There is a cancer growing on the students of America. This cancer is so malicious and resolute that it keeps millions of Americans impoverished for the rest of their lives. The cancer, of which we speak, is the aggressive collection practices used by student loan lenders (mostly the US Department of Education) against borrowers incapable of repaying their loans.

Republicans and members of the Tea Party are determined to destroy this nation and blaming it on President Obama. We have not recovered from the policies of President Bush and the attacks we are taking from these conservatives should be considered nothing less than Home-Grown Terrorism! We are calling on President Obama to be diligent in protecting us from these Republican Tea Party attacks.

WE ARE ALL TIRED OF THE GRIDLOCK IN WASHINGTON AND ATTEMPTS TO BALANCE OUR BUDGET ON THE BACKS OF OUR ELDERLY, DISABLED AND POOR. WE HAVE BEEN AT THE BRINK OF DISASTER AS WE WERE HELD HOSTAGE BY THOSE WHO FEEL THE BURDEN SHOULD NOT BE SHARED BY ALL AMERICANS. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE SENT THEIR MOST CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS TO THE SUPER COMMITTEE. WE WANT TO WORK WITH THOSE WILLING TO COMPROMISE, NOT OBSTRUCT.

Ad Busters has proposed an Occupation of Wall Street starting September 14. A major demand is for the end of corporate personhood in the U.S. It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY! More info here: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html

The objective is to make English the official language of the United States. English unifies us, a Tower of Babel separates us. When everyone shares a common language, they better understand each others meaning. As S. I. Hayakawa said, "You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words".

All members of Congress should have term limits: Senators should be elected for not more than two terms of three years each, and Representatives should be elected for no more than two terms of three years each. Their benefits, including health care and pension, should be terminated at the time they are replaced. In this way, the members who run the government will know EXACTLY how the rest of the America middle class lives.

Residents' drinking water, health, and property values are being systematically destroyed as a result of carcinogens, neurotoxins, endocrine disruptors and radioactive material in the fluid used in, and waste water resulting from, the new hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" process of horizontal drilling for natural gas wells all over the country. We are likewise concerned about over-projections of reserves by the natural gas and finance industries, and the likelihood that it is causing yet another economic bubble ready to burst and further damage our nation's economy. We demand that our state assembly bring a halt to all new drilling until the EPA's cumulative impact study is complete, and we demand that our congress repeal exemptions to the Clean Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act granted to the natural gas industry in the 2005, so that they will again be regulated by the EPA. We further call for an end to corporate welfare funded by our tax dollars to these corporations, and demand that our state and federal governments hold accountable every corporation responsible for drinking water contamination, the health effects endured by individuals and families in communities affected by natural gas drilling, and inflated projections of reserves that put us at increased risk in this fragile economy.

If you sign this petition you will be committing to join the other members of People's Congress in early 2012 for a mass gathering in Washington D.C. to enact legislation by the people. We will create legislation by the people gathered to end corporate domination of our government, sweeping election reform, tranparency and accountability for all media and true repersenation of, for and by the people by Congress.

As the number of foreclosures have increased, more and more investors are attending foreclosure sales in order to purchase properties for a reduced price. The Investors are leaving the foreclosure sale and going straight to the foreclosed home in order to serve a 3/90 day notice, to begin the eviction process. The purchase of the home at a foreclosure sale does not transfer legal ownership of the property. Legal ownership is given only when the Trustee's Deed is recorded in the county in which the foreclosure sale is held. Therefore, investors are jumping the gun with the evictions proceedings, moreover, the courts are not requesting proof of ownership prior to processing eviction papers for the unlawful detainer.

To set limits on compensation for Congress.

Local TV news is dominated by sensational, police scanner news. How relevant are beatings, gang brawls and crime stories to the news we can actually USE? Consumer, health, events, festivals, and other significant stories are displaced by the concept "if it bleeds, it leads." Isn't it time for a positive constructive change?

The purpose of this petition is to reform government so that our elected representatives have the same rights as all Americans, to help them remember that ours is a citizen democracy of equals and that they are us.