The taxpayers are going to be held accountable for a situation they were deluded about.

Healthcare is the one issue that effects everyone. No one should ever have to experience the daily anxiety and worry of becoming sick or injured and not being able to pay for it.

Protect Social Security. It is not an entitlement it is a legal contractual obligation that we paid for all our lives. We just barely make a decent living with what we receive but it is ours and it helps us seniors to survive!!!

Culver city farmer's market has been open for over 15 years. This staple in farmer's market has always hosted a diversity of vendors. From fruits and veggies, flowers to hot food, deserts, snacks and crafters. We as crafters offer an array of healthy alternative products. From bath and beauty products to clothes , jewelry and baskets. This made the market unique and helped the community to be health conscious from what they eat to what they put on their bodies. We are having a new market management company that wants to exclusively offer farm products. That mean not only it will rob the Culver City community of their access to much needed products, but will cost us crafters and vendors a percentage of our income. Indeed some us crafters and non agricultural vendors have been in the market for over a decade and will be left scrambling to find a supplemental income to replace our loss of revenues. We were given only 3 weeks notice to vacate. We don't think it's fair to the community or the vendors. We want the city council to review their vote and ask the new management company to allow us to stay in the market or at least until December. This will give us ample time to find a replacement market. Best regards.

We demand that the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board withdraw its new set of harmful proposals. Without any regard for injured workers – or medical science – the Board has issued cost-cutting and protection-slashing guidelines that will strip already weak protections and render workers’ comp impossible for many of New York’s injured workers, at a time when they need support the most. With these proposals, the Workers’ Compensation Board would: - Open the door for doctors, insurance companies, and employers to mistreat already injured workers. The proposal impacts injured workers vulnerable to various forms of discrimination, bias, and potential abuse by giving company doctors power to suspend care. With this new “insult to injury rule” already injured workers will not be allowed unbiased medical care and will be forced to go to a company-assigned doctor who can perform any exam or ask any question—regardless of relevance to a person’s injury. If the company doctor then decides that that worker did not “fully cooperate” with the exam, the doctor can recommend a suspension of benefits and care. - Slash protections by eliminating injury payments for a number of injuries to workers already struggling to make ends meet. Fractures, ligament and tendon tears, dislocated patellas – the list goes on and on of painful life-altering injuries to the body that would be eliminated from any payment under the comp system. The proposals also slash vital injury payments for a number of impairments associated with a workers’ ability to fully extend their arms and legs, cutting benefits by up to 97% for some injuries. - Illegally seize the power of the legislature to determine the nature of medical impairment, eliminating accountability and transparency and spelling doom for Workers Comp in New York State. This proposal grants the Board sweeping authority to sidestep the law to adjust claims, regardless of what the legislation guarantees. Workers’ rights are under attack all over the country, and workers’ safety is being threatened by the slashing of regulations, but New York has the choice to resist being part of the anti-worker wave. We demand that the Board withdraw these anti-worker proposals and focus on how to improve the comp system and the lives of injured workers who need support now more than ever.

Secretary DeVos’ recent decision to revoke key Title IX protections for survivors of sexual assault sends a dangerous signal to assailants that their crimes will be ignored, jeopardizes the safety of students in America, and makes it harder for survivors to get justice.

The petition is about Pizza Hut claiming their employees couldn't evacuate from the hurricane on Friday they had to evacuate 24 hours in advance. So if hurricane we're to hit Tuesday they couldn't leave Friday to get out of harms way. They had to leave Sunday. Pizza Hut is a job that pays low wages. No ones life is worth $10 an hour Hut Pizza Hut. Bad move that wasn't the managers fault I'm sure it was corporates fault. They blame the manager. They could handle the bad publicity and had to place blame.

I would not expect McDonald's to offer me a year of free hamburgers (converting into a paid subscription for suspect hamburgers the following year) as compensation if they served me a hamburger that gave me a lifelong bacterial infection. Yet apparently this is essentially what Experian and Equifax have offered us in recent massive data breaches. A HUGE conflict of interest! It is time we demand Congress to act on our behalf for sensible data breach regulations: Within the first week after a notification of a data breach, a fraud alert should automatically be enabled on behalf of all affected customers. If the breach involves credit or core personal information (SSN, drivers license, financial, or health information), the option to enable an indefinite fraud alert should be offered for free without the requirement of waiting for an identity theft event. Any breach that involves core personal information entitles victims to complimentary credit freezes and thaws from all vendors indefinitely, without the requirement of waiting for an identity theft event. If there are processing costs associated with enabling these features at other companies, the company responsible for the breach shall be held liable. Any data breach involving core personal information requires a minimum of [10 years] of free ID and credit monitoring service chosen by the consumer from a marketplace. If the consumer was previously the victim of a data breach, an additional [10 years] of complimentary monitoring services will be added to their existing service. Build upon the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act and redesign annualcreditreport.com to handle adding, removing, and thawing credit freezes and fraud alerts across all credit bureaus (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, ChexSystems, Innovis, etc.). http://www.lessismoreorless.com/2015/11/19/applying-common-sense-to-data-breach-response/ https://medium.com/@lessismoreorless/stop-drop-freeze-rinse-repeat-the-equifax-edition-ea201e8ef0fa http://www.lessismoreorless.com/2015/11/18/stop-drop-and-freeze-part-2/ https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mandate-companies-provide-consumers-basic-identity-fraud-protections-following-data-breaches

