Midway is a wake-up call for local and state governance. After decades of development motivated by budgets of state and local governments, and by short-term profits of land developers, we are dealing with wildfires, floods, volcanos. earthquakes, drought, poverty and homelessness. Our infrastructure is overburdened and overwhelmed. We have low-wage employment, poor healthcare and education and unmanageable housing cost. Midway is the poster child for bad land-use planning. We must begin to plan and develop with respect to needs, priorities and vulnerabilities of communities. Midway is a moment of truth.

I am starting this petition to veto SB 901. Governor Brown has until September 30, 2018, to sign or veto it. Sign the petition and ask him to please veto SB 901. Nobody should be able to burn someone's home down and then make the homeowner pay for it. SB-901 allows Edison and PG&E to recover "costs and expenses" for 2017 wildfires by increasing consumer rates. It must be vetoed.

Beginning in 2014, DxE activists have undertaken multiple undercover investigations of Whole Foods suppliers, exposing what they call criminal animal cruelty at farms that include Diestel Turkey Ranch, Pitman Family Farms (Mary’s Free Range Chicken) and Petaluma Farms. The investigations have led to thousands of complaints against Whole Foods on social media and protests across the country against both Whole Foods and its parent company, Amazon. Rather than have an honest conversation about the animal cruelty happening at their farms, Whole Foods has resorted to suing the activists who are exposing the truth and is even asking for a restraining order to keep these activists from asking any more questions at Whole Foods. Activists who expose the truth should be rewarded not punished. Ask Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to drop the charges and tell customers the truth!

The City Park rides are scheduled to close at the end of this month, and there is no plan in place to save or replace the rides. We have all grown up riding these rides, and they are a piece of Iowa City history, and we would all hate to see them go. We would like our children and children of future generations to be able to enjoy these rides as we did growing up.

I have had to move because of the issue of secondhand smoke, and my daughter and I are still affected by it in our new home. Non-smokers have a right to enjoy their property and dwell inside their home without someone else's smoke in it. This petition is to address secondhand smoke from affecting someone else's property and home.

If Mark Judge does not testify, the hearing to decide Judge Kavanaugh's moral fitness to sit on the US Supreme Court will be a sham. Demand that everyone in the room at the time of the alleged attempted rape be called to testify at the hearing. Demand Mark Judge be subpoenaed to testify.

Pass proactive legislation, policies, & all relevant laws to protect women with medical conditions (PCOS, dermatology, hormonal illnesses etc) for whom oral contraception is prescribed & allows them to have any quality of life including working. This is irrelevant to the alt-right as is it’s entirely unrelated to sex or birth control. (I’m willing to testify about this or give depositions on my PCOS & birth control pills being of no relevance for years since I came out as a lesbian. It is essential to my functioning. It will cost the country I unfathomable fiscal & sociological amounts to allow the recent anti-abortion & birth control Christian groups have attacked & must be protected at a state and federal levels of law, and federal circuit/district courts as well as the SCOTUS should be obliged to protect it as well as policy from the other branches of govt and sources of law , wherever possible .

It is terrifying to think that a justice on the Supreme Court could be both a perjurer and/or an attempted rapist. Our government has lost its checks and balances

Clean water is our right but Trump’s Interior Secretary wants to massively increase oil and gas drilling off our coasts, endangering our coastal communities with increased risk of oil spills. Friends of the Earth demands congress hold Ryan Zinke accountable! It is time to #FireZinke

This summer, Florida saw some of its most intense toxic algae blooms yet. There's a reason these blooms are getting worse: Governor Scott rolled back the water protections that used to help keep them at bay, and he's refused to take action to stop the agricultural pollution that fuels them. And now Floridians are paying for it in the form of contaminated, algae-laden water and coasts, massive wildlife die-offs, and big economic losses. Demand that Governor Scott and the Legislature act to restore our water protections, stop the pollution fueling the algae blooms, and clean up our already polluted water! It's time our elected leaders represent Floridians, NOT Big Ag special interests, and fix this water disaster plaguing our state.

The evidence and the science that prove family detention and family separation have tangible negative short- and long-term health impacts on children is well-documented. Still, officials are willfully ignoring the research, and moving toward policies that further endanger the health and well-being of children and their asylum-seeking parents.

I am concerned about the health of people, the environment, the country at large, and the future of democracy itself over the next decades with yet another ultra-conservative voice on the Supreme Court