I am starting this petition because Burlington, NC doesn't have a street that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I feel like this would show the community unity. We have a confederate solider statue in Graham, NC, so why can't we have a street named after such an honorable and astute man as Dr. King.

There is no reason except interest group driven domestic politics that Cuba should be the only non-conflict country in the world for which the US government requires its citizens to have a license to travel. While the door has opened considerably, too many Americans fear they do not qualify to explore Cuba independently or cannot afford the high costs of group travel. The emerging private sector in Cuba has been badly damaged by the decline during the Trump Administration of self-directed visitors from the US. Polls show as many as 81% of Americans, including 57% of Cuban Americans, favor normal freedom of travel. Bipartisan majorities in both the Senate and House are also in support, but it has been a low priority issue that faces opposition from a few powerful politicians. The removal of virtually all US Consular staff from Havana has crippled normal visa procedures for Cubans, requiring they make expensive and time-consuming trips to third countries that are uncertain of success. The US obligation to provide 20,000 migratory visas annually is far from fulfilled. Educational, professional and cultural exchange and business missions have become impractical for most Cubans who want to visit the US. Greater travel in both directions is essential for mutual understanding and trust building to achieve real normalization of relations.

Shooting's, stabbings right in our residential neighborhood. Our kids playing on the streets and drunks parking in front of our homes to avoid detection from police. Wandering our streets after closings causing disruption in the middle of the night. Gunfire so close to where our children play and sleep. This place must be closed. A residential neighborhood is no place for that kind of business.

Our Representative in Congress, Tom McClintock, voted 12 times to keep the government shut down over the last month. While Trump finally relented, we could be back in the same mess in three weeks unless Congress takes action now. Every day the government was shut down, the U.S Forest Service was not working to prevent the next round of catastrophic wildfires from destroying our communities, and the Park Service was not protecting or managing OUR lands. When the government was shut down, the FBI, TSA, air traffic controllers and the Coast Guard were all hobbled. Tax refunds were not processed. Thousands of our neighbors were sitting at home, looking for jobs, or forced to work without pay. The shutdown cost the U.S. economy $11 billion. All for a wall that we don't need or want, and that Mexico was supposed to pay for! Tom McClintock once again sacrificed his constituents and communities for far-right ideology and allegiance to Donald Trump. Tell him you expect him to start representing the people and lands of the 4th district, by voting against any more government shutdowns! Thank you for taking action.

Protect women's right and autonomy over their bodies. This bill will be considered during the next legislative session which begins in early March and will likely pass if we don't make our voices heard. Republican lawmakers argue that a fetus is a "functioning human being." A fetus is not a "functioning human being" as it cannot survive outside the womb. Typically a pregnancy is not viable outside of the womb until at least 24 weeks.

Senator Mike Regan's Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA) is taken right from a model ALEC bill designed to quash pipeline protest. See their model bill here. https://www.alec.org/model-policy/critical-infrastructure-protection-act/ We have a chance to stop this bill before it's introduced if we can pressure our PA senators to refuse to co-sponsor it. Please sign and share our petition! Read Regan's Co-Sponsorship Memo herer. https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=S&SPick=20190&cosponId=27828&fbclid=IwAR2jIBaxQive1M5l_2FREGdLjVNqFLwP44soJZmPTmztxW3BYL9U1GP5BII

I'm sick and tired of watching our democracy be sold out by big money interests. We need to demand Representation By The People, For The People! Stop the dismantling of democracy!

As someone who plans on enlisting I do not think its fair to discriminate one one person enlisting because of our political views.

In a stunning revelation, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says that not only were "thousands" more migrant children separated by the Trump administration than previously known, but that they don't even know how many children were taken away from their families because of failures to track families as they were being separated! To date, no one has been held accountable for this ethical and humanitarian disaster. Instead President Trump continues to demand more funding for the very agencies that separate children as a condition for reopening the government, including demanding funding that would pay for 52,000 detention beds to jail immigrant families, money to hire more agents for separating kids, and even seeking to eliminate protections for asylum seeking kids arriving at the border without a parent! The Trump administration’s policy of purposeful child separation is a moral failure for our nation, inflicting deep trauma on already vulnerable children. Moreover, the anxiety and distrust children suffer when they are institutionalized away from loved ones can cause long-lasting mental and physical health problems, particularly for small children who need personal attention in their formative years. Children who experience extended separation from their parents as a result of incarceration or detention are at increased risk of facing a variety of physical, mental, and behavioral health issues throughout the rest of their lives. In fact, this type of child-parent separation is classified as a specific type of trauma: an adverse childhood experience (ACE). Family detention is not only cruel, but also more expensive than alternatives to family detention, such as the Family Case Management Program (FCMP) that the Trump administration terminated it in 2017. Under the Family Case Management Program, children and their parents were placed into a program that provided individualized family service plans and had a proven 99% success rate ensuring the family attended their hearings. The Family Case Management Program cost only $36 per family per day, in comparison to family detention, which costs on average $798 for a family (2.5 individuals). Take action! Say NO to family separation!

The Trump Administration is purposely choosing to inflict harm on children in a misguided attempt to deter refugees from coming to America. Arresting family members who seek to sponsor the kids. Jailing them indefinitely in violation of current court orders. It was all part of their plan. Senator Jeff Merkley just released a previously-undisclosed memo showing that the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department had outlined the horrific family separation policy back in 2017—despite claims from Secretary Nielsen that there was no plan. This is unacceptable. These are not our American values. Sign the petition and tell Trump: Fire Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

After over 500,000 signatures asking him to do something about the Play off game with the New Orleans Saints and Rams. There was clearly a helmet to helmet and P.I. and no flag was thrown. Which would have given the Saints a clear shot at winning this play off game and they would be in the Super bowl. A phone call from Mr. Goodwill stating there was an error on the refs part. Really that’s it ? I don’t think so!

These calls have been seen to increase in the years i have been alive i have seen it go from one a month to several a day with what end does this go on are we powerless to defend ourselves no we appoint those of power to help us do so, I have had enough being spoof called everyday you want to build your damn wall make the spoofers help pay for it!