NOW COLLECTIVELY DEMANDING REPARATIONS!

Sign on to A Better Balance's Working Families' Bill of Rights and join us in drawing attention to the needs of working families in New York. With your support, we are calling for laws and workplace practices that help workers care for their families without risking their economic security.

If you have just earned your degree from a Florida University, good job! But on that otherwise pristine diploma there will be a smear of ink that reads, "Rick Scott Governor." Yes, the same governor who works constantly to remove student's rights to higher education, has had the bad taste to put his ugly signature on that beautiful degree! Do you really want him to defile the student's testaments to hard work, intelligence, and dedication?

Oregon's system of capital punishment is broken! We spend many millions pursuing death sentences, but only execute a few who surrender their appeals. We promise justice for victims, but then postpone it indefinitely. Our tax dollars, wasted on the death penalty, could go for schools or health care or effective crime-prevention programs. We call on Gov. Kitzhaber to suspend further executions and appoint a commission to recommend capital justice system reforms--reforms that will keep us safe, hold violent criminals accountable, make justice swift and affordable, and reflect the values of Oregonians.

The “Occupy” demonstrations are a rapidly growing movement with the shared goal of urging people to peacefully assemble and occupy public space in order to create a shared dialogue by which to address the problems and generate solutions for and economically distressed world. We (occupy movement) would greatly appreciate and benefit from a petition of support from the public

We ask that you allow Occupy Tampa their First Amendement Right to protest wherever and whenever they want rather than going by codes and permits. No police interference unless riots break out. We ask that the Tampa City Council and Mayor Bob Buckhorn support Occupy Tampa by giving them access to Kiley Gardens as a space to gather and assemble and promote public dialogue on issues that affect us all.

There are millions of homeowners who, while still employed and fullfilling the obligations of their mortgage commitments, cannot afford to sell their homes due to being "upside down" in their mortgages. They now owe more on their mortgage balance than what they can expect to sell their house for - due to no fault of their own, but caused by the downturn in the American housing market due to the recession. A program of government relief that would REQUIRE banks to "rightsize" these mortgages would allow these homeowners to sell these homes, and jumpstart needed movement in the U.S. housing market and create related job growth.

Recent school-based racial incidents demonstrate that our children’s school climate is not safe. Recent test scores demonstrate that, not only has there been no progress closing the racial academic achievement gap, the gap has widened.

North Carolina House Bill 577 would legalize and establish a licensing, taxing, and distribution regime.

We ask that you allow Occupy Tampa their First Amendement Right to protest wherever and whenever they want rather than going by codes and permits. No police interference unless riots break out. We ask that the Tampa City Council and Mayor Bob Buckhorn support Occupy Tampa by giving them access to Kiley Gardens as a space to gather and assemble and promote public dialogue on issues that affect us all.

The Supreme Court has made clear in such decisions as Citizens United and Buckley v Valeo that the First Amendment to the Constitution prevents Congress from restricting the rights of individuals and organizations, including corporations, to finance political campaigns and issue advocacy. Therefore the only way to eliminate the influence of money on American politics is to pass a new amendment to the Constitution.

New York's chief judge Jonathan Lippman is planning to propose that 16- and 17-year-olds be tried in family courts. There, their records will be sealed and their chances of being arrested again will decrease. Sign this position to support the change of the age of criminal responsibility in New York from 16 to 18. New York State is one of only two states in the country in which 16-year-olds are tried as adults. The other is North Carolina, and this year lawmakers there have proposed legislation to move these cases to juvenile courts. In eleven states, the age of criminal responsibility begins at 17. In the 37 remaining states (and the District of Columbia), the age is 18. Most recent scientific studies support the trial of those under-18 as juveniles, not adults. They have confirmed that the human brain continues to develop into an individual's twenties, and that the frontal lobe remains undeveloped in teenagers, making them less capable of making reasoned decisions, resisting peer pressure, and controlling impulses than adults. Each year, around 45-50,000 16- and 17-year-olds are tried as adults in New York, with the vast majority of them having committed nonviolent crimes. However, this leads to more recidivism, as adolescents tried as adults are more likely to commit crimes in the future. The New York State law was established in 1962, when lawmakers passed the Family Court Act. The age was set at 16 as a temporary measure, to be reviewed after research and public hearings were conducted. But it never was, and the issue has never been revisited.