Should a company that pollutes our air be promoted at a fitness event? We don't think so. EQT is one of the largest fracking companies in America. With over 2,400 wells across Pennsylvania, they pollute our air & water with toxic radioactive pollution and contribute to global climate change with significant methane emissions. A recent Pitt study found that Pennsylvanians living near fracking wells are 4-5x more likely to have an asthma attack, and kids living within 1 mile are 5-7x more likely to develop lymphoma. (https://www.alleghenyfront.org/pitt-researchers-find-higher-risks-for-lymphoma-and-asthma-for-those-near-fracking-but-no-association-to-ewing-sarcoma/) Just last year, EQT's activities in Greene County caused a frackout (dangerous fracking fluids entered an older abandoned well and shot out the top of it). Afterward, residents reported a change in their drinking and bathing water (supplied by local well water). People got sick and the child of one resident broke out in hives after showering. Over 1 year later, EQT has yet to take responsibility and residents must rely on jugs of water being regularly brought into town. (https://www.publicsource.org/fracking-new-freeport-greene-county-pa-water-quality-eqt-corporation/) Despite all this, EQT has been the main sponsor of Pittsburgh's annual 10 Miler race for years. EQT's damage to communities in our region and to the global climate make it incompatible with an organization like P3R, which focuses on encouraging fitness and healthy lifestyles. A running event sponsored by a corporation that increases asthma and cancer rates is both shocking and oxymoronic. You wouldn't want a tobacco company sponsoring a marathon. Why should a fracking company sponsor a 10 mile race? We can't run on a polluted planet. . . . P3R is a non-profit that organizes sporting events in the Pittsburgh area. Learn more about them here: https://p3r.org This campaign is organized by activists associated with Ohio Valley Environmental Resistance (OVER) and Pennsylvania Action on Climate (PAC)

You, as a resident, know what the owners of the Ascent have gotten away with at the expense of your time, your resources, and most importantly, your peace. They have not listened to us individually, so something different must be done to see different results. This petition was created to gauge the interest of our community finding a solution together. Please share with those that live here - currently or previously (under the management of Brookside properties, owners since spring of this year). We have options. We can do something about it. Thank you for your consideration.

The statements in the petition are excerpts from a letter the Better Path Coalition is circulating for signatures from organizations and individuals. This petition is a companion to that letter and will be delivered at the same time. Read the full letter at bit.ly/ditchthedeal.

It can take YEARS to be granted asylum in the US- but it starts with an interview at entry. The "credible fear" interview occurs when a potential asylum seeker expresses why they are fleeing their home country. If granted, the person/family begins the process for consideration of asylum. It took one local family over 20 years for their asylum case. We should NOT be increasing the BARRIERS to consideration for asylum at stage one.

Sarasota extremists with the Moms for Liberty are pushing the same chilling book-banning agenda with our public libraries that they pushed on our public schools. Under the guise of so-called parental rights, they want to dictate their narrow worldview upon everyone, not just their kids. This is a freedom for all issue, not just for an extremist few!

Paxlovid saves lives. And Pfizer is jacking up its price. Pfizer just announced it’s going to nearly triple the price of the antiviral COVID drug that can help reduce symptoms, prevent hospitalizations, and save lives.1 Pfizer executives are prioritizing profits over patients. This is Big Pharma greed, plain and simple. Pfizer’s CEO doesn’t need any more millions — he made $33 million in 2022,2 while so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need to survive. We must let President Biden know this is unacceptable. Sign the petition: Tell President Biden to stop the corporate profiteering off of COVID treatments by guaranteeing access to all Americans. Paxlovid costs $13 to make. Pfizer is going to sell it for $1,400.3 That’s a 10,000% price markup. Drug corporations are making massive profits on medicine people need to survive. Pfizer became the first ever Pharma company to bring in $100 billion in revenue. That’s right, $100 billion.4 While everyday Americans are struggling to afford medications, Pfizer executives are getting richer and richer. Big Pharma will always want to maximize profits. Big Pharma executives will always want fat bonuses. That's why President Biden must step in. Add your name: Stop this outrageous Paxlovid increase, end Big Pharma greed! Sources: MSNBC, “The estimated production cost of Paxlovid: $13. Its new list price: $1400,” October 23, 2023. Fierce Pharma, “Coming and going paid off for biopharma CEOs in 2022,” July 27, 2023. MSNBC, “The estimated production cost of Paxlovid: $13. Its new list price: $1400,” October 23, 2023. Fierce Pharma, “Coming and going paid off for biopharma CEOs in 2022,” July 27, 2023.

