Wayzaro Walton came to Hartford, CT with her family in 1987, when she was 3 years old. Hartford is her home. She doesn’t remember any other place. She went to school at Rawson, at Dr. Martin Luther King, at Quirk Middle, at New Britain High School and Weaver High School. She went to Camp Courant every summer, starting when she was 5 until she was too old. She now works as a chef at a hotel, making breakfast for guests. Wayzaro lives here with her wife Tamika and 15-year-old daughter Azaiyah. They are the reasons she must not leave. In 2011, ICE agents arrested Wayzaro during community service at Hartford Community Court on Washington Street. If her suspended sentence had been one day shorter (364 days instead of 365) none of what followed would have happened. She would not have worn a monitor from 2011 to 2015. An ICE agent would not have confiscated her permanent residency card and her other ID papers. She would not have been required to check in regularly, and endure regular house visits. She would not have been referred to ICE during her check-in last month, when, with no explanation and despite no change in her situation, she got another ankle monitor and was ordered to get a one-way plane ticket to London for December 14. That’s next week. Wayzaro qualifies for a “victim" Visa, and for a petition for permanent residency, because of her marriage to Tamika. Those processes take time. She needs to stay. Her family needs her here. Her community needs her here. We need her here. Stand with Wayzaro and her family and stop this cruel family separation at the hands of the Department of Homeland Security. Tell ICE- STOP SEPARATING FAMILIES! Enough is enough! Hartford Deportation Defense Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance - CIRA New Sanctuary CT Unidad Latina en Acción

Across the nation, states are taking action to create increasingly independent commissions that remove partisan considerations and politics from their redistricting processes. They are doing so because they understand that independent commissions lead to more competitive districts, which are ultimately healthy for the functioning of our democracy. In an inexplicable move, New Jersey is poised to reverse course, and instead, increase the exact measures that experts agree lead to greater gerrymandering. SCR45/ ACR60 would change the NJ Constitution so that: 8 of the 13 members would be directly appointed by Senate and Assembly legislative leadership, and no less than 4 MUST be legislators themselves. This could result in upwards of 12 out of 13 committee members tasked with drawing legislative districts being either beholden to or actual legislators themselves! Ties the hands of the independent, non-partisan, court appointed tie-breaker, relegating their role to no more than a checklist prefect. Establishes and mandates the precedence of a mathematical model, that while seemingly fair on paper, is not rigorous enough to prevent unjust manipulation of the formula by parties with vested interest. We stand united in the belief that SCR43/ ACR60 are un-American and destructive to our democracy. We demand legislators reject this proposal, and protect the integrity of our elections.

Giving people with disabilities full accessible transportation

My life has been forever changed since the moment that Rachel fled her wedding and ran into Central Perk on that crisp New York afternoon. So many lives will be damaged by the removal of this show. Friends was my friend when no one else was...

This is counter petition to the ultra left people. I'm a moderate Democrat and socialism is not on my platform.

The elimination of the influence of corporate money in politics and the egregious economic injustice to almost all Americans caused by that corporate money in politics is long overdue. All but big corporations and the very wealthy have been adversely affected by the 5-4 GOP SCOTUS ruling in Citizens United because it allows corporations and not our elected lawmakers to control and exploit our lives and our environment for their self-aggrandizement to the serious detriment of working families, small business owners of which I am one, and the very life of the planet.

I am a Sierra Club member and have taught in schools over the last 30 years that global warming is coming and it is here.

I am starting this petition because I have heard so many stories. It is wrong that people , mostly children, are being forced to "change" who they are for no good reason. It needs to stop.

I am a disabled veteran with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. Also suffer from chronic pain due to military injury. Unfortunately, the state of Kansas still views marijuana as a criminal entity. And for this, I face charges currently for possessing this alternative medicine. Please sign this petition and let's step forward and not backwards in Kansas

Cause corporations were not meant to fund congressional members for agendas that create a larger gap between “classes” in society. Lobbyists are mule middle men who fuel corruption in the USA government. It needs to end now!

I am starting this petition because the Republicans in Wasington and the states are doing everything they can to prevent or make it more difficult for all Americans, especially citizensnof color to vote. This includes photo Ids, kicking off citizens of voter rolls and reducing the number of polling places requiring voters to stand in lines for hours.

Control of government by citizens begins with citizen involvement at the ballot box. Currently, voters do not choose their candidates--candidates choose their voters by gerrymandering to pack the voters they want into their districts and creating illogical and inconvenient districts for their opponents, making it difficult to serve these districts if they win. Gerrymandering also is designed to disenfranchise specific groups by creating districts where their vote is watered down.