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is back in business. The Commission has had the authority to approve natural gas pipelines for the past 30 years and has only rejected one pipeline in all of that time. Earlier this year, the five-member panel was down to one commissioner. Without a quorum, they couldn't approve any pipelines. Trump's first two rabidly pro-fossil fuel nominees were confirmed by the Senate, just minutes before the August recess, re-establishing the quorum. For more than a year, hundreds of organizations have been calling on Congress to investigate FERC's track record of approving pipelines and several well-documented abuses of its power and bad policies. We'd hoped that Congress would take advantage of the lack of a quorum and use that time for the investigation, but they failed to act. Recent federal court decisions back up some of the issues we've raised. For instance, NY's environmental regulators rejected a pipeline FERC approved. They didn't have sufficient information to issue the required permits, yet FERC had already approved the pipeline and had allowed the company to fell trees for the right-of-way using eminent domain. The court found in favor of the NY regulators and the project was killed. Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Both the House and Senate have been proposing legislation to support Trump's dirty energy agenda that would actually expand FERC's authority. The House has already passed a couple of bills. The Senate energy bill, S. 1460, has not yet been passed and we'd like to keep it that way. The bills order other regulators to give deference to FERC's decisions, speeds up approvals of Liquefiled Natural Gas export facilities, and more. Please sign our petition calling on Congress to declare a moratorium on pipeline approvals, reject Trump's dirty energy bills, and support new legislation in the House and Senate that would put us on a path to renewable, sustainable energy solutions.

We are all affected as we could loose these species altogether. This is not right.

The devastating impacts of climate change are impacting millions — violent hurricanes, out of control wildfires, debilitating droughts, massive floods, warming oceans, altered growing seasons, and more. The frequency and severity of events like these will only increase if climate change is not addressed in a meaningful way. We need to move America off fossil fuels and transition to 100% renewable energy if we want to keep a livable planet – and we need to do it quickly. The good news?  Representative Tulsi Gabbard just introduced the Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (OFF Act), which would transition us to 100% renewable energy by 2035, with 80% happening by 2027. The OFF Act also ends subsidies for fossil fuel companies, places a moratorium on fossil fuels projects, stops oil and gas exports, and promotes environmental justice and a just transition. Urge your member of Congress to support and co-sponsor this urgent, groundbreaking bill. It's our future on the line — and we need bold action now.

UPDATE: We are now in conversation with the managers of Biofuel Oasis to educate them on the cruelty of using animals and hope to work with them in stopping the sale of baby chicks. -- Biofuel Oasis is a Berkeley-based biodiesel store that also sells baby chicks for people to purchase and raise for their eggs. This raises many ethical concerns including: male chicks - who are useless to the egg industry - being killed on the day they are born; hens bred to lay so many more eggs than they naturally would leading to painful and deadly health issues; hens who no longer produce as many eggs being dumped on sanctuaries because they are no longer considered “useful”; killing animals who value their own lives and want to live. Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) organizers reached out to the owners of Biofuel Oasis to request a conversation about this practice in an attempt to come to a mutually beneficial agreement. In response to the concerns raised by DxE organizers they stated via email “Our customers would most likely continue to buy eggs from a grocery store if they did not have fresh eggs provided by the chickens in their backyard. Many of our customers love their chickens dearly, give them an abundance of love and affection, and keep them after they are past their egg-laying years until they die of natural causes [...] We order chicks from a local hatchery. Our hatchery’s roosters and older flock go to agencies that rehabilitate wildlife; they become food for those animals.” It is not true that the only options available are buying eggs from grocery stores or raising chickens for eggs in your backyard. Millions of people choose to not eat eggs and this number is growing every day as more people become aware of the ethical issues with eggs. Sanctuaries and other rescuers receive constant requests to take in “spent” hens or roosters from people with backyard chickens. And, whether male chicks are ground up alive or suffocated (as it the practice in most hatcheries) or fed to other animals, the result is the same - thousands of dead baby birds. The bottom line is that animals are not property. They are individuals who should not be bought and sold as commodities. Exploiting them for their eggs and flesh reinforces their property status, causes them pain, and leads to the death of millions every year. Please tell Biofuel Oasis to stop this practice immediately and keep their focus on providing sustainable fuel to Berkeley.