TD Bank has been in the Bay Area for years. They have supported local nonprofit organizations with help in collecting donations for our neighborhood children and more. The residence has a place to deposit their incomes directly. Major banks have been closing in our local areas and have left an empty building in its place. We need to continue to support one another by keeping local businesses open in the neighborhood.

Cause everything cps has on me an my husband are lies I have all ways taken care of my kids they always have had a place to live clothes on their backs food in their tummy's they all ways went to the doctors no mater what rather it was their doctor or the emergency room they all ways went to school I always made sure they took showers an baths CPS is saying I'm not mentally able to take care of my kids but how did they survive before cps stepped in I feel my kids are being abused in their foster home it has been reported before but nothing was done AN THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS WE LOVE OUR KIDS AN MISS OUR KIDS SO MUCH.....

At some companies, it would take the median worker 1,000 years to earn what the CEO makes in just 1 year. Out-of-control CEO pay while workers fight to survive shouldn’t be the norm. Worker wages have largely stagnated since the 1970s, while the top 1 percent have more than doubled their share of the nation’s income. Corporate and banking executives make up about 2/3 of America’s top 1% households. The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, introduced by Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Barbara Lee, and Senator Bernie Sanders, would raise the corporate tax rate for any companies that pay their executive 50 times more than their typical workers. The bill begins with a 0.5 percent tax. The worst offending companies that pay their CEO more than 500 times their median worker would be taxed 5 percent. Last year, the median Walmart employee made just under $22,000. Meanwhile, CEO Doug McMillon made $23.6 million. Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson brought home $13.38 million-- 1,049 times the median worker at the company. It’s time companies shared the wealth with workers, not just CEOs. The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act will incentivize living wages. Sign the petition to Congress: it’s time to Tax CEO Pay.

Over the last few months, we've seen a worrying increase in the amount of violent crime in Albany Park, Avondale, Irving Park and other communities. This petition is supported by the following community leaders, and organizations: - Jaime Andrade, 40th District State Representative - Avondale Triangle Community Group - Horner Park Neighbors - TRIP - The Residents of Irving Park This list will be updated as more people sign-on. For more information please visit us at Facebook.com/SafetyFor17

Residents near ethylene oxide facilities have cancer, autoimmune disorders, and other health problems caused by ethylene oxide. We demand an end to the release of this toxic chemical, which no person or company has the right to release into our air. En Español ¿Porque es esto importante? Los residentes cerca de las instalaciones de óxido de etileno tienen cáncer, trastornos autoinmunes y otros problemas de salud causados por el óxido de etileno. Exigimos el fin de la liberación de este químico tóxico, que ninguna persona o compañía tiene derecho a liberar en nuestro aire.

I've seen families forced to move because someone has bought their property and increased rent prices that the tenant couldn't pay. I've seen so many become homeless due to a lack of affordable housing available to families. We ask that our city, state, and federal leaders act swiftly on this issue at hand. If we don't act swiftly, more families and more kids will be forced to be homeless.

We demand the Milwaukee Midtown Starbucks location be reopened. Starbucks management says that they closed it permanently due to robberies; however, they could have invested in security to keep it open. This was one of the best-performing locations in town and in a mixed urban area that is becoming increasingly populated with check-cashing stores and fast-food restaurants and subsequently bereft of quality places for the community to gather and patronize. MANY people in the surrounding neighborhoods are very upset and disappointed that this location has been closed. It truly is a loss to the community. Starbucks, call and do the right thing. Reopen Midtown and bring in security!

Parents demand immediate action to remove FLAVORed e-cigarets. Our children are not guinea pigs. We can not let them be the first generation who will suffer lifelong diseases related to vaping. We are the only one who can help them today to protect them from child targeting marketing including chocolate milk flavors with the same amount of nicotine in one package as is in a pack of cigarettes. Loudoun county community is known for its clean air, strong middle-class families and health-oriented lifestyle. “Seven states in America have gone all-in on e-cigarette bans. Massachusetts outdid earlier vape bans in New York and Michigan by banning the sale of all vape products—not just flavored ones. States from Rhode Island to Montana to Oregon are enacting their own bans as more consider similar regulation.” Let’s join this movement.

At a time when Donald Trump is rolling back protections against sex discrimination, the need for the Equal Rights Amendment is more important than ever. Thanks to recent elections, it could finally happen. For the last forty years the Equal Rights Amendment, outlawing discrimination on the basis of sex, has been stalled just short of the 38 states needed to be ratified as part of the Constitution. There's just one more state needed, and Virginia's new majority has vowed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment when they take office in early 2020. Congress just took a big step to help. The House Judiciary Committee just voted to repeal an old law that had required the ERA to be ratified by 1982. That law may not be enforceable. But Congress should repeal it anyway. Can you help add public pressure to ensure the full Congress helps finally get the ERA ratified?

Congress is on the verge of cutting a terrible deal with Donald Trump to renew NAFTA — and give Big Pharma even more power to gouge you. Big Pharma rigged NAFTA 2.0 with provisions that would give them a stunning new monopoly on drugs that treat life-threatening diseases such as cancer. We all know what this means: years of even more sky-high prices for essential drugs. Americans are mobilizing to stop this terrible deal, and we don't have a lot of time. Reports from Capitol Hill are that a deal is "imminent." That's why we're asking you to speak up right now.

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This bill means that any future Presidential administration will be hamstrung by budget cuts that automatically target social services. It's an attempt to stop progressive legislation like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All from passing by holding people's lives hostage, and it's despicable. The bill just moved out of committee, and has the support of five DINO members of the Senate Democratic Caucus.