This petition is to encourage MoveOn members to contribute all they can to help take back local, state, and the Federal Government from the fascist, racist Republicans.

Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) is a game-changing solution. Here's how it works: whenever an eligible voter does business with the DMV or another public office, their information is automatically verified and securely added to the voter rolls, unless they opt out. This simple reform will make our election system much safer, less expensive, and more accessible. It's a much-needed improvement over our cumbersome, outdated voter registration process. Plus, it'd significantly increase the amount of eligible voters who participate in our democracy -- and make sure election results more accurately reflect what the people want. Automatic Voter Registration is just common sense -- and it’s already delivering major results in states across the country. In the 2016 election, Oregon bucked a nationwide low-turnout trend thanks to AVR -- with at least 100,000 newly registered voters showing up to the polls. In California, AVR registered over 250,000 new voters in just over two months. But we need to keep this momentum going! AVR has passed in 4 states this year -- including Massachusetts just this month -- and we must ensure that more follow their lead.

In April 2018, a group of cat advocates sterilized, vaccinated, and microchipped 19 of the University of Illinois Springfield's 20-30 feral cats. Since then, the university has prohibited any further feeding or TNVR, opting instead to trap and turn the cats over to Sangamon County Animal Control to be put to death. Sterilization is an effective means of regulating animal populations without killing. Eight of the adult cats were females in heat, and we estimate that spaying them prevented approximately 60 kittens from being born. An additional two adult females with a total of six young kittens were trapped. The kittens were placed in an adoption program, and the females were sterilized and returned. We estimate there are another ten to fifteen cats who need our help, but the university prefers to arrest anyone mediating on the cats' behalf, even if it is not against the law to do so. Free living cats pose no threat to anyone, but depend on humans for food.

Houston is a welcoming city! The city should not do business with a company that is awarded millions to keep families separated.

Mental health professionals are better suited in dealing with mental health crisis than NYPD officers who have limited training and understanding of mental health illnesses. As such, this petition is demanding that the NYPD hires mental health professionals specifically, licensed social workers, to help them deescalate situations involving people with mental health illnesses. If you're having cardiovascular trouble, you're not going to call your dentist. Because it doesn't make sense. Similarly, people in mental health crisis shouldn't have to be attended by people who aren't qualified to understand their needs. Because NYPD has not had such support, it has led to injury and death of people with mental health illness. The best preventative measure will be to hire licensed social workers to assist the NYPD officers in deescalating situations and protecting the rights and the lives of people with mental health illnesses. By practicing better preventative care, this will result in less conflict between NYPD and the community, less incarceration rates and less involvement in child welfare.

This is to MoveOn because I could not find another way to send you a message. I have been in MoveOn since it began and am pissed that you are misusing this word!

Every single state in the Northeast has non smoking bars. Pennsylvania's smoking ban is a joke. Just about any bar that isn't part of a chain restaurant can cook the books to get an exception to the PA Clean Indoor Air Act. Smoking continues in most bars in the state. Having a real smoking ban is 10 years overdue. Please act now.

A border wall is an ineffective and wasteful solution to illegal immigration.

The lack of free and affordable high- quality child care programs effect families in many ways especially when it comes to finances. Child Care programs can be very expensive especially when it is needed for more than one child. But how can one pay for child care if you do not have a job? and how can you be in the workforce if you don't have whom to take care of your child? Lack of these services also specifically target women and single mothers in the workforce. When a parent is not able to go back to work because he/she cannot afford a child care center this leaves the parent/s without any choice than to either stop working or choose low quality and cheaper child care options. With Universal child care programs all individuals would have access to this benefit regardless of income, where they live and regardless of whether they are in the paid workforce or outside of the paid workforce. Hence, there won't be any discrimination among different social statuses and there won't be any stigmatization or stereotyping to those individuals who receive or utilize this service. Establishing universal child care allows families to be able to go to work without worrying about depleting their budget plans and salaries, they can have more money to save and or spend on other needs, they can rest assure these child care programs have qualified employees which are doing a great job taking care of their child or children and they won't need to worry about being labeled or frowned upon for receiving this service. In order to establish universal child care programs, the funds for these programs need to be available and included in the countries budget plan. People also need to recognize and be educative on the importance of universal child care and its benefits. There should also be more research and comparisons done with other countries that already have access to universal child care programs. Finally, people should vote for officials that reinforce this program and advocate for universal child care.

I was among the KSU faculty members who protested the rejection of the Segal sculpture in 1978, and since then continue to stand in solidarity with many others in firm opposition to all attempts to deny, distort and/or dilute the tragic and true meaning of what happened at KSU on May 4, 1970, when government troops opened fire upon an anti-war protest, killing four students and wounding nine others. Segal's sculpture captures that meaning like no other memorial. Bringing this exiled sculpture home to KSU, if only for a year on loan, will mark an important step toward overcoming denial, enhancing enlightenment, and promoting peace. For those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.

All of us, 8 billion of the world population, is affected because there are those who believe in superior and inferior races, deviating from science.

The EEOC gives right to sue but didn’t interview all witnesses and doesn’t help with process which is seriously affecting my health. Five years later still enduring retaliation. I’m a white woman whose career was blackballed after marrying a wonderful black man.