This is for everyone who is forced to live mostly or entirely on their Social Security.

The Mission District is over the amount of market-rate housing that was calculated in the 2008 Eastern Neighborhoods Plan. We are in dire need of affordable housing. This project provides 75 Luxury units, only 8 affordable and is 8 stories high. This project also has negative health impacts on the SFUSD public school children next door. Please uphold our appeal and protect our children! This will be heard at the Full Board of Supervisors, February 13, 2018. This project is at 2918 Mission St. @ 25th. Calle 24 Latino Cultural District

Pilot programs are being conducted in some New York prisons that require inmates to purchase books from approved vendors, and care packages are additionally restricted. Various prisons nationwide are cutting off the option of in-person visitation in favor of online visitation. Despite breaking the law, our prison population is still human. Humans require social contact. We should be opening as many avenues to personalized connection with the outside world as possible for the prison population. We should not be focusing on finances and expedience over the humane treatment of the people under the control of our justice system. Care packages and donated books should be allowed; if contraband is an issue, we should invest in airport-style security screening. In person visitation should never be withheld. We are all personally affected by how we treat those lowest on the rungs of our society.

Residential solar is one of the best answers to Climate Change. Solar is possible on only about a quarter of our housing stock. It is impossibly costly to change. I’ve seen the advantage on my house.

On January 16, 2018, the US Administration made the decision to freeze millions of dollars to UNRWA in 2018. As the single largest contributor to UNRWA globally, this is an unprecedented and extremely dangerous decision that will cause untold additional trauma and harm to Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, who rely on UNRWA's services. Since UNRWA began its operations in May 1950, every administration, from Truman onwards, has stood with and provided strong, generous, and committed support to the agency. This administration is the only to make the destructive decision to cut such funding. Through UNRWA’s humanitarian and development work, it is unique in providing vital services that are akin to those normally provided through governments and does so directly through over 33,000 staff, most of whom are Palestine refugees themselves. As a neutral and impartial UN agency, it: -Educates 525,000 girls and boys in 700 UNRWA schools, including education on human rights, conflict resolution, and tolerance. -Operates more than 140 health centers and delivers comprehensive primary health-care services, handling more than 9 million patient visits per year. -Provides cash assistance and shelter rehabilitation to help refugees meet their basic human needs of food, shelter, and environmental health to achieve a decent standard of living and improve infrastructure and living conditions in the 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps. -Provides emergency humanitarian assistance through life-saving cash, food, and shelter support in Gaza and Syria. I implore the White House to reconsider this decision, as it is against our American principles, global security and safety, and common human interest. In line with the democratic and humanitarian values this country was founded on and stands for, the US government's investment in UNRWA's work must be sustained, as it affects not only the lives of the over 5 million Palestine refugees the organization serves but the future and stability of the Middle East and beyond.

The Rent Control Preemption Act of 1997 has been a disastrous mistake for Illinois. This legislation was pushed by real estate lobbyists at a time when no rent control measures existed to prevent them from ever taking hold. Since that time we have seen gentrification and disinvestment from neighborhoods that continues to push more and more working families out of our state and forces too many Illinois residents to live in rent distress. These problems have been particularly acute for poor people and people of color -- we need to change this. That is why I am proud to support the efforts of the Lift the Ban Coalition and sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi's bill in the State Senate that would repeal the ban on rent control in Illinois. It is time we take bold steps to make housing more affordable throughout Illinois and stop the displacement of people across the state. It is time we return rent control authority to the people of Illinois. Please join Rep. Litesa Wallace, Rep. Will Guzzardi and myself in building an Illinois for the rest of us by signing this petition that calls on Gov. Rauner and Illinois State Legislators to lift the rent control ban.

Citizens living near the pipeline have had their land stolen and destroyed by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) through the use of eminent domain laws & ETP has committed egregious violations that have damaged the local environment & threatened our water supply. Yet, after a short construction halt, it was announced this week that ETP is being allowed to start construction on the pipeline again.

Yes, it's hard to get jobs nowadays if you haven't really worked or if you have worked and quit.

Jorge Garcia—a Michigan man who had lived in the U.S. for 30 years since he was 10 years old—has a story like so many immigrant stories: one filled with hard work, strong ties to his community, and love for his family. He has cooperated with the government, paid taxes, and has no criminal record. Yet, another tragic story is unfolding. On Martin Luther King Day, ICE agents escorted Jorge onto a plane bound for a country he barely knows, away from his wife and two children—who are all U.S. citizens. We have been hearing stories like Jorge's over and over again. This must stop. When immigrants arrive as children, attend our schools, and grow up as an American, they should be allowed, when adults, to make the decision to stay or return. It should be their choice! This is a humanitarian issue. Last week, congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal to pass the Dream Act, which may have protected Jorge from deportation. But Donald Trump rejected that deal, pushing our government closer to a shutdown as our members of Congress are forced to decide if they will fall in line with Trump's racist policies or support for immigrant youth.

By being a Moorish-American I can be very well taken hostage by making political alliances, and judged on my past life. I've read the case in it's entirety, this man was convicted with no evidence.

I was in my twenties during the Vietnam War. When that conflict and the Cold War were at last over, Americans thought (wrongly) that the need for a bloated military budget was over as well. Dr. King understood how our spending on war went hand in hand with increased poverty and greater racism in the US, and opposed the war in Vietnam. A proposed budget of 600-700 billion dollars has been offered to the Military in 2018. Cuts have meanwhile been proposed for Departments of Energy, Education, the Interior, EPA and Health and Human Services, some at close to one-third of their current budget (See Wikipedia, 2018 Federal Budget, for details). If instead of cutting these agencies, we instead cut the Military by one-half, we could approximately DOUBLE the proposed budgets for these essential services. We have already committed 5-7 trillion dollars to wars in the Middle East (as a candidate, Trump condemned the estimated 6 trillion spent, and we must stop. We demand that the Congress truly act in service of the American people.

I think that citizens through their elected representatives should prevail on them to speak out against such bigotry in the White House. This would be a wake-up call to this administration to have the least attended S of U address in history.