I am a victim of church sex abuse by a priest Named Father Neil Otero in the parish of St. Joan of Arc in Jackson Heights, Queens. My abuse was covered up by the church, the school, and the archdiocese. It is time to pass the CHILD VICTIMS ACT! Please visit my website for more information: www.thechildvictimsact.com

Rick Miller has repeatedly lied to the city council and the citizens of Coolidge in regards to the tax status of the Coolidge Performing Arts and Artisan Village 501C3. Rick Miller has a conflict of interest being city manager and being on the board of a group that large amounts of city money was given but not accounted for. Rick Miller has repeatedly engaged in behavior that has been detrimental to the public’s view of the city as well as helping to cause a divisive rift within the community that he was hired to build up. We demand that the Coolidge City Council take immediate action to replace Rick Miller as city manager.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is an interagency coalition of nearly 100 member organizations. We set standards and provide technical support. Based on our collective experiences, lessons learned, and accepted standards of care and protection for children, we urge all responsible parties to: • Facilitate rapid family reunification; • Provide mental health and psychosocial support to children and their families; • Ensure that administrative and legal procedures meet their best interests; and • Prevent further family separation by ending the use of detention. For the rest of the recommendations: https://alliancecpha.org/familiesbelongtogether/ If you agree: • Show your support for separated children by endorsing these recommendations: https://alliancecpha.org/familiesbelongtogether/ • Share them with your networks.

PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE AMERICA: The key to the success of democracy is participation. The level of engagement in politics has grown increasingly as more and more tension grows in our political sector. Our anxiety has reached its peak, and the only way to ensure that the hardworking people of this nation participate in this democracy will be to declare major election days as US holidays. Legislation must pass that ensures voters are allowed to vote and our voices of the majority will finally be known accurately. For more information on voter turn out, use google and do some research. You’ll find the numbers support this claim. Join us!

The Minnesota primary election will be held on August 14th. Democratic voters will need to choose the strongest candidate to place on the ballot for the critical election in November. Tina Smith, former lieutenant governor of Minnesota and appointed by Governor Dayton to temporarily fill the US Senate seat vacated by Al Franken; or Richard Painter, currently a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former chief White House ethics lawyer. Minnesotans need to know more about these two candidates. Holding a public debate is the best way for voters to compare Tina Smith and Richard Painter and make an informed decision before they cast their vote on August 14th!

Due to the cancellation of the July HOA meeting, this petition is being made. According to Article 4, Section 3 of the community bylaws, 10% of the residents can sign a petition and require a special meeting of the board. This petition is designed to require the president of the HOA to call a meeting to discuss and vote on potentially sealing the 2209 pedestrian gate.

Having to drive ten minutes to get to TJ's is a first world problem, I get that. But Long Beach promotes itself as bicycle friendly, and a TJ's downtown would be within an easy bicycle commute of more than enough of us to support the store. If you agree, sign the petition. And if you shop at the TJ's on Bellflower and are tired of not finding things there because they are sold out, help take some pressure off your local TJ's by signing the petition.

We will never develop solutions to this deepening crisis until we understand WHY so many find their countries unlivable. We call on the media to do their jobs and give context. Even starting in the 1980s will tell Americans much more than we know now.

As a Puna resident and leader who has been active since the very beginning, we are looking at a massive housing crisis in addition to a mental health crisis, if something isn't done immediately. The people of our community should be our top priority. Hope is needed. NOW!

In 2016, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced a plan to increase daily trips on the Amtrak Hiawatha line from Chicago to Milwaukee. Their plan includes a proposal to build a new 2-mile long holding track in Glenview to help facilitate the flow of freight trains in and out of nearby freight yards. The plans were announced in an official planning document called an Environmental Assessment (EA). But the EA only included information about the impacts of increasing Amtrak trains. None of the health, safety and environmental impacts of the proposed freight train holding track were addressed. The Glenview ACTION (Alliance to Control Train Impact on Our Neighborhoods) Committee was formed to demand that the significant impacts of a freight train holding track are studied before the project is built.

This year’s bee die-off numbers are out, and the news isn’t good. Bees are still dying at alarming rates. And it’s largely due to bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. If we want to stop the massive bee losses, we need to get these pesticides out of our food system. Kroger plays a key role in this fight. It could stop selling food grown with toxic pesticides. But we need YOU to help make that happen! Add your name: Demand that Kroger takes action on toxic pesticides NOW!

So, imagine with me that YOU are sitting in your hot car at over 100 degrees for several hours a day and for days on end (I dare you to try it). This is the reality of over 130,000 people within the TDCJ system. The inhumane conditions of lacking proper ventilation and temperature control within the TDCJ is a form of Torture! TDCJ continues to allow people to suffer in heat indexes of up to and over 149°F, as reported by the Hutchins Unit on July 19, 2011. The temperature log of a TDCJ unit documents temperatures ranging from 117°F to over 149°F. Now imagine you are the Mother, Father, wife, Husband, or child of someone who is suffering; what would you do about it? Here are a few examples of reports that Texas Prisons' A/C Advocates have received from families and people on the inside: “My son called me earlier around 7-ish. He said it's so hot, mama. This breaks my heart to the core.” “He said it feels like you are cooking in there!” “My son tells me it's so hot he puts water on the floor 'n lays down on it. He also wets his towel 'n puts it over his head 'n it drys up so quick cuz of the heat” “..in the dinner line or lunch line and when u sat down to eat sometimes they close u in with no fans going and no air conditioning at all with about 50 to 100 inmates plus how hot the kitchen is from cooking. It's like suffocating.” “He said the heat in there is extremely overwhelming and it’s hard to even breath. He’s a young man (24) and healthy …. He has already lost 7 pounds since first of May.” “..he says the cells are just heat boxes. When he wets a towel, it dries up in minutes. “…it was extremely hot in the dorms, I remember laying on the floor with no shirt on just in my sports bra just to get cool. Some ladies would get their sheets wet in the shower just to stay cool.“ Yet, despite several deaths, a plethora of media reports, wrongful death lawsuits filed, and complaints from family members and union officials for well over 18 years, TDCJ is still refusing to take basic steps to provide humane conditions for the people in their care. It seems reasonable that if TDCJ has money in the budget to replace its aging swine-production facilities with 6 new climate-controlled modular barns, at a cost of $750,000, surely they could treat people better than pigs. Surely, we can treat human beings at least as well as the pigs and dogs. This unconscionable behavior of allowing people to be tortured by deadly heat conditions must cease. What are we asking for? The same conditions that The Texas Commission on Jail Standards already requires. Every county jail needs to maintain internal temperature stays between 65 and 85 degrees. Other states with hot climates, such as Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, air condition their prisons, and even the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is air-conditioned. By the way, did you try the Hot Car dare? Texas Prison A/C Advocates (TPAA)