Help us drive positive change in the AMGA by requestion long overdue changes to the By-Laws which will help create a more equitable distribution of influence and power on the Board of directors.

George Santos just avoided expulsion from Congress—despite his long record of dishonesty, fraud, and corruption. [1] But here’s the simple truth—Santos needs to be held accountable for repeatedly lying to his constituents and the House of Representatives. Santos was indicted twice this year on 23 serious charges—including identity theft, wire fraud, and money laundering. He’s also accused of misleading and lying to hundreds of thousands of voters about his identity, his finances, and what he was doing with their money. [2] His actions were so blatantly dishonest that nearly 200 of his colleagues—Democrats and Republicans—agreed he should no longer serve in office. The fact is, we deserve leaders who we can trust and who will follow the law—and George Santos can’t even be honest about his own resume! We must continue demanding accountability. Add your name to demand George Santos’ resignation—and swift action by congressional ethics watchdogs if he doesn’t. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/nyregion/george-santos-expulsion-house.html [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/rep-george-santos-arraignment-on-new-fraud-identity-theft-charges.html

President Biden recently said that protecting democracy is the “central issue” of his presidency, and so we are calling on him to back up his words with action. President Biden has the power to combat corruption and protect our democracy and our right to vote unilaterally, with the stroke of a pen, by taking executive actions that will strengthen our democracy. President Biden issued a voter access executive order before, but must now take additional important steps to fight corruption that’s undermining public confidence in American democracy, enhance transparency of corporate lobbying, prevent foreign money from influencing our elections, and create a White House Office of Democracy that can ensure that the U.S. Government is using every tool available to protect voting rights and American democracy, among other key pro-democracy reforms. Sign the petition to President Biden: Use the full power of your office to combat corruption and protect democracy!

This level of violence and terror should never be experienced by a child or family, and it won't halt the ongoing occupation and tyranny in the area. To preserve lives, there is an urgent need for a de-escalation and swift ceasefire.

In September, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed new regulations for the H-2A guest worker program that would reduce abuse, exploitation and trafficking of farm workers. Transparency and accountability in the H-2A program will in turn improve the wages and working conditions of US workers. The 327 pages of complex regulations by the Biden administration would improve the lives of the hard working men and women who harvest our food and reflect the recommendations that the farm worker movement have been making for years. The public comment period will be open until November 14th. Please help us do all we can to make sure these changed regulations go into effect by sending your email to make sure the final regulations are as strong as possible and improve workers' conditions, wages, and ability to organize. The proposed DOL regulations would improve conditions for H-2A farm workers by: * Strengthening workers' right to advocate, form a union & have key services in employer-provided housing * Protecting workers from unjust firing, retaliation, and other violations by employers * Prohibiting employers from confiscating travel documents to prevent human trafficking * Targeting unlawful fees, fraud, and other abuse in the recruitment and hiring of workers These changes are urgently needed. Just last year, a federal investigation uncovered how H-2A employers ran a human trafficking ring, described by prosecutors as "modern day slavery" in Florida, Texas, and Georgia. In Utah, the former President of the Utah Farm Bureau is now subject to a human trafficking investigation after physically assaulting H-2A workers on his farm. Wage theft, abuse and exploitation are commonplace in the H-2A program and displace US workers while employers profit. This can't keep happening. The current system is broken and oversight is urgently needed and the regulations must be changed. Take action to send us your comments, add a personalized comment on the box on the share page and we can submit them en masse and save you the difficulty of navigating through the government website.

Small chocolate companies are not able to compete against the prices of big chocolate corporations that use child slavery. Since the farm labor is unpaid, and all the wages, just go to the CEOs, it’s no wonder why it’s important to compete against companies like them. However, they have normalized child-slavery in cocoa in West Africa for over 120 years or eight generations. So it’s time for the normality of child slavery in cocoa to become a shocking occurrence, or not happen at all, instead. No competition can happen that’s fair while some employees are (forced into) working for free. Chocolate is an unfair market and there’s no way to compete and no way to enter. New companies would almost have to use cocoa produced by child slavery to have prices near the same as big chocolate corporations. Chocolate companies deserve to be able to compete with Big Chocolate corporations. It’s not fair that they’ve destroyed competition, through the deliberate use of child slavery. And, of course, keeping it all hidden.